To My Most Awesome Married Sister!

Since I did it for all my other sibs it is time to do it for the oldest! My Sister Katie is now 32! Of course, if you ask her she will say she is either 30.2 or 25... lol. She has always been an example to me growing up and I love her loads for it. (Sometimes she was the example of what not to do). However, as she has gotten older I have seen how her relationship with our mother has strengthened and I hope to one day be that close with our mom too. Katie got married when I was in Jr. High... doesn't seem like it was that long ago, but it was... and she now has four amazing children! They are the coolest! She has three boys and 1 girl! And My niece is by far the best little girl in the world! I want my sister to know that she can bother me any time because I love her... even if she makes me mad... sorry it's not an epistle, but enjoy pics of me with her fam! (including her)

For more pictures please visit my facebook account at... http://www.facebook.com/Frankie.Mae

I just couldn't put all the awesome pics on here! :D

It's a New Dawn, It's a New DAY, It's a New Life for me... and I'm feeling good.

    My sister recently put this as her status on facebook and I'm stealing it cause I think it fits perfectly for me right now! Life is just so amazing! I love my job so far and everyone I work with is just amazing!
    Last night (08-21-11)  the Bountiful YSA stake got to have the opportunity to listen to Elder Ballard speak and one thing he said really struck me. Most of the time I tune out when someone speaks on marriage, but he actually directed a really amazing comment to us young women as he called us... he said that we each need to catch our inner beauty and wear it on our sleeves for all the young men to see. It made me smile cause it made me think of how my siblings sometimes say that I'm "the nice one." I've come to realize that being nice isn't horrible either. Also, Elder Ballard spoke to us about not being afraid. There are so many young singles that are afraid of marriage, or afraid of what might come in the future. I must admit, I am one of these young singles that is sometimes afraid of what might lie ahead in my future, but I just need to remember that Heavenly Father will take care of me (especially since he mostly already has)! I am so grateful for all of the blessings I've had throughout my life especially the blessings as of recent. I know I say this loads, but I have truly been blessed by having such amazing friends, family, and anyone that has been there for me especially throughout this past year! :-D
     So, finally I'm going to stick my neck out and say guys if you want to ask me or any other girl out JUST DO IT! We may be blonde and not realize you like us (sometimes we do think the same as you).

Now please enjoy this Michael Buble' song! <3

An Abundance of Blessings

   Throughout my life I have always heard about people receiving blessings and those have changed their lives. However, in my life I've noticed that in order to receive blessings I have to continue on a righteous path and my life won't drastically change, but it will slowly improve. So, what has been going on with me to relate to such blessings and my title?
    Well, for starters I've reconnected with so many remarkable people and met so many new ones within the past few months. I'm so grateful for all of these people, and hopefully they know who they are. Next, I got a job working at Legacy Prep Academy (LPA), and so far I love the amazing people and how sweet they are. I will mostly be working with Kindergarten too! :-D Also, within a week of getting this job I was able to get my dream vehicle (well, almost) I now have a black chevy s-10 (wanted a blue one since I was a kid). Anyways, I love it. It has 4WD and is just way good!
   So, in short I work here: Legacy Prep Academy
Hopefully I will have a picture of my truck up soon if you haven't seen it! ;-)

a new job, a vehicle?

So, today I had my first day of training for the new job, and it is going to be intense! I can just tell, but it will also be very very fun! I have begun to see again why I love teaching so much. This school is a Direct Instruction Private Charter school. They teach Direct Instruction, but at a mastery level. I am learning how to implement things that at times you don't think possible in a classroom, but the beauty is that all children can learn and all teachers can teach with success. It seems like everything I learned while in school will finally pay off!

Now onto the vehicle. I'm not terribly picky about what vehicle I get, but I do have my eyes set on one in particular... see, ever since I was a little kid I've always wanted a Chevy S-10! Why? I dunno... maybe cause it's a small truck and if there is one thing I have always wanted it's a truck and a truck in a small package sounds perfect! Well, when we found out that I got this job my parents and I really began to look at a vehicle for me... even more than we had before. I had looked a bit online last weekend at like ksl and even asked friends on facebook. Well, the other day Dad was coming home from work and went past a local dealership and saw a black Chevy S-10... granted I would love for it to be blue, but black won't kill me... and my goodness I have just grown to really like it just be looking at it. Now the thing is if it runs well and what not too. http://www.murdockchevrolet.com/VehicleDetails/used-2003-Chevrolet-S_10-4WD_Extended_Cab_Short_Box_LS-Woods_Cross-UT/1118053753 
There's the link if you want to look at it, but seriously... hopefully I can convince my parents to get it for me... if everything works out well. We are going to go car shopping tomorrow hopefully... which would benefit me loads... because the less I have to rely on someone else the more independent I can be! It will be nice to be independent! I will have to keep everyone updated on if I get it or not! But for now enjoy my eye candy!

Proper Etiquette in social networking.

So, here is the Big question... now that the internet is so huge among young people is there a proper way to talk about friends or about what is going on in your life that involves your friends? Well, lately this has really been on my mind. Recently I have heard of situations where several people are being rude to their so called "friends" on a social networking site and then getting upset when things go aray. Or where someone has said something about someone and then expects them to be happy go lucky about it. In my opinion I think the best rule for everyone to have is that if you can't say something nice about someone don't say anything at all! I'm not going to name names because people will probably think it's them, but I will say scenarios.
First, to my married friends... most of this does not pertain to you and you are part of the reason I have begun to be extremely careful of what I say about others on a public networking site... I mean even if you are pertaining to "those people" the people it's about can usually figure it out. Again, I apologize to them for anything I did.

Now, to the situation I'm seeing from the outside currently and mostly staying out of, but getting very irritated by seeing it pop up on my wall all the time. I think it very rude for anyone to publicly say on a social networking site that a group of people make the worst friends. I mean seriously... you never know what that person's life is like. Or what it's like for them to be over the age of 21 and still live under your parents roof trying to make a living. You never know how hard it might be for them to find a well paying job, or if they are actually feeling 100% everyday. Sometimes people talk about others behind backs, but not always are things that are said absolutely awful and horrible. So, if I'm mostly staying out of this situation then why is it bothering me so much? Because the fact is that over the past year living in Utah (mostly Bountiful) has truly grown on me and those people that have been really amazing friends to me while I've been here keep getting slammed by others. So, some may wonder now.... why care so much? I have always had respect to people that show generosity to me or any member of my family. While living here in Bountiful over the past year (especially within the past few months) I have met the most generous people ever. Most of the guys would give you the shirts off their backs and most of the girls would be there if you needed a shoulder to cry on (this includes all the married people I've met). So, in my opinion if you want people to like you don't talk about them like that in public. No, it's not cool to talk about people behind their backs, but a lesson I learned a long time ago and well, it got drilled into my head recently too is that no matter what you think people are going to talk about you. The only way to change it is to allow them to talk about you in a good way by being a good person.

Does this apply to people in particular? It's possible. If they would like to know for sure... they can ask me and I'll be straight with them. Moral of my story... if you don't want someone to be publicly rude to you... don't be publicly rude to them on a social networking site even if you aren't naming names... it's kinda like this post... you know it pertains to you and you are being dumb... yeah... this post isn't to anyone in particular just getting out frustrations I've had for the past few months or so.