The temple

I got to go to the LA Temple today for the first time! It was so marvelous to be there! I could not have pictured being any where else to feel the calmness and love that is in the temple.

My parents were married in the LA temple and so they were able to show me around and I got to see where everything is in there. It is so huge! I love the temple and the blessings that we receive from it. There is such a strong feeling when you are in there that is indescribable.

I got to surprise my grandma in the temple! See, they work at the temple for one week out of the year and this happened to be their week to be there. I got to see her and share special time with her in the temple. What a marvelous thing it is, to know that we are with our family's forever when we are sealed in the House of the Lord for time and all eternity! How thankful I am for a family that is active in the Church and parent's who have taught me the blessings of being close to the Savior.

Adventures on Ambien and other happenings

So, since my mom and my sister both take ambien, and I too have that darn genetic sleeping disorder that plagues my family, I decided to request a perscription from my doctor...

Also like my mom and my sister, I too do weird, funny and sometimes stupid stuff on ambien.

one night I bbq'd while on ambien, like around 11 o clock at night! I love bbq, and apparently I loved it even more on ambien. I started cooking stake shishkabobs earlier in the evening, hours after I was done, and after I had taken ambien, I decided to cook my chicken shishkabobs, I don't remember one bit of it! When I woke up, I noticed that the chicken shishkabob skewer was completely gone, I had eaten it all. I asked Michelle about it and apparently she told me I was so impressed with my own cooking that I tried really hard to have her eat some as well. I also told her "it was the most divine chicken I ever had" I don't really use words like 'divine' in every day vocab... also Michelle reports I was walking around like a drunk person! but regadless, ambien + bbq = fun! (I think I'm lucky I didn't burn the house down)!

One year!!

Last year on 08-08-08 I married the love of my life! It is our one year anniversary today! I love him even more today than a year ago and will love him even more for years to come! Thank you for being my everything and I love you Jon!

Exciting news!

So, looks at the pictures from the bottom one up (I'm jsut figuring out that it pupts it backwards). We finished painting our walls! For those who don' t know yet, we moved into a house shortly after we got married, it's not ours, but we are helping fix it up! We have spent...oh the past nine months (totalling the months we have been married) trying to paint the walls of our living room! Well, being newly weds has been a blast and working together has been a lot of fun! We've both now become experts on how to peel paint; fill thousands of holes in the walls; texture walls; put primer on to cover the ugly paint colors!; and finally paint the walls! It has been a long process and as I look back on it, a great learning experience for me. Here are some pictures that I took as the process first began and all the way to the ending of it! Now the task is to clean up the mess that the whole process has made!!! Wish me luck cleaning!

This was fun! I love Jane Austen

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Recent movies!

Jon and I have spent the past two Friday nights at the movie theater watching two very good movies!

We watched the new X-Men movie and loved it! plus...who could go wrong with watching Hugh!? Just last night we went to see the new Star Trek movie! Oh my goodness! I can't believe that I really enjoyed it! Here's why I say that:

We walk into the theater and the lights are low and there are some people there chatting away at how excited they are. I am a total people watcher, so I start to notice that there are way to many guys in there that look like they are the type of nerdy guys from high school that wear the pants that are WAY TOO short and they love to study their Chemistry book.

Seeing that I was going to be in the theater with so many nerdy looking fellows (that does not include my husband!) , I was not thinking to highly of the movie...honestly when you think about it, nerds are not the "normal" of the world (that's why they get picked on right?).

I set my judgements aside of the people around me when the lights went down and the movie started...wow! It was great! You will have to see it!

Now of course, nobody can replace The original actors, but the movie is very good!

Blogs

All I have to say is that reading other people's blogs makes time fly way to fast! Today happens to be a day off for me. Now usually on days off I like to be productive and clean the house (some may know that we are trying to paint the inside of our house and it is takinga while) but today just didn't hit me as a day for cleaning, I wasn't sure what I wanted to fill my day with. So, I went online...three hours later I came out from it and decided that I really should be getting all walls ready for painting, packing stuff up and rearranging the house so that we can paint. So, here I go! Off to go start, I'll turn on some music, find some boxes to put stuff in, and up dated everyone about how reading other people's blogs online has helped me want to fill my day off with the wonderful task of painting a house! Good luck with your day! I hope all goes well!

Just looking around at different blogs and found this!

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." Mignon McLaughlin

1. Return to the beginning

2. Keep your mate at the top of the list

3. Be each other's best friend

4. Focus on the positive

5. Appreciate the differences

6. Have a sense of humor

7. Enjoy sexual intimacy - both of you

8. Talk to each other

9. Be your mates' favorite cheerleader

10. set your boundaries

11. Raise your kids together

12. Manage your money in harmony

13. Nourish the spiritual side of your marriage

14. Hold on though the hard times

From the book "Married For Better. Not Worse"

by Gary and Joy Lundberg