Senses.

Have you ever thought about how amazing our senses are.? There are so many things that without our senses we would never be able to experience. Today in Sacrament meeting the subject of the talks was 'Gratitude' (go figure). And one of the people talked about what things he was grateful for in each sense. I thought that it was a way good idea, and I also thought that it would make me feel better... I've been a little down lately, and it seems like no one is there. :( bummer huh?

Anyway... haha

Sight:
I am grateful for bright yellow quakers against the deep green aspen trees.
I am grateful for the sunsets over the Great Salt Lake.
I am grateful for a newborn babies smile.
I am grateful for Black and White pictures.
I am grateful for the mountains the tower above my house.

Smell:
I am grateful for the crisp October night air, that almost burns when you breath in.
I am grateful for Black Raspberry Lotion from Bath&Body Works.
I am grateful for the clean smell after a snow storm.
I am grateful for the smell of freshly baked brownies.
I am grateful for the smell of a wood burning stove.

Sound:
I am grateful for my mothers voice.
I am grateful for a horses whinny.
I am grateful for the sound of a running river.
I am grateful for the pitter patter of rain on my trailer roof while camping.
I am grateful for the sound of thunder.

Speech:
I am grateful that i can say i love you.
I am grateful that i can say i'm sorry.
I am grateful that i can have freedom of speech.
I am grateful that i can trust my close friends to confide what i speak to them.
I am grateful that i can express my true feelings when my heart so wills.

Savor:
I am grateful for warm cheesy potatoes.
I am grateful for cookie dough.
I am grateful for gooey Brownies.
I am grateful for BBQ chips.
I am grateful for XXX Vitamin Water.

When you think about all the ways that we experience life, you realized exactly why you are grateful for each thing on your own list. :)

Some see the glass half empty...

... But i see it half full. :)

As I've been pondering life these few past moments, I mean, I always joke that it depends on if you drink half of it gone, or if you fill it up half way.. hahaha. But I was just thinking about the things that I am grateful for. And I realized that there are a lot of things that I love. And a lot of things that I am grateful for. :)

I Love Debbie Miller. :)
I Love Kent Miller. :)
I Love Kadee Morrison. :)
I Love Jim Morrison :)
I Love Sandee Miller. :)
I Love Bradon Miller. :)
I Love my dog, Lilo.
I Love my friends.
I Love the Gospel.
I Love Jack's Mannequin.
I Love 2 Nephi Chapter 4.
I Love Matt Nathanson.
I Love Tender Mercies.
I Love 7th Heaven.
I Love Scrapbooking.
I Love the crisp October night air.
I Love Fall.
I Love Life.
I Love Melissa Nelson. :)
I Love Alyssa Nilson. :)
I Love Alyssa Thronely. :)
I Love Trials.
I Love Institute.
I Love my YSA ward.
I Love Sunday afternoon naps.
I Love so many things. That thinking about it just makes me happy. I know that this list will get longer as time goes on. Because there are many things that bring joy to my life. And i am grateful for each and every one of them. :)
Thank You.

Sometimes in our lives..

"There's nothing that I want to do, But try to make it up to you."-Daughtrey

Oh man, I have a million things that I could write about right now!!!!!!!!! AH. ok.. Heidee... Organize your thoughts..... Now that that's over. ;)

Okay, so first off i apologize for my random spaz out of the blog! My sidebar all of the sudden wants to be at the bottom.. :( Sad day! It's probably buggin you.. it's REALLY buggin me! haha

Now, onto a nicer note.. :) As you know, I LOVE institute! Best part of my week. And we talked last week a lot about the Atonement. :) And can I just say, holy cow?! I have never thought about how much My Savior took on in the Garden. It wasn't just the pain of sin, it was the pain of our imperfections and infirmities, emotional pain, physical pain, mental pain. If there is anything that we could experience here in our life, He has felt it. Even how it feels to lose the spirit, He went through everything that we could, so that we could go to Him. Because we can always go to the Savior, because He gets it. He gets it when no one else does.
One of my new favorite scriptures is Alma 5:16. " I say unto you, can you imagine to yourselves that ye hear the voice of the Lord, saying unto you, in that day: Come ye blessed, for behold, your works have been the works of righteousness upon the face of the earth?" Isn't that amazing. This scripture just makes me want to make everything up that I have done wrong, thus making me think of that Daughtrey songs.
One thing that my institute teacher said that I absolutely loved was that he was grateful that the Savior was a Shepherd, not a sheep herder. Because as Shepherd stands in the front of the flock, He stands between you and the wolf. I LOVE THAT! :)

My last thought of the day, for some reason i was looking through my Institute notes, and i found a scripture reference written down that we had learned about. Intrigued, i went to this chapter. And it is now my FAVORITE chapter of ALL Scripture! Not lying! 2 Nephi chapter 4. :) It makes me so happy. It is nephi's Psalm. He is in the pits and he talks himself out of it. I am so grateful that i found it! :) I will cherish it forever!

