graduation.

I AM GRADUATING FROM BYU!!! Graduation is tomorrow and Friday. I am about to go pick up my cap and gown. Honestly I thought this day would never come but now that it is here I cannot believe it.

I am VERY excited

and... VERY happy!

festival of colors.

This weekend some friends and I went to the festival of colors on Saturday. It is at the Hindu temple in Spanish Fork. I think the purpose is to celebrate the beginning of spring... good thing it snowed a ton the day before :) Everyone has colored power and you through it at one another. The color throwing happens at the same time with hundreds of kids. There is a real big cloud of colors and you cannot see a thing or breath. Pretty crazy, but fun!!!

college is winding down... kind of

I GRADUATE IN APRIL!!!!!

I am so freaking excited to be graduating in April. My cap and gown have been ordered and the reality is hitting me. I honestly am very blessed to attend BYU and I will be so proud when I earn my diploma from BYU. I am having really bad "senioritis" and I fight it every day. I had two midterms scheduled for next week. Today I received an email saying that my one midterm was cancelled. I was ecstatic because I was really stressed with all of my studying and assignments. I am going home this weekend for my brother's mission farewell so... I knew that my studying would be very limited. Now I only have one midterm to worry about and I am very grateful. Prayers are answered! My undergraduate program is coming to an end... but it is still very much alive because I have plenty of assignments to worry about.

Side note: My brother is leaving to the Idaho Boise mission. He reports to the MTC on March 30th! I am going to miss him VERY much! Love you Solly Boy xoxoxo

dreams are an interesting thing.

Last night I was at a friend's house hanging out. I got home at around midnight and the lights outside of our apartments and in the hallways of our apartments were not working. So... of course I started thinking about how some creepy guy is probably sitting under the stairwell just waiting to attack me. I unlocked my door and ran into my apartment as quick as I could. No worries, I got in safe and sound. I got ready for bed and went to sleep and here is my dream...

I was running into my apartment and all of a sudden this guy grabbed me. I started fighting him and kicking him. He let go of me but then the guy and his friend stood back and started laughing at me. I was crying and scared. They were threatening me then they shot me in the leg and told me not to call the police. They left me. I then got into my apartment and decided not to call the police. Then my leg magically healed, but you could still see the bullet in my leg. All of my family and friends were asking me how I got a bullet in my leg and I told them it wasn't a bullet just a bruise. Nobody believed me and the rest of my dream people were trying to convince me to get the bullet removed. The end.

SO crazy how dreams reflect things that happen in your life... Right?

Oh... another Monday

Wow... it has been a long time and a long day. Highlights of my day:

1) Went to school.

2) Had lunch with Holli. LOVE her!

3) Found out about more drama.

4) Had a group meeting about our investments project.

5) Went to Zumba. LOVE Zumba!!! (Zumba is what has been keeping me sane lately, it is my outlet)

6) Came home almost fell on my face, accidentally spilled granola all over the kitchen, and sat on my computer and almost broke it... awesome.

7) Trying to eat healthy but... I ended the day with Taco Bell... double awesome.

# 2 and 5 were FABULOUS but I CANNOT wait for tomorrow!!!

grateful for 2011.

2010 was full of learning. Last year was definitely the most difficult year in my almost 23 years but... it was also a year filled with blessings. With hard times come blessings. Trials are blessings because in an odd way trials remind us of all the wonderful things Heavenly Father has blessed us with. I have learned that if you do not look for the good then you will literally drive yourself crazy. When times are hard we have to try and find the good in the situation. Of course this is definitely easier said than done. I have been able to reflect on some of these hard times and recognize when my Savior's arms were wrapped around me and holding me up. I am grateful for the tender mercies of the Lord in my life. My goal for 2011 is to be better about recognizing the hand of the Lord in my every day life. Yes, life is not always sunshine and roses but we can try to focus on the sunshine and roses.

