Happy Birthday MOM!!

I'd like to give a shout out to my mom on her birthday! My mom turns 52 this year. She is an amazing mom, friend, and caregiver. I love and appreciate all that she does for me. I owe so much to my mom, and i am so very grateful for the love and support she gives me.

My mom has been a great example to me in my life. She is very spiritual; loves the gospel, and spreads her love with all in her life. She has been a great mom, she's very supportive, and carring of her children (An example i hope to live up to). She is a wonderful wife, and a great example to me as a wife myslef.

Thank you mom for the many years of love and zaniness you've shared with me.

Some of my mom's Favorites:

-Her family

-The Gospel
- Peanuts (the cartoon not the food)

- Scrapbooking

- Hawaii (never been, but she'd love to go)

- Kit Kat Candy

- Hallmark (everything in it, especially christmas ornaments)

HAVE A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY MUM! I LOVE YOU!

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Fact: Did you know the four leaves on a four leaf clover stand for hope, faith, love, and luck.

I have many different ancestral roots from different places. I recently found out i do in fact have Irish roots. Which is cool, because i can actually say on St. Patricks day that i have a bit of Irish in me. To be fair i have many different cultures in my ancestral line. I am Swiss, Scottish, Norwegian, English, and probably a couple more i haven't looked into yet. You can just call me a mutt of different cultures.

So to all those out there who are Irish or otherwise, i hope your day is an awesome one, and is pinch free.

Thankful for Temples

Yesterday in Sacrament Meeting in my ward there were a lot of testimonies and thoughts about the temple. A couple in my ward were recently able to get their endowments out, and sealed in the temple. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, and it made me think about my own experience and thoughts on the temple.

Growing up i always knew that i wanted to be married in the Temple. I was blessed to be able to go when the time came. I was able to get my endowments out on my twentieth birthday which happened to be 6-6-06. It was a fun day filled with family and memories. The Temple was closed for a couple weeks prior to my wedding so my mom and i went a lot in June. I'm glad i went early it gave me such a wonderful sense of what the Temple is all about and i felt ready to go through and be sealed to Casey. Our wedding day was on 7-18-06. Both sides of our families were there (all back from missions). Casey and i were sealed by a family friend Bro. Allred. He knows both sides of my family and a little bit of Casey's. The day we were sealed was awesome. People kept asking if i was nervous but i never was, i was ready, and the time was right. After we were sealed and before we were let out of the room our sealer stopped us and quizzed us on what he had just instructed us to do throughout our marriage. Thankfully we passed and were able to go. Yesterday in church i was pondering on the advice and instructions we received that day. I remember that Bro. Allred counseled us to pray as a couple, read the scriptures together, hold family home evening, and there was one more that i wish i could remember but it has escaped me. So far in our marriage we have tried to hold true to those words, we have been doing much better on all of those in more recent days, and i hope to continue them.

I got to thinking yesterday how thankful i am for a Temple so close to me. I really take it for granted that it's right there waiting for me to return. I know i need to do better in how often i attend. Right now it's once a month, but i know i can do more. I recently toured the new Draper Temple with my husband, sister, brother, sister-in-law, and nephew. It amazes me still how magnificent and unique each Temple is, and that there are well over a hundred all over the world.

The covenants and blessings that come from the Temple are a treasure to me, that i could not imagine living without. I thank the Lord daily for the opportunity i have to be Temple worthy, and for help to stay worthy to go to the Temple. I feel such a sense of pride knowing that i am a child of God and it is through the covenants from the Temple that i can truly return to him someday.

"I love to see the Temple, i've been inside before, and felt the Holy Spirit, i've listened, and i've prayed."

Happy Valentines Day!

I've decided to share some of my loves in this blog.

First i'd like to say I love you to my husband, friend, and eternal companion Casey. We have been together well over three years, and have shared two and a half of those as husband and wife. I am very thankful for him, and love him so much!

My next love would have to be my family. I have been very blessed to have such a wonderful family, and to have married into such a wonderful family. I can always count on their love, support, and prayers, and i thank them for that. I would not be where i am today without my family. They have raised me, loved me, and had a lot of patience with me. Casey's family has accepted me with open loving arms. I appreciate what a fine son they have raised, and the great example they are to me in my life. Each of my siblings and in-laws are also special to me. I look up to all of them and hope that i can do all that i can to be a better sister to them. Thank you family; I love you!

I love the Gospel. I have been raised in the LDS church, and am grateful for the gospel in my life. I love my Heavenly Father, and Jesus Christ. I only hope i can do the best i can, follow the gospel and return to them someday. The church has been a major constant in my life, it has uplifted me, inspired me, and helped me through my journey here on earth. I cannot imagine where my life would be today if i didn't have the gospel. I thank the Lord for his patience with me, i am far from perfect, and i can get frustrated with how things go sometimes. However, i know that if i put my life in his hands, and have a faith and a hope, everything will be all right.

