CHRISTMAS!

I slacked on doing my gratitude thing in November... I'll try harder this month. So I have a lot to be grateful for! I went to Mexico with my husband and the Peterson family to build houses. It was AMAZING. It's such a blessing to go and serve and FORGET yourself. I loved it. Here in the United States we are so blessed to have everything we have. It's amazing how much we have. I love my husband and family so much and I have so much. It's awesome to go right before Christmas because then I realize I don't need anything for Christmas. It's been amazing to not be here for the last 3 years for black friday and miss the whole commercial hype of Christmas. I'm so not into that anymore. There's so much more to Christmas than that. It's about spending time with your loved ones and showing that you CARE. I'm excited for this Christmas season and I'm going to try my best to focus on others and not on myself!

Gratitude: Day 6

November 6: Today I am SO grateful for my grandparents. We went up to Ogden to see them for my Papa's 87th birthday. He's such an amazing person. I'm thankful for him and his stories and experiences. Man, old people have such great insights on life. I'm grateful for my family SO much and for the kind people I have in my life!

Gratitude

November 5th: Today I am SO grateful for my friends. I have been blessed to have people in my life that have been amazing examples of so many things. I'm so grateful for the love and support that I feel from my friends. WOW. They are great!

Attitude of Gratitude.

I have a new goal for the month of November. Every day, I am going to write new things I am grateful for. So... here goes. I'm behind by 4 days so I have to catch up.

November 1: I am SO grateful for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is such a blessing in my life. I don't know where I would be without it. I'm grateful for my Savior and for the wonderful life he lived. I'm grateful for the Plan of Happiness and for the joy it brings me in my life.

November 2: I am SO grateful for my Amazing, Sweet, Kind, Loving, husband. He is my best friend and the most dear thing to me! I'm so grateful for his support and kindness. I love him and I have so much fun with him all the time! I am SO happy I married him!!! I lucked out FO SHO!

November 3: I am SO grateful for my family. I have the best family in the whole world! I don't know why I got so lucky to have such a great family, but man, Heavenly Father blessed me with a good one! I love them so much!! And, I can't leave out my in-laws. They are pretty amazing as well!!!!

November 4: I'm SO grateful for my healthy body that allows me to do the activities in my life that I love so much. I'm grateful for the opportunity to be physically fit and be able to participate in activities that allow me to see God's beautiful creations.

Determination.

So Kendall and I ran a 5k on Saturday for our school. It was one of those things where you go into it not expecting much. We ended up going 25 minutes for it. Kendall is like the best running buddy ever! I'm so thankful for her! Anywhoo... because of her, I think I'm gonna sign myself up for a half-marathon! Go me.

I'm an AUNTIE!

My sweet sis, Kendall had her baby on Tuesday. I had the unique opportunity to peek my head in while she was giving birth. It was such an amazing experience. It was really amazing to see a beautiful little spirit be brought into this earth. He's so pure and perfect. It was life-changing for me. I have a new perspective on motherhood and what it takes to get those little spirits here. I'm so grateful for Kendall and her caring nature and her kindness. She'll make a great mommy! And... Austin is the CUTEST baby I've ever seen! I'm not just saying that because he's my new nephew. He's Beautiful! I have rarely seen cuter babies! I'm so happy to have him in our family and I'm so excited to see him grow up by such great parents!!! Love You Greiner Family!

5 good things about TODAY

1. I slept good last night and woke up excited for the day!

2. My husband got up with me. That started my day even better.

3. At school, my students were awesome. They are great anyway-but today was a good day.

4. We had a class Easter party. My room mom is amazing and makes the most fun stuff for the kids.

5. I get to go work out. Being done swimming makes me want to always swim. It's a weird feeling.

The end.

thankful.

Today I'm thankful for a lot of things:

-my life

-the gospel

-my husband

-my family

-my job

-my friends

-my body

-exercise

-my dog PJ

- sleep

-happiness

-love

-shoes

-my blonde hair

-ken's new baby

-my students

I just need to remind myself how blessed i am every once in a while. I'm especially thankful for this guy! I love you baby!

