Quite the Experience

So, yesterday I had a little visit to the doctor...


























Seven weeks and counting!!!!!

Resolutions

For New Years Tyler and I didn't really make any resolutions. He actually worked New Years Eve and the next day. But last month we made a late resolution. Our stake president recently asked all stake members to attend the temple once a week. It kind of sounds like a lot, 4 or 5 times a month, but we said we would.



Thinking about it more, 2 hrs a week is nothing! It's definitely nothing compared to the blessings we receive from going. And the thing is, even if I didn't receive a single blessing from going, I would go anyway. I loooove how peaceful and happy I feel when I go. Seriously, I just want to smile the whole time I'm in the Celestial room. Plus, I'm doing a service to those who have already passed on.



That picture doesn't really do the room justice, but it's the only one I could find. Anyway, it is gorgeous! I want to make a room in my house like that! Ha ha ok maybe not that fancy. Anyway, I love the Rexburg Temple. We literally live 3 minutes away and there really is no excuse for us not attending weekly. We don't have any kids to get babysitters for and we just aren't that busy.



I love the detail in everything. I know all LDS temples are beautiful, but I guess I'm a little biased towards the Rexburg one ;) Over the last seven years I've grown to love little Rexburg. I'll admit that sometimes I go insane if I stay too long, but it's such a great place. I will never settle here, but I loved going to school here!!!



I love how in the pictures above the surrounding views look like the temple is in the middle of nowhere. For those of you that have never been to Rexburg, or haven't been since the temple was built, it's located at the very south end of Rexburg. Once you get past the temple there are just fields. Campus and the rest of Rexburg is north and down the hill. It's in the perfect place. Each picture is taken from a different direction. The top left is from the north, on campus by the Hinkley building. The top right is from the west by the south entrance to campus. I go to church in that building right by the temple. The bottom left is taken from a field south of the temple. And the bottom right is taken from the east of the temple, campus and Rexburg is to the right.



Here is a little description from the church site about the temple:

"Adjacent to the Brigham Young University–Idaho campus, the five-story Rexburg Idaho Temple soars high above its hillside location—creating a striking landmark visible for miles along the Highway 20 corridor. It is the finest, most notable building in this rural community. West of the temple lies a beautiful garden area open to the public for quiet strolls or moments of reflection."



Fun Facts:

The Rexburg Idaho Temple features beautiful ordinance room murals by Rexburg artist Leon Parson, reflecting the wildlife and landscapes of the Upper Snake River Valley.

A wheat motif, created by Utah artist Tom Holdman, is used throughout the Rexburg Idaho Temple including most of the 700 art-glass windowpanes. The wheat stock symbolizes the widespread agricultural industry in the area.

The finest materials were used for this House of the Lord including wood imported from Africa and stone and tile from Israel.

President Thomas S. Monson was ordained the 16th president of the Church and assumed the task of dedicating the temple the next week as his "first official act" as president.

Reservations for the open house were snatched up in the first week after they became available, giving committee planners its first indication that its original estimate of 150,000 visitors was too low. Tour group sizes were regularly increased and tour times added to accommodate the overwhelming demand. Once tours concluded, over 200,000 visitors had viewed the interior of the edifice.

For more info go here.



I could go on about this, but it will probably bore most of you! Just know that I know temples are the house of God and I'm so grateful for one so close. I love being able to go once a week. The Rexburg Temple has been such a blessing to BYU-I, the Rexburg community, but most importantly me.


(By the front entrance of the Rexburg Temple)

Also, watch this video. It's good.



If you would like to learn more about the LDS Church, check out this site here.

March Madness

Here's my bracket folks. Go Zags!

Filler Post

It's been 5 days since my last blog post and I try and keep this thing updated so here I go... I know it's totally lame to do these, but let's be honest, who am I trying to impress?

A-Z Share

A
- Available: nope
- Age: 25
- Annoyance: Idaho driver's
- Animal: cheetah

B
- Beer: nope
- Birthday: August 17th
- Best friend(s): Tyler
- Blind or deaf: deaf
- Best weather: 90 degrees and sunny!
- Been in love: yes


C
- Candy: all
- Color: yellow
- Chocolate or vanilla: chocolate
- Chinese or Mexican food: hmmm Chinese
- Cake or pie: neither
- Continent to visit: Asia
- Cheese: Lactose Intolerant...



D
- Day or night: night
- Dancing in the rain: only when it pours


E
- Eyes: brown
- Everyone's got: fat
-Ever failed a class: unfortunately

F
- First thoughts waking up: I'm tired.
- Food: Something good that I didn't have to make.

