Book of Mormon: Faith vs Science

Well it's almost March again and that means YOU are invited to read The Book of Mormon this month. Every March I read the whole thing in one month and challenge everyone around me to do the same. This probably seems like a daunting task, especially if you always quit around 1st or 2nd Nephi. But I promise you that reading the whole book in a month is an experience unlike any other. And I promise that YOU can do it. It is just 17 pages a day and you can even listen to it on your ipod. It always makes me REALLY happy just in time for General Conference.

Happy Reading!

Devin Thomas

The other day I was on the phone with my little brother Devin. (Who is really not that little, but he's still my little brother!) I asked him if he had seen a movie that we had gone to over the weekend. His reply... "We walked out."

Boy did I feel silly; rebuked by my little brother.

Later I was thinking about it and decided that my little brother is a lot like Nephi, living righteously and setting a good example for his family.

So here's to my "little" brother Devin. Taller than I am, and a spiritual giant too. Love ya dude!

and I think to myself

Everyone wants details..... I've just been OVERLY emotional lately. (And no I'm not pregnant.) Let's just say that Li had to listen to me cry more than once yesterday and he is a really good sport about it and insists that I don't belong in a mental hospital.


Anyway, I'm over that today. Have you guys seen this world that we live in? The sky is blue and there are flowers and butterflies and ipods and this really great song called New Soul that I have listened to at least 6 times today.....make that 7.

So he married an axe murderer

Sometimes I think my husband married a psychopath. And yet he just sits there strummin' his uke and taking it all it stride. I want to be like Li when I grow up.

Breakfast Bowls

I got home late last night and Li got home even later. I woke up when he came in and the next thing I knew I heard the sound of dishes being washed. I protested and he said, "I'm just washing a bowl for your breakfast." I mumbled an, "okay," and fell back asleep. Sure enough when I woke up this morning I found a bowl, a spoon and a cup ready and waiting for me to eat breakfast with. Sweet.

Rewarding!!

This is an article that a friend of ours wrote for the school newspaper awhile back. I think they should do an update!

Negotiating with the enemy

Who knew my husband was so good at international relations? Interspecies relations even. Today Li was on his way back to school after lunch. Somehow in the process of leaving a giant wasp/hornet thing flew in. Li told me to hurry and hide in the bathroom and I smiled thinking what a great protector I married. A few minutes later I was singing a different tune. I was still in the bathroom and my brave husband was half-heartedly waving a flyswatter at the bug. After awhile he seemed to give up and remarked, "Well, I'm glad I'm not going to be in the house for awhile." I couldn't believe he would just leave me, but at the same time thought it couldn't really be that hard to get him. Fed up, I jumped out of the bathroom and said, "Let me do it." I took the swatter and one look at his big sharp stinger and snuck quietly back into the bathroom. At which point Li exclaimed, "I have an idea." He kept looking from me to the bug and then suddenly said, "Let me in there." This was his big idea?!

Once he was safely inside the bathroom he opened the door a crack and, I am not kidding, started negotiating with the little monster.... "Listen hornet, there has been a misunderstanding. We just want you to leave our house so we can live in peace. I'm not sure how you got in here, but you weren't supposed to come in. I need to go back to school and my beautiful wife needs her house back....." On and on he went. I was laughing so hard that I had to muffle the sound with a bath towel. (I didn't want to shoot down his hopes and dreams of future negotiations.)

I'm sure you'll all be surprised to hear that the negotiations failed. (I don't think Li speaks hornet, because he didn't even budge.) Eventually Li got up enough courage to put his arm out far enough to get a broom which he sort of flung at the hornet from the crack in the door. When we opened the door he was no where to be seen. We crept out cautiously fly-swatter and bath towel in hand. We couldn't find him anywhere. Maybe it took a minute to translate from human to bee. Or maybe the broom handle flying at him was a more international communication!

If I had to pick I'd go with the husband who makes me laugh over the one who saves me from a bee sting. But I'm so lucky I got a two-for-one! And as an extra bonus he even bought me a giant snicker bar tonight, claiming that I earned it with all my hard work at yoga. He's a keeper.

We Are Married.

Yup. It's official. We got married on December 29, 2007 in the St. George temple. It was a beautiful day and our reception and everything was PERFECT. Thanks so much to everyone who went out of their way to help make it that way. Mostly, thanks for being there. I've been a slacker blogger and a slacker most-everything-elser. But hey I'm a newlywed, that's allowed, right?!

Li is amazing. So patient with me and so considerate, so loving and so optimistic. (So a lot of other things too, but I'll stop there for today.) I love being married and I'm grateful to so many people who helped me to make that decision. Especially my little Likeke!