Up and Coming

So I don't think I've written on this thing since before Christmas! Pathetic really... But I'm back! :)

Patrick and I are really excited about this next month. We are lucky enough to get to go on 2 vacations! Love it. We are going to California to visit Patrick's brother Corbin next weekend and we are going to NYC at the end of the month. Needless to say, I am definitely a lot less motivated about doing school work than I should be.

Well that's all I have to say for now, but maybe I'll get back into the swing of this blog thing soon.

What is a balanced life?

How many hours should I plan/seek to devote to my future job, my service in the church and my family? Should I seek for a job that pays a lot so that my family can have the niceties we desire? What if that type of job takes me away from my family more than I am comfortable with? What are the effects of amassing wealth for good and bad? What is the proper balance of meeting your needs and even some of your wants and greed? What is middle class lifestyle mean today? What are the costs of being poor? What are the costs of being rich? Should I aspire for wealth? What is meant by David O McKay’s saying “No Other Success Can Compensate for Failure in the Home”? Does that mean that I should work less and spend more time with my family? What are my responsibilities to help the poor? Am I doing enough to help those in need? Should I seek wealth so I can help the poor more? Is it true that “it easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God?” Do you have to be rich to impact the world? How do you balance you church callings with your family life? Is my time the most important thing that I can give my family? Is my money the most important thing that I can give my family?

I think that I find myself pricked each day by one of these questions (or something like them) .

I don’t think that I will ever know the perfect answer to any of these questions, perhaps because there is no perfect answer. I hope that as I go though my life I can become wiser, in answering these questions. My prayer is that I will lead the life that God wants me too.

I know that God lives and that we are his children. May we treat each other as such.

P.S. If you have any comments or ideas about any question I posed i would love to hear your thoughts.

Christmas is Coming!

Well, I know it's a little early, but Patrick and I put up our Christmas tree last night. We wanted to get it up before we leave for Thanksgiving so we don't have to worry about it when we get back. It is our very first Christmas tree (we didn't have one last year) and I am super exciting about it! It is just so fun to have our own Christmas tree and start making our own holiday traditions. Here are some pics...

Getting the ornaments ready

Putting on our ornaments

With the completely decorated tree :)

Keep on Chuggin'

I sure do wish BYU had some sort of break before Thanksgiving in the fall. Just a few days off would be so nice! School gets a little difficult at this point. I can't wait for Thanksgiving. I need a break--SO BAD!!!

Happy Halloween!

At the corn maze.

And again at the corn maze! :)

Carving our pumpkins. So many guts!

Mine was a black cat in a tree. The cat was good. The tree didn't really look like a tree...

And Patrick made an awesome face. It looked really good!