Easter Eggstravaganza

My best friend and roommate, Nannerhead, and I love dyeing Easter eggs.  I'm not exactly sure what the draw of it is to us (maybe all the fun dye kits??) but it's a tradition we've grown to love.

This year we went to Walmart and bought five dozen eggs.... EACH!  That's ten dozen all together!! 

(We've been buying one or two here and there for the past two months!)

Because we didn't have school, this afternoon was the perfect time for us to get down to business! And let me tell you, boiling and dyeing ten dozen eggs is a team effort! 

(We went through this four-pots-going-all-at-once boiling process three times to get all the eggs!) 

Finally, it was time to start dyeing!

I've really been into polka dots lately and was dying to dye some eggs with white polka dots!  I found these stickers in the office supply section at Walmart and thought they would be perfect for helping me make my polka dots!

So I stuck 'em on...

...plopped the egg into the dye cup...

...took the egg out, peeled off the stickers and voila!

I would say the polka dots were a success!!

Altogether, we only lost nine eggs to breaking casualties. 

Another year, another Easter Eggstravaganza with my very best friend (who doesn't like eggs haha! :)

Choosing to be Grateful

This weekend, I listened to a talk telling the importance of being grateful for everything in our lives, including blessings AND trials.  I have never had something resonate in my heart so much! Here is my favorite quote from the talk:

(You can find the entire talk here:  https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/04/grateful-in-any-circumstances?lang=eng )

I'm at a point where the future is extremely uncertain and all I do is worry or compare myself to others who have their lives all figured out.  Lately, comparison has been getting the best of me.  It's frustrating, but I still know that I am extremely blessed. This talk was meant especially for me right in this moment and has inspired me to try to be more positive and grateful for the hard things in life.  These are the moments that make us who we are. 

(One of my favorite quotes)

Mondays need a little extra inspiration   :)

Happy Monday! 

Here Goes Nothing

Well, here it is. My first blog post, ladies and gents. (Or well, whoever is reading this, aka just me.)

I decided to start this blog for a few reasons. I'm about to graduate from college next month and move away to..... Well, that's to be determined.  I want to make sure I have some way to document all of these crazy new changes in my life. I'll be (hopefully) living on my own and (also hopefully) teaching in my own classroom.  I know that the next year of my life is going to be exciting, but hard.  I'm going to have days where I'm going to be lonely and frustrated. This blog isn't going to be all sunshine and butterflies, but those are the things that shape us and make us who we are.  I want to be able to look back on these currently unknown yet upcoming trials and be able to think to myself "I made it." 

(And I would like to note that I am writing this first blog post at 6:30 in the morning on my way to student teaching with a cup of blackberry vanilla tea, my very best friend, Nannerhead [obviously name has been changed] and Closing Time by Semisonic [not Third Eye Blind! ] blaring on the radio.  Check out this sunrise! Life is pretty swell :)