Study: Gratitude

I'm a copy-cat! Thanks for the idea Shalyn!

100 Things I'm Grateful for...

1. My incredible mom!
2. Uplifting music
3. My beautiful mountains!
4. An all to sensible father who keeps me in line
5. Christmas lights! (Yes ours are already up)
6. A good education
7. Fall leaves
8. Disney movies
9. Trials that continue to remind me of all my blessings
10. Laughter
11. Phone calls from my grandparents
12. Hugs
13. True friends... you know who you are!
14. Family History!
15. Jamba Juice
16. My blog!
17. Snowball fights
18. Good memories
19. Temples!
20. Scrapbooks
21. My journal
22. Thank you Cards
23. New friends
24. Good crys... yes I am grateful for them
25. Rain
26. Snowboarding
27. The Spirit helping me along the way
28. Horseback riding
29. A certain country song I like to sing REALLY loud
30. Books
31. Conference Issue Ensign
32. Brandon playing football with me all day!
33. My quilts tied by grandma
34. My house
35. String cheese
36. Views that take your breath away
37. My little shadow... Brittany
38. Chocolate Cake
39. Missionaries: Sis. Briggs, Sis. Smoot, Sis. Jones :D
40. My bishop
41. Smiles from strangers
42. Pictures!
43. A good recipe
44. Journey... yes the Band
45. My super duper laptop
46. Spending time with my family
47. New markers
48. Catching up with friends I love
49. Familysearch.com Indexing! You should all do it!
50. Impromptu get-togethers
51. Peace
52. Quotes. I'm a sucker for a good one
53. My jeep!
54. Hazelnut hot chocolate...hmmm
55. Kind words
56. Those good people who fix my computer!
57. Inspirational moments
58. The scriptures
59. Those inspirational moments WITH the scriptures!
60. My cell phone. At least I think I'm grateful for it
61. Men who will change my oil so I don't have to
62. Hymns:
63. If You Could Hie to Kolob
64. O My Father
65. I Stand All Amazed
66. Lord I Would Follow Thee
67. Praise to the Man
68. Scarfs... especially in Rexburg
69. BYU Idaho
70. Piano Music
71. Opportunities
72. Service
73. Good Health
74. Highlighters
75. People who REALLY care, and don't judge
76. Times to sacrifice
77. The BYUI Activities Program
78. Ivie Family Christmas Party
79. Card games
80. My tennis shoes
81. Hope...I'm VERY grateful for that
82. Those times you feel your heart ache and the only thing you can do is give it to the Lord
83. My camera!
84. Jokes
85. Hitting my target heart for an extended amount of time! Yeah for exercise!
86. The Quiet Study Section of the library
87. Flowers
88. Sunshine
89. Modern Medicine
90. Warm homemade bread
91. Holidays from school
92. A competitive game. Me competitive?
93. Temple Square
94. Tender Mercies
95. People who are FILLED with optimism
96. Sincere Compliments
97. Elastics
98. The Atonement
99. The Gospel
100. My Savior

A night out...

Daddy-Daughter Date: The Holy War Duel

I'm pretty sure this man is the best date around! There is nothing like wearing blue in a sea of red.

Me!

Photos by Stacey Gold. Isn't she awesome!!!

Book Report: Running with Angels

I really enjoyed this book. It's an easy read, but it has some powerful lessons about life and about learning to love ourselves.

It's Pamela Hansen's very real experience with morbid obesity, life's trials, and how to endure and overcome. What I really appreciate is her application of Ether 12:27 of making weak things strengths. Its a success story of self-mastery, and that is absolutely inspiring to me!

"Dreams can be achieved when they are turned into goals" (pp 185)

I would recommend it for a quick, inspiriation read! For sure! I'm going to have to go run a marathon now! :)

Goal #47

Goal #47: Povide opportunities for others to "experience" life

Okay, Okay... I'm not sure if you consider throwing parties allowing others to "experience" life, but it has been a great memory anyway. And it's been a great experience for my roommates and I to have fun with people we love!

Every other Thursday we have a party and invite anyone and everyone we know. The first week we had a Carmel Apple Party. We had carmel apples with chocolate, toffee, nuts, etc. Hmmm! They were so good! Shalyn also made some delicious carmel popcorn. At the end of the night we had carmel EVERYWHERE! It was great for clean checks that are also every Thursday. ha ha.

The Thursday before Halloween we had a Pumpkin Party. I made some of mom's fabulous Pumpkin Dump Cake, and Natalie made Great Harvest's recipe for Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread. It was incredible! We decided to get a big game of signs going when people came by (one of the best games EVER!). We had a good time. But I'm still a little bitter I only got a small piece of that dump cake. :)

Last night we had crepes. Another personal favorite. Flannel, Natalie, and I couldn't get them off the stove fast enough. We ended up making 9 batches of crepes. Ha ha... seriously! We were a mess.... especially after our whip cream fight. Oops...

It's such a blessing to have good people in our lives! Like Ralph Waldo Emerson said,

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

House of the Lord

And I will manifest myself to my people in mercy in this house.

D&C 110:7

Rexburg has had some unusally beautiful sunrises this week. I happened to catch one on my camera and these are a few glimpses of what I saw...

It was incredible.