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Think about it. Look back. Your life has changed so much from just one year ago. Life happens a little bit at a time, not just all at once. But when you look back so much has changed and you sit there and you wonder how? Where did the time go? How did all of that change? How did I change so much?
A little bit at a time.
Did you do all that you wanted to this year? Did you accomplish everything? Did you do something crazy that you wouldn't have normally done? Did you cross anything off your bucket list? Did you live it? ..Or were you just present through it all?

Did you meet anyone, a stranger that changed your life?
How many strangers did you meet? That now, you can't see how you ever lived with out them. I can count quite a few. And to think, you didn't know them a year ago..

 

Think back, think of this year, 2013...What was your favorite memory? What made you the happiest? What made you smile the most? When did you feel most alive? Hold on to that memory and don't forget it. We forget so much of our lives that we forget just how blessed we really are.

 

If you look back and you didn't do everything you wanted to, GOOD! You have another year to do whatever you put your mind to. Take that class that you've always wanted to take. Go to that foreign country. Buy the pair of shoes you know you shouldn't. Start a new tradition. Forgive that person, you know the one. Stop looking through the window, go inside! Be someone totally new. Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book.

Someday they will all be stories, so make sure they're good ones.

 

Signed,

A girl still writing her story.



Only the Best Time of Year

Family traditions, hot chocolate, ice skating, gingerbread houses, cookies and milk, warm fuzzy socks, presents under the tree, kisses under the mistletoe, twinkling lights, and being with the people you love the most. Who doesn't love this time of year!? Gosh I love Christmas. Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. It's about love and caring, spreading that spirit around everywhere we go. We should do this all year round but unfortunately we only try around Christmas time. Even though its cold outside and snow is everywhere there is still a warmth that comes from the spirit of Christmas. 
This year has really felt like Christmas for me! Boy have I been blessed.
I went ice skating with some friends and let me just say we are all oh so very good at ice skating that we don't fall...ever. Haha

You can't forget about making gingerbread houses! Couldn't be Christmas time with out making a mess and getting frosting everywhere! We made a gingerbread house and a gingerbread train. It was messy and yummy and oh so very great!

Took a trip down to Temple Square in Salt Lake City! Gosh it was beautiful! The trees were all twinkling in any and every color you could think of. It was freezing and crowded in Temple Square but still in some way you felt warm inside. I love those lights and how they make you feel. I love the way you can see how beautiful the Temple is and how lit up it looks with all the twinkling lights around it. Such a fun night.

This time of year is wonderful and magical all at the same time. Keep in mind why we celebrate it and what's most important. Christ. The birth of a man who is perfect and our brother who loves us unconditionally. Merry Christmas everyone! I hope its full of people who you love dearly and the spirit of Christ.