I don't know what it is lately, but I HATE to blog. I don't know if it's that my ADD has taken over and I can't seem to focus my attention to one thought for more than five minutes or if it's just that I live a SUPER boring life.
Probably a nasty little combination of BOTH.
So does anybody have a "quick fix" for this bleh attitude towards blogging? Do I need to give up and write in a real journal every day?
Speaking of journal, I need to catch up on Ellie's baby book! She's doing so many awesome things lately!
Yesterday, I successfully taught her to find her nose and touch it when I say, "Where's your nose?" It is the cutest thing ever. It may take her about a minute and a few pokes in the eye, cheek, ear, and mouth, but she keeps trying and eventually gets to her nose, then gets REALLY happy because she knows she did it! She also learned how to hold her hand up to her ear when we say "hello" as if she's talking on a phone. Super cute as well!
She's getting SO BIG!!! I can't believe how much she isn't a little baby anymore and how much of a little toddler she's becoming! She's such a blessing and a joy in our lives! She makes every trial, hardship, bad feeling, bad day worth it when she smiles and snuggles me!
I am SO very grateful that my loving Heavenly Father would entrust me to take care of and nurture such a sweet little daughter! I am even more thankful that He seems to bless us in so many other ways so I can stay home and teach her the things only I can teach her.
I've been feeling very pitty partyish lately about budgets, staying in them, having them, following counsel from David and having a hard time with being a poor college student family. While I know this phase won't last forever, I am surely looking forward to getting out of it, but at the same time I'm thankful to be experiencing it! I know that the most important things in life can't be bought, and that is manifested to me every time I look into my sweet baby girl's eyes, see her smile or hear her laugh.
I'm so thankful that I have the opportunity to be a mother and to love and nurture one of God's children. It has been and I'm sure will continue to be one of the greatest blessings I will experience in this life. I am also very thankful for the Gospel and the guidance we have within it. It's so reassuring to know that because I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I can read/listen to the words of modern day prophets and receive guidance for my life. I am also very thankful for the concept of Eternal Families and the knowledge that I can be with my sweet family forever! I'm most thankful though, that when the going gets tough and it seems like I just can't take it anymore, I can turn to my Father in Heaven and His Son Jesus Christ and through the atonement of Jesus Christ, I can be at peace with whatever life throws at me!
I guess this was my fast and testimony meeting testimony, since I didn't share my testimony yesterday in Sacrament Meeting!
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
Gathered thoughts?
I've started about a million and one blog posts in the last week, and none of them feel right. I can't seem to get out the thoughts that are in my head lately, and it's really starting to drive me crazy!
So here's to hoping I can finish THIS post. Because frankly, this is getting ridiculous!
One of the posts I started spawned from listening to and thinking about the song, "You're gonna miss this" by Trace Adkins. I have been thinking a lot lately how fast the time has gone since Ellie joined our little family and I can't believe that a) Christmas is only 3 months away b) that Ellie's turning 1 in 3 months and c) that Ellie's just about to start walking! Seriously, where has the time gone??
As more and more people I know are finally having babies, or have just had babies, I start to miss Ellie as a sweet little sleepy baby, and I marvel at how much she's grown in (nearly) 9 months time! She is so sweet, and she's becoming such a cute little girl! She's not a baby anymore, and it's so hard to let the baby things go! I want her to stay my little baby forever, but I know that's not fair to anyone. She has such a huge personality and her smile is so contagious. She's a very happy baby 90% of the time and being around her makes me happy (when she's not destroying all in her line of sight...).
Another post I started a while back was about being a stay at home mom. I am extremely grateful every day that I get to stay home with Ellie to teach her, help her learn and grow and to be there to watch her accomplish little milestones. When we were in New York, I really loved staying home with Ellie, and the thought of leaving her to go back to work really broke my heart this time because I think it would be harder to leave her now because she really knows who I am, she is doing more and more fun things every day and she is always sad when I leave her anywhere. The fact that we can squeeze by with me staying at home is such a blessing, and I am so thankful to my Heavenly Father for providing us with what we need so I can be with Ellie to nurture her and teach her the things she needs to know to return to Him.
Being a mother is one of the most fun/exhausting/trying/emotional things I've ever done, but I am so thankful for the opportunity I have to be Ellie's mom! It's such a rewarding thing to do!
I'm still feeling bleh about this post, but that's OK, because I'll just move on to more exciting topics and maybe things will become less "bleh"?
Last week was a CRAZY week in the Grigsby home. It was career week at BYU, and David had something EVERY DAY and that meant that he had to go to school dressed up all week because he'd be talking with recruiters and potential employers. He had a few interviews and I even got to attend a dinner with him and recruiters from Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, The Navy, IM Flash, and Celanese. It was a fun opportunity except for the fact that there was a fiance of one of the chemical engineers there that just talked and talked and talked and TALKED AND TALKED AND TALKED! I thought that I was going to go insane, because she wouldn't let ANYBODY say anything because she had to know EVERY little detail about EVERYTHING that every company did. It was annoying and I'm still upset about it because she butted into a conversation and David didn't get to talk to one of the recruiters for Dow, which is one of the companies he'd most like to work for. Anyway, moving on before I get more frustrated about it. On Friday, David played in a golf tournament with various recruiters, and his team tied for 1st place! They didn't win anything tangent, but it was cool to know David's good at golfing (well I already knew that) and that his team did well. He was very pleased about that and so am I.
