Thursday, November 10, 2011

Random, yet profound (to me)

"Good moms have sticky floors, messy kitchens, laundry piles, dirty ovens and happy kids"

So I saw this quote on Pinterest [my latest addiction!] and my thought was cute, I have all those things, minus the happy kids. Then I'm thinking, well they're probably happy in Heaven. And then [this is my profound part] obviously they're in Heaven, they're happy. But are they happy with me and Chris? Are they looking down and watching us thinking, I can't wait to be with them and learn from them and be loved by them? Or are they watching the struggles and disappointments, are they disappointed? Are they just trying to encourage us to be better? Are Chris and I the kind of people our kids can't wait to come to? Does any of this make sense? I just stopped and had this oh goodness moment. What would I think if I was looking down on myself, my future mother... What can I be doing better, what can I being doing more right... I love my kids [I don't have] more than I ever realized I could. It's insane to love someone so much you haven't even met [at least in this life] and plan and prepare so much for. It makes me realize all that I have to do before I can bring such a choice Spirit into this world. I get sad that Chris and I have decided to wait a little bit, but then I'm grateful for this opportunity for him and I to get our act together. 

There was a quote 2 conferences ago [I think] that said what you want your kids to know 5 years from now needs to be in your conversations now. I LOVE that quote. I think, even if I don't have kids this moment, if I do in 5 years, we need to be the parents now that we want to be then. We need to be doing things that I'll want my kids to have in their lives. Its not like one day you have kids and flip a switch and tada, you do everything you wanted to perfectly. It takes practice, habit forming practice. I need to get better. 

I love knowing that we came here to have families, to have families for forever. To be sealed in the Temple. To know that our purpose was to bring God's children into the world so they could have this earthly experience. It makes me want to quit everything to start a family since, hey, that's why we're here right? I don't think Chris will agree, but someday :] 

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Half way thru the week !

My weeks seem to drag ! But coming to work to just sit here everyday, doing the same thing. Actually nothing, it gets mundane to say the least. And I woke up with a headache :/ Probably from sleeping on socks rolled up in my head ! Google it. Sock bun, or sock curls, or something like that. It doesn't work in my hair. So uncomfy sleep and a head ache didn't work !

Anywho- its almost halloween ! yay !? We still haven't carved our pumpkins :/ Hopefully this week since its the last time to do it ! Ah ! Time disappears ! We have our ward Trunk Or Treat tonight :] Come on down, 630pm :] I'm sad since Chris has class at 630 until 9pm so he wont even be able ot be there at all and he LOVES this. We won for trunk decorations last year. And I don't care enough on my own to do anything. So I think I'll dress up, and that's about it. Maybe play some scary music haha hand out candy. That's all you're getting out of me ! I wish I could have been more prepared and done something Harry Potter-craziness ! I've got the costumes... I wonder if I could get a cauldron and some house crests together... Oh my mind is working now ! Maybe I won't go with the original idea .. >:] i love HP. oh yeah !

What else. Our end of applying Chris is officially done. Were just waiting on Bishop to send in his Endorsement, and then Chris has an interview with the Stake President tomorrow :] Woo. We told Angel last night. She got sad. It was really cute. But I get it. I told her that Im more than happy to stay, but work just isnt working right now. And life is frustrating. Especially when my job is nonexistent. But we shall see. I don't know how long its going to take to send the endorsements, or even how long we have to wait until they make a decision. I could have applied him to the Winter term. Talk about fast if he all of the sudden got accepted and we were outta here in January. Crazy !

So sad story. And this is the most depressing thing of my life so far. All of my rings are gone. Disappeared. Ive searched. My wedding band, my ctr ring AND my engagement ring. I seriously want to cry. Im still numb and in denial about it. My hands will swell throughout the day so usually i take them off for a bit set them down by me and put them back on no worries. Well this time I didn't put them back on and theyre gone. We deep cleaned most of the house yesterday so I thought theyd pop up. Deloris cleaned angel and marks so I thought shed have seen them and stuck them in one of the girls room or jewelry boxes. Nothing. Its more too than I lost my rings. Thats money gone. It had my mom's diamond :[ And I feel weird without my ring. Like people wont see me and think cute shes married.. haha i'm so silly.

