What a Blessing

Okay, I know I already posted today, but tonight I was involved in the most excellent, spiritual "Young Women in Excellence" and I just had to post my feelings.
When I was in Young Womens, I felt I gained a testimony of the temple, and we were so blessed to have one so close in Idaho Falls. But after listening to each of my beautiful young women share their testimonies tonight of what it was like to participate in the youth temple celebration, be in the presence of the prophet, and help serve in the temple open house, I realize my testimony in high school was pretty darn weak. These girls have learned through these experiences this year how special and important the temple really is, and they all expressed hope of marrying in the temple someday and coming back often with their spouse. It made me realize how much I take for granted that I am endowed and can go to the temple any time I want. Too often, I feel that it is "just one more thing" I need to fit in my month. Today I vow that I will serve in the temple more often with a glad heart, and I hope I can be an example to my children someday, that they will also want to be sealed in the temple.

Gotta see the movie!

Last night, Cameron and I went to see "Twilight" the movie. I thought we would have a hard time getting in but we only had to wait in line for like 20 minutes to get a seat, and the worst part was listening to all the teeny boppers giggle and act silly. I was not planning on seeing the movie the day after it opened for mainly that reason, but it was actually Cameron who suggested we try and go to it last night. He has never read the books and no, he does not like it when I talk about them, but he knew I wanted to see the movie. What a good husband! For those of you who have not seen it yet, I will not give too many opinions, but I do feel that it was not a real high-quality film like Spider-Man or something. I bet, though, with the profit they are making on this movie, the next one will be better. The movie followed the book closely, and I give the actors credit for doing well to poartray these characters we have all fallen in love with.

Okay, enough about that. As an update to my running story, Cameron has now ran with me three on Saturday mornings, and it has been so fun. Yesterday, he really pushed me, which surprized me. Yeah, right, you are not a runner, Cameron! It was fun to be competitive and race the last few blocks home. During the week, I now go running at 5:45 a.m. outside, and of course I go alone. I have decided that the 10 hour days I was working so I could get Fridays off was not worth it--it was killing me--and I now work every day. So now I can go running before work. Yay! Well, because it is really dark that early, I recently invested in a $10 reflective vest so I do not get run over. Why I have never bought one before now, I do not know. ALso, I wear Cameron's head lamp over my ear band so I do not break my ankle while running in pitch darkness. Needless to say, I look pretty darn ridiculous but hey, it works. I wish I had a dog to go running with, but according to Cameron, we cannot have one until we live in the country. Apparently Burley is not country enough! At least I have Cameron to run with on Saturdays!

Fall is the season of... FOOTBALL!

It seems like our major pasttime this time of year is watching football on t.v. or live. Kenyon, Cameron's younger brother, is a senior on Aberdeen's football team, and they have had an awesome season. I really don't understand football that well and it's not my favorite sport to watch, but it has been fun to watch Kenyon and his team in the mini dome the last two weeks. They have been un-defeated all season, and they are 2:0 in play-offs right now. They play Parma next Saturday for the semi-finals, and if they win, then they are in the state championship game. I am excited for them! For most of those seniors, it will be the last time they play competitive football in their lives.
Pocatello is about an hour away, but we have made the time to come down for the games and we run errands while we are in town. Burley is great, but I am really realizing that there were so many stores in Pocatello/Chubbuck that we totally took for granted. There is also a Farrs ice cream store really close to our old house in Pocatello, and they have tons of different flavors for only $1.00 a cup. We had to go there on our way out of town last night, and lo and behold, we ran into two couples from our university ward. It was good to see them and made us miss all our friends in Pocatello. Sometimes you don't really know what you had until it is gone!