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Yesterday and today have both been really bad days.

Too emotional for my own good… and for Josh’s. Poor husband.

Have a good weekend!

6th Birthday!

Today was my sister-in-laws birthday. You know the one… from this post. She is 6 NOW!!! So ridiculous. I met her when she was barely a year old, and now she is 6! In two more years she could be getting baptized! It’s crazy. The last one in Josh’s family to officially become a member of our Church. It’s a little exciting. And a little sad. And… also a little frightening because… well… her getting older also means that I AM GETTING OLDER! And, I really don’t want to get older. I like my age. :o) So much.

SO for your enjoyment, I took some pictures. :D They are mostly of her dancing. She loves to dance. And the first two pictures are my favorite. For serious!

 

 

 

 

 

 

(thank you instagram app!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And these are just regular iPhone photos.

She had a great day, and so did we! :o)

p.s. still waiting… :}

Happy Monday!

This morning… after I went for a run at 7 in the morning {yeah, you are really proud of me, right?} and after taking a shower… and AFTER waking up Josh so he can get ready for work… I read my scriptures. I am trying to be better about it. But after all that… I read something special {this is the best thing I could find on it… otherwise it was all anti-Mormon jargon. So dumb}. In my special something, there was a specific line that I knew I was supposed to read today. What I read, it meant that as long as what I wanted was good, and righteous, then I will get it. For sure. It was a promise made to me LONG ago.
So, I don’t need to fear. BUT… I probably will… because I am human. And I am a worry-wart. But, I know that what I want, I will get. Because it was promised. I just have to be worthy of it.

So, how can I go about doing that?! I have no idea.

Food for thought… :o)

5 years

Today, I celebrate my 5th year as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Normally people don’t celebrate when they were baptized, because a lot of the members were baptized when they were 8 years old. {For Josh it’s been nearly 20 years!}
But I went through a lot {not as much as some people I know}, but it was a trying time, and I am so glad to be a member of this amazing Church, and to feel and see the impact that joining has had on my life. All for the best. I feel closer to my Heavenly Father, and I know for sure that he loves me, and that he has a plan for me.
I love my Husband, and I love that he is a strong member of the Church, and can help me in my times of need.

I am really happy to be a member of this Church. :o) It’s amazing.

Aunty Lara & Uncle Josh

Today, my sister in law texted me.
“We have some exciting news!! We are having another baby!!”
I am SO EXCITED for my brother and his wife!!!!

We love them very much. They are awesome!! We just got to see my brother a week or so ago, but without my sister in law and their first child, Joelly. I MISS them. So much. Joelly is adorable, and I love her so much!


congratulations Erin and Aaron!!!! And also, congratulations to you, Joelly. You will be an amazing big sister.

This will be my 7th Niece or Nephew. I have 5 Nieces, and 1 Nephew. I am hoping for another boy. :)

Random…

So, I spent the night at my friends house on Monday. She is moving in with her boyfriend this weekend ALL the way up in Sequim. So lame, because now… we won’t be able to have slumber parties anymore. At least, not just “girl time” slumber parties. Now… we are going to have “married people slumber parties”.
It’s weird because she is getting married in November. I know, I am already married, so it shouldn’t be weird… but it kind of is. Her mom cried on Tuesday morning when I was leaving because she was so happy that I have been coming and spending the night, helping Liz with her wedding stuff (I am her Matron of Honor after all) and that I have been Lizzy’s bestest friend since the 2nd grade. It’s been like… 16 years or something crazy ridiculous like that. The longest friendship that I have ever had, and I hope that we are able to be besties for the rest of time. And probably eternity, too.
She is marrying a boy who is an inactive member of my Church. It’s pretty awesome because, I would love for her to become a member. She doesn’t want to, though… and that’s okay. Maybe… MAYBE someday. ;) And, the best part about her being my best friend (me being a member), and marrying her awesome future hubby (being an inactive member)… is that when she is alllllll moved into her apartment, her next door neighbors, are going to be the MISSIONARIES! Yes, that’s right. It’s awesome. Coincidence? I think not. Signs from above people.


I found these old pictures from High School! Haha! The first one, we just got done swimming in her pool… or we were about to go swimming… one of the two (notice how sunburned my arms are…?!) and the second one we are at PLU for our Christmas choir concert just goofing off. Nothing new there! :o)

Anyways, what’s random about this post? Nothing really… OH! except for the fact that I had a dream last night I was at Disney Land, riding on Splash Mountain. It wasn’t weird, except for the fact that the ride suddenly flipped around and we went down the BIG slide backwards. It was so scary. I almost had a heart attack when I went on it like a year and a half ago. I couldn’t even imagine doing it backwards. AH!

Tuesdayish we will know if this month was a fail. :o)

FOR SERIOUS?!

Josh had an interesting day at work.
The last like… 5 minutes of his shift at Kohl’s, he got to do a return for a customer. As Josh is telling me this, he describes what the customer looks like. Tall. Thick/Muscly. Tattoos. Thug-like. And he describes his girlfriend as “the type of girl you would see on Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift” Which makes me laugh. Then he says:
“I put my hand in the Kohl’s bag to take out the return items, and he mentioned that there were only two items, but I see a third item, and I grab at it… only to realize that I grabbed the trigger of a hand gun, and it was pointing right at me. I had a moment of panic, and then I took my hand out of the bag and started freaking out silently… and I pulled the bag away from the register and myself and assessed the situation. The guy was nice enough so I said ‘uh… did you uh… know… that uh… there is a gun in your bag?’ and the guy looked at me with a shocked expression, and his girlfriend too, and they started freaking out and apologizing and saying that they didn’t know it was there and it was really embarrassing. And I joked about it… I said ‘I promise you I will give you all of your money back if you don’t shoot me.’ I laughed, they laughed. But it was so scary, I thought I was going to die.”
My poor husband. But he survived, and that’s all that matters, right?!
Not only that, but he called me after the incident, and begged me to go to McDonalds to get a Dr. Pepper. (it’s his addiction… haha) and I said “Okay…!!” Because, he really wanted one and he had a scary moment. But, the drive through was SO long, and the inside was also a long wait, but not as long as the drive through. He decided to stay inside and get his “drug of choice”. It took forever, but finally he was able to leave, but the usual road that he takes to get home was blocked by Fire Trucks and Ambulances! So he had to do a U-Turn. But I guess there was a BIG accident… like so big people were coming out of their houses to take a look at it to see what was going on. Josh said that whole neighborhoods were outside looking at what was going on. Which makes him comment “Maybe, all of that stuff at work was supposed to happen so I would get stressed out enough to have  Dr. Pepper. What if that was me?”
Which worries me because I had a really bad anxious feeling all day.  I was taking a shower and could hear people talking outside of the door and I thought that they were going to tell me something happened to Josh. Weird, right? I had WEIRD anxiety about my husband. All day. Until he came home. Now I feel better.

Have a great rest of your weekend, though!! I just had to share all of that before I forgot about it. :o)