Update on Me

It has been a while since I really posted really anything and even longer since I really posted about me.  Well in the last week so many positive things have happened to me that I just have to share because, well I am just super excited and super happy, and for those that know me well know that I haven't truly been happy for many years. So here is all that has gone on and will be going on in the next month or so.

1. I finally went to the temple for the first time in months the other night, I felt such peace and was so moved by the way I felt even though I was just doing baptisms.  Why it had been so long since I had been I couldn't tell you but I am so happy I went when I did and have plans to go many times in the future.  It is amazing how much more you can feel God's love when you are doing his work!

2. I have started baking again! for a long time I had stopped, again I can't really explain why but the point is I started baking again, I am going to make Kaitlin and I fat, and of course a long with that any other poor soul who is range for me to stuff goodies into, because to be honest, one of the things that makes me happiest about baking is being able to share my creations with other people.

3. I have started to sew again, I haven't done anything to major because honestly I haven't sewn in years so I decided to start with rice packs and I think if I am feeling up to it I might have a big project that I want to do but we will see how that goes.

4. Things are progressing at work.  I finally got up the courage to ask about switching to the front end to the bakery.  I think I would love to work in a bakery and Harmon's is really good at moving people around to get them to where they want to be. Well there aren't any openings in the bakery at the moment but I have been given the opportunity to move to the deli.  I an nervous about it but at the same time so excited for something new!

5. Tomorrow my parents are coming for a week and more to visit.  I am really excited for them to come, not so excited to have to clean and move into a cold room but I am very thankful for the opportunity  that we have had to allow them to be able to come and and visit as much as they have in the last 6 months.

6.  In 10 day I get to spend a couple day with my 3 favorite little people at the Happiest Place on earth!  I love Disneyland, I always have, after moving to California it became where my dad and I had Daddy Daughter dates.  I have so many great memories from there and I am so glad that I can go back and be able to make new ones with my niece and nephews as they go for the first time and are able to experience new things the older they get.

7. I also get to spend a week at home, I am excited that I get to see my kitty!!!! It has been so long she probably wont recognize me and if she does she'll probably be mad at me but I am glad I can see her, hopefully while I am there I can also get my wisdom teeth out, they have been hurting so much it is time for them to go, not excited about the process but excited to feel better!

8. I am starting to make friendships and get to know my ward a little better which always makes things so much nicer.  The ward my sister and I are in is so huge and I haven't been the best at going to activities for the last 4 months but am working on getting better, through that I have met a few people which is great for me.  I also love my bishopric I think they are part of the reason Kaitlin and I needed to move to daybreak because they have helped both of us so much!

9.  This is probably the most important of them all. I am learning to build a better relationship with myself and with my Heavenly Father.  These could have been seperated into 2 different things but I really feel that they belong together for my purpose. For a long time my relationship with Heavenly Father has suffered and I didn't know how to fix it, well in the last few weeks I have started to get to know myself better, remembering what it is that I love to do and starting again and really taking care of myself I realized that one way to help with that was to get closer to God, and oh my goodness it you would not believe how much peace I have received because of this.  I am so thankful for all that he has done for me and that he is there to help me through and loves me no matter what and was just waiting for me to figure it out.

Sorry its kind of long but I just needed to let everyone know that life is great! And that I am Happy!!!

Excuses!

 Everyone who knows me, knows that baking is something I love to do, if I could I would do it all day everyday but then I would be fat and everyone around me would be fat too.  Well to be honest for the past year or so I haven't really been baking, although family members have been telling me flat out and hinting that I need to do so.  Seeing that the below picture is everything I got from my family members this past Christmas... Yes that is a 32 oz bottle of pure vanilla and it smells heavenly, along with 2 baking books.

After literally months of my mother telling me I'd be happier if I started baking again and me shrugging her off but still doing a little baking here and there I finally came to the conclusion that she is right.  The Boy has a birthday tomorrow and I offered to make his birthday cake, this is and adventure I have never done before I tend to stay with pies and some cookies for the most part, this means cakes, although have been made by me before have never been anything more then a rectangle in a pan, but it is something that I wanted to do for him, and for myself.  This means making a cake that I don't usually do decorating it and then giving it to him at the family cake eating we will be having on Sunday it his parents house... No Pressure right?  Well over the past week I have been trying to decide on a cake, which I finally have but you can't know till Sunday when I hopefully will have taken pictures of it and it has turned out beautiful.  I have also come to the conclusion that I needed to go to Bed Bath and Beyond to get a couple of items to help making the cake easier.  One of my sisters says she could easily spend a hundred dollars everytime she went there and today for the first time I figured out why... I barely made it out with the few items that I did get without taking the entire store with me... but here are the treasures I found.

I went to get a mixer because since moving to Utah I have been without one of my own and a cake frosting spatula thing, well the longer I walked around the more I found and the more I had to put back, but as I turned to leave my eyes fell on something that I had wanted but knew would be pricey, the other ones I had looked at were 30 dollars and up and I just couldn't quite talk myself into spending that much money but there it was a beautiful cake dome for only 10 dollars, I knew I had to have it because it would make traveling with the cake on Sunday that much easier... and it was as I said beautiful so of course I got it.  Now let me tell you I was one happy girl walking out of the store with what I had found, I only wish I could have brought more with me... I'll just have to come up with another excuse to go back.