Engagement Photos

Engagement Photos are up! :]

Thanks Kim! These are GREAT! :]

http://agreenfieldphotography.com/blog/?p=8867

LOVE THEM!

I know, I know. Our story is still to come. :]

Sit down and hold onto your socks.

I am Engaged!

:]

more to come about our story at a later time when its not so late.

Life update.

SO, I know. It's been a while. A LONG while. ANYWHO

So a lot has happened since and i've had a lot of changes to go through.

However, turns out God's plans are better than our own. :]

SO here is the last few months update:

1.I have some really good friends here.

2.A friend of mine is investigating the church.

3.The Sister Missionaries are the greatest thing EVER.

4. I have been seeing this boy. He is a member of the church and a return missionary. And on top of it all he is basically amazing. (check later for updates)

5. Laundry is lame.

6. Pumpkin carving is better as a YSA.

7. Haunted houses scare the heck out of me.

8. I may be singing backup on a friends album coming out in December. (She is basically AH-may-zing. she gives me goose bumps. :] )

9. I may be looking into other forms of learning, and not pursue a teaching career.

10. I have gotten into better scripture reading habits, and better prayer habits.

11. I LOVE Institute.

12. I serve in the Nursery and I LOVE it.

13. I am still looking for a job.

14. I REALLY like this boy.

15. I can't do online classes.

16. I need a schedule.

17. I am attending Time Out for Women this Friday and Saturday. :] (I'm really excited)

18. I hate that my neighbors stand outside my apartment and smoke. ICK!

19. My medication has been working and I can now eat Gluten with little to no problems.

20. Life is overall great! :]

Doors.

Doors are very useful.

They let good people in.

They keep bad things out.

But MY door, well my door you see is the best of all,

because when I arrived back to my apartment I found a lovely surprise...

My Very First Apartment. Pictures Included.

My bedroom. :] my mattress is 5 whole inches of Memory foam. (I LOVE it)

My Living room. I built the coffee table...with help. :]

It has storage in it and under it. It's truelly fantastic and I LOVE it.

That picture above my TV is Gene Kelley (sp?) from Singing in the rain. :]

This right here is my Kitchen. It's, as an old friend would say, a One-butt kitchen. haha.

However, it's big enough for one person and actually has A LOT of space.

Liam made this fishy using a water bottle, paper mache, and googly eyes. I just love it.

glub, glub, glub.

This is my little shelf. It holds my sunflowers.

some loverly candles.

as well as a few other little trinkets.

This is in the corner of my kitchen. My dad built the shelf above the microwave.

Up on top is a fondue pot that the Amazing Sister Glover gave me.

She also gave me the cute chef's salt and pepper shakers,

and Pedro (i named him) the Olive Oil man.

Sister Glover was fantastic in helping me get ready for my move.

She gave me lots of odds and ends as well as dishes for my apartment.

I absolutely love living on my own,

and i LOVE my apartment.

I have a futon couch in my living room that becomes a bed. I intend on having big sister weekends on which i plan on having a sibling. just one. come and visit and have some quality me time. :] I also welcome visitors as well. :]

I also really like my ward. They have been very welcoming and inviting and have made me feel welcome as well.

I have a temporary job. Its walking distance from my apartment. It's for the book rush week and possibly for game day weekends. I stayed an extra two hours yesterday hoping to stand out and be noticed. If I do really well I may get a permanent job, but there are no promises. So I intend on working hard and doing more than my best in hopes of getting this job permanently. Until then though I am still on the hunt for another job.

Besides all this I usually spend my time sitting around and watching my movies. (Internet and Cable don't come until tomorrow. Boo for waiting. but YAY for it being tomorrow.)

School starts this Wednesday. I am excited and nervous for the new school year and what is to follow.

Wish me luck! :]

My First Apartment...

...pictures to come soon. Very Soon. so be excited and keep looking out for my latest and greatest, well due, blog post.

Thank you

"Life is for loving. Life is for living. And no matter what cards you get, you can do both of those things without fulfilling some silly idea that has been socialized into us.

So regardless of how you love, just love. And be loved.

And life will love you back."

With everything going on in life lately these were words I needed to hear, and were an answer to my prayers. Thank you Kimberly.

Proud of Myself

I'm making progress, well on the good days that is.

Message to him...

"Thank you for leaving me. You reminded me that I can get back up when i'm thrown on my butt. I can do this without you and as time goes on I will heal, and i'll find someone who truelly loves me for me and wants nothing less. I deserve that. I deserve the love you find in story books. I wanted so badly for you to be my knight in shining armor, but you let me get eaten by the dragon. You didn't come to my rescue. One day i'll get my fairytale ending, even if it means I have to let you go."

I'm writing a book

I've just started writing a book. One that tells stories of my experience as gained through my life.

I'm not sure if it will ever be published. but the aim is to let the many girls and people out there that they are not alone and that others have been through many things they themselves have as well.

Periodically i may post bits and pieces of my book. i ask that those who comment are kind and understanding. that they are open to my words and my story. I do however welcome consructive criticism.

Here's a sneak peak.

Story.Of.My.Life

The ups and downs of growing up Rebekah.

For my sisters both blood related and love related, and for all girls stumbling and fighting their way through life in their journey to find themselves.

"Accept.

your faults

your differences

your similarities

you are human

you can not be perfect

there is nothing we can do to change the past, but everything to change the future

you are unique

you are beautiful

You are the one and only lovely you"

Life Update

"Love. Healing. Help. Hope. The power of Christ to counter all troubles in all times—including the end of times. That is the safe harbor God wants for us in personal or public days of despair. That is the message with which the Book of Mormon begins, and that is the message with which it ends, calling all to 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him' (Moroni 10:32)."

Jeffrey R. Holland, "Safety for the Soul," Ensign, Nov. 2009, 88

This past Summer i signed up to receive daily emails from the church. Sometimes they are just ones i keep because i am sure to have future use for them. Others seem to come at the time i need them most. Today i Received one that was the later.

Ive been feeling really hopeless lately.
For those who did not know, i was engaged. It wasn't a hasty decision. Yes i had him ask my dad. Yes i prayed about it, and yes I received the answer.

I not only love this boy, but i am helplessly, head-over-heels, in love with him. After two years he still gives me butterflies.

However, two-months ago things went from bliss to non-existent within the time of a week.

This has thrown me out of wack and i cant seem to find my way out. There are a lot of complications that have come with this devastation, and some really scare me. I have felt lost in life, in spirit, in Everything.

There is a good point to this, besides that this is a journal and i'm updating it.

These emails arrive when i need them most with words of comfort and hope. I advise each of you access the LDS.org site and sign up for these emails. They have them for every kind of person, and any stage of life.

With them i am reminded that Heavenly father loves me and in not always grand, but subtle ways, he shows me so.