Day 4 of christmas crazy

Day 4

Monday, Dec. 20

The rain has not stopped since my last post. Streets are flooded here in southern California. We were saved from Christmas caroling because of the treacherous rain. Mom at Thanksgiving time that we would be caroling Monday AND Tuesday before Christmas. Today, my brothers refused to go out singing in the rain. I told them that we wouldn't have to really be out in the rain. We were gonna drive from house to house. duh. Still there was no getting these bums off of their bums. My mom and I said that we would carol in the rain. No problem! I guess we all know who the real girls in the family are... my three brothers. (Dad kinda has a real excuse... he is a little bit of a cold. oh... and he is old. love you dad)

P.S. - We had to sign another box of Christmas cards because mom decided we didn't have enough. There were a few too many groans for two more dozen cards. Merry Christmas!

holidays with the sagiao family... my family

Hello everyone!!! Yes... I am alive. I survived finals and am back home in beautiful sunny California... except wait... it has not stopped raining since I got home. Whatever. It still feels great to be home. So with my countdown to Christmas... I will be providing all of you with some fabulous entertainment. Each day til Christmas I will post some crazy holiday adventure we have had. Coming home is always a great adventure. I LOVE my family but we are one crazy family. We often joke that we could be an awesome reality tv show. So here it begins but... I must catch up on a few days.

Day 1 of being home (technically I was not quite here because I was driving but I cannot pass up the opportunity to tell this story)

Friday Dec. 17

My family attended our church Christmas party. They host a dinner for all the families then they have a nice Christmas program with music and Christmas readings. As they start to begin the program, a group of teens comes and sits directly behind my parents. The teenagers were taking and being rude during the program. My mom turned around a few times and asked that they please be quiet and listen. They ignored my mom each time. SO rude! My dad then turns around and said "Hey you all need to shut the HELL up. Did you hear what I said?" Yep. Merry Christmas dad told kids to shut the hell up during the Christmas program. Awesome. There was complete silence from those kids for the rest of the Christmas program and they all lived happily ever after.

Day 2

Saturday Dec. 18

I had officially been home for about one hour and my 16-year-old twin brothers were each suppose two chop two romaine hearts for a salad. I called them down to do their task and then they looked at me as if they had no idea what to do. I said "mom called and asked that you two cut the lettuce for the salad." Hunter was going to start first and then Cody would come and do his. The twins are adolescent teenager boys and can't do anything in the same place at the same time without a brawl. Here is the convo:

Hunter: How do you cut lettuce?

Danielle: With a knife.

H: Well.... I've never done this before. What knife?

D: Use your brain. You're 16.

H: Ok... I guess this green knife that mom uses for the lettuce.

D: Great idea.

H: How much do I throw away from the end?

D: Really... if you ask me one more question about the most simple task in the world I am going to scream. You are so much smarter than this.

H: (Grumble)... 3o seconds pass... What do I put the lettuce in?

D: Scream

It is now Cody's turn to cut his 2 heads of lettuce. Before he even begins I say:

"Please do not ask me any questions on how to cut lettuce, just get to it." He says that he has never cut lettuce before. I tell him that everything that he needs is on the counter and to look at Hunter's finished project for an example. Geez... video games are ruining the minds of America's youth. Yes I admit, I could have had a few more patience but... I had just driven 10 hours all by myself and had taken 6 finals. My patience were running on empty.

Day 3

Sunday, Dec. 19

Christmas cards. This year mom decided that she wanted everyone to sign their own name in the Christmas cards. Cool. No big deal, right? Wrong. Definitely a big deal for our family. I am pretty sure that my twin brothers asked about the following question about 10 times:

"Are we gonna sign all of the cards?"

Umm... no we just want your name on 10 of the cards. Duh. We are are gonna sign all of the cards. The one asked if we could just sign one of the cards and make copies of the signatures and place them on the cards. Really? Then we wanted the names in order from oldest to youngest BUT it became a little too complicated for some of our brains because we were not sitting in order from oldest to youngest as we were passing our cards through the assembly line. Yep. Small little bickering sessions broke out during the Christmas card signing because someone's name was in someone else's place. Oh... we are so joyous this Christmas season.