What else ! I don't know. I have to teach for the first time on Sunday Relief Society. Im pretty nervous. I think I have all the material I'm going to cover. I just have to go over it, polish it, make sure its within my time limits. Im pretty excited. Were going to have all the women together for this lesson, which never happens :] It's going to be sweet !

And yeah :] lots of other things are going on. But im not really sure what to talk about. Im addicted to pinterest ! Ah ! every second of the day im not busy im on there. If they had an app for my phone we'd be in trouble. Id be fine deleting my facebook and just having pinterest. Oh hobbies <3

To end on a spiritual note, today's scripture of the day on my phone- D&C 108:7: Therefore, strengthen your brethren in all your conversation, in all your prayers, in all your exhortations, and in all your doings.

Im guilty for not doing this. I notice I say things that probably arent productive, or uplifting, whether serious or joking. And even if I don't say things, I think them sometimes. And we are what we think. So I thought it was an interesting scripture. I need to do these things, strengthen those around me in everyway I can. I can do better. Im not a total jerk just tearing people down all the time, but I know it something I can work on :]

On another note, check out this new song by Hilary Weeks. She's amazing, one of my faves. If you ever want to just get me a present... any of her CDs would be amazing ! But the video is beautiful, the song is too. And if I could tell you the stories of the other women in the video, it'd break your heart. But watch it, research them :] Makes you feel better about life!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyX-I-um5Kk&feature=youtu.be  <--- music video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHDvxPjsm8E  <---- one of the lady's stories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx3sSZTuOyA & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdWPMHcAX3U  <---- mariama's story <3 love her.


ENJOY !

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences 2nd Edition

Hahaha for some reason when I clicked to write in a title, that's what auto filled. So I thought I'd keep it. Has a nice ring to it.

Well I'm not as good as I'd like to be with this whole updating my blog thing. I went from once a week to once a month ! Ah ! I have got to get better ! I have so much down time its ridiculous !

So I forgot last month hello, it was my birthday ! I'm over getting older haha ! I got to spend the evening with my mother in law since Chris had class. Which most of you would shudder, but I love spending time with her :] We went to hibachi <3 yummmmmy ! and I caught the shrimp ! Then we got coldstone because she was trying to over feed me. And I thought it was weird I didn't mention my birthday. Big 2-5. Oh yeah ugh

On to now. Church is fun as always. Conference was amazing. They get better every year. And I don't know how thats possible. They are so awsome, they have to reach a limit right? NOPE ! My favorite was Neil L Anderson's talk. Go look it up. I keep giving Chris a hard time about it. It's funny :] Maybe next year ! Relief Society is good. I'm starting to talk to people more and they are talking to me more. I like being a position where it makes me go out of my comfort zone and talk to people I wouldn't normally. I love working with Sydney. I feel like she does so much and I just sit there. She really is amazing. And I heard her husband speak for the first time the other night ! Haha. We are underway with choir ! Yay for Hilary being the new choir director. And she's just as gung-ho as I am. She's even kind of stressed about starting Christmas so late. But she's amazing and I'm glad to work with her.  Woo Christmas ! We had a baptism the other week :] LOVE them ! Chelsea and Jerry got baptized and I'm glad we got to be a part of it. It's so awesome to be there for such a big decision and first step :] I had a fun thought today that they could go to the temple next year :]

I also had the chance to go to Time Out for Women. And no its not bad even though a "time out" sounds it. It's basically a "conference" for friday night and a chunk of saturday where a bunch of LDS authors and musicians and just amazing rockstar people get together and teach us and tell us their story. And you get to meet them. So we went to one in Cincinnati, me, Angel, Mert, Patti and Mimi and Mikinzie. Loved it ! Got way too much stuff. I'm going through Deseret Book withdrawals. I love hearing so many wonderful stories and the Spirit really is so strong and the music. I was such a baby and cried all weekend. If I could live the way I feel there... <3 someday.

