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I love belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Awesome quotes such as the following are born from our inspired leaders. 

President Harold B. Lee taught us: 

"The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own homes." 

Sister Eliza R. Snow assured the Relief Society:

"There are many of the sisters whose labors are not known beyond their own dwellings and perhaps not appreciated there, but what difference does that make?  If your labors are acceptable to God, however simple the duties, if faithfully performed, you should never be discouraged." 

They make me feel good.  Even though that adorable troll above is our baby at the moment and laundry, 

dishes 

and 

vacuuming 

are among some of my greatest worries, 

I perform them happily and gratefully knowing what I know! 

p.s. my labors do NOT go unnoticed.  Michael is a very grateful man:) 

collected quotes of 2011

"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation." 

EAT, PRAY, LOVE

"There are too many people on this earth.  We need a new plague."

Dwight Shrute

"Understand other people and you'll begin to be able to understand yourself."

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"Habits are easily formed.  It is just as easy to form good habits as it is to form evil ones."

President Joseph F. Smith

"Weird indicates a creative force."

Grandma on "Post Grad"

"...and by the way everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.  The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

Sylvia Plath

"Rely on Him heavily."

Elder Holland

"Many seminary students will know this scripture mastery verse: 'Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.' (2 Nephi 2:25)

But we sometimes forget that it's really true.  We are meant to have joy, which means to be genuinely happy, 

in an eternal sense." 

our kissing history

High School Love
14 and 17

Dating later in life;)
23 and 25

Engaged!!

Married:) :) :) 

A (justifiably?) proud wife

For those of you who do not know, my husband is going to 

Thomas Jefferson School of Law 

here in Lovely Winters, San Diego:) 

And I will have you know, that at the end of his first semester he was very much freaking out about whether he would even be going back for the second!!! 

WELL...as you can see there is no danger of that since he made the HONOR ROLL!!!!

I know, I know...there are those of you rolling your eyes at me right now thinking "I hate when people brag about their spouses." BUT I MEAN COME ON! We are talking about professional school here!

 LAW SCHOOL....yuck! 

No offense baby. 

TAKE NOTE: The last sentences states - 

"You may justifiably take pride in your accomplishments." 

Does this apply to the wife? 

Because I admit, I am oh so proud!

Thanks for the letter Mr. Dean & President...

sleepy sister sophia

This girl is so funny.  Twice on our Christmas vacation she came over to just lay on top of me and talk and literally within minutes fell asleep! I just love her!

I mean...how could you not love this face???

Passions

I've been pondering all of the blogs I read lately. 

There are women out there who wear red lipstick and pull it off beautifully. 

There are crafty ladies, 

bakers, 

amazing cooks,

 excellent photographers, 

great artists 

and those who are passionate about fashion.  

So I've been asking myself...what am I passionate about? 

My mom asked me one day: "what do you think about when you don't have to think about anything?" 

I have to be honest here....

MOVIES!

Goodness...I have come to realize, upon going home to visit my lovely family, that much of our conversations are made up of movie quoting and I LOVE it.  They are old friends for us.  When we are able to visit them together it makes life that much more enjoyable.  Do I sound silly? Maybe I am BUT our movies brought us together in our youth and they have become the glue that help us through the realities of today!  

Here are some of my absolute favorites:

We watch this one every Christmas and send the boys away.  My sisters and I discuss every time who is who.  I was Jo. Lilia Beth. Sophia Amy...when we were younger...simply because that was the order. Analyzing it this year I've realized we all possess certain Jo-like qualities;)

Stranger than Fiction.

I love the pace of this one. I love the simplicity of it, the narration, EVERY character, the music, the beauty captured in creating a story as its happening. It is just fantastic on so many levels. 

Anne of Green Gables.

She is such an inspiration. I believe we could be bosom friends. She is brave, dramatic, loves to "soak it all in", and puts things into action instead of constantly talking about what she is going to do. 

It is so refreshingly RAW AND REAL!  Enough said? I don't know...I love Juliette Binoche's character.  The whole family is just perfect. Awkward moments and uncomfortable spots are so believeable!

"YOU ARE A MURDERER OF LOVE!" 

Love quoting this one...with my husband actually...:) ;) 

Ahhh. Tim Burton.  I just love his style.  This one was surprisingly a more energetic, light, happy one as opposed to his usual hue of darkness.  I would LOVE for my funeral to be a bright, bubbling party as he imagines his will be...

To be continued...

I've been pondering all of the blogs I read lately. 

There are women out there who wear red lipstick and pull it off beautifully. 

There are crafty ladies, 

bakers, 

amazing cooks,

 excellent photographers, 

great artists 

and those who are passionate about fashion.  

So I've been asking myself...what am I passionate about? 

My mom asked me one day: "what do you think about when you don't have to think about anything?" 

I have to be honest here....

MOVIES!

Goodness...I have come to realize, upon going home to visit my lovely family, that much of our conversations are made up of movie quoting and I LOVE it.  They are old friends for us.  When we are able to visit them together it makes life that much more enjoyable.  Do I sound silly? I feel a little bit so.  But our movies brought us together in our youth and they have become the glue that help us through the realities of today!  

Here are some of my absolute favorites:

We watch this one every Christmas and send the boys away.  My sisters and I discuss every time who is who.  I was Jo. Lilia Beth. Sophia Amy...when we were younger...simply because that was the order. Analyzing it this year I've realized we all possess certain Jo qualities;)

Stranger than Fiction.

I love the pace of this one. I love the simplicity of it, the narration, EVERY character, the music, the beauty captured in creating a story as its happening. It is just fantastic on so many levels. 

Anne of Green Gables.

She is such an inspiration. I believe we could be bosom friends. She is brave, dramatic, loves to "soak it all in", and puts things into action instead of constantly talking about what she is going to do. 

It is so refreshingly RAW AND REAL!  Enough said? I don't know...I love Juliette Binoche's character.  The whole family is just perfect. Awkward moments and uncomfortable spots are so believeable!

"YOU ARE THE MURDERER OF LOVE!" 

Love quoting this one...with my husband actually...:) ;) 

Ahhh. Tim Burton.  I just love his style.  This one was surprisingly a more energetic, light, happy one as opposed to his usual hue of darkness.  I would LOVE for my funeral to be a bright, bubbling party as he imagines his will be...