And after

Here's McKay pretending like hes actually doing homework! ha! We get home pretty late from school everyday, I usually leave school around 5:30 if I'm Lucky. Sometimes McKay doesn't get home til after 7. He says he is working on physics and Organic Chemistry, but don't let him fool you, I think he really goes to Micky D's every night and plays on the kid's play-place. : ) He got a haircut too! a whole half inch, doesn't he look dashing?



And finally here is my after to my hair cut! I got 7 inches cut off! Which was really difficult for me, because my hair was my little safety blanket. I feel like I have lost 5 pounds and now I have to actually do my hair everyday, which some days turn out better then others.

So what do you think? Hopefully I don't look like I'm 16 anymore. : ) I was going for a sophisticated look. Did it work? I think I look like I could totally have a PhD or something ; )

blessed

Sometimes I get so caught up in my daily routine that I don't take the time to look around at all the blessing I receive each day. McKay is taking a test right now,which gives me time to be alone and to think. When I start to think of all the blessing just in my day such as having the opportunity to go to school at BYU-I and to have awesome teachers and meeting amazing other students, I can't help but think of the gospel. Without the gospel I wouldn't be married to my best friend for time but for all eternity, I would be lost in life trying to figure out what it's all about. But instead I am able to pray everyday to a Father in Heaven who I know loves me, and I get to read scriptures that people sacrificed everything they had including there lives to bring it forth so we could to read it everyday freely.
Do you ever wonder why you get to have the gospel in your life and to have a lovely family, who supports and cares for you. I know the Lord has a plan for each one of us. Now if I could just figure out what that plan for me is, I would be set. But I know one of the purposes of life is just that; to find out what our role in this life is.
I also wanted to share this story; I watch it about 6 months ago and it has been on my mind a lot lately. It is a story about a wife and her husband that were in a plane crush and were severly burned. It's about how they have gotten through it. I am sure most of you have seen it, but just incase you haven't. Click here

new and improved

Remember that old frumpy me with my long lifeless hair. well I decided to make a change! with the help of a friend I made a few minor adjustments.

BEFORE PICTURES
This is last week holding new baby charlotte
(chad and misti's adorable new babe)


(please forgive the roots! yikes!)

AND AFTER..................TO BE CONTINUED!