Love this weekend

1- I love General Conference! It is just the greatest 2 weekends in the year ever! I watched all four sessions and enjoyed every minute of it. There is just something different about that weekend that totally makes everything better. Now that it is over I feel a little sad.

2- I love the weather cooling down. It is definitely getting me in the spirit of the holidays! Hearing about all the snow back home makes me want to sit in front of a fire with hot chocolate and a heated blanket curled up watching a movie or reading a good book. Considering it is going to get up to 80 degrees here I don't think that will be happening but it is a good thought anyways!

3- I love airplanes so that I can take trips to see my family and have it only take 2 hours to get there! Hooray for modern technology!

4- I love lotion, I am obsessed with it. I have to constantly put it on because dry skin gives me that yucky feeling like nails on a chalkboard.

5- I love shoes! I have about a hundred pair of shoes but they are getting so old which means I need to go shoe shopping soon and start to throw out the breaking ones :( and as Jennifer puts it no matter how much your weight changes shoes and purses stay the same size and still fit ha ha

6- I love naps for those days where I just feel like I can't take it anymore and then just sleep for about an hour and I wake up with a whole new perspective! It is so wonderful. I wish I could take more naps more often.

7- I love stories of my childhood and talking about them with friends and family. There are so many stories that I can think of that just make me laugh so hard. Like kicking down my brothers vent in his door because I wanted inside even though it was way past my bedtime, or thinking there were sharks in water towers (thanks Shanda and Jed), for playing with the Powells and having Taylor change his mind every 5 minutes if we were friends or not, for playing dress up (which I still do to this day) and playing games like school and spank tag with my sisters!

8- I love the first snow of the season even though I'm not there for it this year I can still feel it. There would be nights I would just sit awake for hours waiting for the snow so I could go outside and sit in it. As kids when it would snow before we went to bed we would run outside and make our annual track to play snow monster with our big fort for home base.

9- I love colored acrylic, I did acrylic nails on myself which I haven't done in about a year on myself so it was a little harder then it use to be which means I need more practice! I did my ring fingers purple which I think Jill thought was a little weird but people who are in the cosmetology industry or who get their nails done often know what I am talking about!

10- I love folding warm laundry! Even though laundry is one of my least favorite chores there is just something about warm laundry, the way it smells, the warmth making my constantly cold hands warmer, and when I am cold enough just sticking on my jacket while it is warm. I love clean clothes :)

Good Day

So today was a day where I tried to think of everything positive to keep my spirits up here are some of the things I thought of. 

1- We went out to dinner and man I love teriyaki chicken and oriental salad mmmm.

2- I love Christmas music I can listen to Christmas music all year round. Christmas is just the greatest time of the year because there is just something different about it there is something that makes people happy an extra positive boost I don't know there is just something different if you can find it. I get that feeling when I pretend its Christmas.

3- I love the sound of kids laughing. While driving to dinner all the kids in the back were making loud obnoxious sounds to get Shaylen to laugh just a little giggle and it makes the whole obnoxious noise thing worth it. Once Shaylen laughs they get excited and all start laughing also. So good!

4- I love having communication to people at home in Utah. It's just so great to be able to talk to them and know what is going on. We live in such an awesome world to have the communication tools that we have.

5- I love that the weather in Arizona is getting cooler. Getting in the car doesn't put you into an instant sweat anymore! Also you can spend more then 5 minutes out there without getting heat exhaustion!!

6- I love memories, being able to think of the good things in the past is one thing to keep everyone going. Its the base of positivity, to be able to think about good things when you are down to help bring you back up.

7- I love praying because there is something about it that no matter what else is going on  you can always count on prayer to make things better. Even if its just 5 minutes to take your mind off of this world and all the hard things going on. Sometimes those 5 minutes are all you need.

8- I love being able to have better things to change your attitude. Our own desire to make things better then they were.

9- I love hair ties for days like today where I just wanted to be as comfy as possible so I threw it up where ever it wanted to go Or days where I put it up in a cute pony tail or some other totally awesome updo, they are just so handy!

