Every Promised Blessing

"I feel sorry for any man who hasn’t yet made the choice to seek an eternal companion, and my heart weeps for the sisters who haven’t had the opportunity to marry. Some of you may feel lonely and unappreciated and cannot see how it will be possible for you to have the blessings of marriage and children or your own family. All things are possible to the Lord, and He keeps the promises He inspires His prophets to declare. Eternity is a long time. Have faith in those promises and live to be worthy of them so that in His time the Lord can make them come true in your life. With certainty, you will receive every promised blessing for which you are worthy."
-Elder Richard G. Scott, "The Eternal Blessings of Marriage

I'm planning my Relief Society lesson for tomorrow on "Bringing Up Children in Light and Truth." For someone that does not yet have children of my own, I recognize that I have a very different perspective from most of the sisters in my Relief Society. I am not the only single sister, but am 1 of maybe 5. As I have been praying and pondering over this lesson the last few weeks the thought "every promised blessing" keeps coming to mind. I think of all of my beautiful, talented, spiritual, amazing single girlfriends, and my heart weeps with Elder Scott as I realize the vast number of them who have not yet had the opportunity to marry.

Then I remember: Isaiah 55: 8-9
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."

And I feel comforted in the words EVERY PROMISED BLESSING, with our Heavenly Father's timing always in my mind and heart.

And then I think, maybe I'll put this quote (from Elder Scott's talk) on my mirror as a daily reminder/pep talk/challenge to me to be worthy of those promises. "Eternity is a long time. Have faith in those promises and live to be worthy of them so that in His time the Lord can make them come true in your life. With certainty, you will receive every promised blessing for which you are worthy."

So future hubby and kiddos, mom's thinking of you, and she knows that as she stays worthy and when the timing is right, she will receive YOU! And she can't wait!!

It Snowed It Snowed

We had a big snow storm yesterday and it's absolutely beautiful. It reminds me of this little ditty that I love.



Someday I may learn to love driving in the snow...but probably not.

Just Another Saturday Afternoon

I love Saturdays. I especially love Saturdays like today. Although I have hours and hours of homework to do, I'm eating well and catching some good entertainment.

I will forever be grateful for this girl

The One and Only Sara Sargent

 

for introducing me to this

Dinner in a Pumpkin.

 

Doesn't it scream FALL! It's amazing!

 

And I'm watching this little gem

 

I hope everyone else is enjoying their Saturday afternoon as much as I am. 

I Am a Princess

 I am a princess, I am brave sometimes, I am scared sometimes, sometimes I am brave even when I'm scared. I believe in loyalty and trust. I believe loyalty is built on trust. I try to be kind. I try to be generous. I am kind even when others are not so generous. I am a princess. I think standing up for myself is important. I think standing up for others is more important. But standing with others is most important. I am a princess. I believe compassion makes me strong. Kindness is power. And family is the tightest bond of all. I have heard I am beautiful. I know I am strong. I promise. And when I promise something, I never ever break that promise. I am a princess. Long may I reign.

Nice to see and be inspired by the everyday princesses.

You'll Be Missed

Out of all the phrases in the English language, this has got to be one of my least favorite: "you'll be missed." Really? What does that even mean? Who exactly will be missing you? How about something with some more emotion in it like "we'll miss you." Try that one on for size next time someone you care about is leaving. Then they'll know that YOU will miss them and it will make them feel better knowing that YOU cared enough to tell them that from your heart.

p.s. What makes me even more upset is that when I tried to find a picture of a handwritten note with the phrase "you"ll be missed" on it I found this!!!

Way to commercialize the personality out of humankind! (Palm of hand to forehead).

Good News

 

Mom introduced me to this movie today. It should be called Great, Fantastic, Excellent, Stupendous, Wonderful News, not just Good News. That's how much I loved this movie! It's fun, with catchy music and great dance numbers. Once again I'll have to hand it to these old movies to make my day. I really should start finding more movies like this rather than settling for what Hollywood has produced these days. I'll give it 4 out of 4 stars!

Mimi's Birthday Celebration

Last weekend we celebrated Mimi's birthday as a family. Fred and his crew came down from Rexburg to celebrate with us. We had a fun night together in the cool autumn open air of our backyard.

Master Griller Fred

 The Spread

 Dessert - S'mores

 Listened to some Nat King Cole on Eric's record player.

 Sammie, Cammie, Phil & McKenna

 Eatin' time

 One of the centerpieces

 We had strawberry, vanilla, zebra, gingerbread, caramel & Jumbo marshmallows. It was awesome!

 Roasting mallows

(Sammie, Adj, KK, Fred, Dad)

 Double bunny ears (You're so sneaky, Sammie)

 The JUMBO mallow was bigger than KK's mouth

 However, Fred's mouth was bigger than the mallow

 Best night!

 Alex ate a lot of mallows. He loved them.

 Getting it all over my face

 Dad is reading a "scary" story :)

 Fire!

 This is Alex's favorite toy at our house.

 Another pic of sweet Alex.