Just kidding...

My dream house...

minus the third add-on on the very right. I don't need slave quarters.

...can anyone tell me what movie this house is from?

Baby, Oh baby!...

I love this cute nursery, have you ever heard of anyone planning a nursery before even having a boyfriend?... let's just not tell any of the local, single guys what i'm up to mmmkay? oh and don't tell them that i had another pregnant dream last night.

Great.
Thanks.

a greater good...

So I have recently made a decision that is not getting the best response from my family, when I graduate from Nursing school I am going to be an ArMy ReSeRvE NuRsE!
I feel so good about my decision and accept the risks, but am a little frustrated by the lack of support from {my mom} mostly. I am sure that I wont understand how she feels until I have my own daughter, but I wont be on the front lines holding a gun, I will be providing nursing care to those fighting for our country. I went into nursing to help others and have felt a strong pull towards a greater cause that, until now, I didn't feel like I could fulfill. I am SO EXCITED!

It's here, It's here, It's here!!!

FALL!!!!
:)

My favorite time of the year.

Today I threw a little 'Welcome' party for my dear old friend, fall.
It consisted of jam making, and delicious dessert baking.

I made four batches of peach jam..

And this incredible, heavenly thing which I do not know the name of because I just invented it.
I peeled and cored a bunch of peaches, chopped some walnuts and stuck them into the peaches, and then placed the in a glass pan. Then I mixed whipped cream, cream cheese, sugar and cinnamon together and poured it over the peaches. I threw on a couple handfuls of blueberries and baked it for 15 mins.


Put it on top of some vanilla bean ice cream and you have a little piece of heaven :)

Back on track..

Hmmm...
I think it's been a while?
Quick re-cap---
Miss Utah Pageant
Second semester nursing classes
Work
No social life,
Anyways I have three weeks off of school and just passed on the crown so now I have time to update my sad neglected blog.

Book lists! I have been reading like crazy! I cant seem to get enough of books. I tore out the Newsweek "Must Read" Article and amazon'd them all, I also copied this list of classics off of one of my friends blogs. Let's see how I'm doing-

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchel
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I have a lot to read I guess!

Wicked

My mom and I had the perfect day last Saturday! It was her birthday! We started out with Kneaders all-you-can-eat french toast, (then I slept cuz i worked the night before), then we ate at Olive Garden and then went to Wicked!! It definitely didn't disappoint! IT WAS SOOOO GOOOOOOD!!!!!! I fell in love with the music again and now have the storyline to back up my adoration :)


The 'Emerald City' and a cool dragon thingy?

Close up of the Emerald City, obviously this was a very impressive site because 25% of my pics were of it.

Me and mom :)

Queen Bee Tea

Today I had the opportunity to go to an event hosted by Mrs. Utah, Emily Nelson and her non-profit organization "Project Lemonade." It was the first annual "Queen Bee Tea" and the turn out was fantastic!!

This is Italia, Sydnee, Katelyn, Sicily, and I
(Gorgeous names I know!!!)


This was the auction portion of the event, these little girls were GLOWING and absolutely BEAUTIFUL in their princess dresses. :) It was any little girls dream to be at this event!


Practicing their princess dances on the runway during tea time.



This is what the room looked like pre-princess's :) The room at La Caille was absolutely magical and the food wasn't too bad either!...okay it was DeLiCiOuS! Especially the chocolate dipped strawberries! Thank you for inviting me Emily!

Scuba

Well, I am officially scuba certified...with no where to go!! haha someday I will go somewhere fun and exotic, but Midway's "Crater" is sort of exotic right?
This is the only picture I got. It is really steamy in the Crater, but this is one of my scuba instructors.

I am only doing this because it is 5 in the morning and I have nothing else to do haha...

My favorite shows right now? (Becca you're not alone...I also get WAY to emotionally involved in television shows!)

GREY'S ANATOMY!!
I don't care what any of you think...I have watched every show since it first started and will always be a devoted fan, even through the weird lesbian confusions and the frustration of Meridith and Derek NEVER ENDING HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!

Okay this is a new found love, it all started with an assignment from my nursing teacher. We actually have homework that requires we watch House!! I knew I chose the right profession :) The only bad part is that I have to keep rewinding and replaying every scene so I can write down all of the diagnoses and long words.

The End.

Progressions Dance Studio- Grand "Re-opening"

I am so excited for the 'new' dance studio in American Fork, Progressions! I was able to participate in the ribbon cutting on Friday and also got a tour of the facility.


Ren, Gina, Chloe, Carrie, Kylie, Jessica, Me, Staci


The Miss AF and Miss AF Outstanding Teen Royalties


Me and Carrie :)
We miss Juli but are so happy for her and Adam and wish the best for them and their life together!! Love you Juli!!

12th Night Charity Ball

The Rotary Club of Lehi hosted a charity ball tonight and it was so much fun!! They had a great band and my escort was an amazing swing dancer :) He was so awesome to keep me company throughout the night!


Miss Pleasant Grove, Staci Spinder;"Scotty" from the Chris Jones Group; Me


Miss Utah, Kayla Barclay; Miss Lehi, Emily Daniels; Me; Miss Pleasant Grove, Staci Spinder

Best Buddies Ball

The blog police (aka BECCA) have been hounding me to post something new, so here it goes.
These last two weeks have been really rough...I backed my car into my moms car, got my first ticket, had some guy/family drama, etc. Anyways I am hoping that things will look up soon.
So last weekend I was invited to the 'Best Buddies Ball' (thanks again Emily!!) and had SO MUCH FUN! It was seriously the funnest dance I have ever been to! They had a live country band and line dancing! The Best Buddies Ball is a dance for adults with Down Syndrome, it is such a fun opportunity for them to dress up nice and come make new friends.


Just dancin'!


This guy was pro line dancer!! He was stuck to my side for the first of the dance! What a stud!



This is Jessica, she wanted to arm wrestle all of the queens and, yup, she is DANG strong!!


Me and Jessica