Finally ready to go public.......

I have the best news and for some reason I have taken way to long to share it!  I met some one! We met online in February and emailed everyday until we met in person in May.  Remember the trip to Hawaii?  Well..... pretty much the reason for that was to meet Chris.  He was living there waiting to be discharged from the military and I grew impatient with not knowing for sure when he would be back in Utah so one day I jokingly asked Sharon if she wanted to go to Hawaii.  She caught me off guard by saying yes.  We were able to find a price that was right and went.  So we saw it each other twice while I was in Hawaii.  It was so exciting to finally meet him, and yes a little nerve racking too.  Chris came home, to utah, two weeks after I got back from Hawaii and the rest is pretty much history.  I felt like I was in love with him before we actually met, but now I know for sure.  It was so weird to be feeling those emotions without having ever been in the same room with someone, but I was just so drawn to him.  Ava loves him and he is great with her!  I could not have imagined that relationship to be any better. So....... life is wonderful!  I am happier than ever and feel like my life is a little more complete with every passing day.  Ava has take all the pictures of us together so they are not the best but you can still tell how cute he is!

Memory Lane!

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together.  It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!  (Ade or Josh)

2.  Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you.  It's actually pretty funny to see the responses.  If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.  If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

EVERYBODY PLAY!  I want to see what memories are out there!

Girls Camp!

I have not been a blog slacker on purpose! I went to girls camp last week!  It was so much fun and I feel so lucky to have been able to go (thanks to Katie watching Ava).  The theme was H.E.A.R.T.S for hear the Savoir.  Everything was amazing.  It was stake girls camp so we went to Piuta.  Each ward had there own them to go with the HEARTS theme and we were the Cardia Crew.  Our camp director did an AWESOME job.  We all had matching scrubs that we wore up there the first day. We had badges with our pictures on them, our own Dr. name (mine was Dr. Jules, original, right?), we could write prescription for people and take them to a pharmacy to be filled (with candy of course, the best medicine) and IV's hanging by our beds!  It was so nice to just get away from the hustle and bustle of the world for a few days and grow closer to the cute girls, the leaders and of course to my Heavenly Father.  Every morning there was early morning seminary and the lessons were amazing.  They were all on the parable of the ten virgins and how we need to be prepared and make sure that we have enough oil in our lamps.  The last night some of the youth leaders did an amazing program about the parable and each sang beautiful songs.  It was definitely a testimony growing experience.  I managed to sleep to most of the party that took place all night every night and even got a nap in everyday!  And of course the best part was the camp fire every night and toasting marsh mellows.  I have been craving that little treat for quite some time now!  Yes, I was a complete slacker and didn't take any pictures worth posting :(  All though it was nice to get home it was even nicer to get home!

This was my favorite spiritual thought from camp

Therefor look gently on men

And even more gently on women.

Do not condemn them.

Above all consider not merely what they have done, 

but why.

God alone has the power to look into the human heart,

to judge actions and motives and regrets.

He alone knows not only what one has done and why,

But what one has resisted doing and why-

Man's responsibility is to forgive: only God has

the authority to judge.

-Robert Burns