Saturday

My Saturday was pretty casual, but I still feel like it's worth blogging about. Work has been going good. Friday I covered receptionist ALL day and it was awesome! Such a great experience and I definitely loved every minute of it. Hopefully a future position as a receptionist opens up somewhere! Anyway, so Saturday came and work went by pretty slow. I got 11.5 hours of sleep the night before and it was the best sleep I've ever had. I was definitely tired but it was worth it. I've been getting migraines a lot more lately, so I'm hoping I'll be seeing the doctor soon for my brain scan & MRI. After work, I left and headed to the Temple. It was a beautiful day, but heck, everyone and their dog was at the Temple! Lol it was crazy packed, and I spent about 2 hours but it was wonderful. I got a lot of thinking done, and just got to enjoy the peace of the Temple. It's one of the most humbling, and peaceful places.. it's one of the very happiest. I always feel extremely close to my Heavenly Father when I'm in His Holy House... I can't do anything else but think of marriage, and families being sealed, and work for the dead being done... it's amazing, and I wish that EVERYONE I knew, and everyone they knew, etc. could experience the Temple like I can.

After the Temple I went home and got ready for my YSA's Chinese New Year activity. It was pretty fun :) They served Panda Express, which I usually don't eat, but I tried it anyway and it was pretty good. I had two fortune's and that was pretty cool... then we watched Mulan! I forgot how stinkin' hilarious that movie is! Me and my friend Kim were laughing the whole time.. After which I headed home to then fall asleep and wake up for church :) All in all, it was a pretty good weekend! :) I can't believe January is basically over, but I'm super happy. This time last year, Brady had only been out 1 month, and these first three months of his mission were the worst.... and now I have 10 months left... :) Eek! Love the boy..

Little Guy

This stud and I play together on Monday's :)
I love it! He is so cute, and getting so big.

He points. I love it. It's the first thing he does when he gets here.

He's getting really smart with communicating, but still chooses crawling over walking.

Sometimes, I just try to tell him that walking is much better and cleaner than crawling. But he's a baby, so he doesn't understand. He plays with the weirdest toys, and is extremely fascinated with the show "Dragon Train" Hahaha it's hilarious, but I love playing with baby :)

My favorite part is when he sits up and realizes that he see's himself and then starts pointing at the phone and you can see his cute finger, and chubby feet :) And then when he talks right after that. Ahhh... the kid is a stud :) And he'll be turning 1 next month!! Ahhhh. Where did the time go? I remember when he was born like it was yesterday!! I'm so excited though! I love you baby :)

My 44th Letter & A Surprise!

Long story short, Brady teases.

Like a lot. In a "you're a pest" sort of way.

But it's still cute :)

Anyway, today was officially bumped up to the best mail day ever. The first time I said that, I lied. Let me tell you how my day went first. Woke up at the butt crack of dawn *excuse me* I woke up at 5:00 AM to workout with my father, oh ya know, just some weights and stuff :) Almost couldn't make it down the stairs because I was so sore. Hey, layoff alright? Haven't conditioned in like.... 2 years (XC!) Then I got read for the morning, read my scriptures (on a roll.. eek!) ate food, got dressed and headed to school. Only to get there and realize I left a very important paper at home :( So my wonderful mother, VERY wonderful, brought it to me. My super awesome friend Nick had to sit somewhere else in History this morning... Ha ;) We're going to try and be study buddies now.. but I'll let you know how that works out! Learned about Personality Disorders in my next class, self-diagnosing? Completely. Now I'm scurrred that I have a personality disorder. But let's not get anyone's worries goin'. In my Abnormal Psychology book I found out that the DSM-V is coming out in 2013!!!! Eeeeek :) So stoked. Ordering my DSM-IV-TR now :) (Did I tell you how much I love majoring in Psychology?) Afterwhich I decided it was time for lunch and Institute :) Yes, I'm now taking 4 classes! Whoop whoop! :) I'm in Pearl of Great Price and today we talked about the creation. It was pretty intense. I then left for math, which just makes my brain melt, plus it's at the end of the day. I could feel a migraine coming on and I wanted to go home. We finished a whole hour early so I left. It was raining ? :/ Hahaha, I wasn't sure Gilbert was going to make it home today. I think he might be dying :( So I made it home, and was just HOPING my Valentine's Day package or possibly a letter was in the mailbox, but didn't get my hopes up cause it's Thursday.

But much to my surprise, was I wrong :)

This letter explained a lot, but was so cute. He wrote it Monday and it go here today... it usually comes on Fridays if sent on Monday... or maybe that's Tuesdays.... Anyway, I was still super happy. I looked through all the letters and I thought... bummer :( NOTHING. But as I walked inside, it just slipped right out and I was like... AHH :) It appeared like magic ;)

Here is one of Brady's jokes:
"Did you hear who I ran into at Lenscrafters the other day? Everyone! ;)"
Hahaha, that boys sense of humor cracks me up :) I miss it every single day.

"Have I ever told you how cute you are? Seriously Babe, you are the prettiest girl in the world to me."

I love that he reminds me how pretty I am :) It really makes me feel good about myself.
Now, here comes the best part.
Drum roll please!!

