On Saturday morning, Elizabeth Smart came to speak at our stake center to the Relief Society women of our stake! It was amazing to hear her and to be so close to her! I can't even describe the glow she had and her poise and elegance. She is an amazing woman. Her testimony is remarkable after having gone through such a hard trial in her life. She did mention a scripture that touched me.  D&C 24:8 "Be patient in afflictions, for thou shalt have many; but endure them, for lo, I am with thee, even unto the end of thy days." Although the small trial I am currently facing with infertility is so small compared to what Elizabeth had to endure, it's still comforting to know we can seek wisdom and advice through the words of the scriptures no matter what we are going through. Elizabeth was so inspiring, and I hope to have the strength she has as I go through the many trials I will experience in this lifetime.

So remember WAY back when I posted about going to conference with our friends? (I really need to get better about updating.) Well, at conference was when Chris made the decision to be baptized!! We were so beyond happy. After attending conference, he was totally pumped about getting baptized. He said that President Monson is "the real deal". I feel so grateful that everything worked out so that we were able to all go.

Yesterday was the big day for Chris. The baptism was so great. The room was filled with the Spirit and Chris was just beaming. Jeff spoke and did a great job. I feel so blessed to have witnessed his conversion process and am so happy for their family. The gospel is such a beautiful thing. 

This weekend Jeff and I went to Salt Lake for General Conference with some friends from our ward. The husband isn't a member, but he had a great experience this weekend and really enjoyed Priesthood session. I'm excited for what may come from this in the future. It was a quick trip, arriving at 2am Friday night and leaving Sunday morning. But it was well worth it. I love the feeling that I have this time of year. I was so bad at taking pictures!! I wish we got one of the four of us, but we were so late getting to the conference center and in a rush to leave afterward. 

Friday night, while the boys were at Priesthood, I went down to Provo and stayed the night with one of my dearest friends, Diana. It was SO much fun. It had been well over a year since we've seen each other, so this was much needed.

We spent our night eating, shopping, Yogurtland, chatting, and giving each other facials.

Giving each other facials at 2am. Totally normal. 

The weather was so nice and out of nowhere there was a strange snow storm on Sunday and most of the drive home! 

We had such a good weekend and a much needed getaway trip! I feel like lately our lives have been consumed by work. I'm not complaining though. It's been great.  

Isn't our family cute? Love them.

great day.

You know when you go back to work on Monday not feeling totally annoyed to be there because you just had had a really good weekend? This Saturday was one of those for me. Jeff had played football with the guys in our ward that morning and I slept in and on the way home he called me to say, "Hurry and get ready because I'm taking you to breakfast!" He knows just how to make me happy. Seriously, I love food. And I all of a sudden become the happiest girl in the world when we go out to eat. It's the best. While we were getting ready to leave for breakfast, a friend from the ward texts Jeff and says he has TWO EXTRA TICKETS to the sold out Rebel game against SDSU!! I was about to die I was so happy. This is the biggest game of the season. (my Facebook plea for tickets may or may not have had something to do with this offering, but I didn't even care. it got us to the game.) So we went out to breakfast to Egg Works and then happily rode off to the game. 

The game was amazing. We had awesome seats. We won by two in the last 20 seconds. I almost had a heart attack. But then I didn't because we won. The student section was so good as always with the best signs. This beauty was my favorite. Moser, you are my hero. Please take note of how gigantic they made him.

AND THEN, just when the day couldn't get any better... it did. My little brother had planned to proposal to his girlfriend, Rachel. So we had to race from the game over to the park to set up for it. And I think it turned out lovely.

We tried to get Chinese lanterns, but those fell through, so the night before I Googled how to make lanterns, and these little gems appeared. So those are what we made.

Someone had dropped Rachel off at the park where she and Luke go to often together. Along the path, Luke had left little letters with different things written for her. So she read each letter before she ended at the little picnic that was set up with the candles.

After he had finished popping the question and had eaten dinner, we went back to the park to take a couple pictures and to clean everything up while they rode off in that scooter with the cute sign on the back.

We are so happy Rachel will be joining our family. We are small in numbers, so we're excited to have her be a part of us!!

AND just when I thought the day couldn't have been any better, Jeff offered to go see The Vow with me after cleaning up the park. He was just so sweet to me all day and it was the best day ever. I don't know how I got so lucky with him. It was a great day and  I will happily be driving to work tomorrow morning.

