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.

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).