St. George

This weekend, we got to head down to BEAUTIFUL St. George. I really needed to get away, so it was a nice break from life. We stayed at Logan's sweet grandparents home. We were able to go to Zions National Park and go for a fun hike up to Emerald Pools and also hiked the Grotto. It was so nice to see the beautiful mountains and nature around. We were able to swim, bike, and longboard back at the grandparents house too. It was just a nice break.

DEMO DAY

On Saturday, I convinced my sisters-Kate and Candice to come skiing with Logan and I. They went to Park's and got rentals and we headed up to Sundance. We skied for a while and they both did AMAZING for their first time going. I was very impressed. After a few runs, I realized it was demo day and could try whatever pairs of ski's I wanted! I was in HEAVEN!

Kate and Candice stayed for a while, and then decided they were done so they went home. Chance, Logan's bro came up and skied with us too. We were going crazy.

Slushy snow+good company+2012 powder skis=pretty freaking good day.

So if anyone ever feels inclined to buy me some ski's, you can choose between the following:

Beautiful.

Your hair is everywhere...

So this fella... PJ is about the hairiest animal around. We've had him for a year and love him to death! Logan's parent's dog, Lu had puppies and PJ is her offspring. He is an english setter and loves to chase the birds.. or golf balls.. or frisbees... or shoes... whatever. He is also very large
(75 pounds) and LOVES to cuddle.

PJ is a pretty loveable dog. Too bad he slobbers everywhere AND he's already a daddy! (At age 1.. That may or may not make him the youngest papa around.) PJ likes to visit my parents house for his playtime with their dogs. Forgetting that Princess, my parent's brittany spaniel isn't fixed, PJ went to town and I'm sure ACCIDENTALLY impregnated her. Cute puppies though. Not one of them looks like their mama.. therefore not being able to hide the evidence that our dog was the culprit. Don't worry. If you see spotted puppies around the neighborhood, he's probably just fulfilling his creation here on earth. Just kidding. We're getting him fixed next month.



This pup makes our house pretty dang hairy as well. Vacuuming once a day isn't always enough. I have a love-hate relationship with him for that very reason. Too bad we don't have a big backyard to keep him outside ALL the time. BUT.. he makes us laugh and is pretty much the greatest dog around!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I have the sweetest husband ever. He is so kind and loving. I definitely married up. He's great. I knew Logan had to work on Monday until 8, so we had to do our celebrating on Saturday.

While we were cleaning the house, Logan said he had to run a few errands. I said ok. The next thing I knew was him walking in with a dozen of roses the same color as our wedding flowers, and two big gift bags. He was so sweet. We then exchanged gifts and he took me to Chef's Table.

I'm more in love with him now (not because of Valentine's... just because....) then I was the day we were married.

I love you babe!

Grand Targhee

We went to Wyoming and spent the weekend skiing at Grand Targhee! It was such a needed break! I loved every minute of it. We even got to ski right up to our door. When we got sore or tired, there was an outdoor heated pool and hot tub. I felt the love.

Logan has this tradition of doing a backflip at Grand Targhee. So... here it is!

New Year's Resolution

We had a pretty eventful New Year's Eve. We watched a movie at my parents house to bring in the new year! It was quite a night. After the ball had dropped, we went home, sat in bed, and told eachother our New Year's resolutions. So.. Here they are. (Some of them...)

1. Eat healthier. We tend to go out to eat A LOT. Lazy me. I don't like to cook. Thus, this resolution is perfect for me!

2. Work out more. We always have excuses for not working out. Excuses are like butts. They all stink.

3. Be less judgemental. I always do this... I'm so horrible. I'm not perfect, so why should I be judging others?

ok... the rest I'm not posting on here. There are WAY too many. Happy New Year's!