For the small things that make me happy.

Today has been a rough day on me. So I'm going to make myself a list of the little things I have today that made me happy.

• I have a car.
  
• I have a new phone.
• Everything worked out with my History Project.
• I'm going to survive this week.
• My sister's prom dress fits.
• I love my family.
• I have good grades.
• I have amazing friends.
• I got to talk to Spencer for 40 minutes (35 more minutes than he's supposed to)
• I've finally moved on.
• My cat is curled up in a ball on my lap.
• I'm wearing my Medallion right now.
  
• I think that my hair looked like Belle's when I tried the way I want it for Prom.
• I have a lot to look forward to tomorrow.
• My parents made me dinner.
• I didn't hiccup very much today.
• My car warms up fast.
  
• I can come up with clever answers to stupid questions.
• I'm ready for my speech on Friday.
• I got to eat delicious food today.
• Mr. Huesch left me alone for the most part today.
• .....Lasagna hair....
• I love playing in Carolyn's wheelchair.
• I have a love/hate relationship with creepers.
  

Now that I think of it, I have a lot to be happy about today. So yeah, that's it for now.

Things That Make Me Happy

My sister Amanda once posted a long time ago that she keeps things that make her smile written in her phone to look at when she's feeling down. After reading that I decided to copy her and make a list of them in my phone. So, here's some of the things on my list!

1. Kendra A.K.A. "Tata"- Kendra makes me happy in general, but the funniest thing I've ever seen her do was call herself "Tata". She can't say her K's, so obviously saying her name is an ordeal. After she came up with her little nickname, Trev taught her to do the pelvic thrust. So every time we asked "Kendra, what's your name?", she would reply with "Tata, uh!" and do a pelvic thrust. I've never seen Jamie laugh so hard, and it was funny to see my whole family enjoying Kendra for the little bundle of laughter she is.
2. "Smize"- Tyra Banks, being Tyra Banks, does some really weird crap on ANTM. My sisters and I like to make fun of it a lot. On the previous season, Tyra invented a series of words, including "Ty-overs" (Tyra make-overs). But the most bizarre of her inventions was "smize", or "smiling with your eyes". She did this weird act of her as a super hero, or "Super Smize". You should google the video. It's ridiculous.
3. Sam blowing his nose- Sammy is so adorable. A couple weeks or so ago he started "blowing his nose" (which is more like him pulling tissues out of the box and snotting all over his hands). It's so funny to see, even though it's extremely disgusting. Every time I blow my nose in front of him, he gestures to me as if to ask for a tissue, so I get him one, and he gets snot all over the place. It's pretty hilarious. For a video, go look at familymattson.blogspot.com
4. What's your secret?- Shannon, Shannon, Shannon. I miss that girl! One time, while I was staying at her house for a week, we were laying in our beds, talking about quiet people. We both came to the agreement that quiet people, especially quiet boys, have some sort of secret that we really want to reveal.
5. I don't know what to do with my hands- Kelsey, you get me!! At the Priest/Laurel activity, Kelsey and I were talking about that movie, and we both decided we'd start randomly putting our hands up in the middle of conversations. Awesome.
6. "Did you know that before intercourse, Emperor Penguins bow to each other? They're like 'Mr. Penguin, Mrs. Penguin', Silly Penguins actin' all fancy!"- This is an ode to How I Met Your Mother in general, because Kelsey, my siblings and I all love this show. It's awesome. Kelsey and I now bow to each other and say what Robin says in her voice whenever we see each other. It's awesome.
7. Homecoming-I don't really want to tell the entire story of Homecoming, because it's super long, but I'll just say for now that it was an amazing day.
8. "Maybe, maybe not!"-While in Cedar City with my sisters for our annual Shakespearean Festival trip, we saw "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare--Abridged!" It was hilarious and awesome, but it included a lot of audience interaction, which my sisters and I really hate. At one point in the play, they had different sections of the audience do different things to represent a characters feelings. My section had to lift their arms in the air and swing them back and forth saying "maybe, maybe not" over and over. While "practicing" they told everyone to stop what they were doing and told me that I was "doing the little T-Rex arms or somethin'". I was extremely embarrassed, and they made me do it ALL BY MYSELF! It was mortifying. But now, looking back on it, I'm glad it happened, because it was really hilarious.
9. The bathroom door at the Garden House- This is another thing my sisters and I experienced on our Cedar trip. Every year while in Cedar, we go to this delicious restaurant, The Garden House. The first year we went, we realized that the Women's Restroom door looked like it was open at the top, even when it was really closed. While I was in that bathroom, I heard this lady shoving at the door and couldn't stop laughing! She would not give up! It was hilarious! Ever since then, we always watch women go to that door and nearly break it down trying to open it.

