Tender Mercies

You know when there are those times in life when you just really really really need to wallow? 

I mean, you know it's probably not the most sensible or bravest thing to do, but sometimes you just want to feel sorry for yourself... Am I alone here?  I have been well, you know, really wanting to throw myself a girls only, pajama party where all we do is watch Pride and Prejudice for a week straight and we only eat strawberries and peanut butter.  However, apparently, somebody has a different idea about how I need to face my challenges.  Last night we (Heather, Bri and company) made the most delicious home made pizza.  We used my sister Cate's bread recipe for the crust... It's that totally amazing 5 ingredient works every time bread.  And made a delightful assortment of margarita, chicken pesto, pepperoni, and thai pizzas. And after dinner we were sitting of Bri's roof lamenting our sad fates.  ( I know, good friends, good food, roof top terrace... we're obviously not that tormented but anyway...) Heather reminded me of this CES Fireside that we went to where Elder Holland spoke on "Temple Prisons" so I came home and read it and let me tell you... I was humbled.  Humbled by a loving Father, who wanted me to remember what Elder Holland has to say:

...when we promise to follow the Savior, to walk in His footsteps and be His disciples, we are promising to go where that divine path leads us. And the path of salvation has always led one way or another through Gethsemane. So if the Savior faced such injustices and discouragements, such persecutions, unrighteousness, and suffering, we cannot expect that we are not going to face some of that if we still intend to call ourselves His true disciples and faithful followers. And it certainly underscores the fact that the righteous—in the Savior’s case, the personification of righteousness—can be totally worthy before God and still suffer.

In fact, it ought to be a matter of great doctrinal consolation to us that Jesus, in the course of the Atonement, experienced all of the heartache and sorrow, all of the disappointments and injustices that the entire family of man had experienced and would experience from Adam and Eve to the end of the world in order that we would not have to face them so severely or so deeply. However heavy our load might be, it would be a lot heavier if the Savior had not gone that way before us and carried that burden with us and for us.

This is what Easter means to me.  The Light in the darkness, the Comfort of Angels, a reason alone to Hope.

And by the way...

And to conclude "catch up" posts for today I'll have you all know that I've been chosen as the new face of Armani perfume.  I sent in a picture and they picked me.  With my ten bazillion dollar contract I will pay for all of your student loans, medical bills, car troubles, kid troubles, dog troubles, love troubles, and any other kind of troubles that you can DREAM up.  Just come on over...I've got you covered.

Yeah right...If only. :)

Family Wub.

I officially have the most adorable nieces and nephews EVER. One of them who has recently acquired some language skills has said some of the funniest things lately. When it comes to LOVE his sweet self believes that all things denote love.  For example, we were driving in the car and he might have ripped a cute little burp.  And he says,

"Mom, that's my stomach telling you that I WUB YOU!"

 Adam, Liz, Ethan ran the Moab 1/2 marathon last weekend.  I ran the 5 mile. (Not 5k...5 mile people!) Aside from my obvious shame about the fact that I wussed out on the 1/2 we had a great time.  My very best friends Brianne and Heather came down as well and we spent some quality time hanging out with the family.  We had Navajo tacos made by Grandma Ruth, a delicious breakfast made by Aunt Donna, and a lunch to die for from Aunt Susanne. Yum.  My mouth is officially watering.  As you can tell hanging out with my family means eating great food and getting lots of  "wub"rubbed on us. 

Race For The Cure

I work with the coolest people.  I am so lucky because although my family is all over the world my work family is pretty amazing.  This year has been pretty crazy for all of us.  There has been a lot of tragedy and drama in our office, I guess when you work with 10 women that will happen :) But it has made us pretty close.  In January of this year my coworker Cathy was diagnosed with breast cancer.  We decided as an office that we wanted to show support and create a team to run the Susan G Komen Race For the Cure.  It was so neat, we had about eighty people on our team, some patients and a lot of friends and family. The week before the race another coworker Jeanie was diagnosed with almost the same exact thing.  These two women are incredible!  They have shown such patience and grace.  They are the model of strength and bravery, and I am lucky to call them my friends.  Anyway, here are a couple pictures of the race...  It's such a good cause!  Everyone knows someone effected by it.  I ran it last year, this year, and plan on running next year.  Let me know if you're interested :)

Sick sick sick

So I'm way sick.  Like sicker than sick.  Like I would rather die sick.  But apparently there is always a silver lining and the good news is I finally have time to start my blog! :)  I've wanted to do this for a while but never really had time to sit down and catch up.  The first few blogs will be catch up of events I've shared with you, but now you can see pictures :)