2011 Recap

I still have not taken down Christmas. Not because I don't want to, but because we haven't had any TIME! I feel like everything has been go go go for that past couple months and hasn't slowed down.  I can't believe another year has come and gone. Time goes by so fast. It's kind of sad. I feel like there's so much I want to do and accomplish and I have absolutely no excuse not to, especially since we don't have any kids yet. This is the perfect time to really do things and do some personal progress and set goals and do them. Well, 2011 has been a great year for us. And I have absolutely nothing to complain about.

We had our first anniversary!! Can't believe our 2nd will be next month.

We went on a trip to Cancun in June with my two brothers and cousin, Joey.

Went beach camping in California in August with all of Jeff's family. So fun! We'll be going again this June. (Yes, Jeff and I tower over everyone else :)

We went to Canada in September for my cousin's wedding and Jeff finally got to meet my whole family!

I got surgery in September. It wasn't a fun experience, but we're hoping we'll get some blessings from it in 2012!  Sorry, guys...  I didn't get any pictures of that, because I looked horrendous.


We both got new jobs!! This has been the biggest blessing by far for us this year. Both of us were offered jobs when we weren't even looking. I absolutely love mine and Jeff is loving his, too :) We got super lucky. Jeff is the new Marketing Director  at a Honda dealership and I'm working at a cute spa called SkinBar.

Also, 2 of my best friends got pregnant and 3 more of best friends had babies! (One of them is already pregnant again... her babies will only be 14 months apart!) I love how all my friends are having little babes. I get to play with them!

Can't wait to find out what 2012 has in store for us! We have so much to be grateful for.

Grandpa's 90th Birthday Party!

My Grandpa turned 90 years old last week, so of course we had to throw him a huge party! My mom and her sisters did an awesome job with everything. It was fun seeing cousins that I haven't seen in a long time. Everyone in the family was able to make it from different states, so it was special and I think my grandpa had a good time.
My mom and her sisters each have different memorabilia from his life, so they put it all together on a big display so we can all see it. It's probably the only time that it will all be in one place, so it was neat to see and read everything. It was anything from childhood pictures, to high school yearbooks to newspaper clippings. We ate dinner, watched old home videos from throughout his life (some were silent black and white), and had a Q&A with him. It was a fun night!

A little about my grandpa: He played pro football for the Detroit Lions. He was an FBI agent in Chicago and Las Vegas for 20+ years. He is as healthy as a horse and golfs THREE times a week (18 hole games, I might add). So, basically he is a stud!

My younger brother, Luke, wearing my grandpa's old football helmet.

I wish this picture wasn't blurry. I guess my mom is trying to kill my aunt with my grandpa's original gun he used in the FBI.

Little brother, Luke, and his girlfriend, Rachel.

Delicious meal cooked by the one and only aunt Elaine!

Pictures and things from Grandpa's life.

My grandpa's old college sweaters. The blue one is from Dixie! He met my grandma met on a blind date while they both attended Dixie in the 40s.  I love that my mom went there and so did I! The red one is from U of U.

Pictures of my Grandpa and beautiful Grandma with both of their wedding rings. They were married in 1948.   Grandma passed away about 10 years ago.

The man of the hour!

Grandpa isn't a big talker, so we had a Q & A with him, so we can ask him whatever he wanted which is a rare thing. It was so neat hearing him talk about his life, since he doesn't normally do that. My cousin  asked him if he's ever killed anyone (Jeff's been dying to know the answer to that). My grandpa said he never killed anyone because he never had to :)
Someone else asked him why he joined the National Guard. He said it was when he was in high school, and to be in it, you just had to go to a meeting once a month and they paid him $1/month. He was like, "And you can't be that, so I joined!" Haha. Man times have changed.
He also told us some FBI stories about chasing people. It was fun hearing about it.

These are letters that my Grandpa had written my Grandma while he was on the road with the Lions. It is so cool how they have been kept for so many years. These letters are 55 years old!! In one letter he said, "I miss you, Mac, I need some lovin' and you're the only who can give it to me" haha.

Luke modeling his birthday present. It's a Lions jersey with his name and birthday number on it.

Throughout the display that had all the decades from his life with facts from that decade: How old he was during that time, how much things cost, major events that happened, etc. It was interesting.

This was from the newspaper.

Happy birthday, Grandpa! So happy we got to celebrate together!