Good Day, Sunshine

Finally!!!! I can see the sun and feel a little warmth! I spent part of the day today in my backyard with my cousin painting our beam for our family room and I actually got a little sunburned!!!!! It's not like I was out there for forever either! This is glorious. Sure, I'm not the biggest fan of sunburns in general, but this one is the first of the season plus, it's not too bad--at least I'm not feeling anything but warm yet :) We did a lot of work today and now I'm actually at work, but it's been such a great day!! I had a sleepover with my cousin last night. This morning we went and bought New Moon. Uncle Ken came and installed our new bookshelves and we got them all decorated and looking cute. We dusted the upstairs. We painted the beam. And we saw a lot of sunshine!!!!!!!! I love it.

New Semester, One Month Gone

Basically, I hardly ever post ANYTHING!!! I should be better at that :) You'd think that when something actually happens and/or changes it would give me reason to write, but no. I apparently never write. :) Here's a quick recap:

Kami and Brooke both left for their missions!! Brooke is in Plano, Texas and Kami is still in the MTC in Argentina--in a few weeks she'll head off for Uruguay!! They are both doing great! Things may not have started off all that great for them emotionally, but things have really started to pick up. Brooke has already had one baptism and she has at least one more this month! As for Kami, they send the missionaries in the MTC down there out tracting on Saturdays and her first time out (which also happened to be her birthday) she had a really great experience. She was scared to death and nervous to be in a place she had never been before and have to speak Spanish to them after only having spent about a week studying it at the MTC. They took a bus to the middle of Buenos Aires and the first thing she hears when she gets off the bus is a Dire Straits song playing in English. For anyone who doesn't know, my dad was a HUGE Dire Straits fan so that of course helped her feel a little more at home, but then she says she literally felt my dad grab her hand and heard him say, "Let's get to work, Princess." Yeah, I can't quite read or tell or hear that story without tearing up yet :). Things have gone uphill for Kami since then. She says she felt him with her that whole day and I'm sure he'll be with her for her entire mission--he always talked about how much he loved his mission and how he would love to serve another one! He was so excited for both Kami and Brooke when they got their calls and was also excited they would be speaking Spanish. I'm sure he'll help both of them out on their missions from time to time :)

I finally finished last semester! I know I have written about how awesome all of my classes were--which they were--but they were seriously never-ending! I've never had near as much homework as I did last semester! Good thing I wasn't ever able to add that english class I was trying to get into! I might have had to drop out from stress :) The stress was already enough to make me change my major--I am now majoring in Home and Family Living and I am loving it so far. This semester I am taking: Family Finance, Basic Clothing Construction, Critical Inquiry and Research Methods, and Strengthening Marriage and Family. Surprisingly, I am loving all of them! Even my research class :)!! Who'd have thought? I've never liked doing research, but I'm still really enjoying it!

And finally, the last thing I can think of right now that needs to be updated--I got a new calling! I was a Primary teacher (teaching the 4-5 year olds) and that was fine, but now I am the assistant YW camp director! I'm sooo excited!! I always loved camp when I was in young women's and I think it's going to be so much fun to help with it this summer!

Other than those things, my life has basically just been the usual boring. It's still fun though:)