The brighter side

I'm sick of being sick. Today is like the perfect storm of every pregnancy symptom herefore experienced, but all at once. I would classify it as a very bad day.

Water makes me puke, but somehow pancakes do not. Strange? Everything is strange right now.

My house is nowhere where I want it to be and still needs a lot of work and organization. It doesn't help that I am a walking (more like sitting or laying) pregnant zombie half my days.

I am starting to really miss our families....and the mountains....and the snow.

Mark is leaving me in Kansas... Alone in kansas.... for a week long training.

I still hate the smell of our kitchen.

The brighter side? The lovely brighter side? The continual tender mercies of the Lord side?

- The gospel is true and we can feel the Lords constant guidance.

- We heard our beautiful baby's heart beat yesterday. What a miracle life is. It's unbelievable.

- Mark has a wonderful job making enough that I don't have to jump right into work to further sustain us. I can endure 1st trimester from the comfort of my home.

- We have a couch downstairs... And it will soon be a comfy hangout pad without pink walls.

- The ward here is amazing and are super nice and super welcoming.

- Mark gets to play with tractors and people really like him there.

- I at least have some good days and can eat most food most days.

- There may be no mountains but this place has beautiful sunsets and sunrises everyday.

- There are 50 different churches in Newton. Everyone is so openly religious and loving and don't care if you go to a different church. It is so fun.

- We found an amazing midwife who will see us until we get insurance and will be our support through the whole thing! She also works with an incredible doctor who we will also be seeing.

- Mark met an elementary principle who says she will be looking for my name and can't wait to get me in to substitute.

- BBQ is better, and cheaper, in Kansas.....yummy!

I want to look more toward the brighter side, the happier side. Happier even when it seems like days are being masked by the seemingly bad.

I love that all good comes from our Heavenly Father. Start counting all the good and then you realize how loved you really are. It throws me into a more eternal perspective. I wish I could just constantly have that perspective. Wouldn't life just make so much more sense? Wouldn't our trials seem so manageable and seemingly easy?

Have you ever met someone like that? I have. Am I one of those people? Absolutely not.

Still....I am going to more often strive for that happy, eternal state of mind. I'm going to start by stepping into the brighter side.

Oh life

Life...
I feel like it's running us over, leaving us behind in it's tracks...

There's class (enough credits to keep us busy themselves), homework (lots is an understatement), work (paid and unpaid), laundry to be done, ASME meetings and socials (not to mention all the work he does behind the scenes as a secretary), a house to clean (yikes!), PALS activities and trainings (and LOTS of busy work), DESA money handling and fridge stocking, lab grading (not his favorite thing), groceries to be bought (note: we have starved due to lack of time), appointments to meet, blogs to be written..... does it ever end?


Lucky for us we have gospel scriptures, talks, hymns, magazines, etc right at the tip of our fingers! (Our scripture app on our iTouch have made this even more remarkable.)

Lucky for us we get to slow down this weekend and listen to Him speak through our beloved prophets, seers, and revelators.

Lucky for us there is someone who won't leave us behind, someone who will pick us up when this craziness we call life knocks us down and tramples us under it's feet. That person is our Savior Jesus Christ.

Blessed are we to be a part of this wonderful good news gospel!

I have felt very close to my Savior lately. Thanks to some wonderful experiences, institute classes, and questions so tenderly answered. This is a gospel of happiness and joy, we know that for a fact.

That fact keeps us going in such a crazy awesome world! That fact keeps us loving every little bit of it.