Dear Newtown,

Words cannot describe the sadness I feel for your community right now. I can cry at any second just thinking about all the babies who were lost in your town. I wish I could be there to hug each and every one of your grieving souls, I wish I could do something to help, I wish I could share with you that each of your babies is wrapped in the arms of our LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER. I think one of them knows, but I'm sure you'd all love to hear it too. I hope that the world, not just this nation learns that we all have to do whatever it is to become a better world, to love and include one another. This is something that should have NEVER even been thought of, who knows what was in his monster-us mind, I don't care to know, but you don't do these things to babies. As I sit here and think of what would sound best to comfort you, Jesus Christ comes to mind. His heart constantly filled with love to us as his children, I just don't understand why these things happen. I won't ever understand. I just hope that we as a nation, and hopefully those who read this, as LDS disciples, that we LIVE our faith, that we should by our example that we are here to do good in the world. May we nurture the souls of other for the benefit of none other but our father in heaven, may we spread his word that we may fill this land with beauty and good works, let us not judge, let us be the saints we are here to be.


may your souls rest in peace young babies, my soul hurts for your loss, and your families involved, may our most gracious HF bring peace to those families during what will be a very difficult time to come. I wish I could spare some of your pain...

With so much love,

Mayra.

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Thankful.

This Thanksgiving, there were a lot of thoughts on my mind about the past 365 days and how each day has brought some sort of blessing into my life. This year has been the most fun, stressfilled, difficult, exhausting, exciting and anxious filled year of my life. Who know being a quarter of  a century could end up like mine did. from planning a wedding, to dealing with anxiety disorder and the life of a new married couple, pilled up with car accidents, bills and responsibilities, where can one find the blessings some times. No wonder some people give up, because it isn't easy. My parents always made it look easy to me, or at least i saw it that way. I am so thankful for all this added knowledge I have gained this year on a new form of "responsibilities." I'm so thankful for my husband, whom without would be so difficult to deal with circumstances that have arose in my life,I'm thankful that he is active in our church and able to give me the priesthood blessings I need in times of despair. I am so thankful for the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the atonement and my knowledge of this glorious gospel. I am so thankful for families, both in-laws and mine own, for their love and support in all that my hubs and I do.

This Thanksgiving we went to 3 different events, first Lunch with the Utupo clan, whom we love so dearly. Monty's grandmother came down from Las Vegas so we had a special program for her and we really enjoyed her company, she is such a sweet lady. I'm so thankful for her big heart and her love that she not only has but shows for me and our family, she is such an angel to me. We had a small,ahem, "small" lunch consisting of turkey, ham, taro, oka, macncheesie, and such yums. After lunch us "kids" went off and the boys played their video games and us girls became models on my iPad, it was fun!

After, we had a little family home evening where we all shared one thing we were thankful for that year. I vividly remember doing the same last year and it was such a bonding and sweet experience that we got to re-do this year. I am so thankful for the little things that matter.

We then traveled all of a mile back to our place where my mom was having our family dinner. Everyone grabbed their food on the endless buffet table that served not only turkey but some mexican rice, avocados and moms home made beans. The night was filled with smiles, babies crying and an overall good time. I'm grateful for my growing family, have I mentioned that 4 of our cousins are expecting babies next year? Its going to be an amazing addition to our families, we obviously never stop growing! My sister lend me her camera tonight, here are some of my favorite moments of this joyous thanksgiving!

mrs.stevenson

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birthday fun!

Well, it has been a while since i've posted about life. monty's birthday was november 2nd and since we've been having issues with work hours and such, we've been on a pretty tight budget lately. That didn't stop me from throwing a surprise birthday party for the hubs. i had rallied his cousins to come out in their troops :) along with some of our good friends stephanie and miguel who were the perfect kidnappers in my oh so secretive plans. haha. steph works with monty so i had asked her if she and miguel(husbands bff&stephs bf) would be oh so kind to "kidnap" my husband after he got off work the night of his actual birthday. so the plans were set and surprise surprise, he had no clue! the party was fun, the boys played their nba game while us girls chatted on next years plans! i cannot believe we are 25 already, it is insane to think that in just 2 months i will be heading into the late twenties and turning 26, snif snif. here's a few pictures of the party!

Days like these rock :)

Dear today, you rocked! I am so proud of myself once again for eating healthy over eating bc it tastes good! Yesterday I was telling  the husband that I was craving some Tams burgers because,c'mon they are just so good, just thinking about one makes my mouth water! Haha but after getting to work and seeing that everyone had gotten tams and realizing that I would save money and eat less carbs if I just ate the meals that I had made at home. So I passed on the tams and just ate my lunch without stealing a single French fry, that my friends, is a serious achievement! 

This morning before work Monty and I woke up early so I could take him to a job agency so he could apply for a second job. Although we love his current job we are just struggling financially so we have to look for something that will pay the bills. So after that I came home and had some me time and was able to do my make up before I went into work and such. During this little make over I looked at my face and realized that I felt pretty and some what skinny, well skinnier than Monday. I  feel good, I feel like this is working and I really like it. I went running again today and then did my insanity so I'm pretty beat. Just wanted to update for you guys! Thanks for the support!