Thank You Cards.

There's a segment that Jimmy Fallon does on his talk show writing thank you cards to anything and quite possibly everything. So here's my attempt at it!

Thank you Pinterest for helping me feel like I'm still doing something, but really I'm just looking at funny pictures.

Thank you Jack Johnson for making all your songs sound exactly the same so I know when to skip them on Pandora.

Thank you food for being there for me when I'm stressed, happy, or sad. You da real MVP.

Thank you past janitor life for giving me some crazy stories and new janitor friends. Also for helping me drive my friends nuts because "there's nothing fun about being a janitor". Here's to another summer of cleaning, laughs, and crazy people!

Thank you Micah for making me a very happy auntie with your shenanigans as well as asking "why" for everything under the moon. I live in my house because I live in my house. And I'm not telling you why nana is my mom.

Thank you Kazia for always being happy to see me and even happier when I have food.

Thank you Sam for being a crazy little fat boy and making me laugh with your silly selfie faces.

Thank you Luke for having the cutest laugh ever and looking at me weird when I have a spontaneous dance parties.

Thank you soon-to-be baby girl Barnes for making your dad, Ben very happy and also for making him not so baby hungry and because I know you're already gorgeous.

Thank you naps for being there when I'm a cranky pants and quite possibly don't want to be around myself. You're basically the best.

Thank you Jerry Jin, not many people know who you are, and we don't even know you're real name but you were the darn best bus driver ever. You're right, that bus did smell like tiger bum. And I forgive you for not letting Tinkles and I on your bus that one day.

Thank you emojis for expressing perfectly how I feel in a sendable face.

Thank you brothers for always being there for me. And being the stinkieset people I know. And making me smell your armpits so I can watch TV when you babysit--not really. *Cough* Ben *cough cough*. And for marrying-and soon to be marrying- the best sisters in law EVER. You guys done did good. I don't know how you guys got so lucky.

Thank you sisters for being the most beautiful people I know inside and out. And for marrying my crazy brothers and finishing raising them for eternity. And doing a stellar job at raising my nieces and nephews. I love you guys!

Thank you mom and dad for being there when I've been a cranky pants and still putting up with me. And for paying for basically everything from the moment I was born. And having the best daughter ever, and stop having kids when you finally got what you want. ;) You guys are such an amazing example to me! I LOVE YOU!!!

Thank you friends for telling me straight up when I need an attitude change, always being there for me, letting us have endless laughs and inside jokes, have squad nights every week, always being down for food, and supporting me in all I do. I luff you guys. I don't know what I'd do without my white friends.

Thank you my Savior and Redeemer for suffering for my sins and everyones in knowing I may not always be entirely grateful for it or deserve it. For being literally and truly a perfect example and not EVER complaining or speaking ill-will of others.

Thank you my Heavenly Father for always being there for me when I surely don't deserve your grace. Thank you for putting me through this test of life so that someday I may return to you.

Thank you Plan of Happiness and Salvation for allowing to see my grandma Linda, grandpa Leroy, and other loved ones someday. You have eased many burdens.

THANK YOU  blog readers!!! I can't even say it enough. Thanks for helping me find my passion. Although numbers can be down sometimes, every person that reads and continues to read this really does make my day and it is re-edified when someone asks if there is a blog post that day or thanks me for blogging. YOU are the real MVP.

~Mostly Marissa~

I heart this. 

Hey look, I'm related to Brigham Young. Someday I may be accepted to the school named after him! Check out this link to see who you are related to! If you're a Fremont student, join the Fremont High group!

Group name: Fremont HS 2015

Password: silverwolves

Look at this babe with her temporary tattoo. Best 50 cents I'd ever spent...well until I give her the ducky necklace. 

This kid's sass makes me laugh. 

Oh Andrew. How I miss his annoying, yet quirky attitude. 

Senior appreciation dinner went mighty swell.

I have the best young women. No doubt about that!

One time we were rebellious and teeter tottered at Country Corner. I aint about that thug life.

These two fatties turned two and basically I heart them forever and ever. 

I love jogs for the reason that West Haven is completely gorgeous...and I manage to almost trip every time.

When we plan to go get dinner but instead just go in on buying a loaf of sourdough bread is just how the squad works. And I love it. 

Selfie by Greer. My hair looks red...I know what I'm never coloring my hair. 

Half date but not. That's how we roll. Also, see that camera strap around me? That's basically my life sometimes. Pictures, pictures, pictures for Paw Print. But I love it. 

Putting my new selfie stick to work. 

Sellllfffiiieeeee...

Kirts! 

Parks are fun.

One Acts day two! So worth it. Hilariousness and these gals make for a great night. 

Ohhhhh Chris. 

Not the Same.

