I'm an artist!!!

Gotta love new internet discoveries! I was bored so I decided to I wanted to draw. After only one google search I found a gem of a website and low and behold, my masterpieces!

I think this pictures look exactly like a few I drew in elementary school. Looks like I didn't improve much in that department.

Excellent adviceness

I read this quote on a blog that has become a new favorite. Love this thought:

The Third Eye

"Learn to see your husband through new eyes. True love has three eyes. One eye is dim, dim to his faults. A second eye sees him as the world does. This is an important perspective. Sometimes you must help him see the way the world sees him. A third eye sees him as no one else sees him, appreciates him as no one else appreciates him. Keep this eye sharply focused and you will observe many things to appreciate. Every wonderful wife has a third eye."

-Helen Andelin

Learning how to be a good wife has been very rewarding and challenging for me. I've had to learn how to be completely selfless, which honestly I don't think I've really had to do until Karl and me become a we. But I know that we've learned so much in this past year and a half and I love that we get to keep learning together.

Love is grand.

Needin' a Vacation

Lately I really really really really really really really...etc. want to go back to this place

Arizona.

Karl took me last year and we had a blast and a half cruisin' around his old neighborhoods, eating some amazing Mexican food, and loving loving loving this place especially:


Freestone Park. The best park I have ever been to! They have everything! A giant duck pond ( you can bet I made me some duck friends), a carousel, a train! We spent lots of time here and I totally love it. I'm craving the sunshine and the warmness. I want to get to go here this time:


(Oh Sun Splash. It looks so so so perfect right now.)

And here:


(Chase stadium. Really want to watch a Diamondback game.)

We are planning a trip to go back this summer for my GRADUATION present:) I'm hoping it works out. I mean, look how amazing these pictures are! I love Gilbert Arizona. I love it after spending only one week there and I want to go back.

Summer can't come fast enough:)

Sista Sista (and you other folks)

So I was being all sentimental while working the computer labs (It is the day of love after all) when I stumbled upon Karl and my engagement pictures! It was super fun to look back. I also stumbled upon my sister's engagements (check them out here). Can I just say my sister is B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!!! I remember thinking, when she was in high school and I was just a little Junior High kid, how pretty she was! And still is. I'm so happy for her and her new lover Jake. They are the cutest couple ever:) Here is a shout out to some people I'm missing terribly right now (a.k.a my familia) and want to tell them how much I love them through this bloggity blog (which I realize is a lot lamer than a phone call, but people, just love me).

Shake (Shae and Jake): You two are beyond awesome! From day one you two have been so great together. I love how much fun you two have with each other and how you're always the life of the party:)


Talon (spoken in a French accent) and Nicolie: Man I miss you guys like CRAZY! I can't even tell you how many times I've passed West Stadium Villa and wished I could pull over to come visit. I miss sleep overs in your apartment and fun chit chats with you guys. Love you guys! Come back soon k:)



Addie Girl: I love your cute little face, the way you squeal and get the cutest smile on your face when you're excited, and pretty much love the little miracle baby you are. I miss you! Come visit your Aunt Tara. I have some new jokes for ya:)


G: Can I just say writing you emails every week is one of the highlights of my life right now! I love finding jokes to send to you and I completely love that you are enjoying them. You've always been awesome at humoring my lameness. You are being an awesome missionary and serving the Lord right now in Iceland and I'm so proud of you for that! I can't wait to have you back though. Can I just say we are gonna party hardy it up in Logan!


Parental Units: I honestly don't have words to tell you how much you mean to me. I can't begin to list all of the things you two do for me on a constant basis. Thanks for picking up the phone whenever you see my number just so this daughter of yours can go on and on and on about the same things. Thanks for supporting Karl and I with school and all of our future dreams and plans. Thanks for being incredible examples of the righteous parents I hope to emulate someday. Dad, thank you for retelling me the jokes I tell you. You will always be my favorite comedic sidekick. Mom, thanks for being a craft making machine and always inspiring me to attempt creativity and try new things. You rock! I love you both to the moon and back!
Karl my love: I know I get to see you everyday (thank you thank you thank you eternal marriage), but I couldn't leave you out of this post. I love that everyday we get to learn and grow together. I love that despite my imperfections, you still love me. I love how excited you get when I pick up chips and salsa at the store, the way you have to make sure our sheets are perfectly straight before you can go to sleep, how you laugh hysterically when we watch the office, and mostly how you are an incredible example to me of following the Savior. I love you forever and for always:)


My wonderful in-laws: I'm so lucky that we live so close to you! Thanks for supporting Karl and I with everything we are doing. Thanks for sharing with us all of your fun plans and dreams for your future and letting us share ours with you. Thank you thank you thank you for feeding us every Sunday (I know Karl still loves his mom's cooking:). Thank you both for being incredible examples of patience, love and righteousness.