Merry Christmas.

P.S. my family REALLY does love each other. I promise.

paint party 2010.

Last night, I went to probably one of the most awesome parties I have been to in Provo. Paint Party 2010 was epic!!! Anna, Alyssa, and I went to the paint party in our white shirts and black leggings and rocked it! There was tons of dancing, prime people watching, bangin' black lights, and loads of paint. We had so much fun and basically I am going to let the pictures tell the story.

Me, Anna, and Alyssa. I love these girls!

All pretty and ready to get our paint on!

Paint squirt guns!

P.S I was not trying to be a slut, but there was a lot of pushing, pulling, shoving hence the stretched out shirt and revealing shoulders.

We had a freaking blast!

black lights + paint + friends = AMAZING

diet coke and kindergarten.

Every Tuesday morning I volunteer in a local kindergarten classroom. I love it! It is so fun to see how excited all these little kids are to learn. This past Tuesday I was getting ready and since school has been rough I have been slacking on my Recovering Diet Coke Addict(RDCA) program. I really have been doing quite well. I have come a long way from having numerous 12-packs under my bed freshman year in the dorms. Hannah was a witness to the madness :) Anyways on Tuesday I really needed a pick me up because I looked so haggard from my lack of sleep. I did not want the teacher to think I was on drugs or hungover because if I saw me that's would be the first thought to pop into my mind. So I went and grabbed my 2-liter of Diet Coke from the fridge. I went to grab a glass, but there were no clean ones. So... I took the 2-liter with me back to my bathroom and continued doing my make-up and hair in my underwear while drinking straight from the 2-liter of Diet Coke. It was quite a sight. My RDCA sponsor would have been so disappointed... except I don't have a sponsor. Maybe I should look into getting one?

I sparkled.

Last week I had 4 midterms, 3 quizzes, a group paper, and a marketing presentation today.

It is ok though because I came out victorious. I got a 100% on my finance test, which was exciting. I felt ok about skipping my ethics class to study for it. It sure did pay off!

*By the way... I am pretty sure that skipping ethics class is probably a very unethical thing to do. My behavior toward my ethics class was slightly reflected in my ethics midterm. I missed 3 of the multiple choice, which may not sound like too many but there were only 15 multiple choice questions work 4 points each. Lame! Oh well I survived and I get to go home to California in a week!!!!!

Today my group gave our marketing presentation. One group has presented each week since the start of the semester, so since we were group 11. There were a lot of previous groups to compare us to... so the pressure was on. I was really blessed to only have to give the introduction and define our topic at the beginning. I get VERY nervous with group presentations. Public speaking does not really scare me. I can get up in front of a group of a million people all by myself and say whatever... no big. I think that the group aspect is what gets my nerves going because the group is counting on you to do well.

Anyways... after each group gives their presentation the other members of the class give positive feedback and then make comments on things the group could work on. So, at the end Professor S. was asking for some positive feedback. After about four comments, Professor S. said "What about the introduction?" I figured this was his transition into what the group could have worked on. He looked right at me and he said "You sparkled." I thought is he serious? He was like you did. I said thank you and was trying not to laugh. I kind of thought that he said "I sparkled" just to boost my self-esteem because I think I was a little shaky. I felt like I really did not do that much nor was it spectacular. A sweet guy from my ward is in my class and when he and I were talking about the "I sparkled" comment tonight at FHE he made me realize that I needed to accept the compliment. The sweet guy from my ward did make a good point that the professor does not give out very many compliments after these presentations. Thank you sweet guy. You are correct and I need to eat some humble pie.

Random moments.

1. I went to Zumba at the gym. The instructor had pieces of her hair fall out while she was teaching. Yes, the plural is correct. She had hair extensions fall out twice. You know you're getting a good work out when hair starts flying.

