FriEnDs FoReVeR

it all started in 2006...the friendship that has endured it all! this girl is like a sister to me in every way. one of the HUGE perks to moving to utah was this girl right here! morgan! i feel so blessed to have her in my life. to have someone that i can have girl talk with & not feel like ...."they have no idea what i am talking about!" she gets it, has always gotten it! living in utah has already been such an adventure for me. some days i want to scream & run back to california & other days i realize it really isnt THAT bad. but i miss my family terribly, every day. years of having that support from my parents...their unfailing love for me...sometimes i wish i could be 4 years old. i think i liked that age best. growing up is not always easy....morgan & i were talking about our college days. how terrible they were & yet, how much we learned from those experiences. it makes me grateful to see how much heavenly father has blessed me with over the years. i am happy to know that i am a child of god & what strength i find in saying that. i am grateful for jake in my life...i have realized that marriage is fun in SOOOO many ways but yet it is work too. my cooking has been in my eyes superior in every way but jake is learning "healthy" ways of eating. -not so sure on how he feels about all of the things i come up with....like for breakfast yesterday i made whole wheat waffles...he had about 5 bites "WOW, that really filled me up!" -pretty sure he probably was starving until he ate again at lunch. i am learning to be conservative with money managing. my dad will probably laugh reading that....i have never been one that is great with handling money. in fact it took so much help from him to get me where i am financially that i am so grateful for that time of not having to deal with it back then because now i have a lifetime of doing it. yay for being an adult. -just like i said, being 4 was so much more fun. then there is my sweet spendaholic husband that likes toys...first it was a new truck before we got married, then it was a mountain bike & an apple TV after we got married, now it is an AR-15.......oh yes, & i forgot the XBOX that almost made me kill him. seriously, good thing we didnt have the AR-15 then. just kidding, just kidding. but we both have learning to do when it comes to money. i am excited to start my job next monday. i will be working for a company called clearlink, it is sales & marketing. great benefits to working for this company that i am really excited about. after a year of working there, jake & i will have free medical which is such a huge blessing. wish me luck!

((this is morgans sweet baby girl ava! i absolutely adore her))