TA DA!!!!
My Valentine's Day package! :)
I cannot tell you how stoked I am to receive this.
He sent me a letter last Monday saying that's when he sent it,
but I wasn't getting it, until today.
So I wonder if maybe the postal system just was slow.
But anyway, I promised him I wouldn't open it until February 14th!
So, stay tuned.... ;)

Ashley is in gray, and I am in blue. Hahaha she is ALWAYS more excited than me.
As you can tell. That is why I tell her things.

Unexpected

So... I got this package. In the mail. Package #2 might I add... Package #3 will be opened on February 14, 2012. It was huge and it just sat in my mailbox and I stared at it. I had no idea what it was. It was heavy, and I already had my Valentine's Day package, so I opened it as soon as I got in side... and much to my surprise..

It contained every.single.letter. I have EVER sent him. I almost started crying. It was the NEATEST thing I've ever seen. I cannot believe he has kept a year worth of letters.. They just sat in my lap for a few seconds and I couldn't believe my eyes. As I went through them all, I found the one (bottom right corner) that I wrote him the very day he left on his mission. I can't believe I could go back and remember what I said, what had gone on those first few weeks he was gone. I also got to read the most recent one, which was only a few weeks prior. I really am so lucky. He couldn't carry these around anymore, so I'm grateful I've gotten them. I'm going to put them in a binder, by date and hopefully I'll get to add the letters from his last letter. :)

Philippians 1:3

I'm pretty sure you've seen this, if you're my friend on Facebook but I have to blog about it. Not just for the picture I posted, (which I'll post here) or for my status, but for the meaning behind the scripture.

I had an Institute meeting tonight, and during the devotional one of the class presidents shared this scripture. And he shared how lucky we are to remember. Have you ever thought of that? How grateful we are to remember things, like faces, memories, laughs, noises, Christ.. I mean, isn't that what we partook of today in Sacrament? That we would remember Him. I'm grateful for memory. That I get to remember my Savior and his Atoning Sacrifice for me. That he loves me, unconditionally. I'm grateful to remember that my Father in Heaven is just a prayer away, and is constantly ready to help me whenever needed. I'm grateful that I get to remember my sweet Andy :) And all the good times we shared, including our phone calls which mean the most to me. I'm so grateful that I remember that families are forever and that no matter what happens, I'll always have mine. I'm so grateful that I get to marry my best friend in the Temple someday, to be sealed to for time and all eternity, and to have my own forever family.

I'm especially grateful that even through all my hard times, I can remember all the good. I can look back on my life through so many different times and smile :) I can sit and look like an idiot smiling out of nowhere, but that's not what matters. Today was a very humbling day, and days like today make me wish Sundays came faster, or more often during the week. I could use them a lot more. This gospel is so true. So true. I read scriptures with my family tonight for the first time in a while and it was nice to get that spiritual feeling again, and with my family. It has become REALLY important to me, to make that a priority in my future family.. I know it'll keep us close. I've seen it keep other families close too. :) The power of the book is incredible.

One thing I'm extremely grateful to remember, is Brady :) Yup, can't have a post without him in it. Hahahaha just kidding ;) But really... I'm so grateful that even though I have really hard days, I can remember him. I can smile and look back on our memories. I cherish him so much, and I'm grateful for him. I love looking back and remembering things between the two of us. Especially inside jokes. I love when I re-read his letters and I just laugh, all alone in my room, like an idiot, because of something funny he said. Ah... I just love him, and he just is silly and I miss his jokes so bad!! I can't wait until he gets home :)

My 43rd Letter :)

It was a pretty laid-back letter today.

But I'll still share ;)

My boyfriend is the best.I love him.
"You little sneak! Opening your Christmas present early.. It's okay, I forgive you ;)" "Did you know that you are the prettiest girl ever?"
"A scripture that I like is 2 Chronicles 32:7-8." "Love you!"
Gosh.It was short.And had a lot of random things.But I'm still so happy about it. :)He also gave me exciting news about something.But that's confidential ;)
10 more months babe.Just 10.

Brady's V-Day Package

So my good friend Ashley decided to help me put together Brady's Valentine's Day Package! :) I'm so excited to send it to him! This is the fastest I've ever put together a package. The last two have been sent late, or didn't really have a lot of effort in them. We got ideas off of Pinterest (Heaven-sent website) and headed off to the stores, where we "oooo"'d and "aahhhhh"'d over items to put in his package.

We decided we were hungry and headed straight to Kneaders.

After getting home, we ate and started right away on the package.

Ashley is always more creative than I am, which is why she's helping me plan my wedding in the near future ;) Hahaha, anyway, we decided to use cute tissue paper instead of scrapbook paper/wrapping paper. I had some extra V-Day ribbon left-over from last year, so we used that. I sent him brownie mix, pocky sticks, bags of candy, a very cute card, some pencils and straws :) Hehehe, all which were red and pink, and some things white! It's small, and I don't know if he'll use/need everything in it, but it was still fun and worth it. (All under 20$ - except shipping :/)

He said he's sending me one,

and that it's better than my Christmas package.

I'm so excited. It should be here within the next two weeks.

But I have to wait until February 14th to open it.

I love him :)

Thanks for helping Ash!
I had fun! :)