New Years

Where do I begin? Where has this last year gone, I cant even begin to grasp where my life has taken me and how much I have learned and grown! What a beautiful beautiful beautiful life I have been blessed with! I have the most amazing friends and family a girl could ask for! At many times this last year I didnt know if I was going to make it, there were days that I didnt get out of bed and felt so alone in a world full of so many people! Giving up was the only option I saw at that time and my loved ones reassured me time and time again that I could do it! I am so much stronger today then I was at this time last year it simply amazes me. I didn't know someone could change so much over such a short period of time.

The year started off with a bang and ever challenge was knocking at my door I felt like it was a never ending story and rocks were just being thrown at me while I was down and as i look back today I am so thankful for all the challenges that I was able to experience cause without the pain I would NEVER know how good the beauty feels!

This year I got warmly welcomed into a home and a family that has changed my life forever! Tim (dad) & Samantha (mom) were my rocks and gave me so much to live for! They showed me things about love and life that I will carry with me forever! For the first time in my life I got to experience the Priesthood in my home and the blessings that it brings and it is a beautiful thing and something I will be eternally grateful for! I was so blessed with a mom and dad who loved me and showed me so much growing up and heavenly father thought that it was just important to give me another set of parents that I know would do anything for me just as they do for their own 2 children. Thank you thank you thank you Mom and Dad!!! you forever changed my life and I love you so so so much!

March of this year was a very hard month, I couldnt believe that at that point my dad had been gone a year already. Where had time gone and how was I still kicking without him! There were many feelings during that time I cant even begin to explain!

Someone said to me tonight "I guess I am going to go hang out with my parents...blah" and I almost broke into tears cause I would give anything to hang out with my dad tonight. To be able to sit down and have a beer with him and bring the new year in. So many times people take things like that for granite! I would give anything to be able to share this night with him. To just share stories and memories from the last year! I love you and miss you so much Dad, you are in my thoughts every single day! There is not a day that goes by that I dont think about you and miss you! Thank you for all you did and continue to do! You will forever be my popeye!!!


I feel like last year was filled with so much adventure that this blog is not going to even compare to last years. In that I learned so much in 2011 I wouldnt have it any other way!


2012 has many great adventures for me to begin with right off! New relationships, many new first with friends and family! A new baby to call me nanny ash is right around the corner! Parasailing and disneyland as well as my first tattoo.... I am going big or going home! This one is for you dad!!! I love you!!!

New Years Resolutions:
Continue to work out and live a healthier life style!
Make lasting memories with my friends and family
Smile more
Live with my heart and not through my head!
Share my beautiful and talents with those around me!
Love & be loved!!!

All the pics are of me TODAY!!!! Enjoy

Welcome to 2012 everyone! I love you all and am so thankful for you! :D Cant wait to make many memories to come!