Combo pic and thought :)

I'm kind of obsessed with dark chocolate, sea salt, and caramel all together. I was at Target a few weeks ago and found a bag of chocolate with the three ingredients above and just had to buy it. I forgot about them until the other day and now I can't stop eating them. This was my favorite Dove wrapper advice I've ever gotten so it becomes my pic of the day and my wisdom for the day.

I'm basically just a giant little kid. So is Devon. I think it makes life so much better though because we indulge in the childhood joys around us and we don't take life super seriously (minus the things that you have to take seriously, like budgets and bill paying). For example, we have like 50 lego people on top of our stove (that should so be my pic of the day one of these days) and I think it's pretty awesome. Sometimes I wonder how anyone let us get married but we blame Kershaw Co. in South Carolina for that.

And in case you haven't heard that story well Devon didn't know where his social security card was before our wedding and didn't tell me that. He also didn't think you'd need one to get a marriage license. So he did some research and found out that in certain counties of SC you actually didn't need to show one to get a marriage license, you just needed an ID. Right, the closest one was about 2 hours away and was the podunkiest town ever. No joke, right next to the county courthouse was a hot pink and black trailer store called "Kuntry Korners Trailer Home Supplies". It was pretty awesome. Oh and the greek restaurant sold the state's best italian pizza. Right, cause the greeks are so well known for their italian pizza. Anyway, so we go to get our license and they didn't even ask for IDs. We could have been underage or cousins and no one would have cared. It made my understanding for SC so much more clear.

You've been booed

My picture for today is of the yummy treats I made tonight for young womens. The bags are full of muddy buddies and because I didn't make enough (someone stole some of my chocolate chips...hmm...) I tied suckers to the outside. I know my pictures aren't great and artsy and fancy but the whole point is I want to remember some of the little things in life. Tonight for YW we made ghost suckers on strings and took them to the homes of some of the inactive or sick YW and to a new family in our ward's houses, tied them in their trees, and also made a poster we left on their front door saying that we missed them and they'd been booed. The girl's then rang the doorbell and ran away like crazy. The group I was with had a lot of fun and no one got injured which is a plus. I'm seriously so grateful for my calling. I have learned SO much from all the girls and we have an awesome group. I've also made some great friends from the other leaders and they have been so nice about welcoming me in as an outsider. Anyway, so here is a picture of my yummy treats:

For my inspiring quote I'm going to just post a pic I found online of a quote. I was having a kind of a downer day and this cheered me up :) I found the picture here.

Why I get super stressed every 4-6 weeks.

Part of my job is being the Brand Manager. That means in addition to running the sale floor and making money I am in charge of running all the floor set changes. It's super stressful but I love it. I love visual standards and making sure everything is perfect. Unless it involves bows, anything involving a bow drives me nuts because a.) no one can tie bows pretty at my store and b.) I end up tying all the bows and it takes me forever trying to make them perfect. Anyway, todays picture is of my planning. We have to change the walls on Saturday morning at 6 AM and I'm stressed about it. Each of those boxes is a cabinet in the store (we have 47) and all the ones with the red dots have to change. Plus the laundry list of marketing changes for all 47 cabinets. Yuck.

My inspiring quote for today is from an Ensign article from Thomas S. Monson. It says:

 "If you want to give a light to others, you have to glow yourself." 

 I love this because it just encourages me to remember I need to work on me first before I can pass what I know and love onto others. I often times put myself last but that can be detrimental if I'm sacrificing some of the stuff I need to do in order to do things for others.

Being optimistic

Now that vacation is over I'm totally on board with posting a picture from my every day life and a happy/spiritual/uplifting thought/quote/story every day. I really think this will be helpful as I go into the holiday season at work. It's hard to remember the good things when you're working so many hours and life is so busy.

Today I came across this article here and I really loved it. I especially love the last paragraph that says:

"Change is the Lord’s way. He wants us to be happy and growing, to be excited to move on with our lives. Life is a journey, and while still enjoying the present and preparing for inevitable challenges, we must move forward, remaining optimistic, our hearts open to the experiences and good things that are undoubtedly on their way." 

I totally am the type of person who always is wanting the next stage in life to happen. In high school all I wanted was to be in college, in college I wanted to be done working full time, in being married I just want to be a mom, so on and so forth. I really need to stop and enjoy where I'm presently at. Devon is the same way, and so I think we both consciously are trying to do all we can while we're at our present state in life before we have kids. After all, we'll only be young and just the two of us once. I also tend to get bogged down with the challenges I presently face without seeing the hope for the future. I need to remember any trial I'm going through is just preparing me for something great in the future.

The reason I decided to post a picture every day for this blog is to appreciate the little things in my life.  So my pic for today is of a puzzle I've been working on. I swear I'm never ever going to finish it (so much for remaining optimistic about the future from the quote above ha ha).