Happy New Year! Happy 2010! What a great year to look forward to! I went up to a cabin with a bunch of my friends this year up by Solitude and had a great time. We played games and had a dance party, made a midnight breakfast, and played out in the snow. We have such a fun group and had a great time together ringing in the new year. As I look back on the past ten years of the decade I have so much to be grateful for and to reflect on. It's amazing how fast time goes to me and that every year just seems to go faster and faster. In the past ten years I graduated from Bounitful High School, Graduated from Utah State University, Bought a home, have traveled to some amazing new places including, Australia, St. John Virgin Islands, Cancun, Chicago, New York, Canada, Seattle, Boston, San Diego and much much more. I have been able to waterski in new places including Lake Blaine, Inner Costal in Florida, St. Charles River in Chicago, and Lake Benson. Most of all I have grown so much in the last ten years, in my testimony and who I am today and have built some amazing relationships where I find the most joy in my life. What an amazing ten years. So many great memories and new friends, and new experiences. There are so many great things to look forward to as well. I am starting off the year right going on a cruise in a week with all my girlfriends, about 16 of us to Honduras, Belize, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel! I am also planing on receiving my endowment in Febuary which I am really looking forward to and finding new ways to serve my Savior for all that I have I owe to him and am so grateful for the life in which he gave so that I might live and experience the love and joy I do in my life. Who knows this might be the year to look forward to a special someone sweeping me off my feet too! Just putting it out there! Haha This life is amazing and I am so grateful for all that I have and what I have been given and to reflect on how I can become better this year and what new things I want to learn. 2009 was a good year but also hard in a lot of ways too. I lost my Grandpa Frandsen, Jordan my brother had an intense back surgery, my Mom moved away to San Diego, Spencer went through a very unexpected divorce, my Dad's girlfriend took her own life, Becky my roommate broke her leg and was down for two months..there was just a lot. I could complain but I don't and try to look at the great things that happened and the wonderful memories and am grateful for new beginnings to take what we have learned through those experiences and continue to move forward into a new year and make this one the best we can. 2010 is my year, I'm claiming it to be the best year yet!

My mom and I had the craziest experience at the movie theater the other night. She had a really bad day and her car got towed and it messed up her massage appoinment trying to get it back and it was just a really ugly day for her so we decided to get in our pajamas and take a blanket and cuddle up at a movie together. We had wanted to go to Nine and went to Jordan Commons and brought our favorite Valentine treats that are out now. Chocolate covered cinnamon bears and cinnamon hearts and we were ready to just relax for the night and see this new movie and hear. That's what you would hope for at a movie these days right......?? There were about ten people in the thearter and we were right in the middle and there were about six sitting below us and then two women sitting up at the top. About a third way through the movie we kept hearing the women up above us talking out loud, ReALLY LOUD. We kept looking back like, are they serious...do they think they are the only ones in the theater? It sounded like they were on the phone just talking away and then just talking to each other and we tried to ignore it for awhile. We were going to try to move away so that we couldn't hear them but they just kept going and going so about half way through the movie my Mom went out and just asked a manager to ask them to please be quiet because it was really distracting. He came in and just asked them quietly to please be quiet and keep it down. He left and we though.....ahhhh it will finally get better. Oh no, it actually got worse! They started yelling and saying, real cool people real cool, how old are we. They yelled out "Hey Douche bag, really, really people." I really felt like I was in a dream because no one else in the theater were turning around or saying anything and I thought, are they not bugged by this, and is this really happening? They started cackling like witches and laughing while the movie is still going and you ask, Why didn't I just walk out. I'm not sure why? We really just wanted to see the movie and didn't know when we would be able to again so we sat through it. Dumb on our part I know but at this point it was almost over so it finished and by this point my heart was racing that I either wanted to turn around and yell at these ladies, but also scared for my life a little bit that we were going to get attacked or something. We got up and the lights were still off and my mom and I started walking out and the ladies yelled. Hey F'ing Fags get over here. We walked out to customer service and the manager asked if it got any better and we said no it got much worse and he offered to give us our money back. Right then, behind us we heard, that's them and they came up to us. The one was really over weight with a muffin top (she was trying to fit in pants that were way too small her for, hence the muffin top) and she was probably six feet and had glasses on a one black eye (so right then we knew she was a fighter) She got in my Mom's face and said "You are rediculous" at this point I am standing there and my mom said my face went as white as a ghost. I froze and thought, is this lady going to punch my Mom and is there going to be a fight right here. What is this world coming to. We can't even go to a movie and be safe and enjoy a quiet evening anymore? She smelled so bad of alcohol you felt like some of it even was left on me...it was soooo bad. We asked security to escort us out to our car and as we were walking out we saw them walking to their car and security got on the phone with the cops and one guy went to find out if they were really going to drive off in the state that they were in....which scared me more than anything. We safely made it to our car, thank goodness! I told my mom, what is wrong with this day, she had a horrible day and this did not make it any better, it just topped it off to be the worst day of the year so far for her! CRAZY. My sweet friend Emily just wrote on her blog recently about a completely opposite experience where she talks about Pay it Forward ( one of my favorite movies). That she forgot her wallet and the guy behind her bought her drink for her at the movies. I'm so glad to hear that things like that this really do happen and that our society is not becoming as negative as this experience that we had. I'm just so glad we are safe and it's sad that some people are so unhappy that they have black eyes from previous fighting, and come drunk to the movies because they are so unhappy and have to lash out on others to make us a feel a little glimpse of their misery. It was still a great time with my Momma and we giggle now that she said I would have been no help as I was as white as a ghost and that she would be left on her own to fight her. I would have whipped out my karate kick Momma so don't worry! Haha