January Adventures

We had a lot of fun in January after the holidays. Trey ate new foods, Lindy got one year older and we got more snow. (not my favorite part of the month)

we painted Lindy's room....here's the best "BEFORE

" pic I have

All painted! Still to be decorated....

poor buddy was sick. :(

my Christmas present was an Instant Pot and I LOVE it.

Trey eats bananas

Allan and I were babysitting and Rusha found some paint.....green Rusha and green carpet. :P

Lindy sewing a sock cow!

celebrating Lindy and Emily's birthdays at DnD

Lindy's surprise cake I made to celebrate her birthday

Trey loves Lindy's soft blanket.

poser!

SO MUCH SNOW. We got more later that day

I feel ya buddy, I feel ya.

aaaaand....I got stuck trying to get home. (I got stuck several times this winter)

let it snow, let it snow, let it snow..... NOT!!!

For the past three days I have woken up to ugly, gnarly, snowy conditions. It took me over an hour on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to get to work. It was nasty and not so much fun.

However, today, the roads were clear. I got to work with minutes to spare. :) And looking at the forecast for the next week I am one VERY happy camper:

Sunshine! Temperatures above 20 degrees! What more could a girl ask for? (well...lots, but I'll be happy with this!)

In other news I've slowly started moving to the new place and this weekend is THE BIG MOVE of everything else. I am excited to get everything set up in the new place and to make it a home. :-) It will be fun times.

Also, because everyone keeps asking me - no, I do not know when I am getting married yet. I have a working date in late March, but we're still waiting for everything to go through. We met with our Stake President last night and he is dedicated to help us finish everything out and have everything in place so we can get married as soon as possible. I left that meeting last night with a lot of hope.

I was reminded of this quote by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles :

“To any who may be struggling to see that light and find that hope, I say: Hold on. Keep trying. God loves you. Things will improve. Christ comes to you in His ‘more excellent ministry’ with a future of ‘better promises.’ He is your ‘high priest of good things to come.’ ” - Jeffrey R. Holland, “An High Priest of Good Things to Come,” Ensign, Nov. 1999, 36

Isn't that just lovely? Hold on. don't give up. It will be okay. That is my mantra for this next month. January has been hard one for me in so many ways and I am glad that it is ending today. February will be a challenge to get through, but I have a feeling it will fly by like a blink of an eye. Which more than I can say for January. :)

Before I know it will be March. March brings my birthday, our wedding (hopefully) and warmer temperatures (at least, one can hope for that!). Life is good. It's going to get better. I just need to live one day at a time.

Hello 2013!

Hello my friends!

Life has been so busy lately and I have been running myself into the ground. The evidence of that is the fact that I have been so sick the past few days. I'm pretty sure it's been some sort of flu or just a really, really bad cold. I had a really bad day yesterday, but am starting to feel a little bit better this morning.

The good news is that most of everything for our wedding reception is finally falling into place. Minus the fact that we don't officially have a date yet, we have been able to make some decisions regarding what we want and I'm happy that some things are falling into place.

In other news we took our engagement pictures last weekend in Ogden and it was a warm 18 degrees. I say warm, because it was below 10 degrees in Smithfield the entire time we were up there. The lowest we saw it was -14 degrees. It was super cold. :o) However, despite the cold I think we got some really good shots and I'm really excited to see all of the pictures. :o)

And now I think I'll get back to being sick on my living room couch while the snow continues to fall here at my house. Good thing it's my day off! Free snow day to me! :)