It's a crazy thing. Blog posts come to me almost consistently throughout the week. I go through a range of thoughts:
-"I need to blog this week. What about?"
-"Oooh this would be good. This would be funny."
-"I can't do that because I don't want to offend someone."
-"I've been blessed in this way this week."
-"I've already done a blog post on that dang it!--I don't care I'm doing it again."
-"Hallelujah thank you Pinterest for that inspiring thought."

I love blogging. It gives me an outlet and an opportunity to share my view on life. It's even more interesting to see how this blog has changed from the very first post. I look forward to blogging each Saturday night and on very rare occasions, I don't. Those weeks are harder. I can say I've found my nitch in what I enjoy to do. :) Now don't think I'm crazy. There is a point to this.

Why? 

As humans, we are put through trials and moments where it seems impossible to endure. We ask "Why would you put me through this Lord? I am doing what I should, and doing what you want me to do so why are you seemingly punishing me?"

My friends, we are not being punished. We are being made a stronger, better people. Our God loves us and that is why he is putting us through things we know we can go through but in the moment it seems difficult to breathe. But don't worry, our Heavenly Father knows EXACTLY what he is doing.

Thank You Trials. 

And I think one of the best things about those trials, is that we are NOT the same. Thankfully, I can say I am not the same person I was in 6th grade. Thank goodness for puberty, but also thank goodness for trials!

Last year, my history teacher mentioned to us how much she hated when people said "never change" in yearbooks. "Always change!" She said. We need to always change and become a changed person than we were the day before. That's a new goal of mine.

Like President Gordon B. Hinkley said:
"Try a little harder, to be a little better." 

That's Ok. 

I'll be completely honest, when I first saw this on Pinterest I thought "stinkin hormonal girls have too much time to think about love and lame boys." But upon my overthinking mind, it became to be something more. Life is NOT planned by the way WE think it should happen. And thank goodness for that! Luckily our Heavenly Father is in charge and HE knows what he doing for our benefit and future. 

Not the Same. 

I'm so glad to say I am not the same person. Not the same person I was a year ago, not the same person from a month ago, not the same person I was yesterday. But I'm trying to make that a better person, because we all slip up in this mess we call life. But it's glorious.

~Mostly Marissa~

Can we just take a moment to admire how FREAKING cute my nieces and nephews are? 

Mike "helped" me fold some laundry. That stuff on the floor, and those fancy gym shorts of mine that she hung up. She did it all. 

Little studly Sam with his glasses! 

I just throughly enjoy this picture because of how much Sammy K looks like he just got himself some Botox done. 

Easter egg hunt!!--A week late. But they don't care. They get candy. 

Luke became so focused on opening and closing the eggs!

Nom nom.

Kaz loves food about as much as I do. 

This girl. I heart her, and she's just like my annoying little sister at the same time. 

Looky, looky who decided she could climb up on the bike by herself. 

For all ya Spanish speakers!

Some of my Young Women. They're preeeeetty great. :)

I'd say that Kaz and Mike are pretty well accustomed to Uncle Adam.   

Oh how I love beautiful West Haven. Cows, fields, crazy gorgeous mountains. All of it. 

Just a good reminder. :)

I seriously love this girl. She's the best! ALWAYS happy and ALWAYS positive. I don't know how one can be so great, but my Shae Bae does it!

Mooooorrrrppp! Everyone was prepping in this one. 

Well hello Jackie Chan. I can see your eye!!

Best car group there ever be. 

We may or may not have freaked out about this teeter totter. #awkwardteetertotterpose

The guys were so great to always be taking pictures for us...basically after we made them. 

FIRST SELFIE WITH MY NEW SELFIE STICK!! Shoutout to my dad for getting it for me in Taiwan...even if you didn't take me back with you! But really though, our group was seriously the greatest. 

After party at Shae's!

Have I mentioned how much I love my Shae Bae?

Thanks Lucy--Tanner--for being such a great date. Thanks for making me laugh and putting up with my terrible skills of swing dancing. Also for holding my racccoon ears when they kept falling off. Annd coming up with our costumes. Groot and Rocket were on point. And for fixing my selfie stick when I had it for less than 5 minutes. You da real MVP. 

Prepare Me.

I think it's a truly amazing thing once you look back on a trial and realize that God was preparing us so many moments and times along the way. In fact, sometimes it can almost be an odd thing. Honestly, some moments in life are just...odd. Like "What in the even heck was that?" But even the smallest of things can make us become the greatest of people.

And in every moment of happiness or sadness He is there. He is right by our side cheering us on or holding us up. Hoping that we've listened and trusted in the things that he has prepared us for. 

One of my most favorite quotes! Although we seem alone, we never are. Truth is truth.

So unbelieveingly grateful for my Savior and Redeemer and even more so for my Father in Heaven. They are preparing us every moment of every day for the trials we have yet to face. And that is why I say Prepare Me.

