For what it's worth...it's never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing.  We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it.  I hope you see things that startle you.  I hope you feel things you never felt before.  I hope you meet people who have a different point of view.  I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you're not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald 

home

The holidays are over and now it's just us two left in our home.  We have been lucky and fortunate to host Christmas in our home our fist year living here.  My favorite part about Christmas was spending time with family and establishing new Christmas traditions. Jeremy and I have been married for only two years so every year we try to figure out what our family traditions are.  We both grew up celebrating Christmas in different ways and this year we found ourselves trying to figure out how to best combine both of our old family traditions. Our house has this huge window in the front and we decided to put our tree there. It was beautiful looking from the outside in and seeing our tree.  I hope everybody had a good holiday season. 

Loved

Hey friends!

It's been a while since I have written on the blig blog.  We have been quite busy here in Memphis! Just wanted to share this piece I created for a friend's baby shower. She loved it! 

And I'm just sitting here typing this while listening to Josh Groban. Oh gosh, how I love him.  You all know how much I love October and I just can't believe there are only 3 days left of this glorious month. 

Peace & blessings y'all!

hey there pt. 2

When I wrote my previous blog post, somehow somewhere in the process I didn't save the text.  Good thing I can always write another one right? (Here you go, RED :)

Just wanted to update our friends and family on our oh-so-exciting lives.  But really. 

Jeremy is still working for Valero and his hours our finally back to normal. Glad to have him back. 

I recently took a job at a treatment center for women with eating disorders and I LOVE IT. I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT. What an awesome opportunity I have to work there.  Seriously, I'm taking every opportunity to learn about therapy and my favorite part, we speak PSYCHOLOGY there. That's my kind of lingo. In college most of my research papers focused on medication combined with cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of eating disorders and body image.  

Our house is slowly coming together.  Our living room is practically finished and our little garden is producing cucumbers! The challenge with your first garden: how do you know when your cucumber is ready to be eaten? They don't look like the ones at the grocery store! Any advice??? I'm ready to reap the benefits of Jeremy's labors! 

Remember that time I tried to be funny and made a MEME about not being in Primary?? Well guess what? Since I put that out to the universe, the universe has brought it back to us and we have officially been called to teach in the PRIMARY! *Take a moment to laugh*

Also, we have been called to teach Cub Scouts! I'm excited to teach all of our old Cubs. Our scout program combines two wards and we ended up moving into the other ward! It's been fun seeing our scouts at church. 

{Orange County, California. December 2013}

hey there

MEME time

That moment when the bishop calls you into his office to give you a church calling....

JK! We all love serving in the Primary :)

house tour

It is a dream come true to own this house! We finally made a video. I know a lot of people have been asking to see it so here it goes!

We LOVE LOVE LOVE our house. It is perfect for us. 

It might be too big for us at the moment but we will fill it up with bambinos soon (No, we are not expecting at the moment...MOM).

Life

I don't really have anything specifically to write about tonight. But I did want to write in my blog. Life has been pretty crazy for us. We purchased our first home all while my husband was working 12 hr shifts (7 days a week) with his shift eventually switching to night for a little while. I'm a creature of habit, I have to have my daily routine planned. So when my schedule changed with the house buying/moving process, I was jiggin out.  LITERALLY. I took a few days off work to start moving into the house.  My angelic mother came into town to be with me during the process.  I thank my lucky stars that she was there with me because she was able to calm me down...a lot. I don't like change. I never have. I hate moving but it's funny because I have moved so many times in my life.  Even though this process was a happy and joyful one, I still managed to get overwhelmed with stress, anxiety, and depression. 

I continually had to remind myself of the many blessings in my life.  My life is beautiful and I have everything to be thankful for. But adversity will always be there to try to make you focus on the negative and doubt the positive choices you have made.  It's always important to step forward in faith and to never doubt.  Blessings aren't always wrapped in pretty packages but can be disguised for you to find its true beauty.  There is beauty all around us, we just need to make sure our eyes are open and looking for that beauty. 

Okay, maybe this might be too much and it's not my usual post but I felt like I really needed to write this out. Or maybe I should keep to writing in the mornings and not so late into the night. 

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." Proverbs 3:5-6