Showing posts with label True Happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label True Happiness. Show all posts

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Two Years.

I'm posting this a bit late, but that's just because we have had so much fun celebrating our
TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY
on September 5!!!

We went down to DC and saw the sites you're supposed to see:
Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, WWII Memorial, Vietnam Memorial, Natural History Museum, walked past the White House, ate an expensive hot dog --- I was already tired at that point!








And while I was admiring the dinosaurs....

Adam was busy growing a pair of antlers.


Two years. My BEST two years. I've never been happier than I am now, and have been in the past two years. I'm not saying it was all easy, (do we really need to go there again?), but it definitely has been MORE than worth it. The rewards of marriage FAR FAR FAR outweigh any of the obstacles we have to go through together. 

He is my best friend, and rightfully so. He has earned that title, far and square. He knows my deeeepest darkest secrets. He knows my every breakdown, rational or not. He knows what makes me laugh, and uses that to his advantage daily. He understands, and even goes along with, my strange Seely sense of humor. He knows my pet peeves, my favorite kind of ice cream, and that I don't like mushrooms or onions. He has worked hard and spent the time and love to know me - I mean really know me. And that doesn't scare me. In fact, when I am not with him, I wish I was. I'd rather hang out with him than anyone else -- even though I see him everyday (except when I'm in Europe for a month...yeah that was a bit difficult). We are perfect fits for each other - we are so much alike, but our differences are  balancing acts to our imperfect, ever-changing and shifting life and marriage. I love him. And he loves me. It doesn't get much better than that. 



2011:
Compared to 2010:

Think we've changed?
Perhaps, but only for the better <3

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Would I be Happy?

"What we insistently desire, over time, is what we will eventually become and what we will receive in eternity" (Elder Neil A. Maxwell).
I've been thinking lately, What are my sincerest desires?
My first reaction to that question is to travel and serve people around the world, 
photographing everything along the way
Seeing the jungles of South America, the Sahara and grass plains of Africa,
the temples of Thailand, the art and history in
England, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Germany ....
the whole. entire. world.
I want to see all there is to see...
But then I think, if I got that wish, and nothing else,
Would I be happy?
No.
So what I've found I truly desire is to have my own eternal family, raised in righteousness and loving the Lord
making their own covenants in the temple, eternal love between my husband and I, and our children.
If have just that, and nothing else,
Would I be happy?
Yes.
Inexpressibly so. 

I need to put that desire first, and all the other wishes of my heart will either 
melt away in comparison, 
or add to my already glorious happiness. 
What are the desires of your heart?