Is change really necessary?

Accept... or not to Accept?

I find myself having a hard time accepting that things change constantly. Like recently both my cousin Ashley & Alex got married. Ashley got married on November 3. & Alex just got married November 17.. so Yesterday. & I can't help but think that it was just MY wedding. wasn't it just yesterday? No. It's been almost SIX months already. I remember when people would say "We have been married for 6 months now!" & I would think that was a long time.. but six months is NOT long at all. it almost feels like 6 days.. or 6 hours.. or maybe even 6 minutes in some cases. I don't know exactly what I'm trying to say, but I just mean that I feel like I just got married yesterday.. & now it's going on six months of being married. Not that it is bad obviously. haha I just mean that time flies by SO fast. It is crazy! & I think the point of this is about change. I always wish that time would move a little faster so I can be done with work.. or school.. or anything! When I should be cherishing each & every minute, because before I know it.. I will be 40!! & have a million kids! not that I don't want that... but like I have said in a lot of posts before, I miss a lot of moments from the past & now wish I could go back. & I can't go back. I think I get so frustrated with that. & It all goes back to that stupid 6 letter word.. Change! Oh how I hate hate hate that word. I hate everything about it. I hate how when I wake up it's a new day & constantly all day long things are CHANGING! I hate how I think a year will go by slowly... But then before I know it is already the next year. I hate how things cannot just simply stay the same. But I guess then what would be the point in living? How would anyone better themselves? How would we learn? How would we grow & strengthen our weaknesses? How would we have a chance to make choices? How would we try to become perfect like our savior Jesus Christ? ETC.
The answer: We couldn't do anything. If things weren't constantly changing.. we wouldn't need our Heavenly father or be apart of our Heavenly father's plan. We wouldn't improve on anything... We would just stay exactly the same. Never trying new things.. never moving. We definitely wouldn't learn anything if we stayed in the same spot every single day! If things didn't change we just couldn't learn. we would stay as innocent children forever. We would ALWAYS have our weaknesses.. because we don't have the opportunity to learn.. If things did not change... we could not make our own decisions. we would stay content & never moving. & Most importantly if we didn't have change... We wouldn't have the opportunity to learn about our heavenly father.. or Jesus Christ. The point of living here, is to learn & grow so we can return to live with them someday. But if there was not any change... that wouldn't be possible now would it? & Then it all goes back to, "What would be the point of living?" & the answer is... there would not be a point & if there was no such thing as "Change" we wouldn't be here.

I don't know if any of that made any sense.. but It makes sense to me & maybe I don't know how to put it into words.. But it definitely helps me to think that way.. That if there was not any change, what would be the point? & it helps me to realize that I am apart of my heavenly father's plan. & I know I can become perfect someday through my Savior Jesus Christ. Thinking this way also helps me to be thankful for Change. Because things are constantly changing, that means I'm constantly changing... meaning I am constantly learning,  growing, strengthening my weaknesses, bettering myself, & becoming closer to my goal here on earth: trying to become perfect like our Savior. So from now on I'm going to focus on the positive Change brings... not the negative. I will start right now by saying... I love change & I am going to be better at accepting it.

(Plus change is going to happen regardless of whether we want or not.. so why not embrace it instead of trying to fight it?)

Anyway.. I will now share a couple of things that have happened in the last two weeks:

Friday, November 2:

November 2nd is my birthday. So for my birthday I went to my cousin Ashley's Bridal shower. After the Bridal shower my amazing husband had a scavenger hunt ready for me. (A scavenger hunt to find my birthday presents). He wrote on 9 blue sticky notes. I got the first one in my birthday card he gave to me on the way home from my cousin's house. Each one had a clue on it & I had to go search the apartment for them. It was so much fun! I love my husband! He is so good to me! (Not because he gets me gifts, but because he loves me enough to make a scavenger hunt just for me!) Oh & he also made me breakfast that morning too!

After my scavenger hunt we went to Red Robin (& I got a free birthday dinner! because we go there a lot!) & we saw Wreck it Ralph after dinner! After the movie we had cake(: Which was an ice cream cake. I told Dee one time that I wanted an ice cream cake.. & he remember. Dee really does Listen to everything I say. I love him so much! I am a lucky girl.

1st wedding of November:

On Saturday November 3 my cousin Ashley & her now husband David got married in the beautiful St. George Temple. She looked Beautiful!

Some Projects:

So here are some things I have been working on lately:

I made a shadow box of our wedding day. Luckily my wonderful mom saved my bouquet & Dee's mom saved Dee's flower that he wore on his tux. (: I also made two ornaments for our future Christmas tree (which wont be this year because we are not getting one.. we are going to my mom's for Christmas this year.. so what's the point since we have not kids). One of them is the petals from one of my bridesmaid's bouquet & the other one is our wedding invitations cut into little strips! (:

Starting to feel like Fall:

So just recently the weather has started to feel like Fall. I absolutely love fall. But it is kind of weird how it is JUST now starting to feel like it... when it should be starting to feel like Winter since December is just around the corner.. oh well. This is St. George after all.

It's a bathroom mirror shot with the Mr. (:

(Oh by the way.. Recently I've started the habit of calling Dee "Mr" I think he likes it because He has been calling me "Mrs" lately. I love my husband! Oh & just so you know.. The Mr & I make a good team! We are good by ourselves... but together.. we are AWESOME! just so you know. & I couldn't think of a better person I'd want to be on a team with then my amazing Hubby.)

Merry Christmas to the Mr. & Mrs. (:

Well we decided probably a month ago that for our Christmas present we would get ourselves a new bed. So last Monday the 12 of November Dee & I bought ourselves a King Size bed. We absolutely love it! It cannot compare to our stinking Full size bed we jokingly tried to sleep on the last 5.5 months. haha Now we are just waiting for the lovely quilt my grandma is making us! I cannot wait until it is done. She showed me the part that she has done on my birthday... & It looked just absolutely perfect!

2nd wedding of November:

So my cousin Alex got married yesterday in a beautiful St. George temple as well! (Saturday November 17) I can't believe us cousins are all old enough to be married!!! 7 out of 32 cousins (On my dad's side) & 2 out of 21 cousins (on my mom's side) are married now! I cannot believe it! & 4 of us were married this year (2012) & the other 3 were married in 2010!!

Aren't they cute? Ashlan looked beautiful & they both looked so happy!

Congratulations to Ashley & David... & Alex & Ashlan! (: Have a happy journey to forever! Love you guys!

That's all for now!