Hurray For Today

Basically I want to say...HURRAY for a few reasons. Bare with me as a ramble...
Hurray for today because I could read and study as much as I wanted this morning because it is my day off. Hurray because of a awesome inspirational church material that is at my finger tips to read and for the inspiration to do it. Hurray for using 'Preach my Gospel' as a study guide for scripture study and that I've been able to study and read a lot about FAITH in the last few days; a subject that has been filling my soul and helping me realize what I need to do. Hurray for the continued feeling of summer and the coming of Fall. Hurray that Scott is loving teaching 9th grade math and that he is happy and fulfilled in his work (at least for the first week anyway). Hurray that I have good friends and awesome family members and a fabulous husband. Hurray that I got to grade math papers one afternoon. Hurray that even though you don't always see your prayers being answered the way you thought they should you have a feeling of peace knowing that your Father in Heaven is aware of you, your heart, your needs and desires. Hurray for my awesome younger brother who rolls with the punches! Hurray for such amazing parents and for my Mom who cooked Salmon last night for dinner. Hurray for garden veggies, visiting teaching, happy thoughts and memories, hurray for the gift of prayer, hurray for so many millions of things. So, if you made it through my thoughts hurray for you too, they might not mean any thing to you but for me today...they are my HURRAYS!

Me, Myself and I

100 Things about Me! This was harder than I thought!

1. The greatest thing I have ever done was marrying my amazingly wonderful Husband Scott! I love him with all my heart and am constantly amazed at how thoughtful, kind, patient and fun he is.
   
2. One day I would love to learn how to yodel
   
3. Would love to aspire to be a great runner
4. Love the Great out Doors!! Camping, hiking, rafting, just being outside, etc.
5. Love to go to new places that I have never been to
6. Love to eat foods that I have never tried before esp. those from exotic places
7. I love to cook and bake
8. Love to go on LOOOOOOONG walks at night with Scott.
   
9. Love to Star Gaze
10. Love to read from the Scriptures, in fact it changes my daily demeanor, if I haven't read Scott can always tell because I am more emotional and ornery (is that how you spell it?)
11. Love to Journal
12. Love to get new PJs
13. Love to go out to eat
14. Love to make blankets
15. Christmas is my very most favorite Holiday
16. Love the First Snow!
17. Love the smell of each new season and how you can tell it has arrived by just sniffing outside your front door.
18. Love to eat fresh Garden Veggies
19. Love to exercise
20. Love to wake up early
21. Love all types of Fresh Fruit
22. Love to Travel!
23. Love History, art history, humanities (I graduated from BYU-I with duel cluster in history and humanities
24. Love Reeds Dairy Ice Cream
25. Love to Attend Plays and Mellow Dramas
26. Love decorating and used to spend a lot of time watching decorating shows
27. Love to play with Kids
28. Love Reading
29. Love music of all kinds and wish that I was even more diverse in my collections
30. Love to dance really crazy and make my brother and Scott laugh
31. Love Love love to make people smile
32. Love to squish my toes in the sand
33. Love to laugh
34. Love to dream with my Husband about future plans (drawing up house plans, travel plans etc.)
35. Love to get great ideas
36. Love to watch movies
37. Love to have a good healthy cry
    
38. Love re-runs of old classics
39. Love comfy clothes
40. Love to have my toenails painted
41. Love the smell of things baking
42. Love canning: peaches, pears, pickles, salsa, jams & jellies, beets, applesauce, pie filling
43. Love gardening
44. Love Giggling and snuggling with my silly sisters
45. Love that Scott adores me even when I seriously don't deserve it.
46. Love spending time with my Family and In-Laws
47. I am not very good at keeping in touch with old friends, I think about it a lot but somehow I never get to it. I love ya'll sorry I stink at it
48. Love writing lists and marking them off
49. Love a clean house
50. Love making cards
    
