EMULATE the SUNFLOWER

Ten years ago I graduated from Highschool and drove over 1500 miles to St.George, Utah from Aurora Il. I hated my parents for pushing me to go to school so far away and I was so sad to leave my family and friends and head off to a place where I knew no one and had no family to go to. I had to pay for my own applications to schools and since I only had 30.00 dollars to spend I had to choose one school. I didnt have very good grades, well not good enough to get into a college like BYU. My brother had gone to Dixie College and loved it and said for me to try it out and that I would probablly like a smaller college better before going to such a big university. So I sent my money in and got accepted. My brother lived at apartments called Raintree and told me he loved it there and for me to try to live there. Little did I know that it would be the BEST decision of my life to go there. I look back and feel so blessed and guided to have gone to Dixie. The people I met there have made such an i...

I first off wanted to tell everyone thank you for your sweet words of concern and love towards me and my mom. I really appreciated it so much! It is so nice to know that even though I may not see a lot of you that you are there as support to me and my family! I love you all! An update on my mom. Test results came back and everything came back negative!!! She is doing awesome and has had such a quick recovery from the surgery. After extensive blood work they have put my mom on thyroid medicine and think that it should do the trick. I cant help but thank heavenly father for his watchful hand in all of this. Again it is a miracle as the doctors thought it didnt look good and again it came out ok. If anyone ever doubts about pray, fasting, and temple service for loved ones in need, I would love to offer some words of encouragement. I know it has everything to do with the Lord's will but the overwhelming peace, fast healing and comfort that my mom has felt through all of this also comes...

I wanted to take a little bit to talk about my mom. She called a few weeks ago with bad news again that she would need to go into surgery and have two grapefruit size tumors taken out of her uterus and again to do surgery on her breasts for lumps that could be tied into yet again cancer. She has had the threats of breast cancer before but they have caught it early on and has never had the kemo or anything like that. Each time the doctors come out stunned from surgery and say that everything is good and we move on. I thank heavenly father so much for his watchful hand and keeping my mom around for a little bit longer. My heart wrenched again to have her have to go through this procedure again and add the twist of the tumors as well. I have thought about my life and my relationship with my mom and the things that she has done for me and I am so grateful. We didnt have a lot growing up. Even though we did not have alot my mom tried her hardest to be a good mom for her family. I was alwa...

Well it is official. We are Arizonians, if that is how you say it. After four months of being here we finally went and got our cars registered. We got our licenses and Arizona insurance in May but did not complete the task with the cars. I am such a procrastinator and was trying to hold out for as long as we could. I HATE the DMV!!! We got a letter from Nevada DMV threatening us that they were going to suspend our registration and licenses since it was showing on their records that we didnt have insurance. We did just not Nevada insurance. So this week we were finally pushed to go and take on the DMV. Luckily Arizona is smart and actually has enough DMV's for the population unlike Nevada who has four for the what ever million people that live in a small area!!! I was very pleased to only wait for 15 min at the most until we were called to the counter and given our new plates. The bummer is the next day I was driving and went through a yellow light and FLASH the stupid Camera Rad...