Movin' Right Along!

Well this week we are moving! We picked up the keys yesterday and it's hard to believe that this day is here! I am so very excited about moving to the new place. To me it signifies a new beginning and fresh start. For a while I've been feeling like we were in the wrong place and moving in the wrong direction but with this move everything feels so much better. I've also been better about praying and reading my scriptures so that has to help too!

Another reason I'm glad we are moving is that my family will be coming up to help us! Mom and Benjamin get here tomorrow then my Dad, Aunt Glenda and Uncle Brian will be here on Saturday! I haven't seen most of them since Mother's day. We were able to spend some time with Uncle Brian's family 2 weeks ago (If I'm calculating correctly). There were able to swing into town on their way home from Ida's college orientation and some KC fun. We went out to lunch and had a good ol' time!

So here's to new beginnings, happiness and stress for this week. Hopefully we can fit a little joy in there as well :)

~Brianna

Choosing Joy

I've been wanting to blog for a while. I've started, stopped and have wished for more courage and self-esteem to forge ahead in blogging. So here goes!


I want to choose JOY! And I do believe it is a choice. The choices we make have consequences that will lead us to happiness or sorrow. I was looking at my Pinterest quotes for inspiration and I found two pins that really inspire me for beginning this blog as well as a direction for my life.


The first pin and inspiration for the title: 

The second is a picture of Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley and this quote:

“I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.” -Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I confess I cannot find the origin of the quote so if anyone knows where/when she said it I would love to know! The part of the quote that I love is "I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." I don't think she's talking about living in the alive and breathing sense. She was talking about living life to it's fullest. Doing the important things, serving others,  being faithful, taking time with the "small things" that end up being the big things, what is most important. 

That is what I want my life to be, full of the "small things." I want to focus on being a good friend, a good wife, and eventually a good mother. When I leave this life I won't be remembered for how well I tried to dress or how nice my house was. I want to be remembered as a treasured friend and as someone who "really lived" life by choosing joy.  

~Brianna