i can totally tract in these shoes!! :)

"Many young women are serving missions and many are purposing to serve, not because they aren't married or have nothing else to do, but because they have the desire to serve and therefore are being called to the work. The reason there are so many going is because in this next generation Heavenly Father will be sending His priesthood army to the earth and He wants to send them to mothers who have been properly trained and taught in the gospel. And what better training can a young woman have than that of serving a mission."

-President Gordon B. Hinckley

:) exactly what i needed today!

ode to my MOMMA....

yes, this picture is almost 4 years old, but it will probably always be my FAVORITE!

Growing up and moving out is such a funny thing. The last thing I ever thought was that my mom and I would end up best friends. She always told me that years down the road we'll get along just great living in our own houses and be best friends. I never believed her. We fought like sisters when i was growing up and I was such a brat. Okay, we both were. Ha, we're both tooo stubborn for our own good! We like things done how WE LIKE THEM DONE. We'd argue on the phone then hang up on eachother. I'd do things intentionally just to make her mad, and I'd have a smirk knowing it drove her NUTZ! Well now, SHE'S RIGHT... we're the best of friends. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't talk to her!... somedays not an hour. Haha. She's so supportive of everything I do and would give me the world on a silver platter if she could! I honestly feel like I have three sisters sometimes. She's the most fun-loving person I know. Spunky, loving, and freaking HOT! I have so good genes thanks to her! I miss her dearly ... One day I'll live in a house right down the street!

sleeping to DREAM

it's been BEAUTIFUL weather minus the wind, but a storm is coming our way. right now i'd love to fly to some far away place, lets say FIGI, before it gets here. all i want to do is bury myself in sand, feel the warmth, and enjoy some peace and quiet, and a good book. aaaahhhh if only i could make this dream a reality.

Don't pull all your eggs in one basket!

The single life is such a funny thing. It's still something that I completely don't understand but yet wouldn't change it for anything! Through the past years of me being single I have learned SOO-OOO much about myself and I truely feel like I'm myself again... but only not ALL the time. Only when I know I am comfortable being me... It's such a funny thing. I've come to realize that the relationships I have been in I've completely morphed into someone I don't even know. Even the friends I have... with one group I'm known as 'the goody goody,' yet with another i'm 'the rebel.' ... And lets not even get me started on dating. Dating is so weird and I absolutely HATE hate HaTe all the rules. ' Don't call, be the chase. No back to backs. Don't seem too interested. Okay, now you're playing too hard to get...' the list goes on and on. I just want to be ME... ALLYSON LEIGH BARNEY. The girl who truely cares about how your day is going, and not hinting that I want to 'hang out later.' The girl who feels most comfortable in sweats and a pony-tail. I'm the girl who just wants to have fun. I don't need you to take me to the most expensive restaraunt in town, I'd rather a picnic in the park. I'm at a time in my life where I've decided that I'M DONE BEING WHO EVERYONE ELSE WANTS ME TO BE. I want to be me. If it's not good enough for someone else, that's fine by me. (okay really, that's where i'm totally lying. i HATE when people don't like me.) but that's what I'm going to work on... I love my life and who I'm becoming. But, I am a people pleaser. I say what people want to hear. I do what people would think I'd do. Well, I'm going on ME vacation!

...if only i were closer to a beach. :)

my BeAuTiFuL life

life is so funny. today has been a quote day. i love quotes. i love songs with good messages. it just makes me smile. so in no particular order... here's some favorites that made me smile today...

"And for each who observes [the commandments] there is the promise of a crown, a queenly crown for each daughter of God, a crown of righteousness and eternal truth." -Gordon B. Hinckley

Your Heavenly Father loves you unconditionally, it's time for you to love yourself unconditionally!

I gotta feeling that you have a heart like mine,
So let it show, let it shine.
If we have a chance to make one heart of two,
I just want to dance with you. - George Strait


God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

"Falling in love doesn't begin with falling in love with others. it begins with falling in love with ourselves. loving ourselves is healthy and as God intended. learn to deeply and fully cherish your heart, your soul and your body and only then will you understand what it is to truly love another"

"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may just never be enough;
Give the world the best you have anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it's all between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway."
-Mother Teresa

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."
Helen Keller

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

Sisters, the time has come to unleash the power of righteous happiness that exists among women of God. When we live like disciples of Christ should live, when we aren’t just good but happy to be good, others will be drawn to us because we are “distinct and different—in happy ways,” as President Kimball