I feel so cliche when I say this but...holy goodness being married awesome. And busy. And crazy. And an adjustment. But not as big of an adjustment as I thought. It's nice to have my best friend walk through that door every night when he's comes home from work. And it's sad how bored I get when he has to work late. I've become that wife that I used to laugh at. Oh well. :)
I haven't been taking many pictures with my camera lately...my iPhone has been serving as my camera. So tonight, as we were sitting on the couch recovering from our respective work weeks (working 40 hours a week is tiring yo) I decided to finally throw the pictures on the Mac and put them up here. Because I know you're all sitting on pins and needles waiting to see what we've been doing. ;)
Charlie got a new bed. He instantly loved it.
My wonderful amazing yellow kitchen aid. Thanks mom! :)
Charlie and Todd got a little closer.
I swear to you this is how he sleeps most nights. And he SNORES away. He likes sleeping like this.
I decorated my office with wedding pictures. :)
We brought Todd into the 21st century and bought him an iPhone (and I finally got a Utah phone number)
We braved downtown for the opening of City Creek. Us and 80,000 of our closest friends.
I discovered I married a GQ model.
Explored City Creek.
Found my FAVORITE store (and Todd's new LEAST favorite)
We've gone to the Temple once a week since we've been married. :)
Todd had his mission reunion tonight!
The last picture is from tonight. Every year right before General Conference in April, Todd's mission president hosts a reunion (like most mission presidents in the SLC area. It's kind of crazy how many go on the Friday before Conference around here). This year, they had a cookout at a Stake Center really close to our house, so we decided to go. As of last Wednesday, Todd has been home for SIX whole years! So it was fun to finally meet some of his companions and guys he served with for his mission. And it was great to meet his mission president and his wife. Every single person told me that 'I married a great guy'. I was even told that I married a legend! So, I felt pretty awesome. ;)
Tomorrow is the first day of General Conference and I am SO excited. It's probably one of my favorite weekends of the entire year. I'm planing on making a biiiiiig breakfast both days, we'll watch in our pj's and listen to a prophet of God teach us. I mean, what can be better than that?
This weekend was Conference weekend! And it was my first General Conference in Utah. T's mom got us tickets to the Saturday morning session. I can't tell you how blessed I felt that I got to go to a session my very first year in Utah. We got up far too early and got there far too early (I blame my mother for making me paranoid about being late to everything. ;) ) But it was way cool.
I got to hear a Prophet speak. I got to hear the second Provo Temple announced and felt the goosebumps when the entire conference center gasped at the same moment. It was a pretty gosh darn good session, and it was only the first one!!
I had a lot of 'favorite' talks this conference. I always do. I can usually find inspiration from all of the talks but President Uchtdorf's talk on Saturday morning was one of the best. (I about jumped out of my seat when he was introduced. He's one of my favorite general authorities.)
Some of my notes from that talk (these aren't direct quotes, but close to them. I didn't edit anything that I put in my journal) :
We are nothing compared to God, but to God we are everything.
No matter how meager your appearance, you are not invisible to Heavenly Father. He knows your humble heart and he cares for you.
What you experience now is not what it is going to be what it's like forever.
God sees you as his child. You matter to him.
How awesome is it to think about those things? We DO matter to Him. No matter how forgotten, invisible, or sad you feel, you are not forgotten. You are not invisible. You will not be sad forever.
Another one of my favorite talks was by Elder Niel Anderson. It was about the family, children and motherhood. His talk gave me two of my favorite quotes:
"Motherhood is not a hobby. It is a calling."
&
"Having children is not something you do if you have time, having children is what God gave you time for."
I cannot wait to be a mother. I can't wait to start a family. Elder Andersen's talk reminded me of that and he reminded me of how important the family is to our happiness.
In other picture related news, I failed to take ANY pictures of me & T at conference! Bummer dude! But here are some pictures from after. :)
Sunday morning, I watched the morning session by myself. It was nice to roll out of bed, roll onto the couch, turn on the TV and listen to amazing men and women teach me. I watched the afternoon session with T and his family. As much as I liked watching it alone, I like being with other people while watching conference too. :)
We went on a little drive before dinner. Every day I have to pinch myself to remind myself that I do really live in this beautiful place.
General Conference couldn't have come at a better time. I'm so ready to forget about everything that is stressing me out right now and focus on my faith. I've only been able to listen to 2 conferences before since I've joined the Church, but each time it's been wonderful and testimony strengthening. I am so thankful for T's mom who got us tickets even though we didn't ask her. She felt prompted to ask her bishop for tickets for us last week and he happened to have some. I had all but given up getting tickets but then I got a text on Sunday with a picture of a pair of tickets. :)
I need it so badly. General Conference couldn't have come at a better time.
