Summer time

It's always hard to get back to blogging when I haven't updated in a long time. But it's officially summer vacation for me! Curtis has about a week and a half left and then he has a few weeks off too!! So I figured it was time I updated with some recent happenings.




My cute hubby grilling up Speedies after he got home from clinic one day. It's been really fun to have a grill. We were given gift cards specifically for a grill and we finally got the chance to buy one! We've already used it three times in the past week. It's been wonderful!

Here are the Speedies on the top and then peppers and onions on the bottom....yummy...

I recently had a class at a Relief society activity where we learned about square foot gardening. I've never been one to really love gardening, but the green thumb does run in my family... so I decided that I'd try a tiny bit. We don't have enough room to garden really so I just decided to do some herbs in small pots and then a tomato plant. This picture is a basil plant that I was given at the class. My tomato plant already is starting to shoot up tiny plants, so I'm pretty excited. We'll have to see how this goes...

Easter Wreath

I've had my mind the past couple of weeks on making an Easter egg wreath for our front door. I finally got it started the other day and then ran out of eggs.... so I finished today! 

I think it's probably my favorite craft I've made.

My cute husband pretending to knock .

While going through my camera I discovered some older pictures I've never posted. Here's one of Nicole, Juston, and Austin during our visit to Utah over Christmas. We went to this bounce place for my niece, Jennilyn's, 3rd birthday. It was super fun. Tons of adult siblings acting like 5 year olds again racing through bounce houses. Seriously. We made teams and then did a relay race through these inflatable things. 

I'm pretty sure everyone there, including other children, thought we were crazy.

 Jayden driving a car.

 Celebrating Curtis's birthday back in January.

 He must have blown out all the candles in one blow since he's so excited.

This was my Valentine's craft this year.

 And these babies just came in the mail today! We ordered snorkels for our trip to the Virgin Islands in June. Seemed to make more sense to buy them, then to rent them everyday. 

As you can tell, I'm pretty excited!

Randomness

Nothing incredibly profound to say. Have had a hard time feeling motivation to update the blog over the past month or so. We've been really busy, but with nothing important or cool. (Although we did go to Rascal Flatts on January 21st but I didn't get any great pictures.)

I really just wanted to change my background on my blog since we haven't had a winter wonderland at all this winter. It has been absolutely W.O.N.D.E.R.F.U.L.! Everyone talked about how Columbus gets ice storms and I wasn't too excited about that. But it's been a very warm winter like most of the country has been. Only two or three days where we got an inch of snow and I think I probably had to scrape off my car a dozen times. INCREDIBLE. Have had tons of rain, it's raining as I type. Makes for a "cozy on the couch and read a book" type of evening. I'm reading President Thomas S. Monson's Biography. (He's the Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.) It's amazing. He has lived such an inspirational life. Read it if you get the opportunity. I love reading his life stories and thinking about how incredible and supportive his wife is... Such an example to all of us.

On another random note, I booked our first hotel/place to stay in the Virgin Islands for June! We haven't bought our plane tickets yet, but this place only had two spots left so we had to get it quick. It's this Eco-friendly resort place in St. John. In other words, they're upscale tents!!! We're super excited. Click here to check it out. We decided that since we had a short honeymoon in August when we got married, we would go somewhere when Curtis had a break in June. Alright, I think that's all the randomness I have for today.

"Beautiful Heartbreak"

I absolutely love Hilary Weeks music. Her lyrics have always resounded with me and I've found a lot of peace over the years in many of her songs. Lately this song has been on the forefront of my mind. Sometimes we have trials where there is no end in sight and we have to remind ourselves that Heavenly Father has a plan for us. We struggle and struggle to keep moving forward with that faith even though the road may seem to have no direction. It is only after we have reached an end or had a tender mercy along the way that we can look back and recognize how far we have come and the things that we have learned. This has been my experience over the past few months as my original teaching job fell apart. I have never been more disappointed in my life and felt like I had no direction. Heavenly Father had a plan and I was blessed to get a new teaching job that has been more rewarding than I ever imagined. Heavenly Father filled my needs in more ways that I ever thought I needed. It has been humbling to look back on the past few months and see what Heavenly Father really had in store for me. I'm grateful for the "Beautiful Heartbreak" and what I have been able to learn.

"Beautiful Heartbreak" -Hilary Weeks