Remembering

I feel like my life has changed so much over the last little while. My sweet sister Charlie let me barrow her camera for our Lake Powell trip and I was super excited to find pictures from our engagement on there. I miss those days sometimes. Now we have to talk about grown up stuff and life gets so crazy with school and work.

We decided we need to get back into the habit of Friday night dates. Its so easy to just stay home and do homework, but I miss my boyfriend and I need more date time. (soon after we got married I was still accidentally calling him my boyfriend when a patient said, "he will always be your boyfriend!")

Charlie also had this adorable picture of my mom and grandma with me at my reception. I just had "Mama's song" by Carrie Underwood played for her. I love this picture. 

Grandma Bette is so darn cute. 

I am so grateful for the Holy Ghost. When I feel overwhelmed about school and family responsibilities, the Holy Ghost whispers to me that I already received my answer that I was doing what was right for me and that Heavenly Father was going to help me accomplish the thing which He asked me to do. 

A year ago when we got married, we soon got weighed down by the decision of when to have children and what to do about my schooling. If we had no plans of me finishing, then I needed to not go anymore, because its expensive! And if I was going to go, I needed to finish!

When deciding what to do, I thought back to my very first day in Rexburg. I looked out the window at the Subway I was eating at and had an undeniable feeling that I was exactly where I was suppose to be. I knew Heavenly Father wanted me to be getting my education and he was proud of me. Then, a year later, at WSU I got off work to head to my Microbiology night class. I was hungry, tired, and overwhelmed by my lack of time for studying and learning. I was living on my own in Layton. After work I was going to go home to a messy apartment, no food, no clean clothes, and a million things to do. Then I had to wake up early the next morning to do it all over again. I just wanted to cry. I then felt the Holy Ghost comfort me. He reminded me that my Heavenly Father knows all these things. Heavenly Father knows everything about microbiology and that He is my Father. Because of that, I could learn those things too. I knew that I was his literal offspring and I could be like Him in this way if I trusted Him. I cracked down and worked hard. I got three A's that semester in some VERY hard classes (including Micro). I have no doubt that Heavenly Father helped me.

A year ago Caleb and I went to the Logan temple with these decisions on our mind. We felt strongly to just trust Heavenly Father and that my education still was very important. Now, a year later, we aren't pregnant and I am still going to school and doing well. I am on track to apply to PA school next fall. Heavenly Father knew that I would not get pregnant and that I would be able to do more school. All my worrying didn't change what He knew was going to happen. I sure love Him.

Anways, like i said we went to Lake Powell with the Knights. It was fun and seems like forever ago, but here are some pictures. (I was wondering out in the water, just floating and pondering, when I found this lady bug. I thought she was dead but when I picked her up she was alive. I hung out with her for a few hours. ha ha... Obviously I am easily amused, but seriously, it was SO interesting. )