G
- Greatest fear: ghosts
- Goals: Get in shape and eat healthier
- Gum: Anything fruity
- Get along with your parents: yep


H
- Hair Color: Brown
- Height: 5'4"
- Happy: indeed
- Holiday: Christmas
- How do you want to die: Slow and painful?



I
- Ice Cream: lactose...
- Instrument: Accordion

J
- Jewelry: wear it, love it. I don't own anything fancy besides my wedding ring.
- Job: Advertising/design

K
- Kids: Are cute and we will have a few some day...
- Kickboxing or karate: kickboxing I guess
- Keep a journal: I try...

L
- Love: my family
- Laughed so hard you cried?: just last night


M
- Milk flavor: Vanilla and Chocolate Soy
- Movies: lots
- Motion sickness: every time I get in a car and last weekend on the tram at Jackson
- McD’s or BK: neither


N
- Number: one

O
- One wish: to get out of Idaho :)

P
- Pepsi/Coke: neither
- Perfect Pizza: bbq chicken
- Piercings: ears


Q
- Quail: well I've never eaten it if that's the question

R
- Reality T.V.: ANTM, but I will be watching Dancing With the Stars this season simply because of Shawn Johnson.
- Radio Station: 94.3
- Roll your tongue in a circle: negative
- Ring size: 4 on my ring finger


S
-Song: anything by Weird Al
- Shoe size: 7
- Salad dressing: honey mustard
- Sushi: only if it's fried
- Shower: nearly every day
- Strawberries or blueberries: wild blueberries in Alaska


T
- Tattoos: nope
- Time for bed: 12
- Thunderstorms: are amazing in Chicago! I love thunder...and lightning.


U
- Unpredictable: life

V
- Vacation spot(s): we are too poor to have regular vaca spots


W
- Weakness: ADD
- Which one of your friends acts the most like you: hmmm Chelsea?
- Worst feeling: cold showers
- Worst Weather: freezing, windy, and no snow...like in Rexburg.

X
- X-Rays: are bad for you

Y
-Year it is now: 2009
- Yellow: is such a happy color and that is why I love it, and it goes well with my skin tone.



Z
-Zoo Animal: Polar Bear

Last Nights Miracle

OK so maybe I'm being a little over dramatic by calling it a miracle, but it makes for a decent story. At least decent enough to blog about!

Last night we were tired and bored so after dinner we turned on the TV. We figured nothing good would be on at 8:30pm in Idaho, most good shows are on at 7pm here, it's weird. It's like in an ad for a show they say "at eight seven central", we are the central. ANYWAY, during a commercial we were cuddling, yada yada, and Tyler somehow pressed the remote buttons with his foot and changed the channel to 63. We bum our cable off his parents and they have the very basic. We get like 8 channels between 2-15, half of which are not worth watching. Well, turns out we get 63, CMT, but without sound...thank goodness! Country music drives me nuts! Tyler likes to call it Christmas Music Television. I wish.

After this little mishap, I told him to try 64. VH1, with sound!!! OK try 65. MTV, with sound!!! I can't remember what 66-70 are, but we get them loud and clear. OK now go down... 62 E! YESSSS!!!! 61 Bravo! He literally laughed out loud with my response to 62. I pointed at the TV and yelled EEEEEEEE! In all my years in Idaho with FULL cable at all my apartment complexes E! was never a channel I got. I figured they just didn't have it around here. I don't know why I like the channel so much, but I do. I love E!


All that being said, I hope my average TV viewing doesn't sky-rocket. I probably average an hour of TV a day. Some days none some days two hours. Which, is a bit less than the average American viewer nearing 5 hours of TV a day. Thanks DVR for making it possible for all us lazy Americans to be even more lazy and on our own time!

Rexburg Winter?

Where have you gone winter? Granted, it is supposed to snow today and tomorrow, but I haven't seen a flake yet. I wouldn't mind so much if I didn't have a snowboarding pass at Jackson Hole Resort that needs to be used! It has cooled up this week so we are hoping for good snow on Saturday. Last week it was sunny and in the 40's. That is so weird for Rexburg...I don't know if anyone read my blog last winter, but I clearly remember posting about snow dumping on us all the way through April.

Well, on that note. Here are some snowboarding photo's at Jackson in January.





Tucking your sweatshirt into your pants is the next cool thing ;)


Warming my buns on the heater.

Preview

Like I said a couple posts ago. Janna Beecher took some photos of Tyler and me. I looove how they turned out. She is so talented! Here is a little preview of a few of my favorites.



Check out her website here. And her blog here.