People all over the world join hands. Start a love train, love train.

I came across this picture when I was looking for things I could add to my blog. I immediately thought of the song by The O' Jays. Wouldn't it be nice if we could do what the song says and be more united? Why do we only show love, concern, and become willing to serve our fellow mankind when there is some huge disaster? Why does it take something bad to make us do some good? It's like the Black Eyed Peas says, "Where is the love?" We as people need to learn to become less self absorbed. Just a thought. I'm not thinking of anyone in particular as I write this, I just think it's something everybody (including myself) can work on throughout this year. I also need to remember that there is always someone worse off than I am and I need to be more open to the opportunities for service that are presented to me. This is something my family talked about when we were sharing our resolutions, to do more service this year. Something as simple as smiling and saying hi to someone might make a world of difference to them that day. Something to keep in mind as you go about your daily life:

New Year, New Wendi

So at church last Sunday, one of the speakers said, "Be who you want to be and be who Heavenly Father knows you are." That really stuck with me. I know that I'm definitely not who I want to be or who Heavenly Father knows I am and can be at this point in time. Don't worry, I'm not calling myself a horrible person or anything like that, I just need to tweak the way I've been doing things so I can reach my full potential. That's why, this year I'm making some changes.

I'm also setting the goal to be better at blogging. I would love to blog everyday, but I think that's a little ambitious for me. I plan on blogging as often as possible. Even if nothing happened that day; I will post a quote, a picture, something.

I hope you all are enjoying the new year so far and good luck keeping any goals, resolutions or whatever you like to call them that you have set for yourself.

Eat, Drink And Be Scary

Happy Halloween! I hope everyone has had a spooktacular holiday like I have. Monday night for FHE, our family carved pumpkins @ our apartment. It was fun having everyone crammed into our kitchen. It got really interesting when the guys were collecting the seeds because we wanted to roast them. Matt called his mom and found that the best way was to put all the pumpkin guts in water and the seeds would float. We offered a bowl, but they wanted to just fill our sink. We were a little worried that they might clog it, but they reassured us that wouldn't happen. There were three guys crowded around our little sink (two to push down the guts that managed to float and one to collect the seeds). While they were doing this they were talking about this gas that causes blisters and bleeding in your throat (gross!). Everyone else had left already so it was me, Rylee, Arianna (roommates) and the guys. We had to laugh at their interesting conversation.

When the seeds were collected Matt and Joe left. Chas stayed behind to help us clean up the mess. Isn't he a great FHE brother? After we cleaned the kitchen, we decided to put candles in our pumpkins and take pictures through our kitchen window. Chas got a little too into it. He wanted to move our huge bookshelf from the living room outside so we could place the camera on one of the shelves and use the self timer. We were having problems getting a good picture when others were taking them.

For our ward Halloween party, I dressed up as a bunch of grapes. It was a last minute costume and cheap. Only $2! Perfect on a college student's budget. I covered a black garbage bag with a bunch of purple balloons and wore a brown beret to be the stem. It looked good. Arianna was Snow White and Rylee was a Greek goddess. That was perfect because during the costume contest we ended up going together because Greeks love to eat grapes. She actually "picked" one the grapes. It got some laughs. Almost everyone knew that I was grapes, except for Russell. He's from Ghana so he needed a few hints before he figured out what I was. Russell's costume was hilarious. He and his roommate James dressed up as each other. Russell painted his face white and dressed as a cowboy (James is from the south) while James painted his face dark brown (black) and wore an African looking shirt. Needless to say they won the costume contest.

Overall, I'd say I had a pretty enjoyable Halloween.

Pictures for this post can be seen on facebook.