Smile for the Camera...

Surprise!

Today was the best day ever! Sabrina, Beaves and I drove to Rexburg, Idaho to surprise Linnea for her 20th birthday! It was so much fun and now we're here all sitting on Linnea's bed having the time of our lives. We walked around BYUI's campus and it was so great :). Am I contemplating transfering to BYUI?? ... possibly??

So some inspiration for the day... This is the cutest youtube video I have ever seen in my life!

I'm so bored...

So today I learned that it takes 44 seconds to drive a mile going 80 mph. It takes Beaves 30.1 seconds to check the mail. Cream cheese frosting looks like mayonnaise when you put it in the refrigerator. And I hate people that pretend to ignore you when you know they can see you!!

Did I learn anything in class today? Not really.

A Few Quick Things...

Beaves and I started a shared blog! It is called Midge & Beaves Conquer the World. It's about our life together in college! Check it out, there's a tab that links to it at the top of my blog. Great stuff everyone :)

Also - Mighty Midge Back in School has gone International!! Over the past few months I've had people from Russia, Germany and Sweden viewing my blog :). I don't know if this is real or what but I think it's pretty wicked sweet! So for those of you viewing my blog from overseas, I hope you are enjoying my crazy American life! Thanks for following my blog!

I am beautiful because...

I am beautiful because I reflect outwardly what I know to be true on the inside.

Parenting and Child Guidance

One of my classes this semester is Parenting and Child Guidance. My professor is a graduate student in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at BYU. I really like her; she's really taken a different approach to the course and has given us opportunities to do hands-on learning. Today we role-played parent-child scenarios, implementing different techniques of parenting styles. It was a really fun class and helped me to see how I might react in different situations as a mother.

With this in mind, I decided to apply what I learned in class to every day life. So naturally I used Brittany as my guinea pig! :). We walked home together after class and ate dinner when we got back to the apartment. We finished watching the newest episode of New Girl but afterwards Brittany started getting really agitated. I couldn't figure out what in the world spurred her random burst of anger! She started yelling and screaming and kicking every door in our apartment! This was actually hilarious but I kept my cool and decided to use my new found parenting skills. I told her that just because she was angry did not give her permission to fly off the handle and start kicking things around the house. This made her even more mad and she said, "Stop talking to me! I don't want to talk to you anymore!" (This was all in her mad-but-still-laughing voice). I told her that she needed to calm down and behave like a responsible adult. To which she kept screaming at me! It finally got to the point where I told her that she needed to go take a nap. To which she said, "I don't want to take a nap! I'm not tired!" I told her that she needed to go to sleep because she was being grumpy and she had a date in a couple hours. She kept saying that she wasn't tired so I told her to lay down and shut her eyes and just calm down.

The funny part in all of this is that she actually listened to me! She is sleeping in my bedroom right now! I can't believe it actually worked! ... but now I'm exhausted and I think I need a nap. Welcome to parenting, right?

My New Challenge

Check out my new page at the top of my blog! Brittany and I are doing a 10 Day Body Image Challenge together. Track our progress and watch us transforms ourselves! Do it with us and feel the results of positive self-perception.

Thank you for your support!

The Worth of Souls

Church was special today. I felt like all of the talks and lessons were catered specifically for what I needed. It was quite an amazing experience. 

I was sitting in Relief Society, just listening to our president give the lesson when she demonstrated something truly life changing. She pulled out a five dollar bill and asked how many of us wanted this five dollar bill. Immediately hands all over the room shot up. Then she proceeded to crumble the bill. She asked again how many people wanted the five dollars. The same amount of hands went into the air. Then she said, "Well what if I do this to it..." As she put the bill on the floor and stomped on it with her foot. Again, the same amount of hands were raised. What our president said next will stay with me for the rest of my life. She said, "This five dollar bill represents each and every one of Heavenly Father's children. Sometimes in life we crumpled, stepped on and torn. But no matter how dirty, no matter how clean, we never lose our value. No matter what happens to us, someone will always love us because they can see our value and they will still want us because God does." At this time in my life it was such a blessing to remember that the worth of my soul is great in the eyes of God. And that others can see that worth as well. I pray that we will all remember this principle. I am ever grateful to be reminded myself.  

Random new things I love...

Let me preface this post by saying that I am a huge nerd at heart. I have a giant thing for dorks and I love awkward stupid humor. Tonight we went to see Captain "freakin' gorgeous" America and let me just say that he is my new love. Minus the fact that he was either shirtless or wearing a skin-tight t-shirt the entire movie... I just love everything he stands for!

We started out the night by going to the BYU Hockey game! And by "we" I mean Beaves (Brittany), Topher, Ayne, and William! I absolutely love hockey. I know nothing about the game, I don't know why people get penalties and half the time I don't know where the puck went but it has got to be the most exciting sport to watch! I don't think there's anything more exciting (in the realm of sports) than seeing some guy hip check another guy into the wall and then almost get into a fight! ... call me weird but I think it's awesome. Our team was tied 2 to 2 (with Weber State) at the end of the second period when we had to leave to make it to Captain America. Hopefully we won!

One last random thought for the day - every hour I have to walk around the office that I work in and take a count of all the athletes in the center. So yesterday I was walking around and Daniel Sorensen (one of BYU's Football Players) is walking a little in front of me. He turns around and does a double take and then he says, "Oh! Hello!" with a smile on his face! I was so shocked that it took me a couple seconds to process the fact that he could actually see me and then I said, "Hey!" AND THEN HE ASKED ME HOW I WAS DOING! I was so taken aback that I just walked away without answering... And then... as delayed a reaction as I could possibly have had, I realized that he was still talking to me! All I could think of was, "Why am I socially inept?"

My social ineptitude would best be described from a movie clip entitled Superstar...

Keep Your Head Up

You know, today just was not a very good day. I was sad today... not for any reason in particular but for a lot of things that seemed to amount to a lot. I think something triggered in my Parenting and Child Guidance class and I just got really sad all of a sudden. I was feeling pretty lonely and a little forgotten when I got to my LDS Marriage and Family class. I said a little prayer in my heart that Heavenly Father would send me an angel to help me out. Just someone to smile or say hello or that I would run into someone that I know. About the time I was saying a prayer, my friend Saley texted me! She asked me if I was doing anything tonight, which I wasn't so we went shopping and then she bought me dinner afterwards. I didn't tell her why I had a bad day, or even that I had a bad day at all. It was just so nice to spend time with her and laugh! Thank goodness for the angels in our lives. Thank goodness for the strength they give us to keep our heads up.

Conference Weekend

This conference weekend has been great for many reasons but mostly because my best friends are here with me this weekend! We have been laughing for 72 hours straight! My abs seriously ache because we've laughed so hard. Last night we went up to West Jordan to stay the night at Sabrina's and Linnea's Grandparents but we ended up getting a hotel room in Midvale instead! We stayed up until four in the morning pretty much just going crazy. We looked at wedding ideas on Pinterest for Micah! Then we finally made it back to Provo and watched movies for the rest of the evening. I was starving for something chocolate so I walked over to some brownies that we made like four days ago in celebration of Brittany catching her first boyfriend. So I walked over and started eating the brownies and then said to Britt, "Hey! These brownies are as old as your relationship." HAHA we laughed so hard I almost peed my pants!