Time for a Change

I had to post something because the last post was just way too sour. Life is going pretty well. I am really excited about Thanksgiving and the holiday season. I love this time of year when we get to go see our wonderful families and catch up with everybody. This is also the time of year that Brian and I met at TAMU. I can't believe it has been over two years that we started dating. So much has changed in that time period. We got married, moved 3 times (and we are getting ready to move AGAIN), graduated from college(Brian), and got a real job, that pays real money. I am so grateful for all the wonderful changes that have occured in the past two years. I can't wait to see what the future will hold for the two of us and our families. Pardon my sappy reflections, its just that things seem to be going well even though our lifes are really hectic. Here's to a bright future with a sweet hubby!

Tagged!

8 Things I am passionate about
1. Brian
2. Family
3. Religion
4. Friday Night Football
5. Children
6. Chocolate
7. Baking
8. Getting in shape

8 Words of phrases I say often
1. aye
2. Bri (sweetie, honey, brigamundo, monkey, bug, any thing else I can think to call Brian)
3. I HATE school!
4. Whiny Butt ~ Work
5. oh thats a good girl/boy ~ work
6. I love you
7. nino, nina (imagine that it has the thingies, mmk)
8. bite me (this has been much less frequent, because Brian will now actually bite me when i say it.)

8 Things I want to accomplish in the coming year
1. Quit work
2. Finish School
3. Make a baby
4. move to a bigger apartment
5. Get a sewing machine and use it
6. Learn to speak a little spanish
7. Be a better Sunday School teacher
8. Get out of debt

8 Places I would love to go or visit
1. Spain
2. Hawaii
3. Scotland
4. Utah
5. France
6. Florida
7. England
8. The Sacred Grove

8 things I need or want
1. A day off
2. clothes
3. A new camera
4. A video recorder
5. An interior decorator
6. good grades
7. a healthy body
8. kitchen table

My life includes the following...

School: Listen to people who want me to do a ridiculous amount of work, completely forgetting that there are 5 other people in my life who expect the same thing.

Work: Most of the time I enjoy this part of my day. But, at Primrose, our babies are sick. There is a lot of diarrhea and crying.

What I feel like when I get home: Mostly this is what I feel like at 11:00 when I go to sleep. It has been one of those weeks.

Cody's Letter

This is what arrived in my mailbox today. I was so excited to get a letter, until I saw the bag it was in. It was kinda sad but made me smile. Obviously somebody did not want me to get my letter in one peice. Sorry I had to edit the photos so our address did not show up.

I guess this is what happens to missionary mail. haha. Have a great week.

Out of the mouth of babes...

Today I was moved by the testimonies of a few little people from church. The following includes what I remeber from one little boy's testimony: "I would like to bear my testimony that I know this church is true, and that Heavenly Father answers our prayers. This last week my mom has been gone helping my sister move in with my other sister. When she left we were all worried about whether or not we would survive. My dad has been pretty much useless. He has a hurt back. I noticed that on the nights where we prayed as a family things went well. My dad's back would not hurt so much. I know Heavenly Father helped us when our mom was gone." Although at the time it was hard to get much out of his testimony especially after he called his dad useless I realized what a wonderful little family this must be to be teaching their children at such a young age. Later his dad did get up and bear his testimony: " I felt like I had to get up here and follow the great example set by my children. I so much appreciate (son's) great endorsement and confidence that all would be okay when (mom) left..." I am still giggling about the many things that we learn in church. I hope one day we will have done good enough parenting to have our children humiliate us with such fond stories that have taught them faith.

Our ONE year Anniversary!

I'll begin this blog by apoligizing profusely for not being a very good blogger. It's just that this little nagging thing inside of me hates to write about what it going on in my life, plus school has been a living you-know-what. Yes...I am not being dramatic about it, it is kicking my tail all over the place. Anyways, Brian and I had a great anniversary. It was a lot of fun. We went to Sea World in San Antonio. Although Brian has been a few times I had never been before. He was a great sport and said that his favorite part about it was watching me act like a little kid. My eyes and smile were as big as saucers all day long. It was a BLAST!

Outside the entrance, Me with the Sea Lions, they were awesome, by far my favorite
Brian is trying to be a shark. He is feeding the dolphins, I saw teeth and thought my fingers all of a sudden looked too much like a fish.

Houston Rodeo

So this past Wednesday Brian and I went to the Houston rodeo and the concert that night featuring Kevin Fowler. I loved it. Brian was able to get the tickets for FREE! Not only were they free but they were suppose to be tickets for $77. They were so expensive because we were like right next to the arena. It was sooo awesome. We were sitting in the very middle only 6 rows from the real cowboys. In our section we were also allowed to get free food and drinks. Which was great because I was starving and the food there was SUPER expensive. I got to see the wagon races, which was really interesting, I'd never seen that before. They were going really fast and I thought they would just fall over any second. Nobody did but somebodys front wheel did break and they won the race with only 3 wheels. That night I got to see a lot of really neat events but I would have to say that my favorite part of the rodeo was at the very end when they had kids in ffa from different high schools try to catch a calf. First of all some of them had no business running much less running after cattle. When they tried to catch the cattle they would grab their tails . One girl tried this and the calf drug her across the arena. I didn't get to see this but Brian just about died laughing. I did see this kid with a calf between his legs but he was on the ground and was trying to get the rope around it's neck. It was just great. We then got to see Kevin Fowler in concert and sing like a million songs about drinking. He did perform "I'm a hard man to love" and the one about the devil going down to Georgia. The fiddle player was so good, he was able to do it exactly like the song but was playing it like underneath his legs and all over the place. This was the first concert I have been to and it was a lot of fun. I am already really spoiled and it is sad that we will never be that close again. Sorry about the crappy pictures, it was really weird lighting that I never did figure out.

In other news I am really excited about today being over with and being able to go to Temple for a few days. I'll post about that when I get back on Wednesday.

This is how close we were to everything. The three wagons that raced.

I kept forgetting to take the zoom off of my camera. I eventually figured it out.

I am getting good with my camera now. Here is Kevin Fowler.