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thankful

I have decided lately that I am one of the Luckiest girls in the world.

Yup

All the other girls out there might have it as lucky as me but...

 I doubt it.

I am so blessed to have such a wonderful life.

So as I am sitting today waiting for my classes to start and soaking up the last bit of actual freedom I have before I become a basket case of crazy, I wanted to write out all the things I am blessed with and so grateful for.

because once school starts 

I will be... like I said... a basket case.

haha so I writing this so

 I don't forget how lucky I am.

First off I have to say that being a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the greatest gift of all. I am blessed everyday just for having faith that their is a Christ and that my Father in Heaven loves me deeply enough to care what goes on in my life. He wants me to succeed and He wants me to live my life to the fullest. He also wants me to share his gospel and to Live it, which I feel that I have been doing but could probably do better. :]

I have been put on this earth in the GREATEST family. My mom and dad are the greatest! I couldn't have asked for a better match to raise me and my siblings. I have 2 awesome loving brothers that bookend me and my 3 sisters snug and tight right in the middle. And I feel that they are doing an amazing job at keeping us girls safe and loved. My family lives all over the US but with the technology today I am able to talk to them and see them in my Living room or kitchen, or anywhere for that matter. Or I can simply call them whenever I need to. I love it. They are also an amazing example to me. Besides my little brother they are all married and raising beautiful righteous children. They are so good at what they do and I can't wait till I get to join them in the fight for having strong faithful families. Getting to raise children in the Gospel and showing people in this world how families should Love and help each other. Being examples on how husbands should treat, cherish, and serve their wives, and how wives should love, respect, support, and serve their husbands. I love them for the way they love and treat their spouses. Thanks :]

I have the most amazing friends. I have been thinking about needing to go to institute for a while now and yesterday I picked up the phone and texted Darlene and Tori. Told them that I was planning on going to Institute tonight, and they were more than welcome to come with me. I needed to fill my life more with the gospel and needed to be going... Right away Darlene and Tori both texted me back telling me that they were thinking the same thing that same day and I had just beaten them to the punch. I love that My Heavenly Father knows me personally he knows what I need and the friends that should be placed in my life, and when. And I am more than grateful for Him and his understanding of my needs and wants. My friends have helped me through my lowest of lows and also witnessed my highest of highs! That's what friends are for! To help you stay on the path to make it back to our ultimate goal. That's why we need to be a great friend and also surround ourselves with good friends! I am a strong believer in that. 

I am also thankful for:

-the rain

-inside jokes

-Ruby (muh car)

-my education

-teaching!

-being able to sing

-being a happy person

-smiles

-food

-free rent

-good music

-my high standards

-striving to live life to the fullest

-my trials

-my heartache

-faith

-my busy schedule

-Dancing all day long

-awkward smiles

-making eye contact with a cute guy and feeling butterflies fill my stomach

-hugs

-ugly faces

-men that worthily hold the priesthood 

-church

-my willingness to accept all people

-my ability to forgive and forget

-hope

-struggles

-Love

-RM's

-the scriptures

-my journal

  (that I need to actually write in more than 3 times a year)

-food :]

-longing to dancing

-service

The list goes on and on...

In institute last night my teacher said something that really struck me. She was talking about idling and wasting our time on things of the world rather than filling our minds and heart with things of God.

She said something to the effect of, "We really don't know how much time we have left, so why would you not want to fill your life and time with Christ?" 

hmm... well...

I want to drown myself in the light of Christ. I want to be able to know everything there is to know. Why on earth would I think that sitting and wasting time is going to help me in any way. I need to find time to serve others. Lose myself in the work of Christ that I might be able to more easily find myself. 

I love having these AHA moments. They make me happy and Love the life I have. 

Well I am now going to get ready for my class. Thanks for reading and getting to know a little more about me. 

I love my life and wouldn't have it any other way

Come what May and Love it! :]

Yes please. 