Besides all the jobs he applied for during career week, he's been applying to basically anything and everything out there. We're hoping that we get positive news back from at least one company because knowing that he'll have a job when he graduates will be great and will relieve a lot of stress for us!
Just in case anybody is wondering, the jobs are basically all over the east coast. From Texas and over. There are a couple companies in Utah that he could work for, but he doesn't think he'll get a job at them, so we're probably not staying here. Though I really want him to get a job with IM flash because then we wouldn't have to move until we needed to because it's just before the point of the mountain and he could easily commute to work every day. Here's to hoping that happens!
Like I said, life has been crazy lately, but it's fun and we're so excited that David's ALMOST finished with school!
Also, I'm very excited for General Conference this weekend! The Relief Society Broadcast was amazing, and I honestly felt like all the talks were written just for ME. Especially President Uchtdorf's talk! Talk about amazing and spiritual! I hope everyone enjoys conference weekend, and that you hear something that you need to hear to strengthen your faith in Jesus Christ.
So here's to hoping I can finish THIS post. Because frankly, this is getting ridiculous!
One of the posts I started spawned from listening to and thinking about the song, "You're gonna miss this" by Trace Adkins. I have been thinking a lot lately how fast the time has gone since Ellie joined our little family and I can't believe that a) Christmas is only 3 months away b) that Ellie's turning 1 in 3 months and c) that Ellie's just about to start walking! Seriously, where has the time gone??
As more and more people I know are finally having babies, or have just had babies, I start to miss Ellie as a sweet little sleepy baby, and I marvel at how much she's grown in (nearly) 9 months time! She is so sweet, and she's becoming such a cute little girl! She's not a baby anymore, and it's so hard to let the baby things go! I want her to stay my little baby forever, but I know that's not fair to anyone. She has such a huge personality and her smile is so contagious. She's a very happy baby 90% of the time and being around her makes me happy (when she's not destroying all in her line of sight...).
Another post I started a while back was about being a stay at home mom. I am extremely grateful every day that I get to stay home with Ellie to teach her, help her learn and grow and to be there to watch her accomplish little milestones. When we were in New York, I really loved staying home with Ellie, and the thought of leaving her to go back to work really broke my heart this time because I think it would be harder to leave her now because she really knows who I am, she is doing more and more fun things every day and she is always sad when I leave her anywhere. The fact that we can squeeze by with me staying at home is such a blessing, and I am so thankful to my Heavenly Father for providing us with what we need so I can be with Ellie to nurture her and teach her the things she needs to know to return to Him.
Being a mother is one of the most fun/exhausting/trying/emotional things I've ever done, but I am so thankful for the opportunity I have to be Ellie's mom! It's such a rewarding thing to do!
I'm still feeling bleh about this post, but that's OK, because I'll just move on to more exciting topics and maybe things will become less "bleh"?
Last week was a CRAZY week in the Grigsby home. It was career week at BYU, and David had something EVERY DAY and that meant that he had to go to school dressed up all week because he'd be talking with recruiters and potential employers. He had a few interviews and I even got to attend a dinner with him and recruiters from Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, The Navy, IM Flash, and Celanese. It was a fun opportunity except for the fact that there was a fiance of one of the chemical engineers there that just talked and talked and talked and TALKED AND TALKED AND TALKED! I thought that I was going to go insane, because she wouldn't let ANYBODY say anything because she had to know EVERY little detail about EVERYTHING that every company did. It was annoying and I'm still upset about it because she butted into a conversation and David didn't get to talk to one of the recruiters for Dow, which is one of the companies he'd most like to work for. Anyway, moving on before I get more frustrated about it. On Friday, David played in a golf tournament with various recruiters, and his team tied for 1st place! They didn't win anything tangent, but it was cool to know David's good at golfing (well I already knew that) and that his team did well. He was very pleased about that and so am I.
Besides all the jobs he applied for during career week, he's been applying to basically anything and everything out there. We're hoping that we get positive news back from at least one company because knowing that he'll have a job when he graduates will be great and will relieve a lot of stress for us!
Just in case anybody is wondering, the jobs are basically all over the east coast. From Texas and over. There are a couple companies in Utah that he could work for, but he doesn't think he'll get a job at them, so we're probably not staying here. Though I really want him to get a job with IM flash because then we wouldn't have to move until we needed to because it's just before the point of the mountain and he could easily commute to work every day. Here's to hoping that happens!
Like I said, life has been crazy lately, but it's fun and we're so excited that David's ALMOST finished with school!
