DISNEYLAND: a land full of DISNEY!!! :D

hey. hey. hey guess what??? IM GOING TO DISNEYLAND!!! and guess what else?? I GET TO STAY AT A SUPER NICE HOTEL!!! and guess what else?? IM NOT COMING HOME TILL SATURDAY!!! and guess what else?? I GET TO PERFORM THERE. LIKE SING AND DANCE AND STUFF!!!...... AND RIDE RIDES WITH MY BESTEST BESTEST FRIENDS!! (all except keara and john. wow. way to ruin it guys...)
and guess what else?? I AM STINKIN' EXCITED!!! yayay

i love to see the temple...

The Mesa Arizona Temple. This is the most beautiful place I have ever been to. It is safe. It is welcoming. It is peaceful. And it is home. For the past 4 months I have been attending the Temple to do Baptisms for the Dead every Tuesday night with Caroline Haws and her family (Thank you SO much!!) However, due to the Easter Pageant and other conflicts I haven't been able to go for about a month now! I never understood how much I loved and depended on the temple until I wasn't allowed to go. I have missed it like nothing I have missed before. I have learned so much these past 4 months, and I am so grateful that I can continue going to the Temple. I know that I wouldn't have been able to get through this year as efficiently as I have, if I had not started attending the Temple regularly. I made sure that I was free so that I was able to go with the Haws tonight. It is so beautiful and calming. I am so thankful for the Temple. For the calming spirit that it brings into my life. I am so thankful that I have a Temple literally 5 minutes away and I can go almost whenever I want. I am so thankful that I have been able to go every week and my life has become more steady and sure. My testimony has grown. I cannot wait for the day when I can walk through those doors at the end of that hall as an endowed adult. I will not allow ANYTHING get in my way.
i love to see the temple...i went inside today... :)

KIMBERLEE and SIERRA

This is Kimberlee. She is my niece. She is two years old. today!! :) and she called us and talked to us. she is so cute. and adorable. i miss them living with us. now i only see them like 2 times a month. but hey, I'm not complaining! they used to live in Oklahoma... so queen creek ain't to bad. ANYWAYS. Kimberlee is so adorable and pretty much every one's best friend. And she just barely learned how to say my name. Well actually she could always say my name, she just wouldn't cause she thought that it was funny when i got mad. (i promise!) instead she called me Sarah. rude right? anyways. she's still the cutes 2-year-old alive. no joke... just look at those eyes! they are seriously THAT blue! I'm so jealous...



This is Sierra. She is my best friend. I love her so stinking much i think I'm gunna be sick. haha :D but seriously, she is so smart and mature, and just dang beautiful! well today is her birthday too! (crazy right?!) and she is 16... dang she's old. haha :D but i love talking to her cause she always has the right thing to say. and i am always so depressed cause i never ever ever get to see her cause she lives in Litchfield Park. but guess what? she is getting her license in June and she said that she would visit me! :D YAYAY!! haha i am kind of a failure of a friend though cause i wrote her a letter... and forgot to send it!! (see... failure! told you!! haha) but i will send it soon. haha. anyways. she is adorable. and i love her. and i miss her. and I'm so happy that it is her birthday. cause guess what?! she can date!! yayay! (lucky duck... ) haha

yeah. so today there were lots of birthdays. i love birthdays. they are fun.

I love...

I Love Easter. I Love Christ. I Love what he did for me. for you. for everyone. He truly did suffer in Gethsemane. He truly did hang on the cross and die for me. Then, he broke the bands of death and was resurrected so that all of us will be too. And I know that. I am so grateful that I have the gospel in my life to lean on, to grow from, and to live. I cannot fathom the pain that Christ went through so that I can have the life that I have now. I know that I cannot repay him in anyway, no matter what I try. The best that I can do is live his gospel to it's fullest. Even when it is hard, or something that I do not want to do.
I Love new beginnings (hint the picture) I Love that every Sabbath I can partake of the Sacrament and repent. I Love my Savior for giving me that opportunity. I Love the Holy Ghost, that you can learn something from Him, even if that is not the topic of the lesson at all. But that is what you need to hear. I Love that I am able to learn from Him, and am able to have the Spirit with me at all times. I Love that I was given wonderful, inspired parents that tell me exactly what I need to do. I Love that I was given wonderful, inspired friends that tell me exactly what I need to do (even if they don't realize it!). I Love having those moments of complete understanding. When you realize something that you have been looking for, for what seems like forever. I Love when you get an answer to a very serious, deep, troubling question. And even if the answer isn't what you hoped for, it is an answer. And I Love being able to receive answers to prayers.
I Love Easter. And I Love that the Savior was resurrected so that we can have these new beginnings possible. I Love my life. Even though it is hard. Even though it is tough and troubling and sometimes confusing. I Love it with every fiber of my being. I hope that the everyone had as wonderful of an Easter as I had. It was different. We did not have a huge dinner. I did not get a new dress. We did not die eggs or have an Easter lesson in Sunday School. But I got my answer. An answer that i had been searching for, praying for, pondering on. And I feel relieved. So relieved. yes. I Love Easter. I Love my Savior. and I Love life...

night

night. it is night. actually it is very early morning.
you know when you can't sleep. the morning is still. all things. all people. all places. everything and everyone is still. there is no wind. there is no sound. everything is still. everything but you. you are not asleep. you are not still. you are awake. alive. and no where near sleep. whatever the reason is, you are awake. mornings like these are very peaceful. calming. thought provoking. mornings like this are beautiful.

i wish i could fall asleep...