What I Like

Recently, I have been thinking a lot about the things that I really like and the things that I really dislike. I guess this could be some form of gratitude post, because I really am grateful for all the things I like, and I'm grateful that I can choose whether or not I dislike the things I dislike.

1. I like sugar snap peas. Oh and these glasses without lenses. I actually wore glasses without lenses in 7th grade (It's kind of a fad here now which is funny to me. Too bad it wasn't as cool in 7th grade.) I guess I just like how I look in glasses. It makes me look smarter. More smart?

2. I really like my Relief Society Presidency and my Bishop. I didn't know being in the Relief Society was aloud to be fun. Maybe it's not, but we have a lot of fun.

3. I really like office supplies! If someone gave me a bag full of pencils, sharpies, and sticky notes, I would be one happy girl!

4. I love the St. Johns Redskins!

5. I dislike burping. No, I ABHOR burping. I cannot stand it. I dislike it more than I dislike bugs and going to the dentist.

6. I like sunsets. The sunsets in Arizona are the most beautiful in the whole entire world! This one was by the Mississippi River in Nauvoo, Illinois on my 18th birthday. Many moons ago...

7. I love my older brother Paul (as well as the rest of my siblings/family). Paul's a really great brother and a great example to me. He's an AWESOME musician, and I hope that someday he will be able to do what he wants and be a musician. And I like that we smiled like my nephew Corwin in this picture.

8. I like to read, and I'm glad that my family is a reading family. Some of my favorite memories are when my sister Kimberly read me George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl. I laughed the whole time. It still makes me laugh. My Dad would read to me regularly too. When I was little, I would sit on his back and scratch his back while he read me fairy tales.

9. I love music. I suppose everyone loves music, but I really do love it. I love when my family sings together, and I like my dad's idea of starting a family blue grass band. haha I love singing, playing the piano, the violin, and more recently the cello!

10. Most of all I love my family! I love camping with them during our summer family reunion! I think we're a pretty great group of people.

Handsome Men

Happy Veterans Day! I was just thinking about how I didn't really think much about Veterans Day this year, and I'm sorry that it was something that was in the back of my mind. When I said my prayers that morning I did remember to thank Heavenly Father for the veterans who had served our country, along with the fact that I didn't have to go to school that day. I think I might have been a little bit more grateful for that than I was that it was Veterans Day. It was just an excuse to have a day off from school and work. I felt really ungrateful when I really have so much to be grateful for. Especially because there are veterans who are my own flesh and blood, and I should have been more thoughtful to remember more than just the short five minutes in my morning prayers.

These are the handsome men who I owe so much. They have served so selflessly, and I will always be grateful for that. I love these handsome men.