I MADE IT!!!

I am safe and sound in Utah. sitting around with my best friend (well i WAS, she's currently at the temple with her husband) but it's like things are just as they always have been... like we NEVER moved apart! She graduated this morning.. and i missed the graduation by mere minutes... but i'm here now, and will be here for her birthday (YAY!!!!) we're gonna binge on jones, and totino's and play harry potter on the wii, and band hero, and donkey kong (Dal is implementing a new tradition here! i welcome the addition!) and we're gonna go see "Water for Elephants" and "the Conspirator" and get mini spa day's and it's going to be the best birthday EVER!

i REALLY needed to come... i didn't realize how much i needed this. i have only been in utah for 4-5 hours, have only seen a small handful of people i know, yet i just FEEL the spirit... ya know. like they are all such AMAZING people, and i just want to be like them when i grow up. everyone is always so nice and genuine and just amazing! gosh ok i'm done spilling my guts...

Easter is this weekend. i think we should all remember the reasons BEHIND the holiday. and strive to be more like the Man who died on the Cross for you and I both. i feel no anger or resentment to anyone. some people are so full of hate, they poison the good spirit of what is around them. it strains families, and ruins relationships(big and small) let go of the anger, because i would like to say you are only hurting yourself, but you're not, you are NOT hurting the person your anger is directed at though... you are killing the people closest to you, that if you cared about them, you wouldn't think twice about their well being.

I am so blessed to be in Utah this Easter weekend, i will for SURE have to make time to walk around the temple, i am so grateful to be able to stay at Lauren's house with her and Dal. they are SUCH amazing people. i love my life. i really do.