Memorial Day a Mile High

This year may have been my favorite Memorial Day! It was a day full of America's favorite past time... BASEBALL! It was the Rockies first double header in 40 some odd years.  They played the Houston Astro's and I got to go to both!  I went to the early game with my friend Leslie and we took the Elders because it was the first baseball game on a P day like...ever.  It was way fun!  About 14 other Elders were there too, they were all so cute and excited like little boys with their baseball gloves waiting for a fly ball! It was really fun!

After the game, we went to Cafe Rio and met Woody there and then Woody and I left from there and went to the second game!  It was SO FUN!  We were on the 17th row! After the game they had an incredible firework show.  I am not one to take pictures of fire works, especially when it's just at a baseball game.  Usually nothing too spectacular, but this was just as good, if not better, than the stadium of fire.  It was like 20 minutes long and everyone was just in total awe....EVEN WOODY!  They played Country music and USA songs the whole time and I won't lie, I got a little choked up.  I was just overcome with gratitude for the amazingly beautiful country we live in.  I am SO proud to be an AMERICAN! WOOOHOOO!

 OH! AND THEY WON BOTH GAMES! 

Thanks to the Hero's

Today was great.  Not only was it Sunday which I love... but it is also Memorial Day weekend which I also love.  There was a mix up and miscommunication in Sacrament Meeting today and there was only one speaker.  After he spoke and we sang a rest hymn, our awesome Bishop got up and spoke for about 15 minutes about Memorial Day.  We then sang Battle Hymn of the Republic and then he opened the last ten minutes for anyone to come up and share about Memorial Day.  It was one of THE BEST meetings I have ever been in.  Some Veterans spoke, some family members of fallen soldiers spoke, and some spoke who were just filled with gratitude for the service men and women who have and are fighting for our freedom.  Bishop Montgomery shared just a piece of this but I just read the whole thing and feel so humbled.

PRAYER FOR PEACE, MEMORIAL DAY 2012
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Our Nation endures and thrives because of the devotion of our men and women in uniform, who, from generation to generation, carry a burden heavier than any we may ever know.
On Memorial Day, we honor those who have borne conflict's greatest cost, mourn where the wounds of war are fresh, and pray for a just, lasting peace. The American fabric is stitched with the stories of sons and daughters who gave their lives in service to the country they loved.
They were patriots who overthrew an empire and sparked revolution. They were courageous men and women who strained to hold a young Union together. They were ordinary citizens who rolled back the creeping tide of tyranny, who stood post through a long twilight struggle, who saw terror and extremism threaten our world's security and said, "I'll go." And though their stories are unique to the challenges they faced, our fallen service members are forever bound by a legacy of valor older than the Republic itself.
Now they lay at rest in quiet corners of our country and the world, but they live on in the families who loved them and in the soul of a Nation that is safer for their service.
Today, we join together in prayer for the fallen. We remember all who have borne the battle, whose devotion to duty has sustained our country and kept safe our heritage as a free people in a free society.
Though our hearts ache in their absence, we find comfort in knowing that their legacy lives on in all of us -- in the security that lets us live in peace, the prosperity that allows us to pursue our dreams, and the love that still beats in those who knew them. May God bless the souls of the venerable warriors we have lost, and may He watch over the men and women who serve us now. Today, tomorrow, and in perpetuity, let us give thanks to them by remaining true to the values and virtues for which they fight.

Thank you to all of you in the armed forces who have left your families, jobs, schooling, and lives to fight so that we may remain a free country.  My heart is filled with such humility and gratitude for each of you as well as your families who sacrifice more than anyone will ever know.  And this Memorial Day thank you to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.  May peace be with the families of the fallen soldiers. You are all Hero's.  THANK YOU AND HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

Sweet One Who Birthed Me

What a wonderful day is Mother's Day! I seriously owe everything to my amazing mom.  She is the most hilariously, appropriately inappropriate person I know and I can't imagine life without her! She has taught me everything I need to know about life from how to bake a cake to how to make friends.  I can honestly say that I have never in my life, not liked my mom.  Of course you always love your mom but I have always liked my mom too.  And if you have ever stepped inside her house you love her too!  She loves all of her kids as well as her pretend kids with all her heart and would do anything for anyone.  You can just plan on showing up at her house and seeing someone sleeping on her couch or talking to her in the kitchen or her sitting on the porch with her cute puppy a million neighbors.  She raised us five wildebeests with unconditional love and support.  She is the best person I know and I am SOOOOO lucky to be able to call her mom! BAZINGA!

Through thick and thin

I just wanted to give a shot out to my girlfriends!  I think back on all the memories of high school and post high school and relationships and break ups and road trips and crepe nights and parties and weddings and jobs and moving away and I would have never made it to where I am now without my girlfriends. So I just wanted to thank you, and you know who you are, for all the times you stood by me and supported me and talked to me and trusted me and laughed with me and cried with me and helped me become who I am.