Red Dress Gala!

Tonight was our first annua Red Dress Gala! It was our fundraiser for Womens Cardiac Awareness- a dinner, and silent auction for parents, alumni and other important members of the community. It was a huge success- over 200 people! It was a lot of fun to get all dressed up and see what everyone wore!

Here are a few pictures...

Some things I have learned throughout this week...

8,000,000 American women are currently living with heart disease - 10% of women ages 45 - 64 and 25% age 65 and over.
6,000,000 of women today have a history of heart attack Nearly 13% of women age 45 and over have had a heart attack.
435,000 American women have heart attacks each year; 83,000 are under age 65 and 9,000 are under age 45. Their average age is 70.4.

We are supposed to encourage all of the women in our lives who we care about to be healthy and happy! So... please be healthy and happy!

Crabcakes and Football- it's what Maryland does!

I received one of the BEST birthday gifts today! My best friend Elaine sent me a birthday package that had the overall theme of Maryland... she included every single ingredient I need to make crabcakes, a nerf football, Old Bay seasoning salt, measuring cups, trail mix, and a Little Tikes sushi set! I know it is probably difficult to read the tags but they are just so cute I want to write a out a few of them...

Home is where the Heart is: Heart shaped measuring cups

A Trail of Mix to find your way home: Target trail mix (Monster mix is amazing!)

So you can have sushi in Utah: Plastic sushi set

It was so clever and I could tell a lot of thought was put into the gift- thank you soo much Elaine!

20 things I want to do...

I turned 20 on Monday, and I have been doing a lot of thinking about what I have really done in the past 20 years. At first I could not come up with anything, because I have not done anything that awesome... but then I thought of a few things and then I thought of a whole bunch of things I want to do in the NEXT 20 years.

Things I want to do:

1. Go to Paris
2. Graduate from college
3. Get married
4. Have a family
5. Learn to ski
6. Become a better cook
7. Become a better public speaker
8. Become more creative
9. Keep in touch with friends
10. Attend General Conference
11. Have a huge photo wall in my house
12. Go to Italy
13. Ride first class
14. Meet someone famous
15. Be a succesful event planner
16. Live on the East Coast
17. Learn to speak Spanish
18. Become a better person
19. Not be such a fraidy cat
20. Still be happy with the kind of person I am!