Gratefulness!!!!

This weekend has already been wonderful. A good day for me consists of ballence, productivity, and (duh) FUN!!!! Yesturday after school I had the awesome opurtunity to go to another UYPhil rehersal! (more about this in a min)

After rehersal, I got to study for the ACT with Emily and Rachel, and man, isn't it amazing all that we forget from geology? Pretty soon, we were wanting for a break, and ate delishious cake and watched.......... wait for it........ CAPTAIN AMERICA!!!! Being my first time seeing it, I had no idea what to expect! But, pretty soon it became evident that our hopes of watching a "chick flick" had been satisfied. This show had it all!!!! Epic explotions and fightin, cute 40's retro styles, WWII (which blows me away when I think about it), VERY cute hero, good message, love story, interesting conections with other movies, and cool science fiction! all in all, I can definately say that I've found my new favorite Super Hero. :D It was great! AND TOTALLY what I needed after a stressful week!

Rehersal was AMAZING today!!! We've been practicing for our concert on Monday with the Rampart Winds, a military woodwind quintet that travels around the country playing and teaching with many groups. They are amazing! I absolutely love playing the wonderful patriotic music that we have the opurtunity to perform. It fills me up with a huge spirit of gratefulness and patriotism. I love this country so much, and I am so so so grateful for the men and women who serve it and sacrifice their time and risk lives every day for the good of the world. They are amazing role models for me, and I'm grateful for those who I know and love who are serving or who are planning to serve our country. It's wonderful to be able to play this music and honor our country. I'm amazingly blessed to have the opurtunities I do, and I never want to give things like this up. Music is something that allows me to feel free. I can do it for myself, and through it, bless those around me. There are few things better than that! And, I get to do these things with my friends and family. I love it!!!

I'm so grateful for my amazing mentors, friends, and family who help me every day to be able to do things like this! I can't ever express my love to all of you enough.

Here are a few photo's I've taken that I like, and just for fun I thought I'd post them :)