Star Shining Brightly..

"Friends are like stars. You can't always see them, but you know they're always there."-Unknown.

I think that sometimes it's amazing how our mind works, how we can sooth our own thoughts.

Yesterday i learned that one of my good friends was moving. Not too far, but enough that it would remove the one connection that I still had with her. At first I was thinking. Why would you tell me this now? Why not wait until after you've already moved? There would be less arguements from me, that's for sure. So, I started getting more sad. Man, now i'm REALLY never going to see her. Even though she said, 'you'll be my buddy no matter where I live.', it wasn't very comforting.

This is when the wheels started turning. Out of all of my good friends, I couldn't think of one that lived in my stake boundaries, and yet i'm still good friends with them!..... Maybe this could work....

Just because I can't see my friends, doesn't mean they aren't there. So my Buddy, I guess I can forgive you ;) And you'll ALWAYS be my friend. :) <3>

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Today I am going to tell you about one of the most amazing trips that I have EVER gone on!!!!!!!

Do you know what it is...???? NEW YORK CITY!!!!! :) that's right people. I had the opportunity to go to New York City for 5 days! with not only my family, but my ENTIRE family! That's right! My Sister Kadee, and her husband Jim came too! (How amazing is that!?!?)

Now, i don't know exactly what we did each day, (they blend together so easily!) But i will try and do my best. There were some things that we did that were 100% for Bradon. We went and saw the oville Family. It was so fun! And we also took Elder Call out to lunch. He is the most amazing piano player that i have ever met!!!!!! Oh my gosh! he can play songs that he has never heard! Like, people will hum it to him, and he figures out the rest. It's ridiculous! I for sure admire that dude!

But here are some of the other amazing things that we did. We went to the top of the Empire State Building.. Yeah. That's not intimidating at all!...... ;) hahaha... you only need to pop the ears like 50 times!! hahaha. And once you get to the top you feel like your swaying way bad, but I don't believe it's because the building is. yeah, they have to otherwise they would topple over. But the emplire state building is like a block wide.. i don't think you'd feel it much. But i think you sway because of the rocket ship ride that you took up there! hahaha. But I couldn't believe the view! Holy Crap!!! :) SOOOOOO pretty! The funniest part of that would probably be my mother. She is TERRIFIED of heights, so the one picture we got of her by the edge she is just like totally scowling haha. :)

We also went to the.... Drum roll please..... OPENING KNICK'S GAME! :) WOOT! :) it was soooo fun! :) And i think that the jazz could learn a lot from how they do their games. Like for reals!!!! they had performances for every time out, everything. SO there was never a dull moment!! it was sooo funn!

We Also went to see The Lion King on Broadway. Which was soooo good. At first I wasn't very impressed with the music. But the costumes were INCREDIBLE! i can not even fathom how all of the characters could pull it off!...how did they?......

We saw just about everything that there is to see. Like, i can't even begin. We saw the earth globe and the ice freeze place that is in the opening credits of The King of Queens. We also ate at the diner that they eat in on Seinfeld. "Monk's". Black and White cookies! Grand Central Station. Wall Street. And we were even their on halloween. And there were many....interesting... costumes. hahaha. We also ate at the original John'n Pizza on bleeker street. Man has New York ruined Pizza for me!.. Now i don't crave pizza, I crave New York Pizza... :) hahah it's an issue alright. but it's SOOO good! :)We also ate at planet hollywood and the Hard Rock Cafe. They were so good. We also ate at this Chicken place called comparo. And oh my heck their advertisements were so funny! Flavor you can't compero! hahah that's a little bit like spanglish to me.. :)

All in all, it was so nice just to be their with Bradon. He was so familiar with everything. And made it all so comfortable. Like you weren't scared about anything! we also went and saw his mission office and many of his apartments.

If I have the chance, i am for sure going back! In a heartbeat! and this time i won't spend almost everyday in Manhattan. Sure it's cool. But once you get out of there, you are like... woah... why did i like that? haha. Oh, and my brother also took me to see the Steinway and Son's Piano store.... oh man.. They are going to be getting a lot of my money one day!

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