Double Rainbow

Have you seen this video?

I want this. 

 

That is all.

Utah Trip

This past weekend Chris and I traveled to Utah for a friends wedding. 

Highlights:

Buying Chris a new pea-coat and looking handsome all weekend

Pizza Pie Cafe

People watching with Chelsea

Much needed girls talk with the Kailey and Chelsea

Scrapbook warehouse with my mother in law

Spending one on one time Kailey

Creating new inside jokes

Seeing the happy new couple

The wedding dress

Dancing with friends

Falling even more in love with my husband 

Things That Sucked:

12 hour drive to Utah with 3 teenage girls

Not sleeping in my bed for 4 nights

Walking in the rain

Not getting enough sleep

Starting my period

12 hour drive home with 3 teenage girls

Highlights outnumber the things that sucked

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Pretty darn good weekend.

His Only Begotten Son

One of the most glorious messes

in the world is the mess created 

in the living room on Christmas day. 

Don't clean it up too quickly.  

~Andy Rooney

I am so excited for Christmas. And my birthday.  I have a lot of great gift ideas this year.  I think gift giving is what makes Christmas my favorite holiday. Sometimes I get caught up in the commercialism of Christmas when in fact I should be remember the real reason we celebrate this time of year. 

Sometimes I forget that the greatest gift ever given was given 2,000 years ago.

Elder Mark E. Petersen said,

"The angels of heaven joined in a great chorus rejoicing at the birth of God’s Son. Now the redemption of the world could take place. Salvation could come to all mankind. Death would be overcome, for this little child, when He became a man, would bring about the Resurrection. All mankind could then live again.

Christmas gifts? There were none at that time. The Wise Men came later with their offerings.

But God now gave His gift to the world—that of His Only Begotten Son. And this divine Son by His very birth on earth gave Himself as the greatest Gift of all time.     UAdd a Note 

 

He would provide the plan for our salvation. He would give His life that we might rise from the grave and have a happy life in the eternities, forever. Who could give more?"

 Even though we can not give to others what Jesus gave to us, we can still give. We can give time, service, and love. When I think about His Only Begotten Son, it is easier for me to feel love for my neighbors and to serve them. This is truly the season of giving. God gave us His Son and Christ gave His life and through that gift we can know the joy of being with our closest friends and families through eternity. Through Gods Holy Temples we can be sealed to our spouses and together bear children that will always be ours. These are our christmas gifts. Could we ever receive anything better? I hope to remember this during the Christmas season and all year and I hope to be able to share the gospel and my love for the Savior.