drawing kick....

So, i've basically in the last week decided i really miss drawing, so i've decided to take it up again! Drawing is a talent i have that i feel i've been wasting, and i want to change that. i'm clearly not the best artist ever, but i'm decent so i want to work on developing my abilities. Here are just a few sketches i've done. they dont look as good in pictures, and half of them are unfinished, but oh well. this one i covered up the bottom, because it's just a really rough sketch so far, and it looks creepy to see the really rough part and the more finished part together. oh, and here's the picture i'm drawing it from

i love flowers....so i just sketched this tulip. this is a terrible picture of it however. magnolias are my favoirte flowers ever.....this one is far from done obviously, but it's a work in progress. this is actually a photograph i took of my aunt's magnolia bush in her yard....so here is the photo that i'm drawing this one from

this is just a really abstract flower design i drew with pen. i dont know why, but i really like it...probably just cause it's a little funky :)

feelin' good!

oh man, i love life! i dont know why but right now i am in such an upbeat, good, smiley , overly happy mood!!!! i've spent the evening talking to my roomate amanda, and reminiscing, thinking of good times, and jsut hardcore girl talking. we talked for hours, and i jsut totally love it! right now i am just so happy, my heart is soooo full of gratitude for what i have. coming in to this school year, i was scared to death!!! everything was new again....pretty much all of my good freinds from last year were gone...mostly on missions. it was a completely new start for me...new friends, 5 new roomates, an new apartment, a new ward, new classes, new circumstances all around!! AHH! but guess what? the Lord knows me, he loves me, and he put me in exactly the right circumstances. Right now, i am exactly where i need to be, and i couldn't be happies!!! My roomates are perfect, they have each taught me something, and they are each exactly what i need in their own ways, i am SO SO greatful for them!!! also, i am thankful for my ward, i'm thankful that i found my niche in school and i know what i want to do with my life, i am soooooooo thankful that i have a best friend (Ben!) that knows me and loves me for who i am, despite my craziness and quirks and that just totally and completely understands and loves me. i am sooooo greatful for the trials i have had, for the leaps and bounds by which i have grown because of them and for the real, true love that my Savior has for me that i have felt over and over and over during those hard times (and during the good times too!) I am sooooo thankful for my amazing family, thankful that I decided to come here to BYU....even though i had may more scholarships and such to go elsewhere ( i really had no reason to come here....yet i know it is the right place for me now...it's my home and i love it), so thankful for life and for everything!!! i can hardly stand it!!! life is crazy, wonderful, amazing, incredible!! it's inspired, uplifting, ever changing, full of beauty!! it's completely and totally awesome, i LALALALLALALOVE LIFE!!!!!!

1. Who was your FIRST prom date? UMM....i didn't actually go to PROM....my first date to a dance though was Will. 2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love? yes...but at the moment only by letter 3. What was your 1st alcoholic drink? i've never had one. 4. What was your FIRST job? working at freshmans jewelry company 5. What was your FIRST car? a teal oldsmobile achiva 6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today? my roomate amanda 7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning? my dad, he woke me up. 8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher? mrs. ashby 9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane? redondo beach, california. flew into LAX 10. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk? nicole preueur. no. 11. Where was your FIRST sleep over? at nicole's house 12. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today? my dad 13. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time? my aunt michelle's when i was like 8 14. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning? talked to my dad, he woke me up, didn't i already say that! 15. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to? martina mcbride, celebrating the atlanta summer olympics 16. FIRST tattoo? umm...considering how much i hate needles this is a STUPIDLY obvious answer...i dont have one. 17. First piercing? ears, when i was 8 18. First foreign country you've been to? austrailia 19. FIRST movie you remember seeing? oh geez, like i know. 20. When was your FIRST detention? ive never had detention 21. What was the first state you lived in? first and only...UT 22. Who was your FIRST roomate? stacie and jessica 23. If you had one wish. What would it be? that's a hard question. one thing i've always wished though was that i could have grown up with my sister kristine. 24. What is something you would learn if you had the chance? to speak a trillion languages!

me+short hair=??

okay, so this is what i look like with short hair, what do y'all think?