the truth about talking....

so there is more to this blog

than just giving others a chance 

to stalk me...

i hope to create a little family history

a way to preserve

to remember

to capture 

what our life is like.

all my life i have been a rather avid journaler

recording everything from homework assignments in the third grade

to my lofty gymnastics goals

but as my life got more complicated with

family crisis, college, mission, more college, traveling, and dating

i wrote for therapy.

but a strange thing happened when i met jon

i stopped recording and analyzing life on paper

instead i told him all my thoughts 

and dreams and 

passions and 

fears. 

it turns out- 

jon is not an elephant

and he forgets. 

but as the late president hinckley said:

"You will have significant experiences. 

I hope that you will write them down and keep a record of them,

  that you will read them from time to time 

and refresh your memory of these meaningful, 

significant things. 

Some of them may be funny. 

Some may be of significance only to you. 

Some of them may be sacred and quietly beautiful. 

Some may build one upon another until they represent a lifetime of special experience."