What else. We had a Stake Temple Trip today. Probably one of the coolest things ever, because it wasn't just a normal Temple trip. We went when the Temple is usually closed and since we could completely staff the temple we got to do our own sessions. So we had enough people trained in our stake to be workers and more than enough people to go. It was pretty sweet to see people you knew everywhere. It really is amazing that a stake can staff their own trips. Im not sure I've heard of it before. I'm sure people do it, but I think it's pretty rare. So that was nice. I wish Chris could have gone :/ We thought the appt. time was later and since he has class we didn't want him to be late or have to worry about rushing. And come to find out, it was way earlier than they said. It was still pretty amazing.

What else... I get to play organ for stake conference :/ haha Dang it for being found out by the stake presidency. It's such a blessing to be known, it makes me feel like I'm working if people know who I am. But times like this when you're asked to do something... haha It's going to be fine.. but I can't say I'm not nervous.

We're house sitting right now for Angel and Mark since they're in Vegas for their 30th anniversary. Fun. Jealous. I love being in a house! I sit and say I can't wait until we have one, but then yes I can. Apts are easy, and cheap. Even if houses are bigger and have dishwashers lol

I applied Chris for BYU the other day. We have to get all his extra stuff together. Endorsement, transcript, etc. I'm nervous about the whole process. I'm not really sure what we're supposed to be doing. With all this craziness with my job here, oh wait, I don't really have a job. It's all less than ideal. I hate it. And do I really want to do this for 2 1/2 more years? Really?! Ugh. But I've come to a conclusion, that we're deciding on Utah for now and then if he doesn't get in to BYU since thats really our only option for school, then it's not where we're supposed to be. So it's just a waiting game until we find out. Everyones really skeptical if he can get it. And it is very selective, but with the Lord, you never know.

I quit Disney. How sad. I really wanted to quit Marshall until they figure out stuff and work for Disney during seasonal since I'll definitely get hours and have money. Benefits are the only problem. :/ And now that my choices for work are crappy choice 1 or choice lab 2... I really wish I would have gone with Disney !

I also just want to say how much I love my husband. Each day I find something else I love about him. And I love that I can look at him and still have that teenager giddy feeling and sigh thinking "I can't believe I get to keep him forever!" There isn't a greater feeling that knowing he's mine, no matter what. Eternal marriage really is the best and it brings such a different perspective into a marriage, and a different dimension almost. I'm glad we decided to get married in the Temple. I love being there and being reminded of so much, of the Plan of Salvation, the Plan of Happiness and my role, my place in all of this, but also in where I can go, what I can become. It really makes all the little things, the silly things that mess up, makes them so small and insignificant. I don't know what I'd do without the Gospel in my life. I love being a member of this Church and all the blessings I get. I'm so blessed ! ah ! Ok. I'll be done. Here's to hoping I can keep up with this thing better !

Friday, September 30, 2011

And then its gone

I say wake me up when September ends and here we are at the end. October tomorrow ! It feels like I slept through it!  I don't even really know what has been going on. Probably why there has been a lack of posts, sorry Sarah :/

Well, church is normal. We're starting choir back up and they're getting a new choir director, so I'm pretty stoked about that. Especially since I've already got ideas for Christmas [you might think that's crazy, but I've had choirs start Christmas in August :p] I'm pretty excited to have music back in my life. I've been listening to it more, good stuff, not the radio. It soothes my soul. We have General Conference this weekend ! Ah ! Twice a year in April and October, for Sat & Sun the Church broadcasts 2 sessions (meetings, 2 hrs each) where the Prophets and Apostles and other leaders speak to us about what they've been inspired to share. It rocks and I look forward to it way in advance. Twice a year we get to hear what the Lord wants us to hear from his Leaders :] I can't wait. We have the Women's RS Broadcast last weekend and I loved it. I love hearing the inspired talks and the Spirit there. Oh and the music :] Amazing. If anyones available and wants to come :] Let me know I'll be there !

As far as work goes. I still have no idea whats going on. I had what I thought was a meeting today but turned out to be a job interview. And I wore jeans. COOL. It's for the College of Science. Sounds pretty neat, not sure I'm that impressive right now when my nasally voice and cough. Attractive. But it's something right? We're not completely in the dark. There is something going on now. Eric leaves in 2 weeks. Then what? DE doesn't seem as promising as it once was. Not really any help for Chris with tuition. There is another college he can get decent tuition w/o the out of state charges. Not sure how good it is. We've, well I have, started looking elsewhere. Everywhere we look will have school trouble with being out of state. Except BYU. We're going to apply him for the Fall 2012 semester and see if he gets in. Then figure out if he can get in, and what aid he'll have, and then find me a job. In Salt Lake :/ Far away. Now where to live. If I can even get a job, should we even go. Ugh. Choices !! I've applied to a few places around here... who knows.

