Little Things

Bri and I have been having way too much fun lately! 

Whether it's dropping our plans to go running and to get a quick assignment done, so we can go have a water gun fight and draw with sidewalk chalk (Thank Bailey :)) 

Or attempting crawdad fishing and jumping in freezing lakes with TJ.

Or staying up late and watching movies on one of our laptops. 

Or walking around beautiful Rexburg.

Or grabbing the wrong end of the bread bag and dropping the whole loaf on the ground and laughing for 10 minutes even though it wasn't that funny. 

Or rock climbing and going on giant swings.

 Or running out in the rain only to realize it's not that fun because it's freezing and running back inside. It's so easy to find joy in the little things with Brian. I can't believe how much more I grow to love him every day.

Marriage is the greatest blessing ever!

At work the other day I was helping someone in their room and walked out to see this. One of the resident's had taken two pancakes from an extra plate and put them on her feet as "shoes." :)

I absolutely love my job! I became a CNA because I was planning on going into nursing, and even though that has changed I am so grateful for the opportunity I had to get my CNA while in high school. I learn so much from the sweet spirits each of them have. They are so humble; I always think of how hard it would be to have mostly teenagers and young adults providing care for them while they have been caring for their children and others their whole lives and cannot do it anymore. I never knew how much a "job" could change my life. Each and every day I work, I learn more about what it means to love, to be grateful, to be humble, to sacrifice, and to live. Right now I am working in a dementia care facility, and while it definitely has a few added emotional challenges, it is the most rewarding "job" I've ever had. I cannot wait until I can see these wonderful people in Heaven to truly get to know them. I am so grateful for the knowledge I have of the perfect Plan of Salvation and for my testimony of the Gospel so that I am able to remember and understand that each of these wonderful people can be resurrected and gain perfect bodies. 

We're just loving this Spring semester! Brian takes the DAT on Friday so we'll head to Utah Thursday night! He's studied so hard and is so ready to take it already! I know he's going to do great! Brian and I have been talking a lot about just how blessed we are to be here in Rexburg and the opportunities that are all around us. We are in such an awesome ward and we love our neighbors. We have the greatest families of all time and are so excited to be able to spend so much of August with both of them. We have so many wonderful friends who are such great examples to us. And mostly we have each other and the Gospel in our lives! Even though there's so many obstacles to overcome, we have all we need and then some, and we know that we'll get through anything that comes our way in this some kind of wonderful life! 

Oh yeah, we ATE these.