Sunday, November 27, 2016

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday. It's time for family, wonderful food, gratitude, and memories. This was my first Thanksgiving home from my mission and it was fantastic. I also enjoy getting together and having a family party. So many great memories are made at these parties. I am so thankful for the family I have been given. They are my best friends and I wouldn't be who I am today without them. I am grateful for this Gospel and the direction it has given me in my life. I am thankful fro my Savior Jesus Christ and all hat he as done for me. I know he lives and loves me and each of you. I am grateful for the time I had to serve Him and the People in the Canada Montreal Mission. I would like to challenge us to keep a gratitude journal. I was challenged at the beginning of last year to keep a gratitude journal and I have discovered that by keeping this journal I have found I have been blessed so much. I would like to challenge you to keep a gratitude journal. It can be on your phone or in a small notebook. It doesn't matter where as long as you do. You will find you have so much to be grateful for.



Beautiful Snow covered Mountains. My phone couldn't do it justice. 


Castle Gate-What a weird sight!

Place Settings



The Corn Hole Tournament/Horseshoes







The winners Laura and Uncle Boyd with second placers Kamron and Sydney 

What If Games

Visiting the Dam






This is actually from Grand Junction where we go Black Friday Shopping. This little guy was chilling in one of the stores.



Tuesday, May 31, 2016

May





Goodness time does fly. May was full of many events. May 6 was Shanna's wedding. It was fun to be with my past roomates again. The Frames are amazing people. I loved being with their family for the day. The sealer said something I really liked. He talked about repenting. We often think of repenting as a bad thing, but really it's not. It is something that should bring us joy. It is a tool given to us so we can become better, happier people  We also use the Atonement for the same purpose. We use it with repentance. With both we can become like our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. 

    

On May 14 I went on my first date since being home from my mission. I went with Dallin. He lives in Roosevelt and we go to the same YSA ward. I actually knew him from High School. We were in a show choir called Center Stage. For our date we met at the church and went Power Bocking also known as Jumping Stilts. Don't worry, I didn't know what it was either. You strap them to your legs and shoes. You can walk, run or even jump. Although we just stuck to walking. I felt like I was learning how to walk all over again. It was much harder than it looked. I have a knew appreciation for those in therapy learning how to walk again. After we went to Marian's for some ice cream.

 It was time for another wedding. On May 21my cousin tied that knot with her love Dallon in the Manti Temple. It was another great wedding. My favorite part of the wedding was when D'Lee and Dallon were suppose to kiss over the alter. D'Lee was to short. So she vaulted herself up. Needless to say it was a short kiss. the sealer then remarked that he had told them to kiss like they meant it. So when they exchanged rings D'Lee and Dallon made up for the supper short kiss. The color's for the wedding were very D'Lee...Rainbow. We had some time to kill in Richfield as we waited to pick up Meg. So we went shopping and my family found some rainbow things to wear to the reception.








Masters of Cotton Candy Making.





The bouquet hitting Jen in the face.

Dallas having too much fun too much fun with the car.


Rockin' the Socks

First Dance




May 27 was the last day of school. So I had to say goodbye to my kindergartners who I worked with durring the year. We had a play day at the park. How I miss being a kid. To the end the day 6th grade challenged the faculty and staff to a kickball game. I am proud to way the faculty and staff won. I can't remember the exact score but it was like 20-13. Needless to say we won by a lot.



 Of course the last thing I did in May was go to my family party for memorial day. We split our time between the Gardner and Mathis families. I am so grateful we have a day to remember our loved ones. I am also grateful for the Plan of Salvation that gives me the knowledge I will see these loved ones again.
Book Club time. Uncle Stan teaching us all about the book The Jesus Wars.