WHO?

Its a good thing I'm married, he's married, and my husband is one GOOD LOOKING DREAM of a husband.

Or else I might have a crush on him.

As a matter of fact, while searching for this picture, I ran across an article about him, his beautiful wife, and their 7 children. And I cried.

Maybe some people get sick of hearing you give the credit to God, Mr. Warner, but not this one.


If I wasn't married and didn't have one GOOD LOOKING DREAM of a husband, I also might have had a crush on this one. Because HE cried.

Oh, and the game was pretty amazing to watch too. GO CARDS!

A quote from Mr. Lewis

I recently had the opportunity to talk to a co-worker about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was rather eye opening to me for a couple reasons:

1. I realized that I need to be more comfortable speaking about our beliefs. I internalize them very well, I must say, but I need to study using a different approach, one that will provide a way for me to talk more simply about it....to help it make as much sense to them as it does to me.


2. That really, the whole purpose of The Church, The Gospel, is so that God will always be the center of everything we do.

She expressed her frustration with so many churches or institutions, and said she read a book about how NONE of them were from God, but that they were all man-made and unneeded, because all God really wanted was for us to have HIM be the center of all we did. Of every act, of every word, of every thought. She said for the first time, it made sense to her about who God was, and what He wanted for us. She also stated how many people have been turned off by God, or stopped believing in Him, because of so much confusion about who He is.

I had the opportunity to share my testimony with her about what I knew to be true.

And then my testimony grew that what you study is what will come to your mind in the very moment you need it, just like it says in John 14:26 and D&C 100:5-6

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

...speak the thoughts that I shall put into you hearts, and you shall not be confounded before men; for it shall be given unto you in the very hour, yea, in the very moment, what ye shall say.

I could not help but think of all those, who are friends and family, for whatever reason, feel like this is it, like this life is all we have, that there is no reason for anything else, and that everything else is what we've made up so we can have a "crutch" or a comfortable blanket to cover the realities.

There came at that time so many thoughts into my heart. Embarrassing as this might be, the thoughts were not the scriptures (see, the tricky thing is you can't remember what you haven't been studying) but the writings of C.S. Lewis, in one of his sweet Chronicles. At this point, the queen (the devil) convinces all of those around her that there is NOTHING besides what is right there in front of them. She was the queen, this was as good as it gets, there is nothing better, there is no Christ, there is no heaven. To this, the hero says: (PAY ATTENTION! THIS IS GREAT)

All you've been saying is quite right, I shoudln't wonder. I'm a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won't deny any of what you said. But there's one thing more to be said, even so. Suppose we HAVE only dreamed, or made up, all those things- trees and grass and sun and moon and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made up things seem a great deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours IS the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by my play-world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we're leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Overland. Not that our lives will be very long, I should think; but that's a small loss if the world's as dull a place as you say.

Well said, Mr. Lewis, well said. But isn't it wonderful that Aslan really did exist? And even BETTER that Christ does, and that its TRUE??

What a dream.

I'm in love.

This magazine has made my day. I discovered it on a friend's blog (thanks Justina), and fell in love with what I briefly saw. Not only do I LOVE the name Eliza, but I love that there is a great fashion magazine out there with standards that you can finish feeling uplifted, or at least, not worse.

http://www.elizamagazine.com/

Let me know what you think after you've checked it out!

So...who won?

For Christmas this year, Cole and I bought a king size mattress and box spring, so we decided that for our other gifts, we were not allowed to spend any money (this idea brought to you by yours truly) I thought it would create and opportunity to be creative and sentimental and thoughtful and romantic.....

Bad idea.

It is not recommended by most leading professionals to set yourself up for failure.

I got my husband this:

Love note (TOTALLY romantic) + finishing HIS wedding thank you’s(Totally should have done anyway) +

(creative?)

My husband got me this:

A reenactment of the first time we kissed:

(TOTALLY romantic,

TOTALLY sentimental,

TOTALLY creative, AND

TOTALLY thoughtful)

He threw me some of his clothes to wear (I looked REALLY good), we hopped on his parents mountain bikes, rode a mile to the top of a golf course so we could see all around us, layed down to look at the stars (not so starry last night), drank hot chocolate, and then really, seriously REENACTED our first kiss. It went like this:

(LOTS of awkward hugging and fidgeting hands)

Cole: Uh, so uh, still going strong with that two month thing?

Remi: (thinking) WHA? (speaking) What?

Cole: Uh, yeah, uh, you told me a while ago (2 years to be exact) that you waited two months to kiss the guy you’re dating

Remi: (thinking) WHA? WHY would I say such a stupid thing????.....but (sigh) he remembered, how cute! (speaking) Oh, uh, I don’t know. (good one Rem)

Cole: Oh.

(a lot more awkward hugging and fidgeting, to the point we are both getting cold and uncomfortable until Cole starts walking toward the bikes to LEAVE)

Remi: (thinking) WHAT IS HE DOING! (walking away from me)

MUST DO SOMETHING. (still walking away)

NOW. (pull him back and kiss him good)

The reenactment was WAY more fun….because I added in things, like grabbing his bum and wrapping my leg around him, saying sweet nothings in his ear, etc.

Sidenote: my husband also walked up to me at home one day and passionately kissed me for no reason with no expectations. I also counted this as the best Christmas present ever.

Moral of the story: Don't lose at your own game.

The Big Win

3 TEAMS

4 HOURSOnly 1 will be named the BEST Gingerbread House of ALL Time
And Congratulations to the Ericksons.

We got 3rd.

Seriously...could this kid get ANY better looking????

I was sick 90% of the time with a head-cold and the stomach flu, but ALAS! Christmas was as memorable as ever! Gingerbread (we should have won obviously), talent show (only heard from a distance), Santa Bingo (won the BEST tweezers I've ever used in my LIFE), Sand Dunes last Hurrah (including 4 boys tackling each other atop a huge dune and tumbling down in contorted somersaults).

temple lights

our FIRST Christmas!