Tori and Garrick: Can I just say you two are the funnest couple I have ever met! I love your game of scaring each other, and how you two are so not afraid to speak your mind to each other. I am so excited for you two to be sealed for time and eternity in the temple in just a few weeks! Love you guys.



Emily!!!: You are so so so much fun! I love running into you on campus. You always make me smile. I am completely in awe of your love of running and am excited to run those 9 miles with you (most likely behind you) this July. You are truly so much fun to be around and I love that I get to be your sister-in-law.



Troy (Brent): Seriously, you are the funniest person ever. Favorite memory: the first Sunday I came to hangout with your family and you told Karl and me jokes for three hours straight. I don't know if I've ever been more entertained:) Thanks for being so happy and nice to people. You are a pretty awesome 16 year old soon to be licensed driver!


Dash: Oh puppy, I miss your puppy face. Can I just say that you are the most hilarious dog in da world! Love your furry chin!

Hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day. And don't forget share with the people you love how very much you love them.

The Fateful Day Has Come

If I haven't already said this enough on this here blog, I am graduating this May! Saying I'm super excited is pretty much a huge understatement. I love school. I feel like the whole book learning, memorizing, homework finishing thing might be one thing I'm actually good at, but I'd be lying if I didn't confess to loving the idea of no homework, no group projects, no general classes about stuff I won't use (exhibit A: cereal science, ya, I took a class about what grains they stick in our cereal.), etc.

But by graduating I have to figure out how I will now use my newly acquired college knowledge skills to be useful to society, or ya know, at least give our bank account a boost.

So the resume has been drafted, the cover letters have been typed, and tomorrow I start being more assertive than I think I've ever been by walking into random school/school district offices to tell them how wonderful it would be if they would hire me! And if the whole working in a school thing doesn't work out, I'll start walking into lots of random places telling people to hire me for all of my obedient, loyal, friendly, (I just described a dog didn't I?) qualities that would add oh so much to their business.

I'm freaked out, excited, can't believe that I'm really already doing this.

Wish me luck!

(Maybe I should add that quality to my resume:)

Valentine's Day

I'm not very good at being crafty, but I love that I got to try a couple projects for Valentine's Day and I think they went alright!

I copied this tutorial for the wreath.


I copied this tutorial for the letters. I didn't follow it exactly because frankly we're poor and I didn't want to go yarn crazy so I modified it a bit but I think it still worked out.

I'm getting excited to celebrate Valentine's Day with Karl. I love him more and more everyday. I honestly don't know how I would have gotten through this past year and half without him. It's hard to imagine what life was like without getting to wake up every morning and have him smile at me or be able to break down in front of him and have him hold me until I can compose myself again. I love love. I love that even though we both have to work until midnight on the real Valentine's Day, we are making our own rules and celebrating on Wednesday because we're married and we can make up our own rules because we want to!

I feel really lucky that Karl even noticed me in that math class. I still remember telling my mom about the cute guy in math class even before he talked to me on the bus (which happened only a few short weeks after that phone call to my mom thankfully:)
Even this morning when I was loving how cute he is when he's all sleepy and disoriented, I kept thinking that I can't believe how lucky I am to be married to him! I still have to pinch myself sometimes to make sure I'm not dreaming. Sorry for the sappy lovey doveyness, but when I don't get to see him for a long time (which is basically like if I have to go more than five hours without seeing him) I miss him lots and these musings about how much I love and miss him today is what's occupying my thoughts right now. Just in case I didn't say it enough already, I love this guy:)

(In Arizona last summer. Loving those palm trees.)

1 Nephi 17:13

13 And I will also be your ^alight in the wilderness; and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall be led towards the ^bpromised land; and ye shall ^cknow that it is by me that ye are led.

Elder Uchtdorf's Talk: "We Are Doing a Great Work and Can't Come Down"

This scripture felt like very good advice I need in my life right now. And I love the story Elder Uchtdorf bases this talk on. Karl found it for me yesterday when we were both having a really hard time getting excited about all the seemingly important time consumers taking up our lives right now. Poor guy has had to put up with a break down a week from this girl since school started again.

Do you ever find that you become so busy that you loose your mind? Like every little thing you write on your to do list is a life or death matter?

That's me this semester to a 'T'. This talk is given to the men of our church, but it's completely applicable to all of us.

It was a good wake up call for me to start recognizing what items on my to do list fall under the "burned out light bulb" category and to re-focus on not crashing and burning with the really important stuff like my sanity and health (spiritual and temporal).

I love being a part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints:)