Other than that, you know work and my future, and what Chris and I want to do with our lives, things have been wonderful. Really. I'm on this crafty kick and want to decorate our teeny house with everything Halloween, and then Thanksgiving and then... CHRISTMAS ! I'm excited. I need another full time job to fuel my addiction and need of supplies, except I need to quit this job so I can have time to craft. Side note: does anyone want to buy me a cricut ? I'd greatly, immensely appreciate it. Thanks :]  Chris thinks I do too much to the house as it is, but I've got to keep myself busy. I'm slowly weening myself off of TV. I mean, I want to keep up with my life long shows, but pointless movies and just watching a series because, I'm trying to quit. Yay for premieres week ! Greys, The Office, Castle... oh TV. How I hate to love you so. But I've got a ton of books on my Kindle, and a billion crafts lined up. I went on a walk with Daisy. I went to Zumba the other day. Pretty sure I want to sign up for the whole month and go 4x a week and get not fat. Woo ! Talk about motivating [ is it working? ]

We get to go to Arizona for Thanksgiving ! Woo ! I'm pretty freakin' excited for that. We're driving Chris' dads old car out there for his brother and staying with them for a few days so I get to see Brenda and the kids, and Anthony :] And get to have a sweet roadtrip with my hubby. We have fun in cars :] He says I'm not the best passenger because I always fall asleep. But this should be fun. I've never been to AZ before. And it will be warm. And not here. And Maddie will be there too !! Yay ! It's exciting.

We got to go to the Washington DC Temple <3 My first Temple I ever went to. It was nice to go back again. We got to go to Tracy & Shane's sealing. It's always nice to be there for such an amazing thing and it always reminds me of mine, and the feelings, and the promises. I love that we can continue to go back to the Temple to be reminded of our covenants and all the things we learn. I love being in the Temple with my husband. And its such a great experience to be there with my family, Angel and Mimi and such. I love being there with them. It feels like Heaven <3

AND I got Cafe Rio <33333 There's one like 20 mins from the Temple. Sweet ! My brain was so confused because it was thinking Cafe Rio=Utah, but we're not in Utah. Sad. Haha. It was fun. Love it ! Horchata... <3 Love.

Read Abraham Lincoln; Vampire Hunter. Pretty sweet. Kinda graphic, but I loved the story. I wish it was real ! Now I'm on to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I love P&P and its by the same author as Lincoln's book and he's fun. So this should be interesting.

It's crazy how much goes on in my brain. I go from work, to Disney, to trips, to money, to crafts, to food, to everything. Ah ! Glad you get tiny glimpses :]

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Wake me up when September ends !

Holy cow, I can't believe it's already September ! Goodness. This year really has gone by so fast, and they keep going faster the older I get. I can't say I like it ! Especially since summers gone and my summers don't even feel like summers anymore.  Yay for being a grown up without summer vacations !

Well atleast September is my birthday, and my little brothers birthday, who's 16 now and thats so weird. And it will finally cool off so its not so hot. Although I'll probably write about it being cold soon enough. Back to school, beginning of fall and colors changing. Oh the joys of September :]

Chris got a new calling this Sunday [Sarah: a calling is like a job in our church, we are picked by our congregation leader, the Bishop through inspiration. He prays and tries to figure out what the Lord wants for the position]. He's not too thrilled about it, but I'm excited because he can do so well and do so much good. He got called as the new Ward Mission Leader. [Sarah: this is a member who works with our Missionaries, and people investigating the church, who visit and want to know more and such.] I think it could be so good because he does need a calling in general, to stay busy and all that. And we definitely need to whip our missionaries into shape :]  Whether Chris puts his foot down, or I do through Chris hehe. I don't know how well that would go over, but it's a funny thought. I'll let Chris do his calling because I'm more than overwelmed enough with mine.  However, I'll still throw my 2 cents in because I'll die if I don't. So between me and Chris getting new callings, and then Maddie getting her calling, yay for being Relief Society President of your BYU ward ! Woo ! We're all just getting callings right in a row. It's fun :]

