Thankful days 11 - 13

Thankful day 13 - Family Wards
I LOVE family wards.  Relief Society is more enjoyable with babys babbling in the background, Sunday School is more meaningful when coming from someone who has a little more life experience, and Sacrament meeting isn't as long when you have someone to share their  Cherios and coloring books with you. :)

Thankful day 12 - Ballet
Sort of a random thing to be thankful for today, but as I was leaving the tanner at 6:30 at night, I looked over to the RB and could see in the upstairs window of all the beautiful ballerinas taking class.  I longed to be one of them.  Then as I stood there (looking completely ridiculous and slightly stalker-ish i'm sure), I was overwhelmed by how lucky I was to be one of them...even if it didn't last.

I'm thankful for wonderful teachers that taught me so much more than ballet, the opportunity I had and still have to express my feelings through my body, for a family that was always so supportive, and even for these darn ancle pains that remind me that I used to dance on my toes & loved almost every minute of it.

Thankful day 11- Veterans
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.  The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.  The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. - John Stuart Mill 

Thank you to all those 'better men' {& women} who have fought and continue to fight to keep me FREE.