Day Eight-Short Term Goals For This Month and Why.

Goals for November/December:

• Learn to play one song on the piano.
• It's just as easy to be positive as it is to be negative.
• Make dinner more and learn some new recipes.
• Get good grades this semester!
• Take more pictures.
• See Harry Potter. 
• Not gain back the lbs I lost over the weekend.
• Put my phone down more and be present.
• Make a scrapbook.
• Hang up pictures.
• Get a Christmas tree and decorate it.
• Send out cute Christmas cards.
• Watch Elf at least seventeen more times. :)

Day Six-Favorite super hero and why.

I wasn't one of those kids who read comic books. I can tell you the major ones, Superman, Spiderman, Batman. You know, the usual. But that is about as far as my super hero knowledge goes. So honestly I don't have a favorite. But just look at this. It's pretty cute.

Day Five-A Picture of Somewhere You've Been.

This is Grand Targhee.
It's where I learned to ski shortly after I learned to walk.
It's where I spent every Monday in January, February, and March from ages three to eighteen.
It's where I got my first real job.
I have had some of the best days on this mountain.
This is where I met my husband.

It is one of my favorite places in the world.

P.S. This is me and my sister. Sometimes we are pretty weird. :)

Day Four-A habit that you wish you didn't have.

I have no follow through. I'm a complete flake and I never finish anything I start. It's terrible and I don't know if it's actually considered a habit but I definitely wish I didn't do it.

And I really really hate folding laundry. Just ask my husband.

Day Three-A picture of you and your friends.

This is Annie. She's my cousin/sister/best friend/side kick/confidante/comrade...... She has taught me so much and I love her. She won't be reading this anytime soon since she' about to head to Argentina! We have fun together and fight a lot and laugh until we cry.

Chloe, Andrea, Betsey, Bekah, Annie. When we were little we were always just called, the girls. We loved playing together at reunions and whenever we could be together. I have learned a lot from these girls and love them all so much.

Please ignore the blurry photo. These girls are my frooms. Froommates. We were friends and roommates. We had some great times. And some horrible times with our crazy roommates that we didn't really like and we may or may not have been slightly scared of them. We loved cupcakes and pixie sticks. We didn't love going to class. I mean, it was summer. Why would we go to class when we could go float the canal or go cliff jumping? 

We begged the summer to stay and allow us to soak up a few more drops. We thanked the summer and rocked it out all weekend in the beautiful Moses Lake. 

And then Kylie moved away. And then Courtney got married. Followed by me, Kylie and Kels. It happens. :)

Oh family. What is there to say. This is one of the more recent pictures of our whole family and includes all of us except for the newest edition, baby Sonora. We are a tight knit group and our best friends are each other. I feel really really lucky to have a family like them. 

You're thinking...wait isn't this supposed to be a picture of you and your friends? Well if you look closely I am in the reflection. I think. :) These two girls are my sisters. And two of my best friends. I love them and I count myself as one of the lucky ones. Oh and my mom is on the left. She's pretty cool too. 

I mean, there just really are no words.

This pretty much sums it up.

Hmmm...

Day Three Four and Five coming at you tomorrow. I am working on them...I just don't have the energy to finish them tonight. Big test tomorrow and then a week of freedom!

Day Two-The meaning behind your blog name.

See here. It's really not that clever or interesting. Just a name. :) I have been thinking about changing it though to a more married blog type of name. Since I am, you know, married. It's a little selfish of me to keep this blog all about me. But wait...isn't that what blogs are for?

Anyway...I have been wracking (racking? wracking.) my brain for good names for a blog about a girl who got married but still mostly writes about herself. Hmmmm. Might be a tough one. If you have a good suggestion, leave it in the comments.

Day One

1. My name is Betsey. It's short for Elisabeth. People rarely spell my name correctly and it's ok. What's not ok is when people act shocked/ try to argue with me when I tell them Betsey is in fact a nickname for Elisabeth. Deal with it.
2. I love having a unique name. I have only met two other Betsey's in my life, both of which were over seventy. I will give my children unique names. I think it builds character.
3. I genuinely love Harry Potter. I don't have a favorite year/book. I love them all equally. Whenever I read the books I always have really animated dreams. Part of me thinks there really is a secret magical world full of wizards and all of us muggles just aren't paying enough attention to notice.
4. I always fall asleep on road trips. My definition of a road trip is anything over 30 minutes.

5. My favorite food is spaghetti. No meatballs.

6. I could eat cereal three meals a day. Thanks Kelsey. :)

7. I grew up on a farm but don't know how to drive a stick shift.
8. In highschool I had really long hair. I have had really short/mohawk style hair for almost three years. I've forgotten what it's like to be able to put my hair in a (real) ponytail.
9. My favorite clothes are the ones I stole borrowed from my sister.
10. I paint my nails several times a week. Hot pink and dark purple are my favorites.
11. I love to cook. But I hate doing the dishes.
12. I have 2 sisters and 7 sisters in law who are all great ladies and good influences in my life. (Well I guess one of them isn't quite a grown up yet, but you know..) I'm lucky to live close to my best friend who also happens to be my sister. I would be pretty much friendless without her.
13. My favorite color is blue. Or pink. Or green. But my favorite color to wear is black.
14. I'm a huge softy and cry a lot. I cry in movies, during commercials, when I read sad things, when I read happy things....I cry too much. It's something I'm working on ok? :)
15. I found my other half much earlier in life than I was planning on but in retrospect it was perfect timing and I can't even remember not knowing him.

Thirty days.

Well since I haven't blogged for a long time I have decided to do this little bloggy thing. Haha. Coming from the always lovely Jacqueline. I probably won't end up doing the whole thing because that's kind of how I roll but here it goes.


Day 01 - A recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself
Day 02 - The meaning behind your Blog name
Day 03 - A picture of you and your friends
Day 04 - A habit that you wish you didn't have
Day 05 - A picture of somewhere you’ve been
Day 06 - Favorite super hero and why
Day 07 - A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you
Day 08 - Short term goals for this month and why
Day 09 - Something you’re proud of in the past few days
Day 10 - Songs you listen to when you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad
Day 11 - Another picture of you and your friends
Day 12 - How you found out about blogs and why you made one
Day 13 - A letter to someone who has hurt you recently
Day 14 - A picture of you and your family
Day 15 - Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs that play
Day 16 - Another picture of yourself
Day 17 - Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why
Day 18 - Plans/dreams/goals you have
Day 19 - Nicknames you have; why do you have them
Day 20 - Someone you see yourself marrying/being with in the future
Day 21 - A picture of something that makes you happy
Day 22 - What makes you different from everyone else
Day 23 - Something you crave for a lot
Day 24 - A letter to your parents
Day 25 - What I would find in your bag
Day 26 - What you think about your friends
Day 27 - Why are you doing this 30 day challenge
Day 28 - A picture of you last year and now, how have you changed since then?
Day 29 - In this past month, what have you learned
Day 30 - Who are you?