2. I got a jury duty summons. I swear I get these ALL the time. I know that there are plenty of unemployed people in CA that would love to earn the $15 a day. Can we please send them jury duty?

3. If the government wants to create jobs, then they should not allow people over the age of 60 to drive and provide free taxi service for old people. These old people are becoming a hazard to my health and I am sure many others around me. Today there was this old man driving so awful I was screaming. He was going so slow and not staying in his lane. So, I would speed up to get away from him, but then he would magically reappear. He almost hit me like three times. I could NOT get away from him. This old man needed the government provided free taxi service.

school. school. school.

Yes, all I do is school. I am consumed by school. My second home is the Tanner building (the business school building on campus). Actually... It is probably more like my first home. My second home is my bed where I sit and do my homework because I have been to cheap to buy an ethernet cord that will reach the other side of my bedroom where I can sit at my desk and do my homework like a real person. You would think since I do school 24/7 then a result of my studies would be no run-on sentences in my blog like the previous one... oh well. My social life is kind of lacking but I see plenty of books and quizzes:

Proof of my lacking social life:
1) I learned who won the World Series via my email from WSJ News Alerts
2) Yes, I refer to the Wall Street Journal as WSJ
3) My bedroom floor is covered with WSJ

funny comments in marketing.

Yesterday in my marketing class, my professor was talking about... market research? (I think that's what he was talking) Anyways... My professor put up a powerpoint slide with a list of movie titles. These movie titles were changed before the release of the movie because they did some research and found a title that would be more appealing. For example the original title for Rocky was The Contender. As the original titles were placed on the board people in the class were shouting out there guesses of what the movie was. Well... This is what flashed on the screen:

A Boy's Life

Any creative guesses as to what movie this turned into? Some guy in our class yelled out: Brokeback Mountain! hahahaha everyone in the class was laughing and our professor couldn't help but smile. We were all disappointed when the movie was E.T.

3 months.

The 13th comes each month and I think about you all day Baby Bella. Not a day goes by that I don't think about you, but on the 13th not a minute goes by that I don't think about you.

Love you Bella xoxoxo

women.

"There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."

~Washington Irving

* Disclaimer: men... i love you too. i am not a crazy feminist. women are better at some things and men are better at some things. both men and women are good at some of the same things. the end.

zumba.

I had a new adventure today. During the summer, I was doing a very good job at consistently going to the gym and since I have been back in Provo I have been found guilty of neglecting the gym. I NEED the gym and not just because my butt is beyond the average size, but it makes me feel happier. The whole endorphin theory is completely true. Have you people heard of ZUMBA??? I have been wanting to try Zumba for months. I usually will never go to a class at the gym without a friend... I can go to the gym by myself and do my own thing but going to a class is a different story. Today I went to Zumba!!! It was fun. I think I have rhythm... ok well I know I have rhythm that is one thing I am confident in saying. During Zumba, I was all over the place and I know I looked like a fool. I was getting a hold of it by the end so hopefully after a few more times I will look like I actually know what I am doing. My quads and bum are killing me, but I feel good. I highly recommend Zumba.

Yesterday a girl got up in church and shared a spiritual thought. She read this scripture:

"My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;

And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes.

Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands."

~ Doctrine and Covenants 121: 7-9

Now read it again but insert your name where it says "My son"

Powerful and I love it.

sweet simple beautiful message.

2 months.

I love this little baby girl! Bella is my angel. I dream about her often and not a day passes by that I do not think about her. Thinking about Bella makes me smile and so does this video (Please excuse my annoying voice). Here is a video I took of her while I was watching her one night in July. She loved strawberries! I cut up about 5 or 6 strawberries. I went to rinse the knife, wipe off the counter, and put away the other strawberries... by the time I got back to start this video she had already eaten most of them. Is she not the cutest ever???

Bella,

I love and miss you!

Love,

Auntie Danielle