Be Positive and Turn to The Lord

Learned

Trust my husband, somehow he knows what is right.

I told Kaden that i didn't want to go to Logandale this weekend. He said no we are. Our car breaks down and luckily he and his dad can fix it there. We would have been down to 1 car for a while if we were home.

Be positive and Turn to the Lord.

 I have honestly been striving to be more like Julie. These are the first two ways.

Lesson Plans do not write themselves.

I still have 12 out of 12 lesson plans to go for my final in two weeks.

Lived

Julies funeral

I stayed in Logandale for several days last weekend. It was such a tender blessing to me to have been a part of everything. I felt the realness of how thin the vale is as i prepared pictures and food for the services. I also was asked by Malcolm to take pictures so the boys can have some idea of what was going on. It was something i never thought i could do but i am grateful for the task that he gave to me. 

Catching up in my classes

I was so far behind in my classes from the funeral and missing for other things that i desperately needed to catch up. I put myself into working mode and got everything caught up except for my final due in two weeks, woo hoo!

Cleaned out my closet and bedroom

Our room for some reason has turned into a disaster and my closet was even worse. Somehow on Saturday i decided i would tackle it and get organized. It is amazing the difference i feel when i am in there. I found this scripture on a piece of paper while i was going through stuff. This is totally my goal for now on.

organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God (D&C 88:119).

Loved

My blue wall

Kaden wasn't able to come with me to the Valley for the funeral, this really upset me and i was pretty mad at his boss but i got over that as soon as i got home Monday night and saw that Kaden had started painting our bedroom. Ill post pictures as soon as its done. My one blue wall makes me very very happy.

Reading this book

Jeffery R. Holland has a new book out. It is small and it is simple, but it has comforted me in ways that you would not believe. I have really been through a lot of personal trials lately that i wont share but know that as hard as your trials may be and as lonely as you may feel at time you are not alone and other are going through hard things too. I honestly feel so blessed for all that i have. I am loved by an amazing husband who is supportive and caring. I have an amazing family and i have good friends. This book has honestly helped me to have so much more perspective on how i should feel each day.

Queen of Procrastinating

Here is a little list of what i have to do tonight, and instead i am procrastinating and writing it on my blog.

Engl 2900- 

3 page paper critiquing the two best and worst teaching sample lessons from the semester

and

Study for the pedagogy quiz that i have in class tomorrow. ( i haven't even glanced at my notes)

EDRD 3900-

Read chapter 11, write notes, and study for quiz in the morning.

and

Write at least 3 Journal entries for practicums.

ELED 4000-

Look up state standards for lesson, write out rough draft of lesson plan.

This quote has been on mind. Hope it brings comfort to you as well. :)

If for awhile the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. 

- Jefferey R. Holland

Julie Kirk

So i had a very long post written out about the events of finding out and telling katie and spending time with the Kirks. Instead i feel it to be more appropriate to keep this short and sweet. 

This was Julie's facebook post the night before she passed.

Just have to say that life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful, and mine is sure wonderful. Feeling extra blessed, loved, and thankful today! Yay for 

conference weekend, so excited!!! I love my friends!

With everything that was going on in her life, Julie Kirk was so optimistic. I can not imagine being in her shoes and finding so much joy in the small things. I hope to one day be as loving, kind, generous, beautiful, spiritual, and uplifting as Julie. I hope to be as great of wife, daughter, mother, and friend as her as well. I have looked up to Julie ever since i first met her. Any woman who can raise four boys is amazing. It has truly been a blessing in my life to have been able to be so close to her and her family. Julie practically helped raised my youngest sister Katherine and has always made me feel truly special. Every time i got to see her i knew i was loved. The past couple of years it has been very neat for me to see Julie and her family grow so near to the Lord. At one point i can remember having the opportunity to kneel for bedtime prayer with her and her family. This was right after one of Malcum's surgeries. I remember being so overwhelmed with the spirit there in Julie and Malcum's bedroom. After i left i emailed Julie and told her of the strong spirit that dwelled in their home. I told her that the only time i have ever felt angels so near and the spirit so strongly was in the Celestial room of the Temple. Julie's home was and is holy place filled with angels. I have felt it to be such a tender blessing to spend so much time with her family the past few days. I hope that i have been a help for them as they have been for me. My heart and prayers are with Malcum, Lance, Bryce, Chase, Pierce, Grandma Handy and the rest of the family. I am so grateful for the knowledge i have of my Heavenly Father, I am so blessed to know of his plan and to know with out a doubt that if we live righteously here on this earth will be in the Lord's presence. If anyone is worthy of residing with the Lord it is Julie and i can not wait for the day that we will meet again.

