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08 November 2013

Fun Friday: Grateful I Can Move It

Last week I decided that for the month of November I'd be sharing my gratitude statuses from facebook here. So, here we go again. :)

I'm thankful that my husband has a job, and that overall he enjoys it. What a blessing that he doesn't go to work every day feeling basically like he's a slave doing something he doesn't enjoy or care about!

I'm thankful for family. I am super fortunate to have been raised in a wonderful family, and just as fortunate to have married into another wonderful family.

I'm thankful for the freedom to make my own choices.

I'm thankful for my body. I can learn a lot with it, and I can do a lot with it!

I'm thankful that my parents gave me the gift of music. I had piano lessons, voice lessons, and some violin lessons growing up; the piano especially has been a soul soother for me.

I'm thankful for indoor plumbing. I keep coming up with something that's relevant to the day's activities; today I get to clean the bathrooms. I'd rather have to clean them weekly than have to run outside to an outhouse to do my business. hahaha

I'm thankful for my degree in modern dance. It may seem useless, but it was dance education for most of my time at BYU, and I use my skills to volunteer in my kids' classes teaching creative dance. That makes me a rock star to them, so it was totally worth it if only for that. But you can bet that's not the only benefit I personally derived from it.

Locomotor motion: crawling

Thing 2's class :)

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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."