Weekend!!!

I just got back from San Diego where I went to visit my older brother for the 4th of July weekend, and can I just say I truly miss living in the states where I can walk out my door and actually understand what the heck everyone is saying. But you know PTL, I had fun we had a nice BBQ right by the pool and it was actually hot enough to want to swim which is a definet plus. It was a nice family get together, best of all my mom is coming down here next week which makes me jump for joy, I almost can't wait!!! ( Yes, I am a mommies girl, and I'm not ashamed of it.)

Anyway I'll try and commandeir the pictures from Prom's cammara so you can see me in all my ugly glory.

Another birthday post!

Happy Birthday Sis!!!! I love you, hope you have an amazing year and that everything works out for you. I miss you and the little bunchins, your in my prayers make sure the little guys don't forget me. Love and prayers, Smoooch!!!

Fruit Picking!

Yesterday was the singles WNR so we went out to this ranch to pick some fruit, it was kinda like the garden of Eden minus the nakedness and anything besides the fruit. I was expecting something far worse from the stories I heard it sounded like a desert with knee high thorn bushes and dirty ugly mangy guard dogs, mixed in with piles of old metal and junk, and snakes every where, but it was quite nice in a rustic way with tons of fruit trees with this wonderful lushes fruit hanging on the branches. Well since I'm not very good at describing I will post pictures.

The happy fruit pickers, excuse the ugly one in the middle she likes to stick her head into pictures every so often just to ruin them.




See what I'm saying about luscious fruit.



And beautiful landscape.

Birthday Lunch!

On my Birthday my older sister took me out for lunch which was nice, we had fish taco's which I had been very leary of eating as I'm very much not a fish person, but surprisingly enough there were pretty good. After that we went to a little place for these Popsicle stick thing's I forget the name, and my lovely sister and Ana decide to embarrass me by singing happy birthday nice and loudly. But other than that it was very nice, thank you timna!

Rewards!

(Dad:) "Sure, the life of a disciple, the life of a missionary, is not an easy one. I'm the first to admit that! But I'm also eager to add that you'll never regret living a life of sacrifice. What you gain in return is so much more weighty, so much more glorious, so much more rewarding than anything you ever gave up, that it almost makes you ashamed that you ever flinched about having to give something up for the Lord. I'll tell you what, when I was received into the gates of Heaven, I fell down on my knees and told the Lord that I was unworthy. Everything that the Lord gave me was worth a million times a million times more than anything that I'd given up in my life on Earth! (Note: When Dad says 'a million times a million times,' that's not a typo or a mistake but an actual indication of the size of his reward!...)" (3186:38-39)

Editor: Here's a mathematics exercise:

A million times a million is a trillion. How much is a trillion-fold return on your investment?

* If you give up one second of pleasure....

...you get back 31,700 years of pleasure.

* If you give up one minute of pleasure...

...you get back 1.9 million years of pleasure.

* If you give up a penny...

...you get back 10 billion dollars.

* If you forgo a date or a mate...

...well, you get the idea!

Three Years and Counting!

This Day marks the three year anniversary of my blog!!!! Its been a happy and good three years as I look back I am proud of what has filled these pages, there are a few posts I wish I hadn't posted but overall it has fulfilled its job which was to inform my family of what I'm up to, share the things I thought were beautiful or interesting, and just overall be there when I needed it which it has been. I want to try and keep this blog for a good while longer ( quite possible my entire adult life) just so someday when I'm old and grey I can look back on the posts I did when I was fifteen, when I had my first kid, when I got married, etc. Anyway so hurray for blogs and all there niceties!!!!

The first ( of many).

Well today was my first home council as a full voting member, and it was.... well pretty much the same. But you know what that's not the point the point is that it was my first just the memorability of that deserves a exhausted twelve fifteen at night post. I will leave you with this important news as I go catch some shut eye, Good night all. Oh and I love you!!!!

One month!

As of today I have been in my new home for one month, how time does fly! It seems like I've only been here a week but the week I thought it was is actually a whole month.
I have found there are stages to this whole moving thing, first you go through the exciting just moved everything's new week.
Than you hit the I miss home, nostalgia, everyone here has cooties here week, where it takes all the strength in you to hold on and not book the next plane back.
Than slowly that feeling goes away the people in your home look less like black hairy monsters and more like nice caring human beings, you get a routine, you get your job down, and everything starts to look just a little bit brighter. I am happy to announce that I am officialy in this stage now and I am happy.
Well here's to the first month in a new home, Cheers!!!

Eighteen!?

Oh wow, eighteen is one of those things you hear about and people always tell you is huge but personally I don't feel a whole lot different. I hope this year is a memorable year as it already is shaping out to be, moving for the first time has efficiently marked this as a hallmark year.
I want to do more this year than I have ever done before, I want to become a much better disciple this year. I want to experience things I have never experienced before, I want to push the envelope and fully and totally forsake my comfort zone. I want to say yes to things I would normally say no to, I want to become the kind of teacher my students deserve. I want to get in better shape physically, I want to learn to play guitar. I want to let the people I love know that I love them on a more regular bases, I want to be able at the end of this year to look back and be proud of how far I have come. I want to stop settling for being mediocre in what I do and become extraordinary, I want to be the kind of person I admire. I want to make new friends, meet new people, and lead at least one person to the lord. I want to stop putting myself in a box of what I can and can't do and try whatever comes my way despite what it looks like. I want to forsake my pride and get out of myself when I have the chance, I want to stop caring so much what other people think. I want to be more yielded to the lords will in my life, I want to learn to be flexible and to bend as far as the lord wants me to. I want to do all this and more, I know these are high hopes but why shoot for less when the sky is the limit.

( We'll see how much of this I actually accomplish.)

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's day to the best Daddy in the world! I love you! Your the bestest daddy a girl could ask for, I can only hope my kids have the kind of daddy that I had. Love and kisses from your little girl.

Beauty!

It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and its too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst…and then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life…you have no idea when I’m talking about, I’m sure. But don’t worry…you will someday.

Revolution!

Smell the air! Breathe in the wind! It tastes like revolution to Me.

News!

Here's what's new:



I went to see wolverine the other day, and oh wow can I just say that any movie with Hugh Jackman will never ever be bad to me. It was pretty much the best movie I've seen in awhile, I mean what can beat a sickeningly hot guy with claws, if you find something let me know.




I am also learning to play guitar, at this point I'm still at the point where people walk around with ear plugs when I'm practicing. But I have hopes that I will eventually get to the point where they just cringe. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.



Yesterday we took the kids to the beach for the morning and I am now suffering from the first really bad sunburn of the summer. The kind that prevents you from sleeping, sitting, or pretty much doing anything without being in pain. But I'm looking on the bright side that hopefully I will now have this really great tan, that will totally make up for the week of pain I am going to endure.

And that's whats new, hope you enjoyed those little snippets of news. Until next time reflect on this:

"I am nobody
Nobody is perfect
Therefore, I must be perfect!"
- Anon