The rain is killing me and the forecast isn't promising much either. I feel like I'm in Seattle and I'm so glad I don't live there. I couldn't deal with the weather all the time ! Life is depressing enough without the constant rain ! Even on Labor Day, we tried to find something to do, but there is so little to do inside. Everything's outside and not good in rainy weather. So it ended up being a stay in day. Yay for my last long weekend until the Holidays being a bust ! If it wasn't for Chris getting his calling we coulda done something after Sat. but then it didn't happen. Oh well. Maybe in January, when I get my next long weekend that isn't a holiday. Haha

Other than that, work is work. Still trying to figure out Delaware, and gathering details. Waiting on some information to decide. I even talked to a family that's new to our ward about the area because they just came from there. It's random. His parents are in the Branch Pres and his mom in the Relief Society Presidency. So now I know who to talk to about details of the area, and wards and such. It's fun that we can potentially flip flop. They came here, and we go there. But who knows. I like to plan and dream of white walls and a dishwasher, but ultimately it's where ever we're supposed to be. It will be fun to see if Chris and I can agree to where that is. I wish we could just know where the Lord wants us. [Side note: I know I can and I'm not saying we aren't going to fast and pray about it, just saying]

But all shall be revealed. We'll keep trudging along, and see what comes of life !

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Agency

Boy, is agency a killer ! It's been this huge tough principle I've been learning about for years ! Countless experiences that I won't bore you with. But, I think I can say I've learned that everyone has their agency. We can't get mad at them for using it. I don't want people to get mad at me for using mine. It's controlling those emotions, the disappointment, the anger and frustration, that's the part that gets to me. But then again, I have to use my agency. Do I go crazy and spin out of control giving into those emotions, or do I try to cope, deal and apply the Atonement and make it through with my head above water? Oh agency, the center of Christ's Plan. I really don't think I'll ever fully understand it.

Speaking of decisions. There are so many circling around. Still. Everyday is something new. Everyday I remember something I wanted to figure out. Delaware, the Bledsoe's house, my job, Disney, there's too much ! And then little things. That really aren't that little because they are affecting way too much and having a huge impact on my personality, on my marriage. I wish I had a huge eraser so I could just take it back, make things disappear from my memory. Or maybe a remote to fastforward to the part where I've learned my lesson. A sister at church this past Sunday said something about trials. She said either way we are going to go through them; we can't ever change that fact, no matter what we do. But we can change our attitude. We can say, "Ok, what I am I supposed to learn from this" and do it. Then it seems the trial is over, or goes that much quicker. It's when we fight what's happening, and "kick against the pricks" and complain, cry, that it seems to take so much longer. But once we get the message, that burden seems to lighten.

Sometimes I can see so much that the Lord is taking care of me. This months Ensign [Sarah: the Ensign is a monthly magazine the Church puts out, messages from the Prophet & Authorities, stories from members, pretty neat stuff], but this months I'm sure wasn't written just for me, but boy was someone inspired. It's all about forgiveness, of ourselves, others, using the Atonement. And then there's so many articles on Marriage, and just different principles to strengthen and grow. And I'm not saying my marriage is failing or I need some huge help from above to save it, we just keep finding new things out about eachother, and we hit a roadblock every now and then, and it's good to have others' experiences, counsel from our Leaders to help aid us. Like I said, it's good to see the Lord taking care of me.

What else... I started Indexing. Can I tell you how amazing easy this is ! I wish I had known this. I'm not trying to put this on any certain members, but when I was a YSA and couldn't go to the temple for work there, Hello ! I could have been Indexing. https://www.familysearch.org/volunteer/indexing   Check it out. But it's so simple. [Sarah :p We are HUGE on family history for temple work and even just for the genealogy factor, knowing where we can from and such.] But indexing is taking images of old records the computer can't recognize handwriting and stuff and we type in the information manually. It really takes hardly any time. Just yesterday evening, I started and have already done 78 names. I set a goal to do 10 by Friday. I ramped it up. So my new goal is 1000 names by the end of the year. Which is only 8 per day. I think I can handle it. Hopefully I can help our goal of 5000 names a year. I think I can help ! It was even nifty that I got an email from the Stake President saying thanks :] I love little things like that. And I love wondering about these people. What their story was. Seeing all the names, dates and then wondering about them. It's really interesting. I make up my own stories because I have such a crazy imagination. It's fun.

