Happy Easter!

What a fantastic, and fun-filled Easter weekend.  I just love my family!  Saturday we had a small dinner and a big ol' Easter egg hunt with the marrieds and their little families.  It was fun to be one of the Easter bunnies, and hide eggs, then watch and help the little ones find them.  I thought it was an acceptable thing to put some of the eggs in clumps together, but Shandee (my sister) quickly/funnily told me it was not.  She went around and re-hid many of my eggs.  We all had to laugh at Shandee's pregnant, egg-nazi ways.  I then proceeded to hide the eggs in clumps, just to bother her.  :)  Easter morning my parents gave me Elder Holland's new book, Created for Greater Things.  I am so excited to have so many quotes by my favorite apostle.  I love the way he speaks/writes.  You all will probably seeing some of those quotes right here on my blog!  You're welcome.  Anyway, so Sunday we had great lessons in church, and the spirit was so strong.  I prayed for the ability to truly and better understand what the Savior's resurrection means for me.  The day was very peaceful, and as my family gathered once again for our Easter dinner, my dad just gave a little talk to the grandkids about why Easter is special.  I started tearing up as I just listened to my dad talk, and I looked around at my family that I get to be with forever.  This Easter, that is what stood out to me the most.  He is risen, and my family will live together forever.

Brandon- the oldest of the grandkiddies.  

Hyrum figured it out, and just went for the candy, rather than the eggs. 

Look, Grandpa!!

Jumpin'

New Sunday dresses.  

MAD scientist....

Listen.  I am so ready to be done with school!!!!!  At least for the summer.  It is this time of year that I cannot focus.  It's sunny outside (sometimes) and all I can think about is being out on the lake, soaking in so much sunshine, that I can feel my heartbeat in my eyes.   I know that many of you may be in the same situation as me, unable to focus, but really I think that my spring fever has been a little extra heavy this year.  I cannot wait to be home with my parents and best friend, Adam.  Also, I'm excited to have a job and earn some money!  Oh, and did I mention that I am going to London?!  Can I get a what, what?!  My parents are sending Adam and me to visit our cousin there.  How awesome is that?!  Very.   So it is obvious that there is much to look forward to this summer.  Almost done, folks!  We can do it!!!

My cup runneth over.

Things I am particularly grateful for today:

• A friend I can call and cry to.  She always knows what to say, and how to help me feel better.
• A friend who will come sit on me at 1:30 in the a.m. just to make me laugh, when I have forgotten how to.  
• A brother here in Provo who will give me a blessing for a little extra help, and will put aside plans for the night just so I can be with him.
• Scriptures that I can pull out at any time of day and just read.  
• Parents who tell me they are proud of me, and have wise words to say, and testimonies to bare.  
• A dad who is close enough to the spirit that he knows when I need him to just unexpectedly show up to my house in Provo with food to eat and a big daddy hug to give.
• A mom who will text me throughout my classes just so I can be relieved from my own thoughts and boredom.  
• The sunshine.
• Bright flowers
• Music that expresses what I cannot.  

Today my heart is full even to the point where I can't contain it.  These are miracles, and life is full of them.

Today....

This is how I feel today.  

Very Tired.

Really Bored.

Somewhat Annoyed.

A little Bummed.

Harmlessly Sardonic.

Distracted.

Aaaaaand still smiling. 

:)  

Happiness is a choice, friends.  

Find a reason to laugh.

"Run Away with Me" - Somebody's Sam.

Call me a hopeless romantic, but we all have little things or tender mercies that can just put a smile on our face, and brighten our day, and one of mine happens to be watching Arron Tveit sing "Run Away with Me" on youtube.  Just watch it.  Okay?  I feel like such a little girl when I do this, but sometimes when I am just sitting doing nothing, and my day has been particularly tiresome, or I feel like I am being defeated in the battlefield of love (cuz it is a battlefield) I simply watch this video.  Over and over and over again.  It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy!  It reminds me to have hope in the dream.  "Dream on, little one," my dad says to me.  When he tells me this, he means for me to  believe that sometime, I will have what I see my parents and older siblings having.  True love!! :) I'm a young-on' but one day, some guy is going to be soooo desperately in love with me; just like Arron is in love with Sam!!!!  Of course, my story will be a little different than the song's.  I will run away to a temple!  But still, you see what I am saying.  One day, I will be somebody's Sam.