Gratitude Challenge

In Relief Society there was a challenge to think of 100 thing you are grateful for. Luckily the task does not seem so daunting because it was broken down into 10 different lists of 10 to be grateful for.

100 Things I'm Grateful To/For/The

1. Be Able to think

2. A sense of bodily awareness

3. Ability to be able to dance

4. To be able to write

5. To be able to walk and run

6. To see

7. To touch and have hand dexterity

8. To smell

9. To hear

10. To be able to lift and carry things

11. The scriptures

12. My personal library

13. Hairdryer, flat iron, and curling iron

14. My Oma's T pin

15. My desk and cedar chest (my Papa made them for me)

16. All of my pictures

17. MY BED!!! (and the nice sheets that go with it)

18. My engagement/wedding rings

19. The quilts my mother in laws made for my wedding/future home

20. Dish wands- they make doing dishes more bearable

21. Daley

22. My parents (both my own and my in-laws)

23. Julia and Janessa (my sisters)

24. Davis (He is the sweetest... the other day he gave me a back rub without me even asking, and it was fabulous)

25. All of my brother in laws (Jensen, Andrew, Ari, Morley, Oakley)

26. All of my sister in laws (Dena, Vivian, Brynley)

27. My grandparents (Opa, Papa, Gramma)

28. My Auntie LeAnna

29. My close friends (church and nursing friends)

30. My "adopted" older sisters (J.S, R.T., K.L., A.W.)

31. My Oma

32. Wyatt Card- my cousin

33. Joseph Smith

34. My Great Gramma Card

35. President Gordon B. Hinckley

36. Thomas Edison

37. Alexander Graham Bell

38. Bob Fosse

39. Martha Graham

40. Snow Covered Mountains

41. Sunset

42. Sunrise

43. Full Moon

44. Blooming flowers in spring time (especially tulips)

45. Changing of the colour of leaves in fall

46. The first snowfall of the year

47. Good music (especially music that uplifts you) -- like the instrumental music I'm listening to now

48. Ability to be able to do service

49. Connecting with people (children, youth, and adults)

50. For days where I'm happy

51. When projects/assignments get done

52. Productive days

53. Getting enough sleep

54. Second winds (of energy)

55. For Fridays/the Weekend

56. Crossing multiple things of my to do list

57. My husband's safe flight (and hopefully drive)

58. Once Upon a Time (TV show)- it brings cheesiness into my life

59. Sunshine

60. Waterton National Park

61. London England- It's just so nice there.

62. Paris France- on top of the Eiffel Tower (at night)

63. New York City

64. The Backyard of my parent's house

65. Salt Lake City, UT

67. California

68. Electricity

69. Stereo

70. Microwave

71. Modern plumbing

72. Electric mixers and other things to make baking easy

73. Showers

74. Computers with built in webcams

75. Cars

76. Cell phones

77. The incandescent lightbulb

78. The internet

79. Airplanes

80. Birth Control

81. Wyatt potatoes (Funeral potatoes), Ham and Beans (my favourite meal)

82. Tortellini el pana (tortellini noodles in a cream sauce)

83. Berries (Raspberries, Blueberries, Strawberries, Blackberries etc)

84. Ice cream with fresh raspberries on it

85. Roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy

86. Peanut butter and homemade raspberry jam sandwich

87. Taco anything- taco potatoes are my latest favourite

88. Fondue

89. WINGS! (homemade honey garlic)

90. Old Dutch Ripple Chips with Philadelphia Onion Dip

91. Temple Ordinances

92. The Priesthood and Priesthood Blessings

93. Music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

94. The Atonement

95. The ability to talk to my Father in Heaven through Prayer

96. Being able to pay Tithing and Fast Offerings

97. The truths of the Book of Mormon

98. The Sacrament- it gives me a chance to renew my baptismal covenants each week

99. Relief Society

100. That Families can Be Together Forever

The Simple Life

I had a very thought provoking conversation with one of my close friends that has helped me to reset some of my priorities in life. Also with the new year I have wanted to set some new goals for myself.

1. I really would like to blog more so that my family and close friends (or anyone who is interested by the link on Facebook) can know what is going on in my life.

2. I have decided that I need to cut down on the amount of TV that I watch. For Christmas we got an apple T.V so Netflix has since been sucking all my free time and that takes away time I could be doing something better.

3. I would like to better organize and beautify my home. (There are still boxes that are being used to hold up our T.V. speakers. Included in this goal is to finish hanging pictures that I wanted to put up when we first moved in but never got around to do.

4. Learn new recipes... mainly focusing on using my crock pot and learning how to bake with my not so great oven. ( Banana Bread is the first thing I would like to bake)

5. Enhance friendships- I would really like to become better friends with a couple of people.. and I hope that happens this year!

One Year Down.. Eternity to Go!

We celebrated our one year anniversary on the 18th of December. It was on a Sunday so we waited until the 21th to celebrate as then Daley would be done exams. I made reservations to the Melting Pot... it's a fondue place. The food was pretty good but the experience was amazing. One year went by so fast, it won't be long until we have been married for 10 years!

2011 Recap

So I definitely procrastinated blogging just like I do with school work. (Not a habit I'm proud of) Anyways Christmas break was so much fun and definitely not long enough. I was able to relax and veg and not think about school for 2 weeks. During the first week of my break I watched a lot of Bones. :) It's one of my favourite tv shows.

Daley and I spent Christmas Eve/Christmas day at my parents house. On Christmas Eve we had ham buns for dinner instead of our traditional ham dinner. Last year my parent's started a "Speed" tournament (it's a card game.. aka spit), so we continued the tradition again this year. The winner was Julia.. she never lost a game! We also were able to read the Christmas story and got new pj bottoms, which is the tradition every year.

This year for Christmas was a little bit different for a couple of reasons. First of all this was the first Christmas that Daley was able to spend with my family. That was really nice because then he got to experience what Christmas was to me growing up. Second, Christmas was on a Sunday so we attended sacrament meeting and then were able to go home and open stockings/presents. Last but not least my parents had the missionaries and a man from our ward over.

Daley and I got so spoiled this year. I got a MICHE bag and wallet from my parents (since my mom was not impressed with the state of my wallet and other purses), the Harry Potter book set in hardcover from Daley, a DVD from my brother, and yoga pants, sweater and movie night out coupon from my in laws... in addition to some stocking stuffers (mostly hygiene related). :) I guess Santa was trying to tell me something. Since the missionaries were over we couldn't spend all day watching movies so we played Quelf, speed, and other games.

On Boxing day we headed down to Cardston to spend time with Daley's family. It was nice to be able to spend time vegging out and eating lots of yummy food. I also got to hear some awesome news... I'm going to be an auntie .. AGAIN! haha My sister in law Brynley is pregnant. I'm super excited for her and Ari!

I spent New Year's with my family and the missionaries. We had our traditional meal of appetizers (ribs, wings, veggies, fruit and cheese and crackers). Unfortunately I was husbandless as Daley was heading to Provo to spend time with Jensen and Vivian (his brother and sister-in-law). Basically the break was AWESOME!