Counting My Blessings #13 - My Primary Class

I am grateful for my primary class. It is amazing how sweet and loving those children are. Today was my last day in primary because I have been called to be the Young Women's Beehive Advisor. I am so excited about my new calling, and I think that it is going to be an awesome experience.

I have to admit though that when the Bishop told me I was going to be released from Primary I was surprised and had to hold back tears. I thought I would be in Primary until Bret and I move next summer. Teaching Primary has taught me so much, and I have loved getting to know the children and their personalities.

Counting My Blessings #12 - Crocheting

I am very grateful for yarn and crocheting. I love making blankets and hats, and it is a really fun hobby. It begins with stitch upon stitch until strings have been turned into something useful. While I am working on it, it reminds me of:

2 Nephi 28:30 "For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more..."

and Alma 37:6 Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise.

Here are some of my creations:

My Secret Confession

I love listening to Christmas music right after Halloween. I deeply enjoy Christmas music, and I am far too fond of the holiday tunes to only have four or five weeks of them. And really 8 out of 52 weeks is not that much, in fact it is only 15.4% of the year. Plus, I try very hard not to expose people to it who feel it is premature for their ears prior to Thanksgiving.
This is a view out of my office window of today's snow storm. It is much easier for me to kick back, listen to Christmas music, and just let it snow (let it snow, let it snow), then to get upset about the weather. (Chances are that I will not have as good of an attitude about the snow by February.)

Casting My Ballot

It is so exciting to vote!
Here is the cool high tech machine and card. No more paper punch machines here.
I love being able to have a say in this country's future!

This is a picture of my BFF and I voting when we were in college. We had our backpacks because it was a three hour wait and we had homework.

One Last Note on Halloween stuff

I had such a fun time at the Halloween Cookie Decorating Party. I wish that I had more pictures of the guests.
I made so many cookies that day, but did not have too many left over.
We also watched Hocus Pocus.

Counting My Blessings #11 - Rain

I am grateful for the rain. I love the way it smells, and feels, and how it washes the whole world clean.

Jack-o-Lanterns

The Monday before Halloween we went over to my mom's house to carve pumpkins.
I love carving pumpkins!