Spiritual Renewal

Besides my double chin, I kind of love this picture and that little baby.

The Hunger Games was a success last night...after I got over the super graphic killing. My favorite part of the night was all of the ladies that I got to hang out with. They're the coolest. I am definitely motivated me to read the book now. I'm actually going to start today. Right now.

We're so excited for the weekend around here. It will be full of spiritual renewal. We're kicking it off with a trip to the Jordan River Temple with our favorites. We haven't been to one single session together since...well ever. I'm glad that we're changing that. Tonight.

Melinda and I are also meeting at Deseret Book for Nie Nie's book signing tonight. She is such a beautiful spiritual person, I'm stoked! Is is super lame if I have her sign a piece of paper and then glue it in my book when it gets here April 3rd? Of course not! I really am doing it. 

Tomorrow we will be watching and listening to the words of our prophet during LDS General Conference. One of my most favorite weekends of the year. This is where we are truly spiritually recharged. Want to join? Please do. We would love it.

  

You can tune in tomorrow at 10 and 2 and Sunday at 10 and 2. We will be! We've come up with a little tradition over the past few years. Jeremy and I always watch the Saturday morning session together with breakfast in bed. Then we head over to the Ruesches for the afternoon session and later the boys go off to thier priesthood session of conference. While the boys are out we take the chance to have a girls night, anything goes down from eating, crafting, or shopping. This time, we have a baby showers - it'll be like a mega girls night!

Sunday, we head over the my family's house for the day and eat caramel apples in between sessions. Aren't family traditions the best? Even the little ones make like that much sweeter.

Enjoy the weekend and may the odds be ever in your favor.

Digressing from a Funk

You know when you're kind of in a funk, not quite happy but not sad really. Just bla.

I've been in one since Sunday, yes Sunday is when this bad boy moved in. My poor husband bears all the brunt of my funks, poor boy. I feel like today it's finally moving out and I'm finally moving on from it. How's that for dramatic?

I thought I'd share a couple of the things that have gotten me out of this dramatic funk of mine. You know, just in case you fall into a dramatic funk anytime soon. Happens to the best of us right?

#1 Run into a lovely friend that you haven't seen in ages. Mine is Heidi. You can't have mine, but I bet you do have an old friend that you have been neglecting. Again, happens to the best of us.

#2 Listen to THIS song, because I promise that it will make you happy every.single.time. If it doesn't then I can't help you. Hey Jude is my ultimate pick up song -- I can't tell you how many times I've belted this in my car on the way to work...on the way home...in the shower. You get the idea.

#3 Take a bubble bath with with a bath bomb or a bubble bar...or what the heck, throw both in!

They make you're water sparkly, your skin soft, and make YOU feel like you're a princess in heaven. We all deserve to be pampered like princesses, especially during a funk. Oh, it also helps if you can watch a couple episodes of Cougar Town too while you soak your troubles away.

#4 Watch hilarious YouTube videos. The following is especially funny if you've had a rough and tumble run-in with your arch nemesis treadmill lately. I'm not the only one who considers the treadmill to be my arch nemesis, do I?

#5 And finally, last but not least, go and kiss your husband, significant other, mother, brother, or dog. Show them some love and remember that they've been putting up with your crazy funk antics and still love you none the less. How lucky are you?