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Lately...

So, let's face it-I don't even know if very many people read this blog but it is our family's journal. I am working on being better about taking pictures and updating more often so that we can have all of our memories recorded. So for those of you who do follow our blog-if you haven't seen a post in a while bug me about it! :) Here are some images of life lately:

Shelby made me a candy gram for Valentine's Day. It was so cute and all the candy is eaten! We love our sugar around here! I also gave Shelby some candy and treats. We are all sugared out for the next little while...or we should be at least. :) I worked on Valentine's Day and Shelby was crazy busy with school and preparing for multiple exams for that next week so we didn't get to do much on actual Valentine's Day. I made some Valentine's muddy buddies which we gave to some friends and our family members-even though some of the treats were delivered as a late Valentine's gift. This past weekend we finally had some time to go on a date to Hands On, a local pottery shop. We picked out some pottery and painted it together-we did the same thing last Valentine's Day and we are planning on making it a tradition!

President's Day weekend we made a quick trip to Middleton to visit my family. It was a quick trip but we were able to spend some much needed time with my parent's and Cameron and Lila. Shelby also got an early birthday present. Almost everyone in the Despain and Price families have owned a pair of these crocheted slippers. Shelby's were specially made with Utah Jazz colors since the Jazz are his favorite team!

We sold our sectional this past weekend...kind of. It is a ridiculous story of how we got rid of it-ask one of us if you're interested...anyways, we got rid of it and found a sectional that we liked. We didn't realize that the particular sectional we wanted had a 2-3 week delivery time. So needless to say, this is what our living room looks like right now:

We do still have our chair to lounge in but the floor is also getting lots of love! Can't wait for our new sectional to arrive!!!

And last but not least, I painted some letters for our room. They didn't turn out quite like I had envisioned-spray paint is not my friend. I'm working on getting them rearranged so they can look a little cuter. For now though it adds bright happy colors to our bedroom. Shelby is in the thick of school and I start my RN to BSN(Bachelor's) on March 1st. The thought of full time work plus full time school makes me a little nervous but I am confident that the sacrifices that we are making now will be worth it in the long run. We are so blessed with the opportunities we have been given! Until next time-be good out there!

Family Motto

The first few months after we got married we threw around ideas for a family motto. I love the idea of having some type of saying or scripture that describes what your family is all about and I wanted our family to have one! Shelby and I dug up scriptures and quotes. During one of our discussions about a family motto this scripture came up: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Matthew 6:33. We decided that this would be our family motto. I have always loved this scripture and have found it to be so true throughout my life. It perfectly describes how we want out family to be. We want to always seek God first because as we put God first all other things will fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Seeking God includes loving, serving, working, respecting, obeying commandments, etc... It includes everything that we want our family to do and become. We finally have our family motto hanging on our wall to remind us each day of the kind of people that we are trying to be. I'm so glad we finally have our motto hanging on our wall!