Trip to Logan, UT

Today is the day! I'm headed down to Logan later today to meet Brennan and Austin's little baby Lainey. I got the text this morning saying she was at the hospital and I was giddy with excitement! I can't wait to meet her and I'm so happy for Brennan. She's going to be an amazing mom. I just hope the roads/weather cooperate for me while I drive. Pictures to come!

Home teachers

Since we've been married, we've had home teachers come to our house once. It didn't ever bother me because growing up I don't remember many home teachers coming. I always saw my dad go, so I knew we were supposed to have them, but it almost felt like it would be a waste for them to come to our house when there were so many others in the ward that could use them more.

Last night our home teachers came last night. What I loved about it was how they wanted to get to know us. They didn't just give a message and leave, they took true interest in who we were. While they were at our house they also asked how we were doing with couple scripture study/prayer. We had to laugh because this semester and even most of last semester was not our most successful. One of them took the opportunity to challenge us to make it a priority and was even bold enough to ask us if it was OK that he call or text us once a week or so to see how we're doing.

I truly am grateful for his ability to listen to the Spirit and that he challenged us. It's good for us to be held accountable for the things we know we should be doing. We are going to take this challenge and work up to where it's no longer a "challenge" but rather because it becomes part of our daily routine-no different than brushing our teeth everyday or eating a meal.

It has also renewed my thinking on visiting teaching/home teaching. If you work with/through/by the Spirit, you'll never know what kind of difference you can make in someone's life. That's something I want to strive for is making sure I'm doing my calling as a visiting teacher and maybe sometime in my life I can make a difference for someone.

Like father like daughter

If someone would have asked me years ago if I thought I was like my dad I would say absolutely not. We seemed to be complete opposites and I was OK with that and I assume he was as well. I then took a class where we did the color personality test. I learned more about myself and even my dad in that class than I ever thought possible. I realized that I have a good amount of red in me, which comes from my father. We are also very much blue, and we all know that I have some yellow as well!
(Take the test here)

• REDS

Need to look good technically, be right, and be respected. They are strong leaders and love challenges.

• BLUES

Need to have integrity and be appreciated. They are focused on quality and creating strong relationships.

• WHITES

Need to be accepted and treated with kindness. They are logical, objective, and tolerant of others.

• YELLOWS

Need to be noticed and have fun. They love life, social connections, and being positive and spontaneous

Since then, I have discovered many ways my dad and I are alike. It became apparent most recently when Ethan got frustrated with me because I've been falling asleep on the couch at night and I don't come upstairs until the wee hours of the morning. He told me how he tries to wake me up multiple times (supposedly I get angry with him for trying). If I don't wake up he goes and showers or watches a show and then tries again. I tell him I'm coming, so on and so forth. He eventually goes to bed and I sleep on the couch, or floor, until I wake up and go upstairs. 

It may not be clear what this has to do with my dad, but for anyone that knows him, knows that he sleeps more on the floor or couch than he does in his bed, and it's hard to wake him up. I remember one time in high school my best friend Jordan and I came home around 12:30 am or so and my dad was sleeping on the floor and my mom was vacuuming around him. (This is not a common occurrence. My mom usually doesn't clean that late but we had visitors coming in to town.) We went to my room and she asked how my dad could sleep like that with all the noise around him. At the time, I had no idea. 

I know now. It is a glorious skill that I have inherited from my dad. Ethan may not be able to stand it, but I love it and can see how it could be very beneficial in the future.

Date night

Around these parts of town we try to go on dates regularly. It seems that every Friday we go with our friends Cameron and Hannah to a movie of some sort. We usually go to the cheap theater, sometimes we'll rent a movie and occasionally we'll go to the regular price theater (hardly ever).

This weekend was no different. We started off with a trip to Costa Vida and got a buy one get one free salad which was fantastic! We headed to the store quick to pick up some ice cream to take to Cam and Hannah's for dessert. We rented a clean version of The Campaign with Will Ferrell and called it a night.

Saturday we did absolutely nothing. I had a basketball meeting at 10:30 and Ethan had homework all day. I decided to try out the new show (not really new, but new to me) Downton Abbey. I'm in love. I finished the first season in one day. I told you, absolutely nothing. Ethan finished his homework around 8:00 pm or so and we wanted something to do. We decided we were going to go on a date by ourselves, which very rarely happens.

We decided to go cosmic bowling. On the way to the bowling alley, Ethan was trash talking saying how he was going to beat me... right. I started off the game and got a spare. He was next and got a gutter ball. The game continued in my favor.

He wanted to play one more game because he said it was a fluke and he needed to get warmed up first. He wanted to go two out of three. I suppose he just enjoys getting spanked in bowling because I came out victorious once again.

It was a closer game, but still. We decided that we should maybe start trying to play things where we can be on the same team to lower the competition between us but where's the fun in that?