Had a good Birthday!

I celebrated my 23rd birthday this past saturday. My parents took Casey and i out to eat for Breakfast at Village Inn. I got the opportunity to go to the Temple with my husband. (Always a favorite activity of mine). Later that night we had a dinner of homemade pizza at my parents house. It was a good birthday. Thank you Mom and Dad Darrington, David, Grandpa & Lila, Nana & Papa for the cards and money.

some gifts i recieved:

- I got some shirts and flip-flops from my mom

- I got Allen wrenches from my dad (every year he gets me a tool for my tool box)

- My sister Katherine gave me tickets to the movies

- My brother Andy and his wife Kim gave me a cute picture frame for my baby's keepsake photos and prints.

- My wonderful husband gave me new scriptures ( i really needed new ones), some shirts, a very cute pair of shoes, and he made me cupcakes with gummy bears on them.

I just want to say thank you to all of my family for making my day so wonderul and for celebrating with me. I love you all!

Finnished for now

I did it! I survived another year at After School Club. It was a fun yet challenging year this year. I was able to be put in as the site Coordinator at Wilson Elementary. It means i was pretty much the boss of the entire program at Wilson. I am grateful to be done, but i will miss some kids there. I was lucky to be at such a good school with only minimal discipline problems to deal with. I had a great staff and we did some fun things this past year. I only wish i could return to Wilson as a site Coordinator next year, but alas i won't be. We'll see what happens. I actually finished out the month of May with minimal staff and all of my hair intact, so that's a plus. I get two weeks off to enjoy my self, and relax.
After the two weeks i go back to training for another year of Summer playground (After School Clubs equivalent durring the summer) we spend half a day at a park managing (glorified babysitting) children, playing games, making crafts, reading, etc. I also get to be in charge of a site this year. It will either be Willow Park or Adams Park. We'll see in a couple of weeks where i get to spend my hot summer. I wouldn't do this job if i didn't love kids. I appreciate the opportunities i have had and am grateful for such a fun job.

A couple more things i have to look forward to this summer. My Brother-in-law Terry is getting married at the end of July to a great girl named Sarah Haney. I am very happy she's becoming a member of the family and excited to welcome her into the family. Cody my youngest Brother-in-law also prepares and leaves for his mission this summer. He will be leaving on August 12th to go to the MTC then to the Czech Prague mission. The family is super excited, there hasn't been a missionary go foreign in Casey's family. To end the summer Rhett and Aria Spear some close friends of ours are going to have their baby girl Janae.

It's going to be a busy yet awesome summer to look forward to!!!

Happy Mom's Day!

I just want to wish my mom a Happy Mom's day! I also wanted to say Happy Mom's day to a wonderful mother-in-law! I hope i can live up to the great example you both have shown as mom's. I am gratefull to have two such wonderful supporting and loving mom's in my life.
I LOVE YOU BOTH!!

Mayhem!

I am a supervisor at an after school program. As of last week i lost over half of my staff due to the fact that USU got out, and they were done. So i get to go through may with four full time leaders, and two that help with homework, so few to deal with over fifty kids. AHHHHH!
What's sad about this ordeal is today i am down two staff so i get to man fifty + kids with three leaders (that includes me), plus two for homework only. You may be reading this thinking o that's not so horrible. We'll think of it this way i used to have seven more people helping on my staff, and we still had some hard times finishing homework in a timely manner, and keeping control of the kids. I just hope my kids behave so i don't have to spend too much time disciplining and controlling while i should be helping the masses.
Don't get me wrong. I love my job. Working with children is something I've always wanted, and love doing, and this job has been awesome. I just feel like this month is going to be Mayhem due to my staff shortage. So I write this in the hops that i will get through this month, with a little patience intact, most of my hair, and not wanting to quite my job.

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."