51. I really like to make up cooking shows to myself while a cook
52. Sunday is my favorite day of the week
53. Love to read and take cat naps in the hammock out back
54. I hate scary movies and stories!! I am a chicken liver with an over active imagination
55. Love cottage cheese and mixing things in it: tomatoes, fruit, etc.
56. Love the Oregon Coast!!!!
57. I love that my husband wants to be a teacher and is so passionate about helping people
58. I am #2 of 6 kids
59. Love to take baths in the winter to get warm
60. Been married for 4 years 7 months 13 days and one 1/2 hour
    
61. Love Thanksgiving: I love the cooking all day l0ng the smells, the comfort food, the pie, the leftovers, he family gathering the excitement of Christmas coming next, the rich fall weather! Love it!
62. Love picking raspberries and snitching
    
63. Love pulling warm stuff out of the drier
64. My favorite weekends of the entire year are conference weekend
65. Have a strange musical appetite for Jazz
    
66. Love attending the temple and would love to travel the US and world visiting all of them
67. Really dislike taking our car in for repairs: tires, oil change anything car related, I hate it
    
68. Love the smell of rain and Summer time Thunderstorms
69. Think fireworks are fabulous
70. Love animals and for some crazy reason would love to own a goat one day
71. Used to wish that I was a pioneer
72. Love how only Scott can surprise me! He is the best at surprises
73. Love tree lanes: those streets you drive down and its completely tree covered.
74. Love wild flowers
75. I am famous for telling stories to Scott's nieces and nephews. I have always been good at telling stories. Probably because I have an over active imagination.
76. Professional massages!!!!
    
77. Love to sing
78. Love to play the piano even though I am not that proficient (lack of practice)
79. Love Pride and Prejudice
    
80. My husband says that I am very flirtatious. Now only to him but truly before he came along I could have won blue ribbons!
81. I like to be in-charge but am learning to follow gracefully :) one of those life long challenges
82. Also like to argue, not even about important things, just like a good debate (with me being right :) ) Weakness: my mom has told me my entire life to think before I speak! Still working on it
83. Have always longed to visit the Holy Land!!!!
    
84. Kind of lazy but have a hard time sitting still
    
85. Think it would be a blast to travel throughout Canada by Locomotive! choo choo
    
86. I am a terrible speller and find myself being very creative with word-ages. Hurray for spell check, eh!
87. Love to stay in Hotels!!
88. Would love to be a great photographer, it seems so romantic
    
89. Love Christmas lights
    
90. Don't like to follow recipes completely, I think it is because I am naturally a little defiant. And because when you are newly wed college student you have to work with what you've got. Good thing we always bless the food. :)
91. Love alternate medicine and natural cures
92. Love desserts but stopped eating sugar at the end of March
93. I have naturally curly hair and many times strangers will scrunch it, also once a guy said that I should never cut it because it was "delicious"... creepy!
94. I am a little over dramatic
95. Love little towns and living in the country. Truthfully I don't love being in big cities. I enjoy visiting them but don't really want to live in one
96. I love to talk, to anyone about anything can talk and talk, in school my teachers would get frustrated because they could move me any where and I would find someone to talk to
    
97. I have a nervous tick when it is too quite during awkward moments to hum
98. Love hearing about peoples problems and talk with them about them
99. Talk in weird voices to certain people
100. I have a difficult time driving on the ice because I was in a really scary accident once.

Yellowstone

This week Scott and I went on a family vacation, with my family to Yellowstone. We loved it! I haven't been there for years and Scott has never been; he was like a little kid at Christmas. We love the great outdoors and Yellowstone is the best. We started our adventures with the Bar J wranglers, in Jackson Hole, camped the night there and set off for Yellowstone the next morning. It rained a lot but it was worth it! We had a blast! Here are some pictures from our adventures. My brother Jeremy took all these pictures...he is amazing! Sad note: we had to leave a day early to go back and work....so we didn't get to see the bears. But my fam did! So, much fun worth the trip over and over again!