7 Years and Funny Family Moments

We have now made it past the seven year itch. Our anniversary was March 15th. Kent took me to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner then to the Anniversary Inn in Salt Lake and we got to stay in the Anniversary Inn Suite. It was a wonderful time. We watched foot loose - my first time seeing it if you can believe it. I gave him a bunch of "little things" meaning a bunch of little items (toys and candy) that were attached to typed notes that listed all the little things I loved about Kent. For example, the other morning, Kent got up really early to go hiking. He left while I was still in bed and while he thought I was still asleep, he touched my face, gave me a kiss and said, "You're beautiful". These are the little things I love. All right, I'll stop being mushy now.

Kent went on a 10 hour hike/bob cat tracking expedition last week including a fall off a 15 foot cliff. Him and his friend Kenny left at about 7:30 am from Fiddlers Canyon and while fully intending to end where they started, Kenny's wife and I ended up picking them up at about 5:30 or 6 pm in Cedar Canyon at the other end of town. They had crossed a few mountain ranges, many cliffs, much snow, and who knows what else. They weren't sure exactly where they would come out in the canyon, so they had us driving up and down for a while searching for them. I guess no matter the age, boys will be boys. Kent had quite the sun burn and some really muddy clothes, but he had a great time. I used to be that adventurous, what happened?

Funny Moment #1:
So I went to my dads house for the weekend and got to spend some time with my brother, sisters, niece and nephew. Some of the funniest things (well funny to me) happened. I was sitting at the table eating lunch with my niece and she looked at me and said, "Your hair is brown", after I confirmed her comment she then said, "my hair is stylish". Hmmm! I wonder what she meant by that?

Funny Moment #2
Later I was doing my hair and she came into the bathroom and asked me to ask her how I looked. I asked her, then she promptly replied, "You look Distinguished, Very Distinguished". She is only three years old! Where does she get this stuff?

Funny Moment #3
But the one that tops them all... We were over at my aunt and uncles house for an early Easter celebration and my nephew (2 years) and my cousins daughter (3 years) disappeared. When we found them, they had been in the bathroom each with a bottle of baby powder squirting it at each other. I didn't have my camera, but my sister did, so I will get some photos. The whole bathroom was dusted, the kids looked like ghosts, the carpet "poofed" as you walked across it and the heater vents carried the white dust throughout every room in the house. What can you do at that point but take a picture? It was so hilarious!

Other things we did:
We went shooting. It's been a really long time since I've done that and I realized that I can't shoot right eyed. So I switched to left handed shooting and hit all my targets after that. Maybe that is why I also shoot pool left handed. I can't wait to get my own 22 and join the gun owner world. We of course need to get jobs first so we can afford it. I colored in coloring books a lot, played some cards, went on a Pez scavenger hunt which was the adult version of an Easter eggs hunt. We were on teams and had to read the clues in the Pez and guess the word before the other teams. The Pez were so hard to find we didn't even find them all.

Here are some of the clues - see if you can guess the word....
- Oder less
- Colorless
- Inflate
- Firmament
- Public Utterance
- Particulate Matter

What do you think? Any luck? We guessed helium, hot air balloon, and balloon but to no avail. The answer was, drum roll please, air. Quite anti-climactic. It was too obvious for us to figure out. Finally another team guessed right and won the treasure chest full of treats. Fun stuff.

Well, I think that about does it for my update. I can't really think of anything else interesting to write so I'll sign off now.

Humbled

It seems like the very second I think I know best about any topic the Lord feels the need to let me know how far I am from right. I suppose that is how we grow. I was missing my old ward and feeling sorry for myself that while I have met so many great people here in Cedar City that I just love, I wasn't feeling that "sisterhood" that I treasure so much. I had all these speculations for why that might be and of course none of them had anything to do with ME. HA! Maybe if I took another look I would see that it is me who's the problem. Anyways, my point is that I just met my new visiting teachers this week and they are wonderful. More wonderful than I could hope for. They made me feel like I had known them for years - like we were "sisters" and that's that. Sweet women.

I was also convinced that spring should be here and that the continued snow was just unfair. Then the Lord saw fit to dump a little more just to prove me wrong. So sorry everyone.... It's my fault. ;) We have had so many lessons, talks, and articles that involve adversity lately. I think that includes the adversity we bring upon ourselves through negative thinking. I guess it is all just hitting me and I am gaining a stronger testimony that the Lord knows best. He has shown me that he knows me, he loves me, and he wants me to grow - even if that means I have to experience difficult circumstances in life(of course we all do). I guess what I am struggling with now is wondering if I can accept the trials that He knows I need through out my life.

For FHE this week we read an Ensign article about enduring to the end. It defined the word endure in a way that I never thought of before. "Endure to the end: To remain true to the commandments of God despite temptation, opposition, and adversity throughout life." The article then goes on to teach that enduring is not just to "hang on" through unpleasant times, but to live happily despite them. Hmmm.... Food for thought.

By the way, Kent and I will have been married seven years next Monday. Boy! Where does the time go? Just as I was telling Kent's parents that it went by so fast, Kent said, "It feels like forever". I don't know how I'm supposed to take that! I think he just likes to be the center of attention. :) We all had a good laugh.