funny story

So yesterday was the day of my father's birth.

As a present, he asked BB and I to go on a hike with him.

We started out strong.

BB was hiking and listening to music and all of the sudden. She was done.

Asking in her british accent "Father, are we done yet?!"

She started lagging. 20 mins in.

I told her if zombies attacked she would be the first to go.

She replied. RUDE.

HA!

As it go steeper I let her go in front of me so I got the rear and I could poke her in the butt when she was going too slow.

She was so annoyed with us that we kept pushing her to go further than she really had ever gone before that when we did get to the end. She stopped 20 feet short and wouldn't go to the cave. She's hilarious.

Beth Anne got a head start on the way down. She would HOWWWWWLLLLL. OWW OWW HOWWWWLLLL. At us so we knew she was alive.

She sounds like a real pup.

Then would reply in her ponocchio voice "I'm a real boy."

Also when my Dad would poke a cactus with his walking stick, BB said "DAD, cactus have feelings too."

Man, that trip would have been so boring with out that girl.

I found my werewolf vampire sister. She made it home alive. Cranky. But alive.

It got dark real fast.

BB and I felt like Katniss in Hunger Games.

Except she was in the forrest.

And we were in a forrest of cacti.

And I'm like why didn't we turn around earlier cause I was going to eat it on a sharp rock. And crush my camera and then die of sadness. And BB was like "I TOLD YOU!"

Any who. It was a fun experience.

I may have pulled a muscle in my groin climbing on the rocks but all is well.

Dad enjoyed his time with his "thinker" actress child and the only athletic long legged kid.

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

happy birthday daddio.

Happy Birthday Dad.

You've always held me up.

Attempted to stop my tears.

Taught me how to work hard.

And loved me through it all.

I love you too, Dad.

I'm glad you're my Dad. There is no one like you.

I enjoyed our hike today.

Happy Birthday.

Loves

R

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

Sunday Fun.

There are many reasons why I love Beth Anne.

This is clearly one of them.

She does crazy things with me.

I love BB.

She's my best friend and I'm so grateful for her.

She without a doubt always, always knows how to make me smile.

She may wake me up in the morning and wear my clothes more than I do.

But this girl in the pictures with me is pretty darn special and I love her lots.

Happy Sunday.

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

It Will Rain

The magic of twilight but still has the bruno mars feel.

my soundtrack for the weekend.

There are many things to be thankful for.

I am grateful.

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

photo ideas

Lost in the world of photo

…

I love this.

I got asked to do maternity photos

as well as edgy family christmas photos.

…

Man, this makes me happy.

Looking for ideas.

I love photography.

that is all.

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

daydream

I like to listen to Taylor as I fall asleep.

She makes me have good dreams.

Music at night is my own kind of dream catcher.

Enchanted has been swimming in around in my mind lately.

I'm still wonderstruck.

I'll spend forever wondering if you knew…

I was enchanted to meet you.

This is me praying that.

These are the words I held back.

Please don't be in love with someone else.

Please don't have somebody waiting on you.

Please.

I continually lose myself in day dreams.

Until my reality is better than my dreams,

I guess I'll keep dreaming. <3

Did I mention, this semester is almost over?!

Meaning I'll have more time to read, books starting with Hunger and ending in Games.

And turkey day is literally around the corner?

Meaning I get to smooch on my favorite babers?

Excellent.

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

Make Today Ridiculously Amazing.

Hope this inspires you

the way it has inspired me to make today

GREAT.

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

Books > Movies

I love movies.

But.

Books are always better.

Breaking Dawn was not very good.

Which really really makes me sad. I had such high hopes.

Because the book was great.

I don't know how a director could mess up a story like that.

But the movie truly was slow and cheesy.

However, I finished the Hunger Games book #1

That did not disappoint.

I love that I can escape in a story.

That someone even in a fantasy world

goes through hardships greater than my own

and yet I can still relate.

Books > Movies.

Case and point.

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

Everything or Nothing

I'm an everything or nothing type of girl.

100% or 0%

That may be the reason why I have an addictive personality.

Everything or nothing.

I do everything like this.

Friends can attest. When I love, I love 100%, give everything and love for always.

And...

I fell in love with the Hunger Games.

I didn't sleep last night

I had to read.

Katniss is my new favorite character.

I'm excited for the movies to come out.

Also, tonight.

7 pm

BREAKING DAWN.

Yes!

Words can not describe my excitement.

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

Everything or nothing.

Don't Worry Be Happy

My theme song today.

1. Did I walk into my bio 100 exam, ready? Nope.

2 Did I fail it. Probably

3. Am I caring about it. Nope!

Not worth the worry.

4. Did I have to present the paper I BSed because I procrastinated last week. Yes.

6. Was in good? Not at all.

7.Do I care about it. Nope!

