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24 September 2012

The Gratitude Challenge

Yesterday the Relief Society lesson was on gratitude. We all know that when we pray to Heavenly Father we thank him for our blessings. But we somethings just leave it at that. There are so many blessings each one of us have in our lives that should thank Him for each and every blessing that he gives us specifically.

At the end of the lesson we were given the challenge to write down 100 things we are grateful for in our journal. Since I use this blog as my journal I am going to do it here and let you all know as well.

Since some might think writing 100 things that you are grateful for might be a little hard they gave us an outline of how to get to 100 things. There are 10 categories and you write 10 things per category.

So here we go!

Physical Abilities

Material Possessions

Living People

Deceased People

Things About Nature

Things About Today

Places on Earth

Modern Inventions

Foods

Things About the Gospel

After doing this challenge, I have noticed that it is a lot harder than I thought it was. But I am glad I took the time to write down things that I am thankful for. And 100 things just scratch the surface of all the things I am grateful for. Even if it was hard to write down 100 things I know I can think of so many more. I hope that I start to notice more of the things that I should be grateful rather than the things that I wish I didn't have or I wish I did have/could have.

I now challenge anyone who reads this to do the same thing.

♥ The Schroeder

07 November 2011

oh what a day.

A saying I found on Pinterest.

Being pregnant is great but sometimes I am so excited to be done with it. I have so many emotions where sometimes I just don't know what to do with them. I can't make my mind up or decided on anything. I feel like I am going to be getting every pregnancy symptom possible ((which probably isn't true but it sure feels like it)). I am sick of worrying about gaining weight. I know I need to since I lost so much during the first 3 to 4 months of my pregnancy, but I just can't wrap my head around the fact that I need to gain weight. It just is a fact thing for me to do. I really don't want to gain weight because I am scared out of my pants that I won't be able to lose it and then I will be "fat". I feel like I am never going to feel normal again. This is applying to being able to eat normally. To explain more, I pretty much couldn't eat when I was sick with morning sickness, then when I started to get an appetite I was scared to eat because I was scared that I would just throw it back up ((which is not fun and is a hard thing to overcome when that is it you did for months)). Then I got sick with a bad cold, which made me just want to drink juice and eat little of things. And now I am starting to feel better from the cold, I start getting heartburn. I feel like the world is coming after me! I am just so scatter-brained right now that I just don't know what to do with myself. I just don't know what is going on. I have no motivation to do my homework, listen during class, or clean our apartment. I really need some help. I know what I am doing is what the Lord wants but I sometimes wonder, can I handle this. I really don't like my job, correction I hate my job. I just don't enjoy it and don't see where I would use it later in my life. I really want to quit and be able to focus on school and being a homemaker, but I know that I need to work so we can have money to live off of. I have so much to do for school for my portfolio that I just don't know where to start. I just feel like I don't know what I am doing and I won't be able to do what I see in my mind, so then I won't be happy with the work that I do. I have this big portfolio event that is going to be happening a month after our little guy is born and it is stressing me out! I know I have like 5 months to do it but with everything else that is going on during those 5 months makes me feel like I won't have time to do it! I want to try and finish it before I even have our little guy so I can focus on being a mom when he comes. I know that I will have help but it still scares the crap out of me. And then I start thinking about being able to give him the best life that he deserves. Casey and I are a poor young happily married couple, we don't have much to give. Yes, we are going to give him everything we can but there is so much more that I want to be able to give him. He isn't even here and I am worrying about where he will grow up, if he will have friends, what choices he will make, teaching him to choose the right, and much much more. Is this even normal for me to be going through.?! I bet it is but still I am just going crazy. Ok it might be some of the crazy pregnancy hormones that I have right now but I am just ready to be done sometimes but I don't want to be done but I know if he comes now then he has a very little chance of living and that is not something I want. I want a healthy baby boy. And I know that we will have this healthy baby boy. I do love my life and I do love everyone that is in it and I do know that what I am going through is suppose to be happening and that I will be able to get through it even if it is going to hard but I have great supporters that will support me and I have the Lord to guide me, but sometimes I just don't know what to do. That is all. Goodnight.

♥ The Schroeder

05 November 2011

Just my thoughts...

Sorry in advance if this post is totally random and scattered.

So since I have been pregnant I have had these moments where I just start crying for no reason. Yes, the hormones are making me a cry baby. Last night it happened again. Casey and I were just in the car driving home from target when I just started to cry. I just started to go on and on about how amazing of a husband Casey is and how much he takes care of me and loves me. Then I started to go on about how I need to be a better wife and all. Casey just let me get it all out and then told me that I am the best wife that he could ask for and he wouldn't want anything different! Oh I love my husband! He is so understanding and so caring! I couldn't ask for a better husband or best friend!