That's it for now. I'll keep ya updated on my decisions. If I ever make any. Hopefully soon-ish because it's killing me slowly. Other than that, I think I'm pushing forward, enduring...

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Thank you google !

My life is sad and I googled what can I do in 15 minutes. It had a bunch of pages with a bunch of suggestions. But I liked the one that said Blog. So here I am !

Can't say much has happened. I feel like I totally failed as an awesome wife on Chris' bday. He did wear his Disney shirt I got him, that was fashionably wrapped in the Disney bag I left the store with. I wanted to get him a collared Marshall shirt, but they have this new kelly green and some of them looked horrible. So I ruined that surprise and just asked him which one, and we went and got one later. Went to dinner at Outback. Yum. Love me some bloomin' onion ! I had prime rib, eh, he had the NY strip. Whats new ! I had the people sing to him. Fun fun. Found out right after we sat down that I forgot about feeding the missionaries. Oops ! I meant to drop of pizzas before we went to dinner. I felt horrible. Talk about awkward when we ran into them at Wal-Mart right after dinner. Sorry guys ! He said he has fun. I still think I fail. Goal: Next year will be epic !

So we're trying to figure out this whole future-moving-job-school thing. I keep going back and forth. I don't know if I'm serious about moving or if I just get excited about the idea of it. I seriously get happier after I look at apts and schools and everything. But then I stop and wonder, would I really want to go? Hm... I don't know. I think we'll go visit. School is the biggest concern. And money. But I have to find a not taboo way to ask how much money I'll be making. Arg, political correctness ! AND Chris won't help me make this decision. Whatever happened to "family counsel" ?? I don't want to make this alone. It's not just my life. I'll get him to help !

I have my first RS meeting tonight. I was reading over the handbook after I got mine Sunday, and I'm like goooodness ! Talk about pressure. All the goals they say for RS and being able to go above and beyond sets a really high bar, at least to me. Since I'm so little and feel so inexperienced. I was reading something last night though that perked me up in this regard. I knew this before, but now its got a new meaning. So Pres Monson, called to be Bishop at 22 (?) Apostle at 36... Stake Presidency and Mission Pres in between. And here I am getting down about being the 2nd Counselor in RS. I'm sure he had feelings of inadequecy, I can totally see why. I'd die if that happened to me [too bad I'm a chick and it won't !] But it gave me a little perspective. Everyone writes about his preparation to spend his whole life serving, even starting at such a young age. But the Lord was right there. So... why am I any different? No, I'm not in a higher calling, like Bishop, or Apostle, but each calling is important for its own purposes. So I need to stop being fearful and be faithful ! Well that got me excited to get to work ! And it all starts with this meeting. Woo ! I also made a funny little not I like, but next to the motto in the handbook "Charity Never Faileth" I wrote in big letters [to my self] Prove it ! I need to be so charitable everyone can see that it won't fail. I need to serve and love and serve some more.

I'm excited. For life, for hopefully coming to a decision. We shall see.

Monday, August 22, 2011

While I have some time !

Oh life ! You never cease to amaze me. So much has been happening, if its only in my head. Crazy-ness !!

Found out that my boss is leaving, taking his research with him. I'm not losing my job, but it does create a lot of uncertainty that no one really likes. Chris mentioned going to away to work, but... that quickly disappeared on Thursday. Met with Bishop, he's been a busy guy, getting all these open callings filled. Arg.. Anyways, I'm now the 2nd Counselor in the RS Presidency. I'm serving with 3 wonderful women that I can't wait to learn from. They are so amazing. And I already adore them ! I'm excited to get to know the women better and serve them and learn to love them. It should be a really great experience for me. I wanted to learn about Christ-like love and seeing through the muck of choices people make, and loving them, and I think this is just what the doctor (Or the Lord) ordered.

