The end is near... but far.

This summer has flown by! and yes... I'm sad to say school started for me a week ago! I'm on my way to getting my degree is something I finally find worth studying about! ha! I'll admit, I'm scared out of my mind!!! I feel like they've given me enough homework to do over an entire year! ha! BUT I'm trying to take it a day at a time and not get overwhelmed... I feel like the little engine that could... I think I can.. I think I can! I can do this! Please pray for me k! :)
With the beginning of my semester comes an end to a great summer! Here are the highlights from the last month.
** Went to McCall Idaho with my family and our family friends (Okelberry's and Smedley's)
** Bear Lake with Jen and her family
** Cousin Kelly's wedding
** Jack Johnson concert... no pics unfortunately. I forgot my camera :(
** Reunion with a lady that my Dad baptized on his mission in Hong Kong 30 years ago.
** Just loving life! :)

The Last Lecture

Professor Randy Pausch has inspired and touched many people throughout his 47 years of life and will continue to live on through the dreams of many people. He had the most positive outlook on life. As I read this book, I reflected upon my own achievements, memories, struggles, goals, and what I hold valuable in my life. I LOVE this book.. it made me laugh, cry, gave me strength and courage to become someone great!

Professor Pausch said, "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer."

With all the "experience" I've had in this last couple of years, I know that it truly has shaped me into the woman that I know the Lord sees in me. How grateful I am for my experiences in life for they make me who I am today.

Randy Pausch

Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008

Synopsis:

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."—Randy Pausch
A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave—"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"—wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have…and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.
In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

WHAT?! I thought I was an original!?!

ASHLEY SMITH

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