Not worth the worry.

Don't Worry. Be Happy.

life is beautiful. love always wins.

This Christmas...

I was impressed with this little handout.

I know I need to do some, alright alright, most of these things this Christmas.

"This Christmas, mend a quarrel.

Seek out a forgotten friend.

Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust.

Write a letter.

Give a soft answer. Encourage youth.

Manifest your loyalty in word and deed.

Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy.

Apologize. Try to understand.

Examine your demands on others.

Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle.

Laugh a little more.

Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger.

Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth.

Speak your love and then speak it again."

-Howard W. Hunter

I love Christmas time, because it is the time of year where people care more about others than themselves.

I love Christmas, because I love giving.

Christmas time is a time to be more Christ like.

I like it.

I also like waking up to this cuddle bug.

Lilly Monster. You are my favorite.

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

11/11/11

Make A Wish

11/11/11

Today is a good day.

Shout out to one of my best friends - BSO.

For being the first person besides my dad

to buy one of my hats

I also made my first LOGO. (:

MB- MoonBean Accessories

Also, I volunteer at Dress For Success.

One of the most rewarding experiences of my existence.

But last night was an event that I took pictures of.

Here is a glimpse of the wine and cheese mixer as well as the fashion show that went down in Phoenix.

-P.S. Sorry for the arrows, I just did a screen shot of the picasa album I made to send to Dress For Success and I'm not on my lap top where the pictures are.

But Happy Veterans Day.

Thanks for all those who serve.

I may not be a fan of Arizona, but I'm a fan of the United States.

Thanks Vets for serving and keeping us safe.

Life is BEAUTIFUL. Love always WINS.

Holiday Spirit & New Goals

So I know it's not even Thanksgiving…

But to avoid doing homework, I got into the Christmas/ Holiday spirit.

Listened to the Glee Christmas CD

and made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.

Be jealous.

Because, really they are THAT good.

Also,this happens to me often.

I want to take pictures and realize, I don't have battery life.

It happened on the beach.

I only got one shot before my camera died.

So here is the documentation I went to Cali last weekend.

The other time the battery betrayed me.

I hiked all the way up Y mountain with my 10 lb. camera

to realize, I left the battery in the car at the bottom of the mountain.

Sad day.

Sad day at the beach.

Well actually happy day.

Just disappointing the camera died.

Beach was windy and fun.

I love the beach.

But new goals.

I am having a hard time getting a job.

No one wants to hire people with a record.

So I have to be my own boss.

1. I'm amping up MoonBean Accessories.

-that means me and my girls are getting to work on our products.

Watch out world, you're about to get tribal loved.

2. I changed the name of my website.

I'm combining it with Beth Anne.

It will soon be BBandRphotography.com

Known as BB & R Photography.

It's not quite up yet, but it will be.

YAY!

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

Green Peace?

Funny story.

I was walking along after class…

When I get stopped to talk about animals.

I love animals sure, I'll stop.

Before I know it, I got suckered into donating to Green Peace?

I just donated some money, that I don't have to save the rain forrest in India?

Shoot.

But, I guess it's a good thing.

And seriously, how can you say no to this face?

Moral of the story is...

You know you're Rachel when…

1. You trip on any uneven surface.

2. You speak silly things before processing the words that came out of your mouth.

3. You have a hard time saying no.

4. You are a sucker for stray animals and saving the rainforest

5. You smile at Pink cookies. Because they make you think of the happy chubby kid days.

Here is to the weird things I do.

And here is to the pink cookies, I used to have on a daily basis. Or I would cry.

Ahh, the good ole' days

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

XOXO

Yes I have a problem.

I would rather watch Gossip Girl than do my hw.

But I just want Blair and Chuck to get back together.

Chuck is my favorite.

He kind of stole my heart.

That is all.

XOXO, Gossip Girl.

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

back to reality.

I don't want to go back to reality, I'd rather stay in Cali.

Nonetheless,the trip was sweet.

Santa Barbara was and is beautiful.

My puppy had the time of her life on the beach.

Saw a good friend Joel.

Got a phone call from the sweetest people ever.

Navigated the million freeways of LA for the first time.

Saw three Cali college campuses.

Rocked it out hard in the car with BB.

Added air in a low pressure tire, all by me-self.

Also, my puppy survived an ant attack. Poor kid.

Life is BEAUTIFUL. Love always wins

<3

Cali Bound.

Going to Cali for the weekend.

Peace.

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

Forgive and Forget

Quote of the day: Your future is not determined by the conditions around you. It is determined by your faith, your choices, and your efforts.

A friend recently showed me this article by Elder Holland.

I found it to be helpful.

Honestly, I am ashamed of how my reputation has been trashed and sometimes fear what people think of me.

