1/28 one for four...and more!

today marks the day of my first college acceptance :-)

...to UNC Chapel Hill! 

(I am so excited you guys)

I am so excited because I'm one step closer to going to college. I still have three more schools to hear officially back from (as I got deferred from one sob), but I am just so excited I had to share. Now to celebrate with more homework, essays, and maybe, if I decide to splurge a bit, even an episode of The Office. 

(I'm already addicted to it--especially Jim and Pam--as you can see from this screenshot text omg I'm such a dork)

alright homework time... Thanks for reading! It really truly does mean a lot :-)

1/20 i love to see the temple

Awhile back, I visited the temple! It was the 22nd of November (the day after my birthday!), and I never got the chance to document it... so here it is! :-)

(Columbia, South Carolina temple!!)

(me and my sweet friend, Noelle)

So at the temple, I performed baptisms for the dead, and I can remember it was a birthday for one of the women I was baptizing! and how cool is that?! like seriously...being able to be baptized on your birthday! It's the same luxury I along with other LDS kids are able to do, and that's super cool. I also remember one of my baptisms being done for someone who has been possibly waiting for it since the 1700s. Three hundred years is a long long long time to be waiting to be baptized (like honestly so long I can't even fathom it!), and how cool is it that I got to do it. 

I love the temple, and I love the Spirit I feel so strongly there. At the temple, the Spirit testifies to me the truthfulness of this gospel, and the truthfulness and love of our Heavenly Father. The love He has for us is so so so so insanely powerful. He gives all of His children the chance to be baptized in the afterlife, and what else can give us a stronger testimony of His love? ...not a lot of stuff! 

so basically I just love to see the temple! :-)

---12. go to a temple at least three times (1/3 DONE)

1/14 18 goals for year 18

I am determined to complete this entire list this year as a responsible eighteen year old! And you're going along for the ride :-) I'm gonna be posting all of these events and tagging them under the tag "18." SO KEEP ME IN LINE!

1. finish my Personal Progress for church, earn my Young Women's medallion, and finish reading the Book of Mormon

• I finished the BoM! 

2. read these books

3. document (meaning film, edit, and upload) three personal events

1. 01/20 Hike with Meg
2. 6/2-6/9 Trip to California

✓ 4. travel to two states

1. Atlanta, GA for Mom's birthday!
2. Columbia, SC for a temple trip
3. Providence, RH for ADOCH :-)
4. California!! 

5. start an organization focused on educating others about feminism
6. save $500
7. eat vegetarian for a week
8. go hiking at least six times (Hanging Rock has to be one of them!)

1. 01/20 Crowders' Mtn 
2. 5/23 Baker's Mountain
3. 7/8 (I'm counting my mini trip with Emma as a hike)
4. 8/30 Mount Monadnock

9. take a picture with the GSW sign (don't ask me why I never took one while I was there)

10. start my mission papers!!!
11. meet at least one Internet friend
12. go to a temple at least three times

1. 11/22 trip! 
2. Manhattan temple (didn't get to do any ordinances though)

13. meet up with GSW friends at least four times

1. 01/20 Hike with Meg
2. Deirdre's graduation party with Isibel
3. Alumni day

✓ 14. watch and complete two series (with preferably Breaking Bad as one)

1. How I Met Your Mother
2. Grey's Anatomy (well...caught up with it)

15. have at least two Harry Potter marathons with at least one being watched under a fort
16. learn how to swim
17. learn photography
18. go to three concerts 

P.S. this is super late (as I originally wanted to post this on my birthday), but now it can sorta be like my New Years Resolutions...just better! :-)

1/1 twenty-fifteen say WHAT

so I'm ringing off the new year with this great gem of happiness:

(I have flown through seven seasons of Grey's Anatomy in the course of three(??) weeks, and the lack of sleep and nocturnal habit has never felt better. I love it so much. this show makes me very happy and excited and nervous and just very very fuzzy and nice.) 

just a quick recap of my 2015 (for a deeper recap, read my birthday post)... 2014 was pretty good. on a scale of one to ten, the first half was probably a seven. and then for the two months of summer and Governor's School, about a solid ten point one. and then the last four months have been a four, maybe five. everything's just been insane, and i am so ready for graduation. so ready for the summer. and maybe even so ready for college. basically just very ready for 2015. so. let's begin :-)