Most my life I have dreaded January. It has always seemed like such a drab month. I mean think of it. After all the fun, family and parties from October until December. January just seems so sad boring and lonely. Not to mention that it is right in the middle of winter so we are cooped up in our houses. And now living in Salt Lake City we have bad inversions to top it off. BUT for some reason this year I have extremely looked forward to this drab boring time of year. December was SO BUSY and CRAZY that I was longing for the January time when I could finally just relax for a moment and be a little less stressed. Well, once we got through that first Sunday in Primary (my main source of stress) things finally started to let up. But then they called and asked us to speak in church the following Sunday. Oh man, if any of you know me well, you know that talking in front of adults is very stressful for me. Though I do have to say that it was a REALLY neat experience for me. I felt the spirit so strong while preparing my talk and while giving it. It is amazing how stressful things that can be really scary can help you grow and be so much happier if you just buck it up and do it. It was also neat to hear Tim speak, he did a great job. At the end of my talk I wanted to share a Primary song with the congregation. It is the new song that that children are learning for our theme of I Know the Scriptures are True for the year. I had been listening to it a lot during the week, to learn it for Primary and because I really like it. Well little did I know that Emery had memorized it while it was being played throughout the week. So I thought why not have her sing it at the end of my talk. She is only 3 years old so I was really nervous if she would even sing when she got up in front of everyone. 3 year
olds are pretty unpredictable. It ended up going pretty good. She got shy for the first line of the song but then got up her nerve and just starting singing. Who knew, we both grew a little bit that day. :) I thought I would share a video of her practicing for it the night before.
We have also been able to do some fun things as a family during the week while Tim was still out of school, on the days he didn't have to work. On one day, we decided to go for a Snow Picnic. Why not? We packed soup in thermoses and warm grilled
cheese sandwiches. It actually worked and was pretty fun. Sometimes it is fun to think out of the box a little bit and just do weird things.
So I guess you could say that January has gone a little differently than we thought, but it has also been better than I thought as well. Sitting around in a stress free environment doing practically nothing may seem nice but it sure doesn't make me feel as happy in the long run. I don't think it is good to be busy all the time but I do feel it is good to have a balance. So far January has been that perfect balance of work and play/relaxation. Happy New Year Everyone. I hope you have a balanced New Year.
HOLY MOLY
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HOLY MOLY.....
We have been wanting to eat at the Red Iguana as soon as we moved to Salt Lake City and saw this restaurant on the food network channel. We really wanted to try one of their Mole platters. Why not for our anniversary. And it also checked off another item of our Salt Lake City Bucket list! Another great Anniversary to add to a list of memories as well!
