excitement galor!

There are only a few people in this world who will cause me to literally do a victory dance when I wake up in the morning at the very prospect of seeing them. You can only imagine how long I was dancing this morning when I found out who my special guest would be.

Can you guess who it is? Here's a hint:

That's right- MY MOMMY!!!!!!!!!! !!! !!! !!! !!!!! !!! ! (it's like morse code, but using exclamation marks...excitement code...?)*


So...in light of the upcoming awesomeness, I've made a list:

5 Reasons why I love my Momma:

5. Her smell! It's divine. Especially just after she cuts up onions and washes her hands, it's like her natural scent is accentuated into wonderfulness. (and I'm not saying that my momma smells like onions. To those who have cut onions before, you know what I mean. Some might not like the smell. But I love it! and I think I might have just dug a hole for myself here...)

4. Her laugh. If you are one of the lucky who have been privilege to hear when she is seriously busting a gut, it will make you laugh just as hard as she is.

3. Her ability to put up with my musica. I don't know how she did it, but she somehow put up with my blasting my rock-on music allllll throughout high school, which is something I don't even think I could do as of right now. My Chemical Romance, anyone? (even though I still find them quite delectable, I don't think I could listen to them in front of the kids...)

2. Her ability to put up with my obnoxious singing. Yes, I'm one of those. The ones who not only sing to the radio, but every piece of music in their heads, even if I only know 2 lines of the song, I'll keep singing it over..and over...and over...and over...again. You can imagine that this can get a little unbearable at times, but my mom never complained. Not even once.

1. Her testimony. It is beyond extraordinary. I've never seen it waver and it was the perfect example for me. i feel more than privileged that she listened to the missionaries when they came knocking on her door, which ultimately lead to generations knowing the gospel. And because of her example, I'm going on a mission, which will lead me to teach those who don't know about the gospel. All because of one woman. That's amazing. She is amazing!!!!

I am so lucky.


"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." -- Abraham Lincoln

-Ives


*Also, the photo was courtesy of my good friend Susie Campbell. Another one of those "victory dance" kind of gals. You can find her work here. She is an incredible photographer as well as one of the coolest people I know.

here goes...

You might think i'm crazy, but here we go again! I'm starting another blog. I can hardly believe it myself. Since my last fail of a blog, which you can find here. If you decide to check it out, it'll probably take you a total of two minutes since I gave up after five or so posts. So why am i starting a 365 day blog, you might ask! Well, because I'm going on a mission! yay!! The goal is to schedule posts for either the total 365 days or go as far as including a post for everyday that I'm going to be gone, just to get a little taste Ivy while I'm gone. It's like I'm gone...but not. At the same time!

Anyway. This blog with probably include things that I love, and maybe a few that I'm just not a fan of. Like black licorice or something of the sort. bleh. bleh bleh bleh. Nasty stuff...

So there you have it!! You will get music! Movies! Quotes, gallor! (I don't think I spelled that right...) Ghallor? Galor...? Gallorr? Hm. And apparently random misspellings. But most importantly, you'll get my testimony, which the biggest part of me and the reason why I'm going on something as big as an optional year and a half adventure.

This is going to be an interesting ride. I will do my best to post everyday, and I hope you enjoy!

-Ives

By the way, how do you like the hair?! This was the flat iron-turned curling iron technique which turned out to be quite a painful process. I don't know if that's just a necessary evil, or we were doing something wrong... but I do like the results!