10- I love pictures to help remind us of things that have happened. You can see so much emotion and feeling from one picture. It is so true that a picture says a thousand words.

Last goal: For a little while I kept forgetting but I think today was the best day of noticing the little things and noting the positive. It really helps and I hope I can keep focusing on that and working on it always.

New Goal: I am going to try to love people deeper and more sincerely. I know that sometimes I love people for my benefit which makes it selfish love or its jealous love but I want to have sincere love for others. Love that is like the love of Christ unconditional and patient.

Keeping Positive

My little sister Angela and I have always had a goal to stay as positive as we can. Lately I have been lacking and was trying to figure out a way to make me feel better. By staying positive of course! But how to do that? I was reading through one of my Relief Society lessons that we had a couple weeks ago about journal writing and I have spent the morning reading other peoples blogs and decided I am going to start a blog about the things I love. When I am feeling down or having a rough time or even when I am at my best I will blog it! Ten things at a time of the things I love that make me happy and want to become better. At the end of each blog I will write a goal and by the next post I will tell you how I am doing! 

1- I love being able to think of my family and know that they are always encouraging me on to be better. That I can always trust in them to help me out no matter what. They are my greatest support system and will always be there for me and I am so happy I will get to be with them forever. Who could ask for a better family to spend forever with then my own? I could go on for years about the amazing things they do for me.

2- I love those moments that everything seems to be going wrong and you can't keep going and then something so simple and small can give you the courage and the will to keep going forward to know that everything will be okay because there are the simple things in life.

3- I love music and how it can relate to every emotion and how every emotion that I am feeling can be put into one song. Then I can go back and listen to that song over and over and feel those emotions and realize how I have grown since then. I have a friend who told me about a music journal she has. Songs that have helped her or had an impact on her life she puts into a playlist of her life. I went ahead and copied that idea and now am starting a music journal (very small at the moment but it will grow in no time).

4- I love my nieces and nephews for keeping me on my toes and for always finding the best in me. They make me feel like I am on top of the world. No matter what I will always be there for them and unknowingly they are there for me also. They are Gods blessings in my life to make sure that I always have someone to make sure I am kept on my toes and to show His love for me because there is no way else to explain them as anything but incredible blessings in my life and Heavenly Father sends those blessings because He loves us and wow what love He has for me to send me these amazing children to help me out. They are little angels who know exactly what to say and don't know the impact it has on people, one day I know they will though. 

5- I love my friends because yes I do have my days that my family just drives me up the wall and my best friends are there for me. They know when to give advice and when to just listen. They let me cry and make me laugh. I love the billions of memories I have with them and the billion more to come!

6- I love that I am an American for the things this gives me and the freedoms I do have. I am so happy I get to be what I want to be and what I choose to do with my life with only the restrictions I give myself. The sky is the limit when you give yourself opportunities.

7- I love being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Wow what an amazing gift this is in my life as well. Without the church I would not recognize half of the blessings I do have. It helps me become the best me and what I can accomplish in life with my Heavenly Fathers help if I just do the simple things He has asked of me and all the blessings I get for doing those simple things. 

8- I love colors, my room back in Utah is bright yellow with my friends and families green hand prints all over the walls. How can you stay angry for a long time in a bright yellow room?  I love bright colors and the feelings it gives. Its incredible what such simple things such as colors can bring out such big emotions. By the way my favorite color is yellow ha ha. 

9- I love books and reading. I love that when I am having a hard time and read a book it makes my problems feel so little compared to what it could be and I am then so happy that I have the problems I have and not someone else hardships. It puts my life back into perspective when it starts to get away with me. 

10- I love that I have the chance to grow and learn that I am not stuck in a blissful nothing bad happens kind of life because who would ever grow? I love that I get to make mistakes to help me become a better person. Every mistake that I learn from helps me grow that much more. The key word is being able to recognize the mistake and learn from it. That is always hard for me but I am going to try harder!

My goal: I am going to try to notice the little things in life and not focus on all the big hard things. I am going to keep my eyes and ears open for things that will make me a happier more positive person.

Just know that these are not in and certain order at all.