Happy Mothers Day!

Sorry it is late, and it won't be along post, because I was thinking about it and I could express to you how much I love you (which I do) and how much you mean to me (which you do) and how much you have taught me (which you have), but I think I have found a phrase that envelopes all those ideas and you and I may be the only ones that get it, but here it is.....

"Gum mommy?"
then for the next 5 mintues with my hand outstretch,
"Gum mommy? Gum mommy?"

Thanks for that piece of gum right out of your mouth, I know that there's nothing you would not do for me =) Thanks for the love you always show even when I am being a persistent annoying little thing.
Love you!

I love you so much!

Tulip Festival

I love tulips. They are by far the best flower out there.  But over spring break Zach took me on a date and he took me to the Tulip Festival. It was beautiful, and a surprise (he loves me) =)
But I love tulips for multiple reasons. One, they come in almost every color and any color combination. Second: They are one of the first marks of Spring. Third:  They are just a happy flower  And fourth: They always remind me of being little again when my mom would plant her tulips only to have them promptly picked and gifted to her by little me or Lisa each year. Love you mom, and when I saw all the tulips it was my first instinct to pick every single bulb and send them to you.
But anyways, I loved walking through the fields of flowers.  Unfortunately, I forgot my camera, so the pictures are a little hazy because they were taken on the phone, but you can still see how pretty the flowers are!

This one is just kind of marching to its own drum =)

So manly.
(side note: Zach fought taking pictures all day, he insisted that I be in each picture and that being a guy you cant take a picture by a field of flowers.  But after some persuasion and persistence I got him to take some so here he is still manly by a field of flowers)

Hi! I'm Barbie, wait, I mean....Lori....

So over Christmas I dyed my hair a reddish brown color and it was fun for the Winter but since Spring is coming I was super anxious to dye my hair back to blonde.  So I went and got it cut and then had Lisa highlight it.  Well the first time we did it the blonde did not really come through so we went back and got a blonde kit and decided that since it did not come through while just highlighting it that I should just put the blonde all over.....big mistake.  It hurt so bad! Bleach is literally the worst and it came out neon orange much to my dismay.  But over spring break I went in and had them tone it which takes out the orange, so now my plan is to remain Barbie blonde, grow it out and never touch it again.

But here is the memory regardless...enjoy =)

 BEFORE:

PROCESS:

AFTER WHILE ORANGE:

Then after they took the orange out:

So now my plan is to just let it grow, roots and all until the blonde is out of it enough that my natural color is long enough to cut the blonde off and then never cut it again.

When one door closes Heavenly Father opens a window

So I am not sure if everyone knows but everything did work out in the end, pertaining to my previous life hiccup with the Wellness Center.
The same weekend Zach and Lisa went down to Utah for his soccer tournament I had to work at the Wellness Center that Saturday, but I also had a 5k to run with my client from one of my classes.  So I told them I would be late and to just schedule me on doing blood work when I get there.  Well I finished my 5k and all the blood work spots were filled in so I just went and did results.  Another girl who is the director over wellness was also doing results and was talking to me about how the wellness coach internship position for the Biggest Winner on campus did not have very many good applicants.  She told me that I should apply.  Mind you the applications for this internship were due two weeks prior, but she said she thought I would be good.
So she set up the interview for 30 minutes later and I turned in my resume.
Three days later I got the internship position as a wellness coach for the Biggest Winner.  So even though the Wellness Center did not work out it does not even matter! I was originally working there to apply for the internship position it had, but I got a different one instead and though this internship is only about 20 to 25 hours it is alright, because later that day I also got an email from the sewing room on campus asking me to work 15 hours a week.  Meaning that I get 40 hours a week with an internship which is exactly what I wanted from the Wellness Center.  So Heavenly Father does love me , He does know little hiccups in life can be frustrating but I know that He knows what is coming so everything will work out like it is suppose to, the hard part is trusting that it will.  But I do have a testimony that Heavenly Father has a specific plan for all of us and that hiccups in life help us grow and that He will always be with us, and that eventually things will work out for the better =)

