Blog? I have a blog?

You know that point in your life when you go to your blog and look at the date of your last post and think, "No surely it hasn't been that long!!"  Time is FLYING!!  I can't believe we're all the way to the end of October.  Didn't I just start May??  I need to remember to update this thing more often.  One of the reasons I have for not updating, is that the computer is all the way in the other room and I can do most of my other online stuff from the tablet, so I forget to check back with my computer and thus my blog gets ignored.  Sorry little blog!!  I'll try to keep up on writing!!

This month has flown by.  October 4th I had the privileged opportunity to go to the temple when Aubrey received her endowment and then on October 23rd we went back together.  It is such a great thing that we are both temple worthy and that we have this thing we can share!!  I'm just so proud of her for making the necessary changes in her life and being able to receive the blessings of the temple.  Her countenance is bright and she reflects such a spirit!  Aubrey has been one of my favorite people for a lot of years, but she's different now... in a good way, obviously.  It's been such a treat to be on the journey with her, although sitting in the Celestial Room in the Salt Lake Temple last week, we both agreed that we were no where near finished with our journey.  We both have a lot to work on!!

On October 5th my parents moved from the house I essentially grew up in to move into one that is much smaller and a bit closer to me.  It only takes me 19 minutes to drive there instead of 25.  It's in Murray and it's small and perfect and I really like it.  I joke with them that I'm going to buy it from them when they're too old to keep up on the payments and then I'll have a house of my own.  It's super cute with just two bedrooms and a loft!!  I like it a lot.  In the meantime, I've spent a lot of time helping my mom pick out furniture and put things away and find storage places for all the stuff they didn't get rid of.  It's a lot smaller than the old house, so the cleaning out took some serious time, a dumpster, and a hundred trips to the DI.  I told them it was a good thing they were going through things now, so we didn't have to declutter as much when they die.

On October 11, (10-11-12) a friend of mine gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Olivia and I am so happy for her and her family!!  She is so adorable and I can't wait to meet her in person (they live in Idaho Falls).  It's such a fun thing to welcome new little spirits into this world.  I'm so thrilled for her blessed parents.

I'm trying to continue on the Dave Ramsey plan of getting out of debt and I'm down to 23 months and counting of being debt free!!  It feels so great to have a pay off date.  It's still a long way off, but not as far off as it was before I found the Dave Ramsey plan.  I helped a friend at work get started on it too, and it felt really good to share it with her.

I've decided that I'm going to do the grateful posts for November.  I need an overhaul and I think being more grateful will help, so I'm going to really focus on blogging my gratitude everyday.  Hopefully now that I've written that I'll really do it.  I've thought about doing it as a photography blog, but I'm not committing to that yet!!  We'll see if I remember to pull the camera out enough!!  Well I guess that's enough random for one Sunday night.  Until November 1st!!!