This is Our Life

Last Sunday I was called to be a primary teacher. I actually really enjoy teaching the primary, so it was exciting for me. I really believe that all things happen for a reason, being little or small. As I prepared the lesson for today, well let's just say it taught me more than I probably did the children. The lesson was on forgiving others. This is something I've been kind of struggling with lately. Of course I have a desire to forgive, but I just can't seem to let the hard and hurt feelings go. But as I taught my primary class about how the Savior forgave the soldiers that took him from the Garden of Gethsemane, and he forgave those who nailed him to the cross, I too can forgive. Of course my burdens are much smaller than my Saviors. I'm just very thankful to have a Savior who loves me, and who is aware of my needs. This was really a lesson that I needed to hear. I found a really nice quote from President Hickley that pretty much sums it all up. "Som...

Ok, so I've been kind of "Less Effective". We've been so busy lately we've hardly had the time to breathe! I took a few pics. yesterday of Grande Prairie. There are TONS of trees here, it's beautiful! Our apartment is right in the middle of just about everything, so it's really nice. We have a five minute drive to just about wherever we need to go. Here's some pics. Just a few pics. of the trees...they're awesome! Here's a picture of the Mission Heights Building that we take care of. Ok, so you're probably wondering why I took a picture of Wa-Mart right? If you look to the left of Wal-Mart that is our apartment complex...where we live! Nice eh? I love how close we are, it's so conviently awesome!! You should see the logs stacks they have here, it's amazing how many there are. We've been told that in the next few months there's TONS more, so it should be interesting to see. Well, that's all for now. I'll ge...

Miss them already... Today we went out to Magrath to visit mom and the kids. Since we're moving on Tuesday, we wanted to see them one more time before we left. I just can't get enough of those kids. We went to the Park in Magrath shortly after arriving, and then went for a while afterward to get an ice cream. Then we went back to my parents house for lunch, and had a picnic with the kids. They're so much fun, I'm really going to miss them. Oh, I love this picture. Madison and Richard have a bond, and it's so adorable! Here's Hayley. She sure loved taking pictures today. She's so beautiful! Here's my mom and Ace snuggling. He was smiling for the camera, but got shy at the last minute. Here's the five kids...Hayley, Easton, Mady, Ace and Ryan getting ready for lunch

I thought it might be fun to add some photos of one of my two best friends Chrissy and I when we were younger.We went to Chrissy's house tonight for a "goodbye" dinner, which we had lots of fun. So here's some photo's from years ago, and we took a few tonight as well. I can speak for myself when I says...such hideous clothes! I don't know why I liked that "Golden Shirt", but I did. Weirdo! The other picture is of Chrissy and I presenting our Pinocchio Play. We had a lot of fun with that. Here's some pics. that we took tonight: Here's some pictures of Richard with Chrissy's girls, Mackenzie and Avery...they're such great kids!!

No More BSB...:( Well, the dream is over. Ok, so I know that's pretty dramatic, and I am grateful for my blessings, it just really sucks that I don't get to go to my Backstreet Boys Concert anymore. We're moving up to Grande Prairie the same day I have my concert. It probably wouldn't suck so much, but I bought my tickets like 2 1/2 months ago so I've really been excited to go. I've tried to sell my tickets, but I know I won't be able to. If you know me well, you know that this really totally bites for me because THEY'RE MY FAVORITE GROUP EVER...for 12 years now!!!!!! But, I'll survive. If I had money, I'd hire people to drive our moving truck to Grande Prairie and we'd fly in, but that's not an option so I have to dream. Ah well...boo hoo to me! Look at the positive right?!

We went to park lake on our Anniversary. We just wanted to take some time to relax and do nothing. It was a lot of fun. We got a great spot in the shade and just hung out. That doesn't happy much, so we take advantage of it when it does.

GRANDE PRAIRIE HERE WE COME ... Well, we've been given the opportunity to transfer up to Grande Prairie! Grande Prairie is 10 hours North of Lethbridge(where we are now). We'll be moving in two weeks(Sept.2), yes I said TWO WEEKS!! It's quick isn't it?? But I'm actually glad it's sooner than later. We're really excited to start this new adventure in our lives. This will be such a great opportunity for us. The best thing we love about this job is that fact that we get to work together. Richard may be doing the maintenance work while I'm in the office, but we still work together as a team, and that to us is such a blessing. So, these next two weeks are going to be totally INSANE, but I guess that will make the weeks go by quickly. So, good luck to us, we're so excited!!!!