Also, I'm very excited for General Conference this weekend! The Relief Society Broadcast was amazing, and I honestly felt like all the talks were written just for ME. Especially President Uchtdorf's talk! Talk about amazing and spiritual! I hope everyone enjoys conference weekend, and that you hear something that you need to hear to strengthen your faith in Jesus Christ.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Nauvoo
OK, so there's lots to say about Nauvoo, but I don't have all the time in the world to say it so forgive me!
When we got into Nauvoo, we headed to the visitor's center to grab some brochures and then went to the Brickyard. It was cool to learn about how they make brick and hear stories about the people building homes and what not.
After that, we decided to make our way to Carthage. We knew we wouldn't have tons of time to see everything, so we made going to Carthage a priority, since it's such a spiritual experience. When we got to the visitor's center, we were the ONLY people there, so we watched the movie, then the Sister Missionaries took us on a tour of the jail. What an amazing experience. It is honestly like no other experience I've had, and I hope that EVERYONE can someday visit Carthage Jail and walk where Joseph, Hyrum, John Taylor and others have walked. It was definitely an experience that strengthened my testimony, and I am so thankful for the opportunity we had to visit Carthage Jail. I will remember the feeling I felt in that room forever!
If you want to learn more about this click here.
After we visited Carthage, we didn't have any time to make it back to Nauvoo before things closed, which was sad but OK since we had such a good experience at Carthage. We headed to Keokuk, Iowa for dinner at Ogo's. ...interesting place...they served whole catfish, fried froglegs and other scary looking things. Pretty much the desserts were the best part and I was glad when dinner was done ha ha. We stayed in Keokuk and had planned to get up and go to church before going to Nauvoo again to see what we missed the day before. Our plan was thwarted when we all woke up at 8:45 and church started at 9. So, we were unable to make it to church and went down to breakfast, packed up and headed back to Nauvoo to see a few more things.
We drove through an insane storm to get back to Nauvoo and we were pretty sad to learn that we probably wouldn't be able to get out and walk the Temple grounds and take pictures since it was SO stormy. We decided to just sit for a while and lo and behold, the storm passed!
Pictures of the Nauvoo Temple during the rain!
Inside the Seventies Hall
Different view of the Nauvoo Temple! It's such an AWESOME Temple!
We set the camera on a timer, and David ran back into the picture JUST in time. :)
David and Ellie on the Nauvoo Temple Grounds
Seriously, if you have the opportunity, visit Nauvoo. It's such a beautiful place with such a great atmosphere! Whether or not your are a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you can have an enjoyable time visiting Nauvoo and taking in the beauty that is there.
We loved our short but sweet trip to Nauvoo and I'm so happy we decided to take the extra travel time to visit! So neat!
When we got into Nauvoo, we headed to the visitor's center to grab some brochures and then went to the Brickyard. It was cool to learn about how they make brick and hear stories about the people building homes and what not.
After that, we decided to make our way to Carthage. We knew we wouldn't have tons of time to see everything, so we made going to Carthage a priority, since it's such a spiritual experience. When we got to the visitor's center, we were the ONLY people there, so we watched the movie, then the Sister Missionaries took us on a tour of the jail. What an amazing experience. It is honestly like no other experience I've had, and I hope that EVERYONE can someday visit Carthage Jail and walk where Joseph, Hyrum, John Taylor and others have walked. It was definitely an experience that strengthened my testimony, and I am so thankful for the opportunity we had to visit Carthage Jail. I will remember the feeling I felt in that room forever!
If you want to learn more about this click here.
After we visited Carthage, we didn't have any time to make it back to Nauvoo before things closed, which was sad but OK since we had such a good experience at Carthage. We headed to Keokuk, Iowa for dinner at Ogo's. ...interesting place...they served whole catfish, fried froglegs and other scary looking things. Pretty much the desserts were the best part and I was glad when dinner was done ha ha. We stayed in Keokuk and had planned to get up and go to church before going to Nauvoo again to see what we missed the day before. Our plan was thwarted when we all woke up at 8:45 and church started at 9. So, we were unable to make it to church and went down to breakfast, packed up and headed back to Nauvoo to see a few more things.
We drove through an insane storm to get back to Nauvoo and we were pretty sad to learn that we probably wouldn't be able to get out and walk the Temple grounds and take pictures since it was SO stormy. We decided to just sit for a while and lo and behold, the storm passed!
Pictures of the Nauvoo Temple during the rain!
Inside the Seventies Hall
Different view of the Nauvoo Temple! It's such an AWESOME Temple!
We set the camera on a timer, and David ran back into the picture JUST in time. :)
David and Ellie on the Nauvoo Temple GroundsSeriously, if you have the opportunity, visit Nauvoo. It's such a beautiful place with such a great atmosphere! Whether or not your are a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you can have an enjoyable time visiting Nauvoo and taking in the beauty that is there.
We loved our short but sweet trip to Nauvoo and I'm so happy we decided to take the extra travel time to visit! So neat!
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