I seriously have the best husband in the world!!!!!

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have the sweetest husband in the world!! Last week we were on vacation in Disneyland and had an absolute blast!!!! But when we left we kind of left our apartment a mess. Matt and I have our own chores that we do and we have our chores that we do together. For example, Matt does the dishes (which I hate doing) and I do the laundry. Well I did a ton of laundry before we left so I placed them nicely on the couch since I didn’t have the time to put them away before we left. And since we were gone for a week I had a ton of more laundry that I did so that was added to the nice big piles on the couch. I was getting a little stressed and overwhelmed last night about getting it done and I also wasn’t feeling good so it was between going to bed or staying up and folding more laundry and putting it away. I feel bad for Matt because I have been really tired the past few months. I have Graves’ Disease, which is a horrible name for something that is not really life threatening. I have an overactive thyroid so it makes me extremely tired and since I have had my Radioactive Iodine Treatment it is killing my thyroid which is making me more tired. (I will write another blog about that soon.) So I am tired all the time which makes me feel bad for Matt because I am not my bubbly self all the time. But anyways back to why my husband is so wonderful......Well last night he told me that he was going to do the dishes and that I should just go to sleep since I was so tired and not feeling well. So I did. This morning when I walked into the living room he had folded ALL of the laundry for me!!! This meant so much to me because doing laundry for two people all the time is a ton of work especially all of the laundry that was on that couch. I seriously felt like a little kid waking up Christmas morning to such a wonderful gift. My husband, being selfless, decided to take that burden off me and did my chore. He is so wonderful!! Then when I walked past the front door I saw something next to the door............ he had written me a note. In it he said that I should not have to stress and be overwhelmed by things that is why he wanted to help. And of course there was some mushy stuff in the love note too. :) I seriously have the sweetest husband in the world. For example, sometimes I get a little judgmental, a flaw of mine, and he says well maybe they were having a bad day or don’t jump to that conclusion because you don’t know that is what they are thinking or what they are feeling. Matt likes to be optimistic and see the good sides of people, even if the bad one comes out sometimes. He is a great example to me of being Christlike to others. I am so incredibly lucky that I was the lucky girl that got to marry Matt. He makes me extremely happy and makes me feel so special and loved all the time. I am so grateful that he is in tune to my feelings and can help relieve some of my stresses, like doing my chore. Him doing the laundry for me may seem like something small to others, but it meant so much to me. I seriously have the best husband in the world.

Families are great blessings!

So we have had TONS of family come into town over the past week. First, Matt's sister Melanie and her family drove down here from Utah to see Matt's other sister, Alissa, at the airport. The next day Alissa came home from serving her LDS mission in Oakland, California. We have so much fun spending time with them! I have never been around when someone has come home from a mission before and it was a really cool experience. We were able to go to one of the members of the Stake Presidency's house for her releasing. That was really cool especially when she bore her tesimony in spanish! This week Matt's older brother, JD, and his family are in town for Alissa's homecoming talk that is going to be this weekend. We have been having so much fun with his family being in town.

Matt and I are really stoked to be seeing my parents and my brother and sister in DISNEYLAND next week!!! Yep! We are finally going on a vacation! We have not gone on a vacation since last August, so we are for surely due! We are driving up on Sunday night and leaving Friday afternoon. I LOVE DISNEYLAND!!!! I am really excited to go on a vacation with my parents and my siblings. It doesn't happen that often anymore, so we are feeling really blessed to have this wonderful time to have so many family members around that we hardly get to see.

For those of you that are interested, my niece Brinley, the precious girl that has Leukemia, has a blog. Well, her parents keep it up since she is two. They always have great stories to share with pictures. They really have strong testimonies and you can feel them through their posts. The address is: www.sweetbrinley.blogspot.com.

Anywho, I just wanted to share the fun that we are having right now with our families!! We truely are so blessed to have the most awesome family members ever!!!! I am so grateful that we have this opportunity to have so many of them around us. :)