His Majesty, The Birthday King

Jonathan's birthday was last week. We started celebrating a few days before and the celebrating continued into the weekend. Jonathan requested a birthday pie again this year. 

I made his birthday crown the night before his actual birthday and he wore it all morning and evening long. On Saturday, we went to the UVU Women's Volleyball game. One of the players grew up in my home ward and when we were living in Roseville, Jonathan occasionally taught her in Sunday School.  

Abby was amazing! We had so much fun watching her. After the game, we went to Taylor and Kenzie's for a family party.

On Sunday, we went up to Salt Lake for a devotional for Juventud de la promesa. As you can probably guess by the title it was completely in Spanish. It was perfect! Jonathan has been wanting to do more with his Spanish and has been a little worried about how much he remembers. He only struggled keeping up with the speed of the native Spanish speakers. The highlight was having Elder D. Todd Christofferson speak in Spanish. His talk was a wonderful reminder of being consistent with doing the seemingly small things like praying and reading scriptures. He also gave advise to the youth about marriage. He said there were many wives around that love their husband and husbands that cherish and respect their wife. When he said that I looked over at Jonathan and felt a wave of gratitude to have a husband that already cherishes and respects me.

We had a lot of fun, but I doubt that the celebrating is finished!

Alpine Loop

Since Fall is upon us, Jonathan and I took a drive up Provo Canyon. It was beautiful, but what I loved the most was the smell! It smelled so fresh and crisp.

Fall is such a beautiful time of year!

Life Lately

Here are some little things that we've been up to. On one of our recent adventures, we saw a Tesla charging station with a couple of cars charging.

Every few months, we get treats from our boss with FedEx Office. I didn't know what I wanted so I asked for chocolate with caramel. Jennifer totally delivered!

Jonathan and I finally went the Family History Center in Salt Lake City. They were able to give us some direction on how to do our Family History. Next time, we'll get serious and go to the Family History Library!

Ryan and Tyler had their birthday. It was really weird getting family names ready for my nephew to take to the temple!

Stephanie Nielsen of the NieNie Dialogues, visited UVU and Jonathan saved us great seats. It was amazing! Personally, I loved watching how her husband was looking at her. The love he has for her is palpable.

We went up to Ogden for a mission reunion that ended up getting cancelled because Jonathan's mission president was in the hospital. We had dinner just down the street from the temple.

We went up to Temple Square to spend time with Chris and Annie and watched General Conference from the Tabernacle.

Nursery has been going well! We've been in it for almost a year and a half and we still love it! Another couple was called and so I finally made a schedule. I forgot to include all of the extra time for laying on the floor or running into the walls during the lesson and calming down after singing Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam...

It's hard to believe that another summer is over!

BYU Football

My brother Chris has been dying to go to a BYU football game this season. Lucky for him, he has the two of us to go with him and we don't need much notice for plans.

We went to the home opener against Boise. It was crazy! After the second to last touchdown, Jonathan leaned over to me asking that I protect him from my brother. I looked down the row and Chris wasn't there. I turned around and he was at least three rows behind us celebrating with everyone in his path.

It was a great game to go to!

Join Us!

It's that time of year again! General Conference is here! It started last week with the General Women's session and tomorrow morning at 10am MST (Mountain Standard Time, not Mormon Standard Time) will be the first of four general sessions. General Conference is for everyone and I invite you to take some time this weekend to listen. There are a large variety of ways to watch it and click here to find out how to watch it. This time, Jonathan and I are going to head up to Salt Lake to meet up with Chris and Annie. It is such a wonderful blessing to here the words of living prophets and I know that there will be messages that I need to hear.

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Last Saturday, I went to the General Women's Session with Annie. Each talk was amazing and exactly what I needed to hear. The talks in each session of conference are truly inspired!