one more thing.

if you love the post underneath, you will love this video. just an insight to who my parents are working with while in the philippines. this is a man of whom i have such a deep respect and admiration for because of the charity he shows towards all people upon this earth, especially those less fortunate than himself.

Meet Dr. Geoff Williams.

i hope he inspires you, as he has me, to do anything you can to help those around you.

L.O.V.E.

today i was pondering the things i love the most in this world.

it was only because i was making some of the most delicious rice you would ever even try and i mentioned to my roommate about six times how much i LOVE Jasmine Rice. she knows the feeling. if you have never tried it, you must. i will even make some for you if you insist.
but then i thought about all of the things i really love and things i could not live without.

first and foremost are these two.

are they not just so lovely? i think they are. they are in the philippines right now and i am missing them, they are doing such good things there (for more info and another thing that i absolutely love click Here), but it leads me to the next thing i love:

today i was sitting on my computer, when it (the computer) started ringing, saying "call from kelsi" so i answered with a video (of course) and mom's smiling face was right there. she is so lovely. and i know she loves me. (i forgot they had kelsi's computer there.) she almost started crying when she saw My smiling face. so we had a short conversation, about how things were going there, how i was shocked she did not even feel like vomiting when she was in the o.r. watching a surgery being done, talking about how much i LOVE school so far and how well it is going, seeing each other laugh and make funny faces. so we started planning our next skype date, of which dad would be a part. talk about LOVE.

another reason why i am loving skype as well is because i get to see this:

baby e Loves to skype. and i love to skype. so it is a match made in heaven. so i pretty much get to see her cute little face whenever i want, even though she lives farther away from me now.

this a very short list of only a few of the things that i love most in this world.

but i think you are getting the picture.

family far away+skype= love.

love= family.

New Year. New Experiences.

Last year seems so far away already and I am feeling grateful for that. I had so many experiences last year. Highest of highs. Lowest of lows. and plenty in between.

I had so many blessings, a few including having so many sweet roommates, of whom have come some of my best friends which I will cherish the rest of my life; spending so much quality time with my family- traveling, just being at home, playing games, cooking, watching movies= love; my very best friend in the whole world Tamari got home from her mission on December 14 and I feel So blessed to have her as part of my life. She has always been such an example to me and I am forever in debt to her for her love and care.

I am so excited to begin this new year, new decade, new chapter of life. There are so many things starting to happen and all of it has come so fast. I rang in the new year with good friends and the loves of my life- my Family. It was so wonderful. With the new year always comes new resolutions, of which I was ready to jump right in. Mom started asking us what our goals were academically, physically, monetarily(she didn't ask this one, but I decided for myself that it is a good one to have in the mix), and spiritually.

So here is my list. 

Academically: work hard and study A Lot to get good grades in school :)

Physically: Get into better shape so I can feel better about what I look like, doing this by working out and eating healtier (I know, it's cliche but I know I can do it, so I just need to be better)

Monetarily: Get out of the debt that I'm in and have $1000 more in savings by the end of the year

Spiritually: Continue my study of the Book of Mormon but also start over and read it all by July (this is something my siblings are doing as well so I think it will be good to have them keep me on track)

2010.

It's going to be a great year, I can tell you that now.

School starts in the morning and I couldn't be more thrilled to go sit in a classroom for four hours.