Count your many blessings

I love Thanksgiving. It makes me sad that Thanksgiving gets so overlooked becuase people start celebrating Christmas right after Halloween. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Christmas, but Thanksgiving is awesome. It's a day that we can really look at all the things we are blessed with and eat until we burst and not feel guilty about it. I just wanted to write a quick post about all of the things that I am grateful for.
1. The gospel of Jesus Christ.
2. My testimony of the wonderful gospel
3. The atonement
4. A living prophet
5. The Book of Mormon
6. Prayer
7. A family that I know will love me no matter how ridiculous I can be
8. Friends that will be there for me no matter what
9. My job
10.  The school I go to
11. My car
12. My healthy body that allows me to do som many wonderful things
13. Nieces and nephews
14. Animals
15. Food!
16. Books
17. Chapstick
18. My ipod
I could truly go on and on. I am so blessed with everything I have. I know that all I have comes from my Heavenly Father. I'm eternally grateful for Him for so richly blessing me with all I need and more to live a happy and fulfilling life. Happy Thanksgiving!!

Just a wizard living among muggles

If you really knew me you'd know that I am obsessed with Harry Potter. Obsessed. I basically grew up reading Harry Potter and honestly I kind of went through depression when the books ended. I'm not just saying that. I literally woke up every morning for like two weeks with a pit in stomach. I used to have dreams, actual dreams not just day dreams, about Harry Potter being real. One time I dreamed that Dumbledore was my grandpa and I got to go to Hogwarts. I even went through a phase where I wanted to name all my kids after Harry Potter characters. Well a couple of nights ago I went to the midnight movie release. I think that my little sister's boyfriend said it best in his facebook status:

"Society today questions the true meaning of the word, "masterpiece." Don't look at the dictionary, and don't ask Cha Cha, because I have the answer for you right here. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1!"

                                                                                                                                        -Dilan Maxfield

I love love loved it!! Before the movie I had a little Harry Potter party with some buds. My old roomy Emily made some delicious butter beer and we ate some Bertie Botts every flavored beans. It was a lot of fun. I'm already anxiously awaiting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2!!

T minus 1 month

Anyone that has had a conversation with me that lasted more than 10 minutes knows about Matt. I dated Matt for about a year and a half before his mission. We started dating right before senior year and dated up until he left for Guatemala November 19, 2008. Now it's been 23 months and 17 days since I last saw him. The other day I was thinking about all the things I wanted to do while he was gone and I started to get a little sad because I felt like I haven't done anything really worth mentioning. But after thinking for awhile I proved myself wrong.What have I done since he's been gone? Well let me tell you...

I left my teenage years

Rode a motorcycle for the first time

Went to the Grand Canyon

I had jdawgs for the first time and fell in love!

I learned to knit

I've always wanted to go to dinner at La Caille and I did

I was part of a world record: the biggest water balloon fight

I went to the Utah Copper mine for the first time

Discovered that cookie sheets make great sleds

I went to a party dressed as a Christmas tree

I went to the Killers concert

I went to the Justin Bieber concert

I went to my first demolition derby and LOVED it (yes, me and Rachel are dressed like white trash) 

I jumped into Bear Lake in the middle of the night and the dead of Winter

Got a little culture in me by attending the festival of Colors twice

Decided to be a goth girl for a day

I was a counselor for a girl's camp

I welcomed a new nephew into the world: Dean Barney

I ate a chicken heart!

I had sushi for the first time

I participated in a parade

I got a job that I actually like

I ran my first half marathon!!!!

I did some service at an orphanage in Mexico

I went to Vegas- two times

I went to New York twice and was on a billboard in Times Square!

I went to California with the fam (or part of the fam)

I lived with my sister

I hiked mt timpanogos

I threw a party that was shut down by the police (which has been a goal of mine since I moved to Provo)

I crossed something off of my bucket list: go to Carlo's Bakery in New Jersey

Made the world's largest cookie

rode a llama

Became a soccer fan

I've finished two years of school at BYU

Decided to go on a mission...?

The greatest thing I have done is strengthen my relationship with my Heavenly Father and Savior and develop a stronger testimony of this wonderful gospel

That's a pretty good list, right? There are so many more things I wanted to do and so many more things I wanted to improve on. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm good enough for him yet. But ready or not it doesn't matter because he will be home in 31 days. 744 hours. 43,640 minutes. 2,678,400 seconds. However you want to look at it.

                                                                                         I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!