Blessings

Yesterday I received an email that is probably the nicest email I've ever received and it completely made my day. Sometimes you don't realize what you do for another person just by being yourself. I'm grateful for my friend and the person that he is and for his kind words to me. We all should let the people we care about know more often how much we appreciate them.

Good Friends

So you just have to love good friends. I'm in the Relief Society Presidency in my ward and the girls in the Presidency with me are just so great. Not only at their callings but they are just great friends. They are the kind of friends who are so excited for you when you like a boy, they help you find things out, invite him over, talk to him, etc. They are also the girls that will tell you how he really wasn't that great when you find out he has a girlfriend. But then they'll still keep doing their homework and when they find out that he really doens't have a girlfriend they'll call you to tell you so that you "can sleep better". :) They are just great and I love them.

Quilting!

So I love to make quilts. I often start one and then start another before I finish the first one. There are just so many cute ones to make! Well I had about 10 quilt tops finished or mostly finished and they just needed to be quilted. Free motion quilting on my sewing machine works, but it takes a while and makes my arms tired and doesn't always come out the way I would like. Lucky for me my friend Aubrey is a home-ec teacher and has a giant quilting machine in her classroom. So this weekend while she was reffing Volleyball I was in her classroom quilting away. It took me a bit to get it down, figure out the tension, what design and all that, but I got it. So after 9 hours, 1 broken needle, 1 lunch break, 1 lay down on the floor because my back hurts, 8 or so CD's listened to, I finshed all 6 quilts that I had taken with me. I haven't taken pictures of them yet, but here's some pictures of me working on the machine. And one when I was all done stretching my poor aching back. :) And don't mind the lovely hair. I had to get up at 6 a.m. and wasn't going to worry about it and it just got progressively worse as the day went on.

Conference weekend.

One second you're walking up the stairs and the next second you're laying on them.
This phrase is both literal and metaphoric.
My conference weekend started out AMAZING. Thursday night I went to a Clay Walker concert with some friends maybe I already wrote about that. I think I did. Anyway, so Friday after work I drove up to Salt Lake to eat with some friends who were down visiting for the conference weekend. We ate at Tucanos. It was very yummy and I didn't even have to pay, just making it that much better. But really it was just so great. So fun to see my friend Rachel and her family. I love her mom!!!! Too bad my conversation skills need some help.













This is Rachel and I at Tucanos. Picture complements of her brother Josh who took at least a whole minute to finally take the picture.

I left from the dinner and headed up to Kaysville for my mission reunion. IT WAS SO GREAT. I almost cried when President and Sister Mellor were standing on the stage getting ready to talk to us. It was fun to see people although I didn't really talk with many people since I feel like I don't know them! I did however get to talk with my favorite Senior couple the Marlers. They were in my first area and are just my most favorite people ever. Elder Marler is hilarious!!! Love them!!!!




















































After that we went and stayed with Denae and got up early to head back up to Salt Lake to go to conference, but not before we had a delicious breakfast prepared by Denae's mother-in-law. It was very tasty.
At conference my friend Pam had a ticket to go in the conference center so I dropped her off and then parked and watched conference in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building with Rachel and her family and then afterward I went with them and ate at The Roof. The view was spectacular and the food delish. Still need to work on the conversation skills.
After lunch I was off to the conference center with Pam. Conference was a delight and I enjoyed being in the conference center. After conference we headed to the food court. Since I had ditched Pam for lunch, she was starving. We ate with an Elder from our mission and then headed to Deseret Book so Pam could get her free wall hanging. We watch Alex Boye and Jericho Road, got our free thing and then headed up to Bountiful to see my friend Dana who was up for conference from Arizona.
IT WAS SO GREAT TO SEE HER!!!! Dana and I have been friends since the 2nd grade. Bestest friends from 2nd-8th grade. Then she moved away but we were still good penpals and we have somehow stayed friends until this very day. Who knows why. I think maybe it's because we need to keep tabs on each other and make sure the other doesn't share any of our deep dark embarrassing secrets. :)
We headed out for ice cream where we got somewhat caught up on the last two years of life since we had seen each other. We laughed a lot and had a wonderful time. What a fantastic way to end an already fabulous day.













Dana and her new baby.

So after leaving Dana's we headed down to stay with another sister, Marie, from our mission. Surprisingly we didn't even get lost. I was out cold when Pam finally stopped talking to me about her love and putting her freezing cold feet on me.
Sunday morning we decided to stay with Marie for the first session and eat breakfast with her and her friends. We left half way through to avoid the traffic of conference. Sadly this is where the literal part of my first line comes into play. We took our stuff out to the car and were headed back in to say goodbye to Marie. One second I was walking up the stairs and the next I was laying on them. Some how I didn't quite get my foot up high enough to clear the step and soon found myself getting very familiar with the concrete steps. My poor hand took most of the impact along with my poor bleeding toes. We hurried in and said goodbye and then were on our way. Pam had yet another ticket to the conference center so after walking around a bit she headed there and I went back to the Joseph Smith Building. Sadly Rachel and her family weren't feeling well and stayed in their hotel room to watch conference so I watched it alone in a room full of 500 people. Maybe it was the fall, maybe just life, the close of a great weekend and conference or a combination of everything but I was crying and wanted to just crawl into a hole. Thus the metaphoric part where sometimes in life you are walking along just fine and the next second you find yourself saying hello to a concrete floor. But when that happens all you can really do is get up and keep going. We may be a bit more bruised than when we started but that's part of the journey.

Figures

First of all I just want to say I LOVE BEING ALIVE. Life is rough and I know I definitely could have it a lot worse, but I really just like being alive. I like to learn, even if sometimes it's the hard way. Today I'm really grateful for prayer and forgiveness. As a human being I do some really dumb stuff. I'm not going to go into details on this, and really isn't wasn't anything huge, but yesterday I received some news that should have been very happy. It was good news, but because I'm a very selfish person I didn't take it the way I should have. I was kinda bitter and iritated. Then I sat there in my car and asked myself why do you feel this way. This is obviously a very good thing, why should you be upset by it. Once I saw that I was just being an idiot and that my life would still turn out just fine, I focused on the positive and asked God to forgive me for being such a brat. I felt much better and today it's like the greatest news there ever was. Well maybe not ever, but it's still good news.
In other news, I had to buy a new battery for my car yesterday, I went to a Clay Walker concert with some friends, I completely moved out of my old apartment and in with Katie, cleaned out my car, was in an awesome movie where I was the star and might I just say I'm an amazing Wendy. Peter Pan's Wendy. It's gonna be awesome. Pretty much life is good, can't complain too much. Shouldn't complain at all.

Happy October!