Being pregnant has been an adventure. It has scared me at times where I tell myself that I don't know what I am doing and getting myself into. I am scared that I am just not ready. But when I talk to Casey about what we are about to get ourselves into we both know that we will be ready when the time comes and when our little guy comes he will be the best parents he could have. It makes me feel better. I am just so excited but nervous at the same time. It is crazy to think that only in about 18 weeks Casey and I will be parents to a little guy! I can't believe it sometimes! At times I just want our little guy to be here already! Being home alone isn't to fun anymore, I get bored. But I know once there little Schroeder comes along I will never be alone, which I am actually excited about. Yes you can call me crazy but I don't care, I am excited to start this next chapter in my life and have these new adventures!

Family. Last weekend Casey and I were able to go see my parents in Livermore. We had a blast! It was great being able to spend some time with them. I have sure missed them both and needed to see them. My mom has been going through chemo for her cancer and it has been hard on me not being able to be down there and helping her out whenever she needs it. She has done so much for me in my life and still doing so much that I just want to help her! So being able to go down and just spend time with them was amazing! The whole trip we kept on saying that this probably will be the last time we spend time as just us four because the next time I will see the both of them will probably be in March when our little guy comes and joins us on this earth. My mom and I kept on saying "next time you will be here we will have a little guy with us" or something of that matter. Casey and I were just so relaxed and happy while spending time with my parents. When we got home I started to cry because I didn't want to come back. I just wanted to stay there and be with my parents all the time or with any family for that matter.

I love being with and around family! Family does bring great happiness in my life and I cannot wait to have a family of my owe. Casey and I are both so excited to start our family and be able to spend time with our children to come. I cannot wait!

♥ The Schroeder

01 September 2011

I am actually excited for the cold..

So I do love summer and all of the wonderful things that it brings to my life. But I am now ready for the fall. Fall might be my favorite season. I do love summer and spring but fall is when I get to wear clothes that you can bundel up in and not be super hot and sweaty at the same time. There is just something about fall that I just love. Having all the leaves changing colors, wearing comfy clothes, being able to snuggle up to casey without getting sweaty, having the briskness in the air, the smell of the air, stepping on leaves that make the crunchy sound, and being able to make soup and want to eat it because it is cold(ish). I am just excited for that. I know once it gets cold I will probably wish it was warm again because in Utah there is only a couple days or weeks of actual fall and then it goes right to snow, which I don't know my feelings about. But right now I am sick of being so hot all the time! Being hot makes me feel even sicker than I am.. I am excited for it to be cold again. I know it is weird. But I want fall to get here soon! :]

Sidenote: In the fall, I will also start showing that I am pregnant!

♥ The Schroeder

30 May 2011

Bizarre.

Utah weather is seriously bizarre. It is almost June and it is still raining and snowing in some parts of the state. It is driving me crazy! I just want to move to california and be were it is warm and lay out in the sun. I want many things. Since the weather is bipolar right now it made a problem for my sister Jessica. The jungle gym that Casey and alex set up for her and her kids got blown down and broke. So depressing. I just want the weather it get better. Hopefully that it will start warming up soon, or I might just die. Just sayin'.

Don't get me wrong though. I am very thankful for all the water that is here and all the rain we got this year but I am ready for summer now.

I am ready for the Sun! Just sayin'.

13 May 2011

Funny.

I saw this on a friends facebook.

I just had to share it.

Too funny.

26 April 2011

Ugh!

This weather is ridiculous! I am so sick of it raining or snowing all the time. I want the sun to come out. It is just making me depressed and lazy how it is cold all the time. All I want to do is sunggle up with Casey in bed or on the couch and watch movies all day long. Forget work, school, cleaning, and my list of things that I want to get done. I have not motivation to do anything. UGH! This weather is just ridiculous! Casey and I can't wait to get out of Utah and go back to California to live there for the rest of our lives! The sandy beaches, the sound of the waves crashing on the beach, the creeping from the birds in the morning, waking up to the sun hitting your face, being able to feel the heat from the sun, having the chance to layout in the sun and get tan, being able to go outside without a jacket and not being cold, wearing spring colors and summer clothes. Oh I just miss California and I am sick of this Utah weather business! Rain and Snow please go away!

21 April 2011

Adorable.

Okay I saw this picture on a blog and I absolutely love it!

I want a picture taken like this when I have a kid!

It is so adorable! I can't get enough of it!

Here is the cutest picture ever!

How can you not saw "aww" when you see this!?!

Ya, that is what I thought.