overwhelming peace

I am just so grateful for the gospel, i cannot help but to be obsessed with this video right now. I would go on and bear my testimony on what i feel right now but if you watch the movie you'll know, cuz that's it. :] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAjZ8mfoYw

spring break! :]

FINALLY i got a little bit of a breather, a tiny teeny little vacation, and thats all i really needed just a 3 day vacate.

Sunday we were gettin everything in the trailer and gettin all packed up to head.. south, we didn't even know what we were doing or where we were going, just gettin away :) we got food and clothes and all the other essentials packed into the trailer and left at about 3 pm. We got to Kanab (where??? yeah, exactly.. haha!) around 9 and ended up settin up camp there for the couple days we planned on being gone. there really isn't much to do in kanab.. it's just little. but on monday we went to the "toad stools" which was cool little sandstone things with giant ROCKS on top of them.

Me and Dillon in a little cave/cove thing.

The kids, standing infront of the main Toadstool.

It was only a little one mile hike is to the "toadstools" and it was worth it, it was SO FUN. and my youngest brother kept saying "i don't ever wanna leave, this is like a jungle gym for little boys like me!"haha and it's kinda true, there were lots of rocks to climb and stuff, kinda dangerous to be honest though.

After the playing around the toadstools for about 3 hours we were all kinda pooped and decided to take a drive, we made a loop through page arizona and then back up to kanab, it was really pretty and my two youngest brothers and i rode in the back of the truck the whole time because of the nice weather :)

We stopped to look at the Glen Canyon Dam, this is just the bridge over it, kinda cool though.

on tuesday we decided to go to ZIONS!! it was SO pretty, i could not believe that i have lived in utah my whole life and haven't ever seen zions. it was phenomenal! we took a little two miler hike up to view the "big picture" which was totally worth it.

Can't really see, but there's my mom jake and dad on some of the hike.

The family and the final view, thank goodness for the fence, it was SCARY!

We also rode a little shuttle bus in some of the places that not all traffic was allowed, it was pretty cool too but unfortunately it started pouring so we left for camp early :(

Wednesday the weather was still bad, it had poured all night and we planned to come home that day anyways so we just packed up camp and headed home, on our way we stopped (still in Kanab i think) at utah's "little hollywood" where some of the movie sets for old country movies were filmed, i was a bit lost since i'd never seen the movies, but it was fun to take pictures around the old cool looking stuff anyways, fun until it got too cold, then we were on the road again!

too much time!

ohhhh boy.
i have an endless amount of time on my hands! blogging is pretty much all i feel like doing now days, i write in my journal then i blog on my personal "dear tanner" blog and then i sit on facebook.. and then i blog some more. hmm what to do what to do? :)

tanners in the mtc!

tanner is officially in the mtc!! wow! that went SO quick, i hope his mission goes just as quick, i already miss him! last night was easily one of the hardest nights of my life, i felt so terrible sobbing in front of tanner, i'm sure that's the last thing he needed but really i am just SO proud of him, what an extremely awesome sacrifice he's making. and i know so many will be blessed because of this awesome boy! i love him so much and am already missin him :) last thing he said to me was see ya soon! can't wait to hear his experiences! thank you everyone who has been my shoulder to cry on, your all so awesome!!

hope

ever feel like there is nothing left? like your ready to just give up? nothing is going to fix things, nothing is going to make things better? well i feel like alot of people who i am friends with or associated with in one way or another is feeling this way and hope is just one of those words used in my vocabulary often that makes me feel so much better. "Hope has the power to fill our lives with happiness.Its absence—when this desire of our heart is delayed—can make “the heart sick." i know hope gets ME through the worst of times because theres... hope. for me hope doesn't run out. i'm so grateful for actually finding out the meaning/importance of hope when i did because i never knew how much i'd need it in my life and need to share the importance withothers. the other day i had a friend show me this small clip.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TbcyKQjwvYsometimes it does take more than medication, it takes hope. i looked hope up on wikipedia just because i was curious as to what the world defined it as, this is what i got. "Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. "then i was curious to see what the church would say. Hope is the confident expectation of and longing for the promised blessings of righteousness. The scriptures often speak of hope as anticipation of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ isn't the second one so much better? ahh i love the gospel! and i love hope. i hope all of you out there that are struggling can have hope. :)

Gracie

all the prayers and all the sorrow and tears must not be what gracie needed, i'm so very grateful for this sweet baby gracie's story that has influenced me and taught me alot, (http://www.thegledhillfamily.blogspot.com) the poor gledhill family has many hearts to mourn with and they as well are in my prayers to feel comfort and happiness, even at the hardest times. i'm so very grateful for the plan of salvation and the opportunity this family has to see gracie again, familes are forever.

finally....

it's REALLY time for an update isn't it??? finally i get around to it.. hah well, i lost my camera, and blogs are simply just boring without the pictures right? right. but i guess we'll have to do without for a while cuz i feel left out without blogging! "everybody's doing it" ;) not a whole lot is new to be honest. still going to school, still working, and still just hanging out with friends and doing homework. :) dillon's birthday was a couple days ago and we partied for that, that was fun, we also went down to st george for a surprise party for grandpa over valentines day, and got to hang out with ALL the cousins, it was nice to see everyone :) i also went to temple square with my sweetie a couple days before so it worked out good. ALTHOUGH, all these fun events would be funner with pictures huh? :( i'll work on it. let me know how you all are doing, i love reading your blogs :)