Catching Up

The past couple of weeks have been crazy, i have worked almost 40 weeks and been catching up with school and we have gone to the Valley every weekend for awhile. Here are just a few quick updates.



Lived- 

I went to Logandale for part of spring break and hung out with my family.

I have been working a ton and skipping a couple classes to do it. This is ending this week.

Kaden and I have spent a lot of time in the valley and guess what, Kaden is actually working on the Bronco, Woo Hoo its a miracle!

Drove to Sundance for conference weekend to pick up my little sister and visit my cousins and uncle.

Loved-

Cuddling with Kaden at the end of the day and watching The Pacific together.

Went on a little date with Kaden to Serendipity. Carrot Cake and Black/White Sunday Yummmm!

Learned-

Do not wipe bugger noses with out washing your hands immediately! (Sinus infection, again.)

Costco on Saturday's is worse than Vegas traffic in rush hour. My Tom's got ran over a billion times.

If you want to work out, be prepared to not fit into your size 26 Jeans :( pure muscle legs and up a pant size.

Do not drive a Honda Pilot that isn't 4wd down an icy hill, you will have to gravel the entire thing. (this happened while i was in sundance.)

Family is the very most important thing we have here in this life, and it is all we can take with us.

Puppy Love

Loved- Saturday morning Nancy and I went out garage selling. There really was not much that was any good, but i did find something pretty amazing at a place we didn't even stop. We did a "drive by" and i saw a woman holding a little puppy. Instantly i knew i needed it, or someone needed it ha but i had to cuddle with it. So after Nancy took me back to my parents i gathered up my sisters to go to breakfast and made a little stop on the way. There was one puppy left and it was a miniature dachshund for a super price. Yes, we took it home. Meet Delilah, or Lilah for short. She is absolutely perfect. So perfect, that i kept her with me all day, and took her to the family bbq (which was awesome by the way. It was so great to see everyone.)

 Seriously these two photos (above and below) are two of my favorite pictures ever! I have already made frames for them and i am so putting them in my living room as soon as i get back to Cedar. (I am in the valley for spring break woo hoo!)

 Annie and Tara i have a few more pictures of your girls. I just need to go through them still.

 ha ha Alaynna overload, but she is so adorable and was my little buddy the other night.

Boxes are the Best!

Lived- This was such a great week at work except for the constant migraines i had. Monday morning i went downstairs and instantly got excited. This great huge box was down there for the kids to play with, and even though i might have been more excited about the box than they were at first, they have had a blast every day with it, and yes it is totally still alive. I have fixed it up with some duck tape every once and a while but i am making this baby last as long as possible. There is nothing better than a little creative play time with a huge box!

Besides box time, nap time has been amazing too! Seriously this quickest way for a child to melt my heart is to fall asleep in my arms. I love nap time, not just because the kids fall asleep, but because they are tired and sweet and it is almost like magic when 6 kids in one room are all quiet and listening to a story.

Overly Obsessive

Learned- Well i learned absolutely nothing in school this past week. Honestly, i could not focus at all. I was so ready for spring break its ridiculous. I did learn though that i am a little obsessive about a few things right now.

1. Getting my thighs to shrink, seriously my butt and thighs aren't fitting into my pants because they are too muscular. This is a serious problem because i am not giving up my designer jeans for anything. So  to fix this little problem i have been doing lunges and ball work outs and staying at the gym for like 2 hours, someone please help me with this (telling me i am already thin or look great does not help the problem) and sorry if there is anyone out there who wants to shoot me for posting this.

2. I want a car very badly, i am not quite sure why this has hit me right now but i am terribly sick of my Saturn, the poor thing is sick of me too. We have been through way too much and together for way too long. So i spend my nights designing my dream cars on the ford website and then crying because i cant afford a 30,000 dollar car. So i have settled for a used 10,000 car that yes i still can't afford for like the next 5 years.

3.Figuring out what to do with school. After this semester i will be like 9 credits into my senior year and then i will still have 2 more years to go. Yes, two more years. Ah i know i made the choice to go slow, but since i have decided this i have been debating on focusing on early childhood or English and literature. So far i have switched my focus 3 times and my major twice since starting school back at UNLV. Well, I am switching again. Hopefully this will be the last time. On Sunday while sitting in church i realized that everyone woman in the education world that i hope to be like someday has majored or had something to do with early childhood. The more i pondered this, i thought about why and well that is because there is so much to be learned from children especially in the early years. I think i will really enjoy this change.

So basically besides learning that i work out too much, can't afford the car i want, and that i need to change my focus once again, i have learned that i am totally overly obsessive over things that i really shouldn't worry so much about.

Oh i almost forgot, i also learned to never where this outfit or any outfit like it, while driving Luke's truck or any truck for that matter, again. This was quite the adventure.