~Mostly Marissa~

Didneyland!--Tour 2015

It's about time I remembered this fantastic trip. It was so great. I can't even narrow all of the crazy happiness down. It was great. Bottom line.

Basically I was able to go on tour with the Band/Choir as a journalist. It was preettty great. I love reporting on fun trips like these!

So I suppose like most things, I'll narrow this down into pictures. Because for this Asian, that's the easiest way to attempt to describe it.

Breakkkfasssttt! 

I heart these humans. 

Riverside city college roaming!

The all the guys faces in this picture are just I can't even. 

The only time I really thought about Chemistry the entire trip! :)

Such a pretty view!

First prank of many! 

I heart my Shae Bae. And Alex is pretty cool too. #gopherface

Annd yet again. This is after we were all obese from the buffet!

Took about 7,890,962 tries, but I finally got a decent picture of the Hollywood sign!

This is basically my favorite picture of all time.

It comes close with this one!

Hollywood Boulevard yo.

I looovvvee Billy Joel! Such a great musician. If I worshipped idols, he'd probably be one. And if this were the only star we got to see, I ain't even mad. 

AHHHHHH!!! It was as fantastic as one would expect it to be. 

I love these gals. Best roomies ever!

Pretty legit!

Panoooooo!

We were pretty ecstatic after seeing some mighty attractive males sing and dance for us. 

Disneyland knows whats up! 

The Backlot Hollywood the orchestra, band, and choir got to preform at! 

Disneyland day 1!

Side story: I was going to the restroom (okay just get past this part and I promise it's not as weird as it has begun to be.) and this is what went down:

Daughter: *points to No-Smoking sign* "Mom look at that!"

Mom: What is it? A womens restroom sign? Oh wait, shut up!

Kids know whats up. 

Just one of the attractive males from Newsies. This was a picture with Greer, but that's besides the point. ;) And he looked at me. WITH HIS EYES. (That's now an ongoing joke.--"He pointed at me. WITH HIS FINGER!!)

Astro blasterssss!

Street performers! 

The sick Innovations building. Pretty fun to explore with these fools. And may I say it was heaven sent that it was air conditioned! 

Sulfide with Iron Man!

An Andrew face, in honor of my studiedly brother Andrew.

Hehe "thy". Featuring a photo bomb from Zach!

One of the many reasons I love this gal. She does crazy weird and silly things with me.

Didney!!!

Marching Band ROCKED IT for the parade! On point performance. 

Not bad seats at all. Right down the center of Main Street. Thank you journalism for letting us have this glorious opportunity. 

Soup bowls!!

Astro Blasters with this stud!

We were tuckered out. Here we are sitting by It's a Small World where I sung to Morg in different variations of the song. (Bass, Opera, Rap...)

Because we were exhausted at this point but not too much to spare a selfie.

We were throughly drained so it only seemed logical to lay on each others stomachs and play the laughing game. 

The bestie bae. 

Getting ready for them to perform in "Ghettoville" in Knottsberry Farm. Okay, it really wasn't called Ghettoville but it was super sketch.

Asian Tourist day! Too bad 90% of the people thought I was a worker. #fail

On the bright side however, there was a group of small Asian children with some supervising adults, and they were walking in a large group. I hopped down from the fence I was sitting on and started walking with them and NOBODY knew. It was great. 

Squad!

I love these lovely ladies!

Yacht!!!! Yes we did party hardy. There were 3 decks and we may or may not have ran around the entire boat like small children from excitement.

That beautiful sunset. 

Laughing too hard from that Zach face.

And what would being on a boat be without a little Titanic? 

Our dinner table.

Boom baby. 

Bye bye boat selfie. 

Last night roommates selfie! Morg wouldn't move so we made proper adjustments.

Funny side story: Greer and I were sharing a bed and one of the nights she was moving in the bed so I turned to see what was happening and then I look over and she just snaps. No joke lifts her hand in the air and snaps her fingers. She rolls back over and goes to sleep. I didn't even question it until the next morning. 

Last day of Disneyland!!

That sass! *snap*

We met Jessie! And we were the FIRST in line. Score!

Booyah!! Lilo!

MU-FREAKING-LAN!! I was so happy when I saw her! Sure, I didn't get a real selfie with her, but this satisfied my soul.

Cars ride! I may or may not have flipped out when it actually started going fast. "MOTHER-FATHER!"

We loved those little shops. They were the best. 

And we met Goofy! Also first in line! 

Last selfie in Didneyland. :(

Hehehehehe

Noon they aren't twins!

Chrissy Chris playing in the playground!

Homeward bound!

Didneyland was a great adventure. From the nights of just 4 hours of sleep to Jerry Jin, Disneyland most certainly did not disappoint. 

*May we always remember my poor selfie stick that took a hit on this trip. Here's to you and the many more memories we could've had. You will be missed. * #Asianlyfeandstruggles

~Mostly Marissa~