GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!

I just got back from my fun family filled Thanksgiving! We all met at Grandma and Grandpas house in Conway, Arkansas and there was about twenty two of us! I can not tell how much I love being with my family. I love all my little cousins and there personalities. I think my favorite part about getting together with everyone is just watching everyone laugh and sharing stories or are favorite you tube videos. I love playing games till late at night while watching my sister making everyone laugh so hard that they are crying. I love waking up to the smell of frying bacon and eggs and walking into the room and everyone asking how you slept or saying " there she is, we were wondering when you were gonna make it." Our family talent show was hilarious. Its amazing to watch people that you only get to see a few times every couple of years get in front of the family and display there hidden talents like walking through a 8 by 11 piece of paper. (yeah thats right its possible just ask my aunt Kristen) I love the fact that we all root for different football teams and jokingly harass people about how they're goin down or teaching magen (my 5 year cousin from Arkansas) to say GO TIGERS!! I love that Grandpa spoils the girls rotten. He took all the girls down to this fancy shoe store and told us we each HAD to pick 2 pairs of shoes! Who would not love that! The ride back from Arkansas however was not so "loveable". Mom had to rush to St. Louis to be with Grandma because she is very ill. So I was forced to ride in a truck with my Brothers and Dad. Now dads not so bad but my brothers! Let me just say they do things that make you go BLUH!! All in all we laughed and had a good time even though dad got a speeding ticket which is so typical. I am truly blessed to have such a GREAT family. Me and Amanda were talking about when we were little and would go visit Grandma and Grandpa. Every morning Grandma always had her homemade cinnamon roles ready while Grandpa would make us animal shaped pancakes that he would spray pink or blue or any color we wanted. We would even get the option to have oreos for breakfast. We also always played in My aunt Heathers room for hours in all of her very expensive dance costumes and she never once kicked us out. I can tell you every corner of that house or even how the fridge always had to be stocked with Diet Dr. Pepper. I could go on and on of my memories from my childhood but that would take a book. I want everyone to know how truly blessed I am to have such a marvelous family. I love each and everyone of them and am very grateful for the memories they have created for me!

Single Sista!

So I am bored tonight and decided maybe I would follow my moms advice and start a blog. I have so many thoughts and since I dont like writting them in a journal I will put them on here for everyone to see. I guess I will have my first blog be about me and who I am. First and for most I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I have a testimony of our dear Savior and his Atonement. Through my faith in Jesus Christ it has gotten me through many of lifes challenges and thats what I plan on sharing in this blog is my experience as a young single mormong girl. I am 24, mormon and yes, I am still very single. I was onced asked at the age of 21 how I felt about being single and still having no possibilities of marriage anytime soon. I felt good about it up till the girl (yes I do say girl not woman who went on to marry at the age of 19) mentioned that maybe i should feel some other emotion. I have gone through my many trials of being single.Why cant I just find one guy who wants me? How come I have never had a boyfriend? Whats wrong with me? Many of these questions I am sure young girls across the world have asked themselves. I have had my battles of being single and longing for the companionship I see my friends have or the pictures of engaged couples and wonder why its so easy for them. I have had my nights crying in my mothers arms of how lonely I am and why the hell susie, who is only 18, found the love of her life with the man that should have rightfully been mine. I pleaded with the savior for years almost every night begging him to so send me someone because thats when I new my life would begin. Well ladies, I had it ALL wrong!!! I kept wishing my life away. I cant tell you exactly when it hit me or I that I had this earth shattering spiritual experience that the Savior just suddenly cured my broken lonely heart. My happiness came slowly. If I had to pick a time when it first started I would say that it was when we moved to Baton Rouge and I started working at a salon and spa. I LOVE my job and for the first time I realized what it was like to have somewhat of a career and feel important at a job. I also started to realize that Prince Charming was not coming along anytime soon so I had to create my own life. My thoughts use to be "oh when my prine comes along I will quit school and creat a happy home for the both of us." Now my thought is well I want to get an education so I can have an exciting career and have so many experiences as hard working woman. It took time but I realized that one day when I am married with many children that I would miss being sinlge. I love the fact that the only obligation I have is to myself. I can pick up at a moments notice and go seen my very best friend hours away. I love the fact that the first thing on my mind when I get home from my hard day is ME!! I can do whatever I want to do!! I have no need to worry about others and I cant tell you how fun it is to be so incredibly selfish. I dont want to be one of these girls where my life revolves around a man and what excites him. No! I want to have my own exciting life and join with someone who also has an exciting life. When you lead your own life and have your own experiences and stories you can bring so much fun to a marriage. Men want women who are interesting and living life is what makes you interesting. I can promise you that a man will never get bored with me. I am single, I love it, and I am have the very most fun in life! In my future blogs I will post more about the exciting adventures I have had as a single sassy gal!