I am one lucky gal

although I am sitting here listening to the screaming and groaning of fictional halo characters being brutally murdered by my husband, I cannot help but smile.

yesterday I was having kind of an 'off' day.

chris left in the morning to san antonio (an hour + away)

and I woke up feeling alone and...well alone.

I love it here in austin but I miss my family in utah so bad!

and its just been an extremely adventurous but overwhelming month

moving all over and i was just feeling a bit worthless

and like I forgot how to do everything.

I ended up on the phone with my amazing mother who is always a best friend,

she reminds me that there is someone out there who

loves me and cares no matter what and to

go along and read my scriptures and pray before doing anything else.

I also got to hear my niece, Brooklyn, chatting.

"vacuum. nice...?"

oh, i miss those babies so bad!

It made me cry and smile at the same time.

so my mom sent me this photo of B..

I LOVE how because she has to open her mouth so huge

that her hand it trying to open big too. so cute.

I feel lucky to have an awesome family who is always a phone call away.

I wish I could 'zap' my self there so bad.

later in the day I made my favorite: german chocolate cake

yum!

as I was baking I received a text from chris that made me smile.

a couple minutes later noticed I was still staring at my phone day dreaming.

I was brought back to 16.

I feel the same way now that I did back then.

he sends me a sweet text and my whole body has butterflies.

I am so blessed with a hard working husband.

he's so good to me.

I feel lucky to have such a wonderful husband who loves me

no matter what.

(ice skating: winter 2005)