hey utah people!

are any of you looking for a nice place to live?

my friend, stacey, is renting out her beautiful 3 bedroom townhouse in lehi, utah.

it's seriously huge...especially compared to what you can get here in southern california.

go here for her blog post on the townhouse, including lots of pictures. and go here for even more information.

i would probably kill for a kitchen this big in our apartment...this one actually has counter space!!

it's spring!

i'm so happy spring is here!

who doesn't love spring? it feels like a fresh start.

the weather was glorious this weekend. we're so spoiled here in southern california. we really know how to do spring.

two of my favorite things about spring:

1. ranunculus

2. strawberries

and i'll throw levi in for good measure.

p.s. can you tell that levi got an iPhone (he calls it the leviPhone), and that i'm really loving the shakeit photo app??

random thoughts...again.

for the first time ever, i'm really starting to love my body.

is that weird to say on here?

apparently, i like to share completely random thoughts on here these days.

but i think that's an important one to share because women have a really hard time with body image. i've always struggled a lot with it. i won't even go into how much.

i mean how sad is it that i'm almost TWENTY-EIGHT, and i'm finally saying that??

anyway, it doesn't matter how late i am to jump on the "jasmine's body rocks" bandwagon.

i look good.

plus, i'm really starting to appreciate what my body does for me. this is cheesy, but sometimes when i'm doing situps, and they're getting especially hard, i start thanking God for giving me a body that is capable of doing so much.

told you it was cheesy.

now maybe i should reward my body with some vegetables. i had chips for dinner two nights in a row this week (baked ruffles - so yummy). not good.

:/

(completely irrelevant photo of me & my sister from christmas...especially since i weigh 20+ pounds less now. i just like it & never had a chance to post it.)

a happy side effect.

i love my medicine.

a couple nights ago, i realized that i'm a completely different person than i was at the end of 2009.

i feel different, look different, act differently, speak differently, think differently.

and i'm not even done yet! there's still more good to come.

of course, it's not easy, but recognizing how far i've come is really encouraging.

one happy side effect that i didn't even consider is that my dancing has significantly improved.

i feel so much less inhibited. i have more confidence in my ability and my body. and the more i recognize this, the more i improve.

it feels amazing.

i wish i could do it all day long.

(photo - still from beirut's elephant gun video (it'll make you want to dance), which you can watch here.)

whilst driving the little werewolf

i was driving today when i was suddenly struck with this very grown up feeling.

i own a car!

i have car insurance!

if i need to go somewhere, i just get in my car and drive!

....'cause i have a driver's license, and i'm allowed to!!

it was like i was 14 again.

for a moment, i felt like i was fooling everyone.

because, honestly most of the time, i feel like i'm just pretending to be a grown up.

in a lot of ways, i'm really still that same 14 year old girl on the inside.

i'll probably still feel the same when i'm 80.

more on the little werewolf (including the exact same photo) here.