Monday Adventures.

Just a cute little quote that as so much truth in it. :)

On this beautiful Monday, I had the day off from work so I filled it with fun projects, including gardening and pinterest findings!

I decided this morning to try out the crayon art idea from pinterest, where you melt crayons onto with hairdryer onto canvas. I took step-by-step pictures as I work on it so that I could give feedback.

Getting started! By the way, this is definitely a project you'll want to take some time out for, because it's a slower process than I had expected.

In case you're wondering why this activity takes time... this picture sums it up. :)

Here are the finished products... I'm not as satisfied with how they turned as I thought I'd be, but I'm not very artistic to begin with. They also look a little better in person.

I tried taping a line of them to the canvas and then melting them, but they kept moving and sliding out of place, which I concluded was because they didn't have the papers on them.

Next, I worked on potting plants that I bought at Lowe's this morning. I had such a hard time deciding on only a couple plants since I go crazy about them-- especially flowers! Here is what I ended up going with.

Purslane and Begonias!!

So pretty!

AND, as I was cleaning up after my gardening session, I found this little treasure! It's kind of beat up, but still a great find. :)

My very first four-leaf clover! Aren't I lucky? ;)

In addition to these wonderful productive activities, I studied Macroeconomics (which takes me back to when I took Economics at Piedmont during my dual-enrollment days). Now I need to work on Statistics :p, exercise, and then maybe read one of my library books. It sounds like a good plan to me! :)

Now for a short video from one of my favorite movies: A Hard Day's Night!

Rain, Rain, Rain, I Don't Mind. :)

 

 

I love blogs, I really do, and I have had lots of fun starting mine and keeping it up (rather poorly, sorry!!). The one thing that makes it difficult is that I am not a very creative person... so, blogging can be difficult at times. I love thinking of a blog as a journal only in fun form. :) You get to put all of these pretty decorations in it to make it fun! Aren't blogs some of the most interesting and useful things. They are just great.

Wow, so where do I start.... it's amazing how in one month you can either have TONS going on, or you look back and realize that even though you were busy, there wasn't a whole lot of new things happening. Well, this past month I stayed busy enough, but it was mostly working and studying. Yeah, my life is kind of boring...

It really is easy to get down and discouraged when you feel like all you do is the same stuff every single day and before you know it another month has past. It's great when you're a missionary girlfriend (like me), and each month that passes is one closer to his return. But I've been thinking about time a lot lately. It's not something to just get through, and that is a concept I've had to learn for myself. We are meant to enjoy this life-- our time here on earth. Jesus Christ atoned for our sins so that we could experience true happiness not just in the life to come but right here in our everyday journey. It is up to us, however, to choose happiness and positivity, especially in a world that would have us think and feel otherwise. I am so grateful for the many blessings Heavenly Father continues to bless me with daily.

Matthew has 4 months left.... 4 months! As far as I know, he is still in Blackfoot and he is still DL. He was very consistent in writing almost every week for the past 1 1/2 months. Now I'm going on four weeks of not hearing from him. I don't think about it a lot. I think I have gotten used to the idea that he will write whenever he wants to, and so I write when I hear from him. I really don't know how things are going to go when he gets home. I had such a hard time for a couple months being okay with the idea of not knowing how everything was going to fall into place. Just these past few weeks of have learned that God really does have a plan for my life, and I know he is working in my behalf. He doesn't want me to be concerned over my future and worry about it. He will take care of everything and I am sure of it! :)

 

I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. ~Psalm 34:1