Sunday Drive.

I really love driving Penny. It's the only time that I'm alone and get to think and sing and not worry about what someone is going to say to me or want me to do.
I love driving Penny, especially on Sundays. I sing hymns and enjoy the air blowing on my face.
Driving to church, the place where everything seems to make sense when nothing else does.
I'm not gonna lie, my hair looked dang good too.

With my crazy weeks, I feel like I get no time to myself.
I think I might do some online retail therapy tomorrow to relieve some stress.
And maybe get some Yodipity.
Or maybe Jake will take me on a date.
Who knows!

Happy Sunday!

Giving HOPE.

I haven't been taking a lot of pictures lately, or doing anything really lately, so I see now that I'm forced to blog about what I'm thinking about at the moment. At this moment, I'm thinking about my brother.

Since summer vacation started, I haven't really gotten a break. I was so looking forward to my 3 months off, and now I'm working more than I was even going to school. For some people, this would be the worst. Eight hour work days compared to four hour school days. But I just so happen to have the best job in the world. I work with autistic children, giving them hope for a better tomorrow.

I feel like in some small way, this is helping Colton. Whenever something clicks for my clients, I think about how something may be clicking for him. When they finally are able to get out the words they mean, I think maybe Colton is having a conversation with someone.

Next semester I start my pre-clinicals, and I really hope that I get the chance to work with these kids! They are seriously such a joy, and although they face challenges, at the end of the day they always seem to have a smile on their faces. We could learn something from that.

On a different note,

I'm having a hard time getting over The Hunger Games!

(more like having a hard time getting over Peeta..)

Any good books I should read?

You love me.

"Real or not real?"

I have been so busy lately. I have utterly missed my escape into the blogging world...being able to talk about what is happening in my life, journaling, and getting to read about other people's more interesting lives.

Between weddings, 11 hour work days, the world ending yesterday, and being the primary care giver to my grandma who just had knee surgery, I bet you can understand why I haven't been writing.

But I have been reading.

Every spare second that I've had, I've been reading. Because I fell in love with the characters of these books.

It's so good, I even carried it in my purse and read it at red lights on my way to work.

I got so caught up in the story that I didn't go on Facebook for a week. Not that that's a bad thing.

I highly, highly recommend these books.

It creates a world that we'd never want to live in, but want the characters to defeat so badly.

Where children are forced to kill each other while the country stands by and watches, doing nothing.

Where a girl can become a statement without even knowing it.

And it's about time that I fell in love with Peeta, too.

*Peeta Mellark, from Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games.

Weekend.

I'm tired.

More on that later.

♥ Does it look like Sirius got attacked by my yard? Because I'm pretty sure he did. I spent about an hour picking all those little pricklies off him.

♥ Friday night, me and Katie didn't know what to do, so we decided to find a new shake place to try out. Udder Delights is handmade, straight from cows, delicious ice cream and I highly recommend it! I got Cinnamon Strudel. Mmm!

♥ Saturday, our good friend Dallas came home from college in Philly, so we celebrated by having a day on the lake. It was the most beautiful day, and made me remember to appreciate Arizona.

♥ Red Velvet Pazookie? I die. 

{From BJ's, for Krista's bachelorette party}

♥ We had a Scavenger Hunt for my good friend Krista's bachelorette party, and it was so fun! I can't believe she's getting married in less than a week. Ah!

♥ Couponing!

Short and sweet. Now I sleep.

Friday the 13th.

I hope it's no unlucky to post today.

Today is my mom's birthday!

Hair dresser, belly dancer, super mom extraodinaire!

I seriously have the best mom in the world. My whole life was spent far away from her, but from the time I can remember I have always wanted to be like her. She's kind to everyone, understanding, and nurturing. She has had so many challenges in her life, and she's finally being rewarded for her bravery in this life! She is so strong and such an inspiration to me. I hope to some day be as good as she is. I'm so glad that Heavenly Father chose you to be my mom. I love you so much!

You are my sunshine.

Extremely...extreme.

My last week has been really crazy. You could say extreme.

Not only have I had finals, but today some really strange things happened.

One. I come home and see that my license plate has arrived!

We take it out of it's package to see what I've got...

Check it all out to make sure everything is ok...

And find this.

Underneath my license plate was a second license plate, with a different number.

I'm pretty sure that they made an extreme mistake! Ms. 78 is probably patiently waiting for her license plate while the license plate makers couldn't take the time to make sure their orders are correct!

I'm baffled!

Two. My dad and I have been watching Extreme Couponing...and we're a bit inspired.

Today we sat at the computer determined to find at least one good deal, because we didn't have time to plan out a whole shopping trip tonight.

Long story short, this is what we found:

The Breakdown:

4 boxes of Totino's Pizzas, Fry's sale of $1.29 each.

Albertson's coupon, $.77 each for up to 4.

2 Totino's manufacture's $.50 coupon, doubled for a dollar each.

2 store bonus coupons, $.27 each.

Total cost for each pizza:

$.13 each.

Read it and weep!

Best part? We could have saved more if we had 2 more manufacturer's coupons.

And by save, I mean, the store would have owed us about 2 dollars.

I love coupons!

Three. What the heck is this contraption?

I glared at it the entire time we were at Wender's.

How does it hold 160 different drinks?

How can they all come out of one spout?

Why does it taste extremely delicious, and much better than other sodas?

How did Wender's get so lucky to acquire one?

Where does it keep it's brain?

It can't be trusted.

Sometimes, life gets a little extreme. But I think I like it that way.