Fastforward

My life has been put on fast forward this summer 

and I absolutely have loved every minute of it! 

Places I have visited in the last couple months:

-California 

Disneyland 3 times

 Sea World 2 times

2 weddings 

(Michael David Stones, and Callie Joe Ebmeyer Call), 

and a couple trips to the beach

(I probably went one more time)

-Utah

Spending time with family and seeing fun friends

(Jason Klingler)

-Idaho

Week long amazing family reunion

(family, swimming, bowling, laughing, Zoo, hot springs, pictures, fun)

-Alaska

2 weeks of bliss

(vegging, bike rides, giggles, hikes, movies, and moose!)

I have come home a couple times in between all of this traveling. 

One time I came home for an audition for 2 dance companies at school.

and I made both of them!

You are reading from the newest member of Moving Company and S.A.J.E. 

Moving company is a modern based style and SAJE is Jazz. 

I am so stoked for them to both start. Only a couple more weeks :)

I am also teaching again once school starts. 

I'll be teaching 3 and 4 year old Jazz at one studio

and then Hip Hop, Cheer, and Musical theater.

I am really really excited!

School starts tomorrow I am taking 20 credit hours

 and 

I am ready to get muh butt kicked haha.

 It will be fun! 

Come What May and Love it! 

Happy Sunday :]

Alaskaaaaaaaaaaaa

Hey so a couple weeks ago I had the

 awesome opportunity 

and went and played with my sister and nephew in Alaska! 

say what??

Oh my goodness it was so much fun and so beautiful! 

here are just a few of my favorite moments! 

Playing Frolf (Frisbee golf)

Britton was really good at it, and would throw it directly at dawns leg and say, "I hit mom in da bum," and then giggle! hahaha he is so adorable! 

Me and dawn were not very good at it! haha 

The bridge and rully pertty pikcha's 

Car rides with the dude! 

and getting him to do random animal sounds and motions hahaha

hehe he make me happy!

Silly face

Going on bike rides~

When I would get to far ahead I could hear britton yelling in the back of dawns bike, "MI (breath)CHELLE, come back!!" or "Where Michelle go?" and if I was right by them I'd say "RIGHT HERE!!" and then he would smile really big! 

Leaves the size of muh face!

This kids addiction to Apple Juice!

I was telling him to put down the apple juice and smile for my camera. 

He laughed at me. 

His obsession with wanting to take pictures with muh camera. 

taking walks, and the beautiful scenery!! 

Holy cow I had so much fun the 2 weeks I was there, 

and cried when I had to come home. 

I loved the escape and I love my family so much! 

If I was rich I would go visit all of my family for 2 weeks each! 

I just love them so much!

Thanks dawn for letting me come crash your party!

I loved ever minute of it,

even if the majority of it was stuffing our faces with "chips, ice cream, cookies." 

and watching

"Insert ridiculously lame movie here"

or

"Fantastically entertaining/embarrassing if anyone found out I actually watched it TV show here"

Seriously though

I loved it and wouldn't have traded it for anything! 

I needed the time away and love you for it!

Peace out!

Stones Family Reunion

Wow it has been a week since our crazy family get together! I had the greatest time with all of my family! It was the first time we had gotten together in nearly 5 years. We had so Much fun and did so much while we were together! Everyone had their own camera and each took over 200 pictures. How on earth am I supposed to pick and choose which pictures to post. Welp, you just get to see a lot of pictures that's all :) I know mostly my family will look at this, but it's still fun to post and for me to remember.

-Sunday: We all got together and just hung out at my brothers house the first day.

-Monday: We went to the lake to relax and soak up the freezing cold water, super windy climate, and fun company.

-Tuesday: we went to Bear World, and bowling.

-Wednesday overnight to Thursday: We decided to travel a little bit to The Lava Hot Springs and go swimming and party there for a night.