Dragons and a Few of My Favorite Things

A few weeks ago Zach tried out for a club soccer team here in Rexburg called the Dragons.  It is not affiliated with the school and they dont really have a season yet, but they are trying to get one organized.  But anyways the team was made (Zach made it) and they had a weekend with three games kind of as a trial run to see how they would do.  They played against UVU, a men's league in Utah and Utah University's team.
Side note, I don't have to ever work on Saturdays, but a month ago some girl asked if I could cover her shift at the Hickory and since this soccer weekend wasn't planned I assumed there would be nothing going on so I said yes, sooooo unfortunate that the soccer weekend landed on the same day I had to work on a Saturday.  So I was pretty upset, just because I really wanted to go and it stunk that I had to stay. Also this had been the week I had found out about the Wellness Center job and so it really was just one thing going wrong after another.  So Zach knowing I was upset and that I had had a terrible week surprised me with some of my favorite things.
He is such a good husband!

But back to soccer, they went down and played all three teams and won! Mind you the dragons had only had four practices together before playing teams that had had a few years of playing together.  So very impressive and of course Zach played great.  Lisa told me that someone had a break away and he was able to catch and stop him before he could score.=)

Hiccups

Well if you have not already heard, I did not get rehired at the Wellness Center on campus.  I really enjoyed that job and I am really frustrated, angry, sad, ect that I did not get it again.  I was told that I did not get rehired again by the new intern (he does the hiring) because of budget cuts.  Well after research I found that that was not true.  So then I went to talk to the faculty advisers over it who told me that at the end of each semester employees are placed in a new pool of hirees and the new intern picks them.  Well the intern who is the intern now has been hired three semesters in a row, so I was upset that I had been denied the opportunity that he had been given.  Mind you he is a control freak and a jerk...and that is an unbias opinion ;) nah I am kidding.
But anyways long story short, after talking to many advisers and explaining my issues with the new intern I did not get the job.
But I am dealing with it.  I am mad and agitated that this new intern is such a hyporcrite, but there are hiccups in life.  I can deal with this no matter how frustrating it is.
Hiccups happen all the time, I tore my acl twice, that was a hiccup, I did not get into BYU originally that was a hiccup, Ive lost lots of credits through multiple transfers, that was a hiccup.  But with all that its led me to realize that there is a different path that I don't realize yet is better for me.
Stick with me, but if I had not torn my acl twice then I would have not come to BYU-Idaho.  The first time was early enough to just humble me, when I got back to playing my intentions were to still play at a college in Georgia, if I had not torn it a second time that is where I would be.  If I had gotten into BYU then I would not have ever come to BYU-Idaho and met Zachary originally, if I had not transferred so many times I would still be waiting for a missionary who would have not been good for me and I would have never had the courage to date Zachary and eventually marry him.  I do love him.
So even with this hiccup and it is frustrating, I know that sometime down the road it will turn out to work out better for me than I thought.

Thank you mom and dad for giving me the courage to deal with mean people, and thank you for supporting me.  I love you both.  Thank you Zachary to listening to me for hours vent and cry and rave about how mean and rude these people are.  I love you  too.  Thanks lisa for also listening to me and agreeing with me that the new intern is indeed a jerk even though you dont know them.
So here is to hiccups and the better things they promise.

New Sports!

This semester someone in Zach and my ward was putting together a hockey team.  Well Zach has been playing hockey almost as long as he has been playing soccer so he instantly said he would play and since they need a girl to play to be able to compete I said I would play.
It is kind of an awkward sport, I know how to body up to someone because of soccer but I have no idea how to hold the stick or what to do with, oh and I am TERRIBLE at shooting, but because I know how to use my body I am actually alright at defense, so that is where I stay.
But this past weekend we had a game, our first one was at 9:15.  It was a tournament game but we lost it in overtime so we had to play again at 12:15, which we also went into overtime, but Zach scored the game winning goal so we have our next tournament game next weekend to see if we play the championship or not =)

Then later that evening we went and watched Lisa play battleship.  Well if you thought of the game then you might think that was probably a really boring evening, but here at BYU-Idaho the school runs a real life battleship where each team has a canoe and you are in the pool and have to sink other peoples canoe by pouring water into theirs before you get sunk.  Well look at the pictures if you still don't get it )