Waiting, waiting, waiting...

Some of you may know that I am a fairly impatient person, ok that might be an understatement. I don't remember ever having patience for anything. So needless to say this is something I've been working on for most of my life. However, right now I am wearing thin; I feel like all I do is wait! I'm waiting for Jordan to graduate, waiting to see if he gets into grad school, waiting to see if he gets a job, waiting to finish my associates degree, waiting to leave our tiny apartment, waiting to see where we will live next, and on and on! The worst part for me is that there is not one thing I can do to hurry anything along, I am just at a stand-still. I realize most people have had periods of life like this, but my gosh I feel like I am the only one right now! So any tricks any of you have would be fabulous, since obviously none of this is in my control! Right now my current technique is watching mindless television like the Bachelor...always better to watch someone else's petty drama than to focus on your own, right?

What Have I Done For Someone Today?

I have never been one for new year's resolutions, or goals in general. But, last week my amazing mother-in-law gave a great lesson on this talk from President Monson. He talks about a man whose father asked their family every day at dinner what they did for someone else that day, and how excited he would get to report to his family whatever act he had performed. I re-read the talk yesterday and decided this would be a great goal for the year. It is not as easy as you think, to really go out of your way for someone else and do a kind deed. But I am always in need of something to remind me not to think so much about myself. So if you haven't thought up a new year's resolution for yourself this year, I'd give this one a try, I can already tell it will be making a big difference in my life. And I just loved this picture of the First Presidency, what better examples of this principle? :)

Just Can't Get Enough...

...of these CDs. Pretty sure they haven't left my CD player for about a month.

Family Pics

We decided to get some more recent pics taken since it's been a few years. My brother-in-law's little sister took these and I really liked how they turned out. She picked the perfect park for the fall colors and I loved it.

Happy Halloween!

Our festivities this year consisted of a couple of parties and hanging out with the fam! I love little kids in their costumes, so I always end up with my family and their kids. We took them around trick-or-treating and ate way too much junk, but it was fun! Hope you all had a fun holiday as well!

Dwight Schrute
Witch

Lilah

Isaac and Ruby

Jonah and Ruby

Zoe

Caleb, Isaac, Me

The Trick-or-Treaters

Anniversary Activities

Since our anniversary fell on a Tuesday, we didn't get to do anything too exciting that day. But this weekend we made up for it! I scored a $50 room at the Hilton in downtown Salt Lake (Priceline negotiator), so we headed there for something slightly out of the ordinary for us.

Anyone that knows me knows I love plays, and I seek them out pretty much anywhere that I am. I blame my family. So my sister Erin and her husband Troy, joined us on Friday night at the West Valley Hale Theater for a play called Curtains. I am usually pretty impressed with Orem's Hale Theater so I figured I'd be safe with this, plus the play just won 9 Tony awards on Broadway, pretty hard to be disappointing with that track record.

Us in front of the theater.

It was so pretty inside and out, we loved it. If I knew we'd be staying in Utah after next spring I'd probably want season tickets here because they have an awesome line up for the upcoming season...
So the play was a murder-mystery/comedy/musical. It was so cute and funny and the cast was really good. I highly recommend it, we all really enjoyed it.

After being pampered at the hotel we headed to the Gateway to hang out. Jord has really wanted to see Where the Wild Things Are (even though he's never read the book, really?) So I consented.
While the special effects were quite amazing, the story itself was kind of lacking. It was pretty slow and definitely a one time show for me, but I guess I'm glad I saw it.

We finished our day off with shopping around and lunch at Z'Tejas. Jord absolutely loves this place, I think it's the closest thing he's found to real Tex-Mex in Utah. He really misses the great state of Arizona sometimes, especially in that regard.

It was so nice to have a couple of days to just relax and do whatever without worrying about everything else. I'm so glad we got a nice little break from our typical day-to-day!

Happy Anniversary!

Today marks 3 years for us! Every year just keeps getting better, we've definitely learned a lot and come a long way since the day we were married. We look forward to many happy and memorable years to come!