So, that's all for now! Bye!!

What's up world?

Hello! I haven't really been on this thing in a while. So....yup, I'm updating again!

• Watching Sam has been fun lately. He's growing up super fast! He's walking everywhere now, and it's fun playing games with him now that he understands them a little bit more.
  
• I've decided that I hate hate hate second semester. It's just like...gah! Why can't it be summer already?!?!
• I've also decided that I'm SO sick of this nasty cold weather! I want it to be warm again. I miss getting to wear shorts and t-shirts to school!
• So I just stopped blogging in between that last one and this one to do my cartoon analysis thing for History, and now I don't feel like writing. I'll stick it out though.
• I finally found out why everyone is so obsessed with the song "Vanilla Twilight"
• I'm getting closer and closer to finishing Personal Progress! Awesome, huh?
• Gerrit Noorda makes some of the most delicious cookies EVER but he won't make me any :(
• I'm super exhausted from these last two weekends. They've been so busy! From Priest/Laurel activities, Sadie's shopping and dancing in the rain to toilet papering, writing letters to missionaries and school (once again, ugh) I've been having an awesome January! :)
• Mallory got her license!
• I still don't have my car...but I'm working on it. In fact, after this blog post is over, I'm going to go clean my room up (that's part of the deal)
  Clean Bathroom+Clean Room+YW Medallion=CAR!
• I hate when people ride my butt while I'm going the speed limit. It makes me really upset.
• I decided that although Wal-Mart is extremely germy and kinda gross, it's super-duper convenient and I go there a lot now.
  
• I'm also going to have nightmares about today in Photography. Mrs. Wulfsberg saying "I SEEEEEE YOUUUU!" *Shudder* and seeing that girls nasty thong hanging out like 5 inches *double shudder* is not going to help me out tonight while I'm sleeping.
  
• I'm reeeeeally feeling like a doughnut right now.
• Mrs. Smith keeps assigning me to write the horoscopes and it's upsetting me. "Um, can I just say that it's against my religion to write horoscopes? I think that sounds like a good way to get out of it."

Umm....I'm gonna go clean now, I'm out of stuff to say. Peace!

Happy New Year!

Wow...I can't believe it's already another new year again. I feel like it was just a few months ago that I was making my resolutions, celebrating the January birthdays within my family and friends and beginning the 2nd semester to my Sophomore year. I feel like it's time to start making resolutions for this year, so here it goes...

• I want to pay my tithing more often. It's not that I don't pay my tithing, I have a jar in my room that I put it in whenever I receive money, but I just don't give it to the Bishop very often. This was kind of my resolution last year, and I specifically remember thinking that I needed to turn it in during March, and not doing it until tithing settlement in December. Yikes, right?
• Another thing is that I would like to have my Personal Progress done by my birthday, May 21st. The main reason I want to have it finished is because my Dad said that I can get a car when I finish it. So I'm going to work on that this year.
• I'd like to be nicer to people. It's not that I'm constantly a jerk to everyone I know (some people reading this might disagree, because I do happen to have a lot of people who dislike me because of my past attitudes towards them) but I do have a tendency to not be able to hide my feelings towards someone, especially if they annoy me. I would like to stop giving people dirty looks and though sometimes it feels impossible, I'd like to slow it down on how much gossiping I do. It's getting a little bit ridiculous.

Other than that, I'm pretty happy about how things are going in my life right now.
What are your resolutions?