Come What May and Love It

TRIGGER WARNING & TMI WARNING On Wednesday, July 26th, Gariet and I found out that we were going to be adding another baby to our family. We were happy, nervous, scared, and excited all at the same time. We told both of our moms. We started making plans for April 2018. We looked into buying a bigger car. I had scheduled my doctor appointments for September. Life was fitting in how we had planned. On Tuesday, August 8th, I started spotting brown discharge. I was nervous, but Gariet, my mom, and the doctor's office told me that it was normal at this stage and not to worry. I still googled a lot and most of the stories I read had good outcomes. This was normal. Baby would be okay. As the days progressed, the spotting changed from brown to pink. I called the doctor's office every day and they still told me it was normal and not to worry until it was red. I stayed off my feet (as much as possible with a 1.5 year old). I tried to relax. On Thursday night, I started seeing

I started studying the scriptures from the beginning about a week ago. I did this because I have been feeling a little empty in my own testimony lately. Everything that has happened in the last couple months (my grandfather’s death, friends leaving the church, etc.) left me with a lot of questions. It left me with a lot of doubts. I am horrible at studying the scriptures every day, so I decided that this was something that I really needed to do. I needed to take on Moroni’s challenge once again for myself and make sure that my testimony is where it needs to be to be able to teach my son correct principles. How can I teach him if I am feeling doubts myself? Long story short…I started reading The Book of Mormon from the beginning. I have been using “Scripture Study for Latter-Day Saint Families” by Dennis H. Leavitt and Richard O. Christensen to help guide my study and make it more meaningful than just reading. As I have started, I noticed some interesting things about Lamen a

Hello Blog Readers! I wanted to let you in on some of the 'secrets' that I use to make money from shopping. Here we go... 1. Shopkicks- I earned over $50 in gift cards using this app. That may not seem like much to you, but I got the gift cards without even spending a sent! CRAZY?!? Here is how it works. You get "Kicks" for different tasks. The kicks then turn into gift cards. 100 kicks= $1 Shopkicks gives you 'kicks' for 4 different things. A.) Walk-ins- You get 'kicks' for walking into different stores like Target, Wal-Mart, Carters, Macys, Best Buy to name a few. Normally it is anywhere between 25-50 kicks for walk-ins, but some days they give 100 for walk-ins. That is money in your pocket just for walking into the store. B.) Scans-   I LOVE THIS PART! I really am not exagerating when I say how much I love doing the scans. It is like a scavenger hunt through the store to find certain products and scan the barcodes. You get anywhere bet