-Thursday: Came the super lame Zoo came next. I'm not being a downer the Zoo really did stink. They had about 7 animals all together (4 of them being birds) and you had to basically climb a mountain to see them all. super Lame. We drove the rest of the way home and the kids played on a huge water slide my brother got, which they loved.

-Friday: We took family pictures, and the grown ups went to the Temple while Jonathan and I stayed and babysat the kiddo's. After dinner we jumped on the trampoline a whole bunch, played with bubbles, brought out a couple hundred water balloons that we launched at each other, had a fire, ate smores and ended the night with fireworks and sparklers.

-Saturday: Ended with a huge delicious breakfast made by my oldest brother and then carpooled to see "Toy Story 3" FINALLY!! I waited forever. It was a good wait. I liked it :) ... Then we packed up all the cars and headed for home.

(so I started to update this and then realized that I am going to be updating this one post for a month. So i am going to post what I have :] I hope you have fun looking at my little post.) 

I LOVE TO DANCE!

Ok so remember in the post bellow when I was a poo-poo face and was kinda dumb. Well I'm pretty sure not being able to dance even a little bit was a HUGE reason why! I was grumpy and stupid and boring... blah blah blah. Well today happened to be THE greatest day! I had work in the morning at the gym (which I normally work nights and I'm not a fan), went to the mall wiff mom and bought me some pink tights and a black leotard, :) I am almost positive I have never been that excited to buy an item of clothing before... especially for ballet!

Tricia Campbell is in town for the next couple weeks and is doing an intensive and I am ALL OVER THAT!! hehe an extra bonus is that because I am a teacher I get half price! SAWEET!

Ok so I take ballet and technique from 3:45-6:30 M

So for the next two weeks I am going to whip my butt back into shape and when it is done I am going to stay with it! I don't want to be grumpy anymore I don't like it!

SO I know it is basically tuesday but...


HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE!!!

Come what may and love it

Beware now, this is kinda a downer... but my brain wont sort this out correctly by itself, I can't sleep and I just need to vent a little and eventually I'm going to find the good in this. My best friend had this quote and it stuck with me, I thought of my situation and I am determined to "Come what may and love it." My glasses are just a little foggy and I can't see the goal quite yet. But I will.....

Ok so this is a little weird for me but I have a secret...

 ... I've been feelin' a little down as of late. 

Yes I go through moods, but I am normally a very happy go lucky person. 

I'm not really sure what has gotten to me... I haven't really put my finger on it and for some reason I've been so stubborn about a lot of things. 

And I have been... How can I put this nicely?

A brat.

Weird. 

And I hate it. 

It is NOT me and I never want to be that girl no one invites or wants to talk to because she looks too cool and looks super stand offish. Who is mean and snaps back when mom asks a billion questions about facebook or how to work the computer or what is going on in the movie that has already been playing for an hour and is at the really intense part. It really makes me cry how impatient I can be. 

I have been going through some super weird moods lately and I've been in need of someone to knock me upside the head and help me out. Well the person who is always my go to for this happens to be a fella. He is my best friend and I can tell him everything! I'll complain to him and then he tells me where I went wrong, and helps me remember who I really am and want to be! I love the relationship I have with him and the fact that I am 100% myself when we are hanging out and goofin off. 

Well...

 this fella just had to open up his stupid big mouth a little while ago and now it is unnecessarily awkward. He seriously is one of my best guy friends and played the whole "I like you"  "but I don't want to go anywhere with it, I just want you to know".... card...

I hate Games.

Keep your mouth shut if you are just spewing out useless information. Especially when you know the person on the other end has liked you since she can remember and has just been on the side supporting you with every failed... whatever you decide. 

Well, like I said now it unnecessarily awkward. 