It's Chris' bday today. I wish we had something huge planned. But we don't. I keep thinking I want to come up with something. But I only have the time I'm at work, and unfortunately, I've got to work. I hate just doing dinner, and home watching a movie. That's boring ! We shall see. Probably won't be more than that.

I've discovered Photoshop Actions. LOVE THEM ! I like taking pictures, but don't know anything about editing them, which is like 70% of photography (I think, you can get horrible pictures, but with some editing magic, they are wonderful!) So I had fun editing a couple's pictures Angel and I took the other day. Tracy loves them. It makes me happy. I like to pretend I have some type of talent. I'm wondering if she's going to get a photographer for the wedding @ the DC Temple. Too much pressure. But I'd love to follow someone around. I keep thinking Chris likes pictures too. Maybe I can pose/take, he can take/edit. Tada. Family business.

And I decided to come up with my fake LDS book store I want to open one day. I'd love to do it. But unless a temple gets built here soon, I don't see it being very profitable. But we're waiting until the day, and then will snatch up property and build. I've already looked into it. But I thought of the name "Words of Wisdom" How awesome ! I thought it was pretty sweet. But Chris isn't a fan. Oh well !

We went to the Columbus Temple Saturday. It was nice. I love being there with my husband. Even walked the grounds for a little bit. Found a cute little area for picnics and games and stuff. I love my husband and how much fun we have :]

And I don't know if we have anything else. I keep waiting for him to get a calling. Someday. Maybe he'll be in the YM's Presidency. He got a tip that his name was tossed around ! Hehe

Friday, August 12, 2011

Oops ! Been a while

Sorry ! Every time I'd remember to update, it was in the middle of something else. And then life is just too busy to do anything !

So, it's already halfway through August. What is that ! I want summer back. Summers don't feel like summers when you're a grown up. I don't even think we have done much, which is depressing.

Lets see, after Chris was done with school we went to Utah for a funeral, Madison graduated, Brenda and the kids and eventually Anthony came out to visit. We had Girls Camp in there. Chris hates when I go because its a week of paid time off and we don't use it on some cute little romantic get a way. I was in charge of the counselors and the camp devotionals with Angel. It was intense. I kept thinking Chris was going to jump up and surprise me again like he did last year. But he didn't. And the week went wonderful too.  Then Hill Cumorah and more work. Pretty much hasn't been a super eventful summer ! I'd like to see the beach again someday. My insides die from being away for so many years !

So now its August. Back to school, Maddie and Chris' bdays. We blew up tons of balloons and put them in her yard. It was fun. And got her a piggy bank of sorts :] Madison leaves soon too. It's not fun to think about. Chris talked about her so much when we lived in Utah that I don't know what he's going to do or what I'm going to do. She's amazing and I adore her. She's my BFF out here and she's leaving me !! However, I have probably looked into moving out to Utah more than people know. Checked out jobs, schools for Chris... If only...

But in the mean time, we still have a joint bday party Monday ! Should be fun. My hubby's growing up ! He'll be a big 2-3. Oh boy ! haha He's so little. I hope I can find him a present, even though his iPad was supposed to cover a few years of that. I wonder if school supplies count. His birthday is one day before he starts classes. I'm excited because year 2 will be underway. He hates school.  RIght now his hobby is teaching Daisy tricks. SHe's getting the hang of heading to the door to go outside to potty, but he can teach her like 6 tricks in one day. Really..? So I know she's smart.  We made a video of her skills last night: http://youtu.be/l6chaaoGCFY

And as far as church goes, it's the same old. We finally got a Bishop ! Only about two months I think. So now empty callings will get filled. I only have one technically, so I cringe. Chris doesn't have any, so anytime the 2nd counselor calls, he dreads answering. I can hear the change in his voice once he realizes the call isn't about getting a calling. It's amusing. And a family moved into the ward, and the wife plays piano ! Yay ! They finally have a person that can be the Primary Pianist ! Or any of the other pianist :] I'm afraid they'll call me to ward choir director and make her play. Our last choir director is in the Bishopric. Yay Robert !

So that's all in the life of us right now. But it's Friday ! TGoshIF. I wish weekends wouldn't go by so fast. Dang you time !

Us decorating the yard at 7am for Maddie !


Her loving her yard full of balloons at 730am :]


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