Sometimes we cut out hearts...just for fun :)

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Friends help each other cut out hearts so you can ask someone to sweethearts :) haha my hands hurt! ;)

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My best friend Erin!

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My Best friend Katy!

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Did I mention that Sweethearts is a masquerade? :)

My Sweet 16! :)

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So for my sixteenth birthday I got a new haircut! :) haha i cut off ten inches!!! Yeah, I know...scary!

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My friends decorated my room! haha it was fantastic! But it was pretty heard to take down and clean up! haha :) Thanks for the great birthday guys!

Did Someone Say Ice Cream?

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"I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

- Heywood Broun

mmmmm! I sure do love me some ice cream.

Ice cream helps us through life in many ways. Here are just a few:

1: It's so darn good that it will help you stop crying when your feeling down.

2: You can eat it when you have a sore throat and your throat will feel so much better.

3: Ice cream helps you relax when we are stressed...its proven. Look it up!

4: You can make it into a milkshake!

5: It is so sweet, smooth and it melts on your tongue.

Wow. I am cravin' some ice cream! Can you tell?

;)

How to be happy :)

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Positive living does NOT mean ignoring the difficulties of life. That is not a good way to be happy. Everyone needs to learn that there will always be hard times. Happiness will only come by recognizing and working through difficulties, or learning to accept them.

Nobody feels emotions of happiness all the time. If they tell you they do, they are lying. Heck, it's not uncommon for me to feel like this on a normal day:

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There is nothing wrong with pain, fear, doubt, ect. It is a part of being human and part of the happiness we feel. If we didn't have the hard times, we wouldn't know what happiness is. That's a hard thing to remember sometimes. The world's definition of happiness is receiving pleasure from something right now. But it is impossible for that to last. There has to be something more.

Strong correlations with happiness:

gratitude

optimism

close relationships with others

employment

positive mood

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Is always being happy realistic? Moment-to-moment, no. But maybe it's what you choose to focus on overall. Make up your mind to be happy.

HAPPINESS: Picking out your values in life, cultivating them, and then living in accordance with them. Happiness has little to do with the feeling that you get from doing something pleasurable. I think it has to do more with your values, how you are living, and what propels you forward in your life. To be happy, we need to actively engage in what we value. This way, we are creating meaning in our lives!

FOCUS on the good in your life. Do things that are uplifting. If they don't uplift you, they aren't worth your time. Do more of what makes you really smile! Make time to relax and just laugh too!

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Did you know that smiling more has an effect of the chemistry in your brain? A study showed that even people who did a little half smile when they woke up in the morning had a much better day! Let loose. Be silly. Smile with your eyes.

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Develop what's best in you and use those talents and skills in the service of greater goods.

What do I want to be about?

And how do I do that?

Am I cultivating these things in my life?

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F0r me it is...

going outside

spending time with loved ones

curling my hair ;)

learning about the gospel

striving to be healthy

and serving others.

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Haha pushing the car instead of driving in it. Good exercise. Pool party, laughing, and spending time with friends... That was a good day. :)

If you know what you want people to say about you at the end of your life and you aren't doing them now, you better get started.

The experiment...

Tomorrow: Wake up with a smile. Say: "Today will be wonderful. I am happy for today." Do: Something nice for someone else. Do: Something nice for yourself. Do: Something that you value, that contributes to the greater good.

-Tiana

The Help

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"Every day you're not dead in the ground, when you wake up in the morning, you're gonna have to make some decisions. Got to ask yourself this question: "Am I gonna believe all them bad things them fools say about me today?" All right? As for your mama, she didn't pick her life. It picked her. But you, you're gonna do something big with yours. You wait and see."

BEST. MOVIE. EVER.

Don't sit around and wait for people to tell you to do with your life. Be the captain of your own life. Do something BIG! You can do it :)

My Father...

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Remember this :)

Merry Christmas!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I gotta new camera...this is the picture I took. LOL! Haha :)

I hope everyones Christmas is merry and bright :)

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

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Ummm, I've got a question for you...

WHY WON'T IT SNOW???

You know, that's all I really want for Christmas. I want to be able to look outside on Christmas Eve and just stare in amazement at all the snow that is piling up outside. You know, I wouldn't even mind if the snow was so high that we couldn't get outside. Isn't a fresh snow fall just the most beautiful thing that you have ever seen your whole life? *Sigh*

Pray for snow!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIVIE!

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Happy Birthday to my very dear sister Olivia!

I hope you have a SUPERB day and that you eat lots of cake....cause it just looks scrumptious! Oh and your beautiful! [Even though you look NOTHING like me;) your still beautiful! haha] Oh and now you can go to stake dances. Congratulations! :)

Christmas

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The Christmas season has finally begun! This is my favorite time of the whole entire year. I love the music, the decorations, the joy, and...ALL OF IT! My family has so many fun activities planned and I cannot wait to get out of school for two weeks! haha! It's time to pull out those old christmas movies and start makin' some fudge:)