I feel like I'm stuck. I'm stuck in the stupid [useless] why me emotion. Which I NEVER have. Things happen for a reason and I have best girl friends and we talk about it all the time. I even go through the "I am so grateful to be where I am at, I love going to school and learning all about dance, I have the best girlfriends in the entire world, my family loves me so much even if they live thousands of miles away!" and I believe every word of it. But I'm sick of going to parties and having superficial friends. I don't really know anything about them, and in that sort of a setting there is no way I am going to get anything useful out of it. But I know a lot of peoples names and what they look like.......... 

I hate not dancing, I hate not moving around and actually letting of steam and all my locked up emotion. That's what keeps me sane. 

Dancing. 

Lately I've thrown myself some pretty bomb-diggity pity parties. It's never really when people are around it is always when I am home. alone. bored out of my mind. and able to sit and think.

 Today was really difficult. 

I had SO much homework to catch up on I thought my brain was going to explode. I thought to myself, "Maybe I'll just stay home from Church and finish it. I'll get it all done in time and still be able to see people tonight."

Wow REALLY Michelle? Where was my brain? hw and people over church and feeling the spirit?  I had really began to stoop to this level? No wonder I'm all poopy. 

Well, with a kinda unwilling heart I went to church, I forgot to eat and I was distracted by hunger, people walking in, the presidency on the stand falling asleep, the ticking of keyboards as people texted around me, and the monotone speaker. I was just not in the right mindset. Basically the whole time. I was in the hall and really ready to leave when I decided to go to RS. 

I needed it like no ones business!

holy cow was I humble and crying by the end of that lesson.

It was a beautiful lesson given by the amazing Sister Moffat herself. She is such an inspirational person I can't help but love listening to her teach. Well today in RS the lesson was on Christ. 

We had a paper on it and wrote down Questions like:

Who is Christ?

What has he done for me?

Why?

I quietly sat in my seat as I listened to the amazing sisters in my ward talk about the Characteristics of Christ. My heart had started out stone cold and worrying about other things when right then and there I stopped and realized where I had gone wrong. As I listened to story after story of the way Christ was obedient. He inherited so many things from his father that he CHOSE to seek out and follow. He CHOSE to be happy, humble, selfless, determined, faithful, full of unconditional Love, forgiving, thankful, and so many more. Listening and letting their words sink deep into my heart I began to quietly sob. I have been feeling so alone for so long and was letting my self be a Brat KNOWING what the answer was KNOWING who I should go to in times of need. KNOWING I had someone who loves me and suffered and died FOR ME that I may be as happy as I want to be. KNOWING that all my heartache and sadness is taken care of and I don't need to worry about it. Those things I had gotten made fun of for earlier in the week that had brought me to tears didn't matter. I have been CHOOSING everyday to let the bad things that come up ruin the rest of the beautiful day that I have been blessed with. Why on earth would I want to CHOOSE to eat the burnt nasty charcoal cookies, when I could have any other kind of dessert I want!

I am a daughter of God.

I know that. 

These small why me [stupidity] stunts I pull every so often are unneeded and cause me so much  heartache. SO i'm throwing myself a WHO CARES party! 

It is needed... 

Who cares If that boy doesn't like me! He doesn't deserve the greatness that my Heavenly Father has given me anyway.  

Who cares if I'm not in a dance class! Go to the gym and find other ways to loose the pitty weight you're gaining.

Who cares if you don't get invited to a party, or out to hang with friends! Call someone else up and hang with them!

Who cares if Mom asks a BAZILLION questions about EVERYTHING! She loves me more than I know and wants to be apart of my life.

Who cares if everyone else buys designer clothes and wants to waste there money on costly apparel! I am perfectly fine with my discount jeans and half off sales shirt and shoes, that's who I am and there is no need to fix it now.

Truly find out who you are and what you love! Don't try to be something to please someone else, you have to live with yourself for eternity, make sure you like you. 

And don't make someone your priority when you are just and option. 

Most likely, no one read this and It is ok. I needed to vent and realize my place. I also needed it for future reference when I fall into my pitty [ridiculous] self. 

Come what may and love it :]

Michelle