It's also easier said than done to not care what others think of you.

But it's time to forgive and forget.

This is me talking to myself. Rach, this article is talking to you.

Forgive and Forget

There is something in many of us that particularly fails to forgive and forget earlier mistakes in life—either our mistakes or the mistakes of others. It is not good. It is not Christian. It stands in terrible opposition to the grandeur and majesty of the Atonement of Christ. To be tied to earlier mistakes is the worst kind of wallowing in the past from which we are called to cease and desist.

I was told once of a young man who for many years was more or less the brunt of every joke in his school. He had some disadvantages, and it was easy for his peers to tease him. Later in his life he moved away. He eventually joined the army and had some successful experiences there in getting an education and generally stepping away from his past. Above all, as many in the military do, he discovered the beauty and majesty of the Church and became active and happy in it.

Then, after several years, he returned to the town of his youth. Most of his generation had moved on but not all. Apparently, when he returned quite successful and quite reborn, the same old mind-set that had existed before was still there, waiting for his return. To the people in his hometown, he was still just old “so-and-so”—you remember the guy who had the problem, the idiosyncrasy, the quirky nature, and did such and such. And wasn’t it all just hilarious?

Little by little this man’s Pauline effort to leave that which was behind and grasp the prize that God had laid before him was gradually diminished until he died about the way he had lived in his youth. He came full circle: again inactive and unhappy and the brunt of a new generation of jokes. Yet he had had that one bright, beautiful midlife moment when he had been able to rise above his past and truly see who he was and what he could become. Too bad, too sad that he was again to be surrounded by a whole batch of Lot’s wives, those who thought his past was more interesting than his future. They managed to rip out of his grasp that for which Christ had grasped him. And he died sad, though through little fault of his own.

That also happens in marriages and other relationships. I can’t tell you the number of couples I have counseled who, when they are deeply hurt or even just deeply stressed, reach farther and farther into the past to find yet a bigger brick to throw through the window “pain” of their marriage. When something is over and done with, when it has been repented of as fully as it can be repented of, when life has moved on as it should and a lot of other wonderfully good things have happened since then, it is right to go back and open some ancient wound that the Son of God Himself died to heal.

LIs that faith? Yes! Is that hope? Yes! Is that charity? Yes! Above all, it is charity, the pure love of Christ. If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. Don’t keep going back with your little sand pail and beach shovel to dig it up, wave it around, and then throw it at someone, saying, “Hey! Do you remember ” Splat!

Well, guess what? That is probably going to result in some ugly morsel being dug up out of landfill with the reply, “Yeah, I remember it. Do remember ” Splat.

And soon enough everyone comes out of that exchange dirty and muddy and unhappy and hurt, when what our Father in Heaven pleads for is cleanliness and kindness and happiness and healing.

Such dwelling on past lives, including past mistakes, is just not right! It is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. In some ways it is worse than Lot’s wife because at least she destroyed only herself. In cases of marriage and family, wards and branches, apartments and neighborhoods, we can end up destroying so many others.

Perhaps at this beginning of a new year there is no greater requirement for us than to do as the Lord Himself said He does: “He who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more” (D&C 58:42).

The proviso, of course, is that repentance has to be sincere, but when it is and when honest effort is being made to progress, we are guilty of the greater sin if we keep remembering and recalling and rebashing someone with his or her earlier mistakes—and that someone might be ourselves. We can be so hard on ourselves—often much more so than on others!

Now, like the Anti-Nephi-Lehies of the Book of Mormon, bury your weapons of war and leave them buried (see Alma 24). Forgive and do that which is sometimes harder than to forgive: forget. And when it comes to mind again, forget it again.

Elder Holland.

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

New Moon Soundtrack kind of day.

Maybe I'm just antsy for Breaking Dawn pt. 1?

But today is a New Moon Soundtrack kind of day.

I like all the music from the twilight series.

But New Moon is my favorite.

That's all.

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.

Let the Holiday Season Begin!

Happy November.

Let the Holiday Season Begin!!!

This Halloween I got to spend time with a Greek Goddess, Hermione Granger, and Thomas the Train!

I have the cutest cousins.

I love them

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When I told Hope and Meems that they said they loved me more than the whole Universe.

That's alot of love.

Hope and I with Grandma. <3

My other aunts… even though they aren't really my aunts. They are my aunt's sisters.

But they have been in my life since I was a pup. We spend all our holidays together. That's pretty much the definition of family. Right?

Katie, Matt, Kelly, and Marta

Rabbit, General, Super Grandma, and Awesome Blue Electric Super Hero

(Marta's costume was legit.)

Grandma. Ginny. Tom. and Fulton.

Nothing is better than family.

They always have your back.

Life is beautiful. Love always wins.