Family By Divine Design:: Three for Thursdays: Halloween edition

27 October 2011

Three for Thursdays: Halloween edition

Prompt by Evelyn of "Hanging by a Silver Lining"

Three objects to my left:

Cereal box which I attempted to make into a magazine holder. It's a little too small, and very unstable. What a dissatisfying attempt that was. Oh well.
A silver and gold pom pom. It's one of the free things that were available when I ran a 5K in Idaho Falls awhile back. The kids like them, but it's for the University of Idaho. Need to get a BYU one. :)
A stack of Dietrich's school work. It's not terribly deep, it just represents stuff that I need to sort through to decide what to keep, and what to throw out. Of course, when I say keep I mean scan into the computer and then toss. *sigh* I'm so glad for digital files.

Three songs I can’t get out of my head:
This is a strange one . . . who ever has three songs stuck in their head at once?

Right now Kate is singing "C is for Cookie". Pretty sure that one will be staying in my head today.
Watched a clip of a little girl singing "Someone Like You" with Adele. I don't even necessarily like that song, but that will be featured in my head today as well.
And now my baby's crying so I can't think of any other songs at all. :/

Three favorite Halloween movies (or songs):

"Monster Mash"
There's some spooky sounding organ piece that I don't know the name of and I don't know the composer (possibly Bach, though) . . . but I love it! It's a classic Halloween piece.
"Ernest, Scared Stupid" is funny if you enjoy Ernest. I do. Although I won't show this one to my kids b/c I found it a little bit scary as a kid. In a few years, though. :D

Three things I’ve learned to just let go of:

Perfection, now. I fully expect to be able to attain that at some point in eternity, but I'm at peace with the fact that I may not even get close to it in this life. In my previous misunderstanding of the Atonement, it was devastating to realize that because I didn't understand that I wasn't expected to become perfect on my own; I just knew that I had been commanded to be perfect so I thought I was done for!
My pre-baby body. I'm not getting it back in this life. And that's okay. I just want to maintain health and fitness.
I'm not the mother I imagined I'd be. I am still shooting for that ideal, but I'm not beating myself up for falling short.

Three reasons I could wear the Super Woman costume on Halloween:

I've run a 5K and am training for a 10K, and my baby is just under 4 months old.
I'm crocheting two of my children's Halloween costumes.
I'm a stay-at-home mom. I AM super woman. :) hahaha

Three pictures:

Dietrich as a skeleton last year - this costume got us through two Halloweens, and we bought it on clearance. :D

The sweetest looking witch ever. This pic is also from last year.

Halloween party my senior year - little did I know then that I'd get to keep this hottie forever! I am the luckiest. :)

1 comment:

Heather14 November, 2011 17:55
I love that you and Dave dated in high school. I'm sure it's fun to look back at yearbooks together - and scrapbooks! Love the cheer/football costumes.

Yes, your baby is the sweetest (post above).
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David's Bio

I grew up in southeastern Idaho moving at age one from the center of our town to the outskirts. This home had approximately ten acres and much of my youth was spent outdoors both playing and working with my grandparents on their farms. I enjoyed sports throughout my life and was active in wrestling and football throughout junior high and high school. My junior and senior years at high school a sweet young girl even convinced me to join the ballroom dance team. I graduated from high school and attended BYU where I earned my Bachelors degree in Biology in April 2007. Having been raised in the gospel it has always been an influence in my life.

Rachael's Bio

I lived in south central Idaho on a two-acre property in a three-story home until the fourth grade. We moved to Idaho's capitol where we lived until I was in eighth grade when we moved to south eastern Idaho. This move affected my life greatly. It helped me to gain and solidify my testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ as well as helped me decide how accurately I was going to live the gospel. This is also where I met David who was to become my best friend and husband. After graduating from high school in 2001 I attended BYU for four and a half years and graduated with a B.A. in Modern Dance, shortly before giving birth to our first child. Through all of my experiences my faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ and my dedication to living His gospel with integrity has increased. My greatest desire is that I will be able to help my children live and love the gospel.

Our Love Story

Rachael and David met first in their ward after Rachael moved in at the age of fourteen. Rachael's family had just moved across town to a home more suited to their needs than the original duplex. Both of their families were active in the church and Rachael and David both served in leadership positions of their respective YM/YW groups. With that constant exposure to each other was added the fact that they went to the same high school and were in the same graduating class. They found each other to be attractive and dated each other quite a bit near the end of their senior year and the summer afterward. After his freshman year at BYU David went on a mission to Russia - Rachael wrote him about every month and a half, just as an "interested" friend. Rachael was at home working for the summer when David returned from his mission and immediately felt that she wanted to date him again, so she asked him to go see the Phantom of the Opera in Salt lake City; thereafter followed about six months of courtship before they were married in Logan, Utah. Now they're both "the luckiest."