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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

.print

I made this print today for fun,

as I was thinking about the quote from President Monson
I heard in Conference a few years back.

Lately my future has been looking particularly bleak.
My hopes have started looking hopeless,
and dreams feel too much like fiction.

This morning, I woke up early for work.
I arrived for my scheduled shift and my manager said,
"Amber! You're not supposed to be here today!"
"But the website has me scheduled every day this week"
She took me into the office and showed me the schedule.
She said that the system has been messing up shifts lately... for fun?

I called Air to come back and take me home.

Luckily he wasn't too busy--else I would have had to walk.
Walking wouldn't have been so bad, I suppose.
I wasn't really feeling up for it.

My future has to be bright, right?
Brighter than the present, at least.
I guess It's up to me to make it bright.
And while I'm at it, I should try and make the present brighter too.

I do still have some faith to work with.
And a Father in Heaven
who created things like the beautiful Aurora Borealis.

There's still hope yet.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

.Dear followers of my blog,

Please vote for my photograph in the Ivory Homes Photo contest. I could win a new camera or some money! Either would be excellent to have!

You have to vote by midnight tonight!!!

Go to this link and click on the Photo Contest. You'll need to sign into facebook and like this page.

http://www.facebook.com/ivoryhomes

Scroll to the bottom and click on "view and vote for entries". You can find my picture on the third page in the middle. I NEED EVERYONE TO VOTE!! PLEASE???

I'll love you forever.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

.these final summer days

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Things are going good for us these days.

It’s really easy to be optimistic when so many things have started looking brighter.

Firstly, As I’ve mentioned before, Tara and Tom are engaged! We’ve been helping out to get this wedding going! Making their invitations is our job. They only have a month and a half to go! Oh yeah, and did I mention they are moving to Hawaii? I think we MAY have to visit sometime …darn. Here’s the happy couple hanging around with the fam last weekend:

Secondly, A family in our ward is renting out their basement and they offered it to us. We didn’t take it since it’s pretty much the same thing we’ve got here (the pro’s and con’s evened out), it wouldn’t really be worth the move for us. BUT we did tell them about our friends, Mr and Mrs Caddy, who were looking for a place! They came and looked at the place and decided to move in!!! So, as long as the plan doesn’t change, our friends will be moving into our ward! YAYAY!

(remember the Caddy’s? *link)

Thirdly, We finally bought a bed frame for a really good deal! No more milk crates under our bed! No-sir-ee!

Fourthly, We’ve been zooming around in a cute little rental car this week. And shopping for a new car. One that we can afford and that will (hopefully) live up to Cammy’s legacy.

Fifthly, We love the farmer’s market.

Sixthly, Zebra truck.

That is all.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

.mutual

Every Tuesday night we have an activity with the youth in our ward. It’s called mutual. I was so excited when I got my calling with the Young Women because I knew I’d get to go to mutual again!

I loved mutual when I was a teenager…

This week we went to a corn maze. It was a gorgeous night and I couldn’t resist bringing my camera along. We've had a lot of gorgeous days around here lately!