Love-Hate

I have a love-hate relationship with snow. Most of the time I love it. I think it is so pretty, it is fun to play in, and it let's me going snowboarding. However, I HATE driving in it. Today, I had plans to love the newly fallen snow by going boarding on it, however, wound up hating it, because the canyons were too snowy for me to feel comfortable driving my car in. Two thumbs down to now riding it out on the slopes. Hopefully next week. I like that sport.

Hymns

I love the LDS Hymn Book. I like to read the words to the songs without any music and just soak up the words. Last week during Sacrament Meeting I took hymn #172 "In, Humility, Our Savior" and read it and changed all the words (just in my head) like we and our to I and my. This is the result, it makes the song so much more personal and I really love it.

In humility, my Savior, grant they Spirit here, I pray.

As they bless the bread and water in thy name this holy day.

Let me not forget O Savior, Thou didst bleed and die for me

When thy heart was stilled and broken on the cross at Calvary.

Fill my heart with sweet forgiving; teach me tolerance and love.

Let my prayers find access to thee in they holy courts above.

Then, when I have proven worthy of the sacrifice divine,

Lord, let me regain thy presence; let thy glory round me shine.

The second verse if my favorite, a simple plea to be guided by the Lord to live with Him again. Just imagine what this world would be like if all the people in this world could sincerely sing the last verse of this song. I love the Gospel.

Daddy-O

This post is quite late, but on January 9th, my dad was ordained a high priest. Usually they only do this when you receive a calling that requires it, but since his calling is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, he is not allowed to have big callings in the ward. As a result, our stake president felt it was fitting that he be ordained because he is worthy of such callings. I was so grateful for the opportunity to go home and be there for him for this special occasion. My grandpa, his dad, passed away almost 14 years ago. It is kind of tradition to pass down the line of priesthood so my Uncle Doug ordained my dad so they could have the same line through our Grandpa, it was really neat. The blessings that come from having the priesthood in the home are so apparent in my life and it is something that I miss so much while living with all girls at my apartment. We are blessed with great home teachers that I know would be there in a heartbeat for us, but I am always just so grateful for a father who has always been worthy to hold the priesthood and has exemplified it. He is an incredible man and I love him so much.

Josh Dad and Troy

Me and Dad

Mom and Dad. They are the best

Dad, Grandma N and Uncle Doug

Dad and Uncle Doug: Two goofy

brothers, they are so funny together!

California Once Again

Welp...Andrea got married two weeks ago. As a result, there was a road trip to Southern California in order. It went down pretty similar to the trip I took in May, it was blissful. So warm. A happy 75 degrees the whole time. Shorts and t-shirts, yum. We had some last minute kinks that worked out great, we wound up in a great hotel, right across the street from Disneyland. We loved it. I wound up driving the whole way to Cali so Thursday when we got there I was pretty beat, but we wound up still going to Downtown Disney which was way fun. Then Friday we spent all day in Disneyland and California Adventure. There were hardly any people there so we didn't really have to wait in many lines which was great!! The new "World of Color" show was awesome, just so you know. Saturday, we went to the beach, Salt Creek Beach of course, and loved it. There were SOOOOOOO many great surfers there cause there was a surf tour there, it was sweet. There was a mega creeper that followed us after the beach and was bound and determined to talk to me and get to know me, he could not understand why I wouldn't consent to talk to him later or call him or give him my name or number. He was a weirdie. The full story is best in person so if you want to hear it, ask me. Finally, we left the beach and went to the reception. We drove the CRAZIEST highway to get Willdomar from Laguna Hills, it was dark and so windy that even the GPS just kept getting turned around. But we made it there safe and her reception was so fun, it was just like a party which is what a reception should be, a celebration for their marriage!! Her brother Levi attempted to teach me to waltz, didn't work out very well. And then he dedicated a Ke$ha song to me after the bride and groom left, inside joke but so funny.

Sunset at the beach. Check out that wave.

Ali and Me at the beach

Me in the Ocean

Cute little reception set up

Kyle and Andrea

I loved these huge cones for some reason.

And we laughed so hard trying to jump over them.

"Apple Pie" Caramel apple from the main street

candy shop, tradition.

Pulling out the sword out of the stone

Playing around in a Disney store

Indiana Jones is my FAVORITE ride

You Know You're Bored When...

You know how on freeways outside of Utah they have the little circles or reflective tabs dividing the lanes? (They aren't practical in Utah, the snow plows would pop them right off I guess.)

Well this morning me, Ali and Deedee drove to California. I drove the whole way. They slept through most of Nevada, so in an attempt to not wake them up and also find some sort of entertainment on the drive that didn't make any noise, I started trying to change lanes without running over these little things on the road. I was so excited when I successfully changed lanes and not one of my four tires touched a reflective thing. That's when I knew I was bored.

However, I am now happily in my hotel half a block away from Disneyland, and in ten hours, I will be riding "Indiana Jones" while wearing my shorts and t-shirt, because it is 75 degrees down here right now. BE-UTE-IF-FUL.

Talented? Yes.

So anytime I get a new roommate, it mixes the sleep cycles a little bit. For the first few days, I don't sleep quite as soundly as usual cause I'm scared of waking them up or something. However, yesterday Emilie (new roomie) commented on how fast I fall asleep. She was amazed at the fact that I literally fall asleep in within two minutes of laying down. If I lay on my back I might make it to five minutes, but pretty much the second I lay on my belly and close my eyes, I am out. From that point I am completely dead to the world until the alarm goes off. As in I literally do not move a muscle, my sheets and blankets don't even get messed up.

Ever since I was in high school I have deemed sleeping as one of my talents. I can sleep pretty much anytime, anywhere. I have fallen asleep with my eyes open, I have fallen asleep standing, I have even fallen asleep while singing, and yes I was still holding the note when I woke up. Sheer talent. Or maybe I just need to sleep more?

Gooooooooo....

My brain is currently GOOOO. Like, it's about to start leaking out of my ears, I'm pretty sure. I just want you to all know that your relief society president puts so much effort into organizing visiting teaching, so you should do. Ok, you should really do it because it's a calling that we all have and because you are supposed to look out for those sisters, but sheesh....it is so hard to organize sometimes. Today it took Angela and I about six hours to get it all organized. And we didn't even really get sidetracked. It has never taken this long before, but I feel like in the long run, the way we did this time will save us a lot of trouble and confusion. It will be great.

I love visiting teaching, it makes me happy.

We had it so perfect, and then found a problem.

Multiples actually. This is only a fraction of the

cards we had on the floor.