I love children. I grew up loving kids, and working with them and i majored in Family Life in College. It has always been my dream to have children of my own, and to work with children. I don't have children yet, but someday i hope to be blessed with children. For now i am blessed with a loving nephew Campbell to gush over, and a job that lets me work with kids.

I love simple things. For example i love holding my husbands hand. Early on in our relationship Casey and i started holding hands, and to this day we still enjoy holding each others hand and giving each a squeeze. I love summer, first and formost because it is warm, and rarely has snow associated with it. Summer holds my favorite holiday the fourth of July. I cannot think of a better time of yer. I love blankets. I enjoy getting comfy under a blanket, and just enjoying its warmth. It is a comfortor, a sense of security, and just so soft and happy. I have always loved blankets, probabily due to that fact i own over twenty five blankets.

I have many more loves, but i won't share them today. Thank you all for the love you share with me. I love you all!

Little Buddy, o how we love you!

This is Campbell Loosle, he is my first, and for right now my only nephew. His parents are my brother Andy, and my sister-in-law Kim. They are wonderful parents and are a great example that i hope to live up to some day.

Campbell turned four months old this past week. It seems as though he was just born, but he's already growing so fast. Casey and i love to visit with Campbell, he is so cute, sweet, and his smile will melt your heart. Although he's still a baby and has limited abilities, his entertaining us is never ending; we could watch him all day!

I am so grateful for this Little Buddy. He is a source of joy and happiness in my life. I love him dearly. Thanks Andy and Kim for allowing me to spend time with, and enjoy your Little Buddy!

Casey and I had to get this Aggie Big Blue for Campbell. Kim graduated from USU, as did I; and someday Casey. Is it too soon to have him cheer for his future school? Just kidding.

Now that's one cute smile. We love you Little Buddy!

O what a wonderful holiday season it has been!

Casey and i have had a wonderful holiday. We were able to spend time with family, and each other. When school let out for Casey i still had one more week of work, so he helped my dad, then we went to Idaho from the twentieth to the twenty-sixth to be with his family for the holidays. I love spending time with Casey's family, we only get up there on holiday's or the occasional school break, so to be with the whole family was fun.

We had the Darrington family party on the Sunday before Christmas; if i recall there was about 54 people there, the entire family; everyone made it and no one was out on a mission this year. We had lots of fun being with family.

We spent a lot of our holiday in Idaho playing games. We learned Wackie 6, played pit, but most of all we played with Brett and Vanessa's Wii. It's always a fun experience playing with Casey's family, they are all so funny and great to be around. We also made some pretty awesome gingerbread houses if i do say so myself. But i'll let you be the judge of that.

Casey's

Vanessa's

Brett's

We recieved a plethora of wonderful food storage items from Casey's parents. I just have to say that they are such wonderful people, and i enjoy being a part of their family. I love them all so much.

Another wonderful surprize that i recieved for Christmas was a phone call from my brother David who is currently searving his mission in Louisiana. We spent and hour and a half talking to each other. It felt just like old times when we'd stay up late talking. I miss him, but i am grateful for the wonderful example he is showing me by serving the Lord. I look up to him and am grateful for him in my life.

After a snowy and windy week in Idaho Casey and i came home the day after Christmas. I was able to spend time with my cute little nephew Campbell. He's growing and changing in so many ways and it justs astounds me every time i see him. Casey and i got some movies, books, knives, a pepper grinder, some gift cards, and games from my family. We are so thankful to them for their love and prayers that they send our way.

The monday after Christmas was when my dad's side of the family held their Christmas party. We got together at my grandparents house. My cousin Billie and her husband Eric had their baby girl Emma's blessing there. It was such a sweet experience and they have such a cute family. We played a few games, including the cereal game that i've adopted from Casey's family. (It turned out well by the way). We had fun talking with family, and catching up on things.

We'll now it is New Years Eve. The year is drawing to it's and and with it many memories. I look forward to a new year. New adventures, and many more memories to create. 2008 has been a year of many smiles, laughs, happiness, and a few tears, but overall a good year to look back on. See you all in 2009!

Happy Birthday Casey!

I have known Casey for about three and a half years, two and a half have been durring our wonderful marriage. Casey is wonderful, Strong, caring, hardworking, smart, loving, supportive, playfull, etc. Casey is turning twenty five today, which he considers to be old, but we all know it's not.
A few Casey Facts:
Favorite Color - Green
Favorite music - Christmas / Country
Favorite Holiday - Christmas of Course
Favorite Food - Pretty much anything, casadias, pizza,
Favorite Leisure activity - Watching movies, or Playing the Wii with our friend Rhett, and reading
Favorite Person - We'll it better be me, just kidding
Favorite Saying - "Be Good"
Favorite birthday gift so far - His new MP3 player, that's full of what else Christmas, and other songs
It's been a wonderful few years learning about Casey and becoming his friend and wife. I hope you've learned a few things about Casey too.