Catching Up with the Crazy Girl

Well HELLO....hola....TALOFA

However you would like to say it :)

I KNOW ITS BEEN A MINUTE!

So here it goes.

This has been the pattern of my life the past few months..

1. Go to school

2. Go to practice

3. Come home, do homework

4. Sleep

5. Wake up on Wednesday mornings and leave for whatever destination(s), & come back Sunday!

Exciting huh?

Yes, yes I know. All of you are DYING to live my life during traveling season. Life of a BYU softballer is fun!

I do love softball though, so in the end IT IS WORTH IT!

Interesting random thoughts of the past few months

* I wanna be a billionaire so freakin' bad

* Why do I love Justin Bieber so much?

*I will NEVER cut my hair again

*I love S U M M E R

*My family is FANTASTIC

*I have AMAZING ROOM-MATES

* I am finishing up my 2nd year of college?

* Utah weather is bipolar, & I will never get used to it

*Online shopping drains my $$$

Conference was last week. WOW, how amazing. We are so blessed to have such phenomenal men lead our church and give us council. I was given the opportunity to attend the 2nd session of conference on Easter Sunday. What an experience. I forget how fortunate I am to live only 45 minutes away from where they hold conference TWICE a year. I really need to take more advantage of it. My room-mate & I were lucky enough to score tickets from our bishop and we went together. We actually had tickets for the first session but had quite the experience getting up to SLC that morning. This is how it went.

- We left around 8:40 (We are supposed to be there seated in the conference center by 9:15)

-Sped up to SLC

-We had a parking pass. While turing into the parking garage we went into the exit lane instead of the enter lane. So Sam, illegally, hopped out of the car (in front of the entire Salt Lake City police force) and moved the line of cones so we could go into the right lane.

- After almost dying of laughter we made it into the parking garage. But we realized our parking pass was for Saturday. WE BROUGHT THE WRONG ONE! After a little heckling from the man at the booth, he thankfully let us through! (Thank goodness is was Easter Sunday!)

- We found an AWESOME parking spot. Hopped up out of Big Momma, and started to walk away. We were soon chased down by a little small man, only to be informed we could not park there. Apparently we parked in one of the 12 Apostles parking spaces!! AHHH just our luck! Can you image if Dallin H. Oaks pulled up and we were hoppin' out of our car PARKED IN HIS SPOT?! Sam & I could not stop laughing from our eventful morning.

-We actually didn't get into the morning session because we were too late. But we got to watch it in the TABERNACLE which was beautiful! We made it to the afternoon session. Words cannot express how much love I felt sitting in the presence of our dear Prophet Thomas. S. Monson. It's so funny how much you can love someone without ever meeting them. Everything that he stands for and represents is what I strive to be every day. What a sense of humor our Prophet has as well! He is just too cute.

Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the afternoon session..

"All things work together for good ,for all of them that love God." - James B Martino

"The love of a true mother comes nearer to the love of God like any other." - Bradley D. Foster

"The family is central to the creator's plan for eternity." - Russell M. Nelson

In Neil A. Andersan's talk he mentioned the Forrest family from Mesa, AZ. I was freaking out because he actually quoted one of my closest friends Daniel Forrest! I was so happy to hear a little something from D4. The story of the Forrest family is a remarkable one. They have raised amazing kids and are one of the strongest families I know. They are such good examples of having faith in Christ.

Well on to other news...

Softball is going great! We beat our rivals the UTES tonight! What a great game! We even beat the record for attendance which was around 1500 people! It was insane. I don't think I have ever played in front of a crowd so large. It was such a fun, upbeat atmosphere to be a part of. Our record is now officially 25-8...soon to be 26-8 when we beat Utah again tomorrow!

BUT

Apparently I am on the front of the softball website on www.byucougars.com

I had no idea! A few of my friends texted me to let me know what was going on. I was surprised! But it was fun to see my interview online. Even thought I am a complete dork in it! Oh well. Here is the link for all of you interested.

CLICK HERE

School is O V E R in 3 days! YAHOOOO! Then onto FINALS. BOO-BOO. But I will officially be finished with 2 years of school. Can you believe it? I most surely can't. I feel like I need to pinch myself a few times to make sure it's real. I don't know how I feel about all this growing up stuff. It makes me nervous! But excited at the same time. Mixed signals for sure.

I ALMOST FORGOT

I AM TURNING 20 in two days!!! AHHHHH. I don't like it one bit. No longer going to be a teenager. I feel like I am losing part of my identity. For the last 10 years of my life I have been a teen. Really, the memories that are most vivid in my mind happened in my teens. I just feel like this part of my life shouldn't be over yet! I'm not ready for the 20 year old chapter and all of the grown up stuff. Marriage, babies, & working seems like a foreign life to me. But in reality, it will come quicker than I can even imagine......Hopefully though I will be able to look at this as the start of my 2nd decade in life! How cool? I guess I am almost a Quarter of a Century old. Now that's REALLY BIZARRE.

ok well that's all the time I have for now.

Over and Out.

xoxox

amber lee