I am almost embarrassed about the fact that I forgot all about my blog and haven't been keeping it up to date because there has been so much good in my life in the last couple of years! In my last post, I wrote about how I didn't feel like I was moving forward with my life and that I was just stuck. Since that last post of November of 2015, I had gone back to school & had the sweetest, funniest, loving, and fun roommates ever. They really blessed my life and ended up making lifetime friends. I later met the most wonderful, funny, handsome, kind, Christ-like, adventurous, silly man who became my best friend that turned into my boyfriend, then my fiance, and now my husband! We got married earlier this year and it has been the best year of my life. I also graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in Exercise Physiology. (small update of what I have been up to)
Life is a funny thing. You may think you have this grand plan of where you want to be in the next year, what you want to accomplish, and whether or not you want to be married. But God has a plan for us that may or not be what we had imagined life would go. That is kind of how I feel about my own life these past couple of years. Before I met my husband, I had this big plan that after I graduated with my bachelor's I would go off and do more schooling and get an awesome job that makes lots of money. I wouldn't be married, that way I could have all the money for myself (sounds kind of selfish). I quickly found out that God had a different plan for me. Now that I look back, I am grateful for how my life went and it makes sense to me like, how I met my husband, finishing my degree, and the numerous blessings and experiences that I have been able to have!
One of my favorite quotes is from President Gordon B. Hinckley. "And finally, in all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured." I'll admit, sometimes in life I didn't think life was full of fun and laughter. But life is an adventure. Marriage isn't easy, but it is a learning experience and its fun!
My husband was sitting waiting for his haircut today, an older gentleman next to him reached over and grabbed his arm and asked, "Are you married or happy?" The question caught him off guard, but my husband replied "Both, thanks!" This response made me happy, right? But I thought the older gentleman's question could be a reality check. In a marriage - is it just a marriage or are you happy while being married? I hope that if an older gentleman were to ask you that same question, you are able to say both :)
Life is a funny thing. You may think you have this grand plan of where you want to be in the next year, what you want to accomplish, and whether or not you want to be married. But God has a plan for us that may or not be what we had imagined life would go. That is kind of how I feel about my own life these past couple of years. Before I met my husband, I had this big plan that after I graduated with my bachelor's I would go off and do more schooling and get an awesome job that makes lots of money. I wouldn't be married, that way I could have all the money for myself (sounds kind of selfish). I quickly found out that God had a different plan for me. Now that I look back, I am grateful for how my life went and it makes sense to me like, how I met my husband, finishing my degree, and the numerous blessings and experiences that I have been able to have!
One of my favorite quotes is from President Gordon B. Hinckley. "And finally, in all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured." I'll admit, sometimes in life I didn't think life was full of fun and laughter. But life is an adventure. Marriage isn't easy, but it is a learning experience and its fun!
My husband was sitting waiting for his haircut today, an older gentleman next to him reached over and grabbed his arm and asked, "Are you married or happy?" The question caught him off guard, but my husband replied "Both, thanks!" This response made me happy, right? But I thought the older gentleman's question could be a reality check. In a marriage - is it just a marriage or are you happy while being married? I hope that if an older gentleman were to ask you that same question, you are able to say both :)
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