Sunday

Today has been a great Sunday.  We went to church and Brian did all his exec. sec stuff and then we went to a CAT party.  It is their 30 year mark here in Lafayette and on Friday they fed all employees, even all the factory workers a really nice lunch and today they had a company picnic with good food and treats.  They really went all out.  I got to see where Brian’s desk is and got to go on a tour.  It is amazing what they can do.  The factory is HUGE!!!  Dad you would have enjoyed it.  We were really surprised that they shut the factory down.  All the shift workers got the day off. Brian said that they were really happy about that. 

Tonight we watched the show on ABC called Secret Millionaire.  Ya know, there is a lot of filth on TV that portrays the lifestyles of people that only Satin himself can appreciate.  Every once in awhile a show comes along that actually shows the good in the world.  If you haven’t seen the show you really need to watch it.  Tonight one of the organizations they featured was one that help people who are in need of prosthetic limbs.  Did you know that it costs $10,000 per limb?  So for children that need them, they are going to go through a lot of them!  They grow like weeds!  Insurance companies will only pay for 1…. If that. 

I have been thinking a lot lately about the life hereafter.  I have been thinking about what it takes to live in heaven with Heavenly Father. Who will make it?  Will it surprise us how many go with us, or will we be shocked how many won’t make it?  But more than anything I have thought about how beautiful it will be.  Not the scenery or how pretty the houses will be but how glorious it will be to be reunited with those that we have lost. How beautiful it will be to see those that we saw with physical ailments.  Can you imagine what it will be like to see a little boy with a prosthetic leg get his new legs and be able to run and jump and climb trees?   How beautiful if will be to watch someone hear for the first time and see the look on their face.  How beautiful if will be to see all of those things! 

I have been following several blogs lately about people who have really just been put through the ringer.  I know that bad things happen to good people.  In my head I can understand that.  In my head I think that I would be one that would rely on the savior and grow closer to him.  But in my heart I question if I would be like that.  I would hope that I would be one of those that turned the bad in to the good and grew closer to Heavenly Father.  But I have seen the best of people really turn their back on Him when bad things happen.  What happens to people when bad things happen?  If you were to ask them 5 years ago they would have said the same thing, that they would never turn their backs.  What switch is turned off in people’s brains? 

Elder Neal A. Maxwell said: “The
 submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we 
have to place on God’s altar. The many other things we ‘give’ … are 
actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.”

Wow, isn’t that powerful!  Our families, our friends, our spouses and children aren’t even ours!  We have just been given them as a gift, or a ‘trial period.’  We only have our will.  With that will we decide how we treat those special people in our lives.  How we choose to live and more importantly how we choose to react and cope with the things that we are given and when those precious things are taken away.

Anywhoo,

There are millions of books published in a million languages that ‘teach’ us about true love.  We look to these fictional characters as role models and models of what our love should look like.  I however have found a much better source of what true love really is.  Don’t get me wrong, I sure do love a prince in shining armor and I got one.  I love reading talks from conference and from the past church authorities talk about their spouses.  They have the true understanding of what an eternal love is! 

“I am satisfied that happiness in marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one’s companion. Any man who will make his wife’s comfort his first concern will stay in love with her throughout their lives and through the eternity yet to come”-Gordon B. Hinckley

I love, love, love hearing the apostles talk about their sweet hearts!  I am very lucky that my prince charming also has the eternal perspective and treats me like he is the luckiest guy to get to be with me not just until the ‘happily ever after,’ but the hereafter as well.  I am so blessed.  I don’t tell Brian how much I appreciate and love him as much as I should, I don’t think any of us do, but I hope that we will continue to grow closer and closer together for the rest of time!

Last week I went to MN to see Chadd and Suzie.  We had a great time!  It was good to see them after not seeing them for over a year.  We went to the Mall of America, had our eyebrows threaded, the MN zoo, Zumba, Vampire Diaries and so much more.  It was really fun.  And sad to say… no pictures ha.

There are a few exciting things in development at our house but it is too early to disclose them.  Can’t wait to share them!

 The only minivan this family will ever have in it's driveway!  Well that is what Brian says ha.  Brian had a last minute trip and a van is all they had left.  Don't worry, he did a burn out at 4 in the morning outside my window.

 For those of you that want to send me a gift just for kicks and giggles, this is what you can get me.  I hate white kitchen floors!

 Me next to an engine block.  This is what Brian work's on! The above turns in to the below pic. Crazy isn't it! Brian hasn't had to go inspect any quite this big yet but he travels to look at some just a tiny bit smaller than this several times a month!