You are B-E-A-UTIFUL!

I am in big support to this campaign, and this is something I think everyone should get on board with. I'd seen a couple magazine ads for the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty but never had paid attention to it until my bishop showed us this commercial in Relief Society on Sunday...

Short, but to the point. And the message really made me think. It's taken awhile, but I'm finally comfortable in my own skin. I don't need anyone to tell me I'm beautiful, I know I am. Not in a conceited way. Everyone should feel like this. I've found that the key to being able to feel like this is to not compare yourself to anyone else...just think about you, as an individual. And we're all beautiful. It's sad that we live in a world where young young girls are already seeing what society's perception of beauty is, and they already want to change so many things about themselves...

Sad, huh?

LOVE WHO YOU ARE! Heavenly Father would want you to!

The Home Teachers.

I have the best home teachers of all time. Seriously. I love them. They really genuinely care about me and are pretty much my only friends in my ward besides my roommates. They came to visit me yesterday, and at the close of our visit, asked the usual question: "Well Leah, is there anything we can do for you?" and I answered with the usual response: "No, I think I'm okay, but thanks." But Jon and Matt, just being the amazing guys that they are, respond by saying, "Well that's too bad, because we really want to do something for you, so you better think of something." They are really enthusiastic about serving people, which is something I really like about them. Anyway, I had just finished rearranging/decorating our living room, so there were marks on the floor from where the furniture had been. So I told them they could vacuum if they wanted. They were so excited and immediately said, "Oh awesome, we'd love to!" But then I remembered it was Sunday, so I told them not to worry about it because I didn't want them to do work on the Sabbath. They told me to just hold off one more day with the vacuuming and they would come over today after FHE to do it. I thought they would forget, but at 8:45 on the dot they arrived, eager to clean. Here they are...

Matt did the first half...

...

...and Jon did the second half.


I love Matt and Jon! Thanks for making my life a little bit easier!

I have no life.

I was on this site, Yearbook Yourself, where you upload a picture of you and you can put that picture on any face going back to 1950 until 2000 to see what you would look like in a yearbook from that year.

This is the picture I uploaded...

...and this is supposedly me in 1976.

See any resemblence to anyone else you know?

Oh my goodness, I look like my mother.

And P.S.....everyone who knows me knows how much I LOVE and ADORE Paul McCartney. Well, I found on Google that his song "Silly Love Songs" was the #1 song of 1976 according to sales, so of course I put it on my playlist! Just an interesting side note.

First-time Voter.

I have been legally eligible to vote for the last year and 8 months, but today was my first voting experience! I was a sophomore in high school the last time there was a presidential election. So I was super excited to finally have a say in not only who will run our country for the next four years, but for local things in Utah as well. I was so excited that even though it's freezing and the rain is pouring, I walked to get to my polling location while getting soaked and being super cold. It would've been a shorter walk had I not walked in the complete opposite direction for about 10 minutes and then had to turn around. See, I mixed up the correct address of 100 N 600 E with 600 N 100 E. Yep, I'm a smart one. Anyway, here's the documentation.

Me ready to go with my Utah Voter Registration Card.

Let's get a close up of that.

Me walking to the elementary school to vote. Well, at the time, this was me walking in the wrong direction. Oh well, it's a good picture of me.

My amazing and super cool purple boots...it was a special occasion, I had to break them out! And they're really warm. I love them.

And of course, my "I Voted" sticker. I've wanted one of these forever! Yeah, I'm kind of a dork.

Well, there you have it. I'm officially an adult. Be scared.

I ♥ Halloween!

I dressed up as Dora again this year! It's definitely my favorite costume. I even had Boots with me. Well, I had to improvise, so I put a sticker of him on my hand. I had to work that day, so I put "Dora" on my name tag. And then later that night I went to Paul's house to see his little sister and nephews in their costumes and then to a party in Spanish Fork. It seriously was so much fun. I love Halloween!

That's what she said!

So after work last night, I made my way back over to Parkway Crossing to stay the night at my friend Emily's. She lives 2 doors down from the apartment I used to live in. My old roommates Melissa and Dani came over and the four of us and Emily's roommates Michelle and Alyssa joined us and we had a girl's night. I really needed it.

Em and I are pretty much the best of friends. It's one of those relationships where no one gets anything we do except us. We have an obsession (and when I say 'obsession' I mean OOOBSEEEESSION) with Wild Cherry Pepsi, so we stocked up on that, ice cream, and lots of candy. But don't worry, I made sure we had our dinner first (and they say that kids don't listen to their parents when they're in college!), I made tacos. Yum. And then we got a little crazy.











Haha, we're so weird, I love it. Then we spent today at the mall.


I love my BFF Emily! She also blogged about our night, and she dedicated the post entirely to me. It's really sweet. To read it, go to Em's blog.

Ocho.

8 Favorite TV shows:
1. The Office
2. Arrested Development
3. The OC
4. What Not To Wear
5. Storm Chasers
6. Around the Horn
7. Pardon The Interruption
8. E:60

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. Tucanos
2. Taco Bell
3. Panda Express
4. Space Aliens
5. Texas Roadhouse
6. Applebee's
7. Red Robin
8. Little Caesar's

8 Things I did Today:
1. Made cookies
2. Went to the mall with Paul
3. Went to work
4. Facebooked/blogged
5. Decorated my apartment for Halloween
6. Read scriptures
7. Watched old Office episodes
8. Ran

8 Things I look Forward to:
1. Thursdays (it's my day off, meaning going to the temple and watching The Office!)
2. Halloween
3. Voting for the first time
4. Going home for Christmas
5. Getting hugs from Paul
6. Going back to school
7. Getting married eventually
8. Listening to my iPod curled up under my favorite blanket after a long day