Tuesday, December 30, 2008

What am I to do?

So we moved to Utah to get a new start and we aren't starting anything. After another hard semester for Spencer I am starting to lose hope that we are going to move anywhere. Do I go back to school? Or do I just sit around and wait to see what the future has to hold for me? We are going to try again next semester to see if we make it any farther. Spencer decided to take a different road and that road is music instead of geology. I hope that this is the road for Spencer even though I am not sure what he plans to do with music. He is a great singer, and a good actor, but I think it will be interesting to see where the road ahead leads us.

We are still working at Nuskin and it is great. It is still pretty busy but the fear of losing our jobs is always at the back at my head. I am going to start looking for a night time job soon but fear that it is too late. Places aren't hiring and I am limited since we only have one car and Spencer works nights too. Oh well, I will live life as it comes at me there is nothing else I can do.

I was talking to a couple of women today at work and they disclosed to me some very personal stuff that made me think about life and how good I have it. Yeah we are poor and in debt and aren't able to get pregnant and not close enough to family, but really we are so blessed in many other ways. I would love to live next door to my sister, grandma, sister in law, parents, in laws but I can't. I would love to be able to pay off all the debt I have but can't. Yet that doesn't matter. I have a phone and am able to call all of my family and love e-mailing (when I have time), I cannot pay off my debt all at once, but I have a job and am able to make payments unlike people who have it harder than me. These two women, one dealing with break ins at her home and in her car, and the other dealing with a husband who has kidney stones so large that he needs surgery and it is a risky surgery that could cause him to lose his life or his kidney, her daughter fighting Brain tumors and another daughter trying to keep hearing through the one ear she can hear out of. All of these health problems because of the uranium in the soil in her Ohio town. She spend years growing and canning her own food organically and turns out she was growing in radiated soil.

I realize I have so much to be grateful for: a wonderful religion with great leaders, a loving husband, fabulous family, great friends, and a sweet adorable puppy. Even though I don't have all that I want, I have what the Lord sees fit for me. He knows me and he knows what I am capable of. He will give me what I need as I need it and as He sees fit which is the way it should be "Not my will but yours be done." We should all be grateful for what we have and find happiness in what we are blessed with daily and what is in our lives. I hope you all have a great day and that all is well in your lives.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Christmas Festivities








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hristmas was good this year. It was different yet refreshing. We went to my sisters house and spend the holiday with her little ones and her in-laws. It all started on Wednesday night (Christmas eve) cause there was supposed to be a huge storm but wasn't. Anyways Jessica wanted to incorporate some of our old family traditions and we got together a bunch of food and she had her kids take them to the neighbors then she plated up some food to take to the firemen and it turns out that they don't live at the firehouse... So we had a ton of treats to eat all weekend. So we went home and put the kids to bed and wrapped presents for the next hour or so and put them under the tree and went to bed ourselves. On Thursday Spencer and I woke up at 7 and had to go upstairs to use the bathroom and I went up first and Tyler and Jessica yelled "turn off the light and go back to bed." "Don't wake your siblings up." It was hilarious, cause they thought we were the kids. They finally woke the kids up about 10 minutes later and it was time to open presents. Kaitlynn, Braxton and Emalyn were really excited to get their stocking stuffers and were even more excited to open presents. Braelyn is still too little to know what is going on but she opened some things but she was more excited to play with the wrapping paper. We went to the Chlarson's house (my sisters in-laws) and had "Linner." After that we just hung out and I did a mask on Jessica and Kaitlynn and then the day past like any other day. Friday we were treated to a movie "Bedtime Stories" which was good and then we went home. It was good.