Just recently I read a blog where they posted pictures of themselves from years gone by. I loved the post and thought I would do the same. It was actually really fun to look at old pictures and see how much I have changed. Oh that I wish I could look the way I did after high school again!
This is one picture that always brings me back into focus. I love the feelings of love it gives me to know that Heavenly Father blessed me to live. I'm so thankful for the many prayers and blessings on my behalf since the very day I was born.
I love this picture because it is of my Grandma Asay and me. I don't have many pictures of her and this one just makes me happy knowing that she held me and loved me. She passed away when I was 7 years old. I still feel a void in my life with her gone. Iknow she has made Heaven a much better place.
My mom looks so happy in this picture. I love this one! I don't think this was too long after I got to come home from the hospital.
One of my favorite pictures of me. Its fun to see myself as a baby. Fun for my kids to see me too! I was in a class once where they said if you ever want to feel good about yourself, carry a baby picture of yourself in your wallet and you can always be reminded of what a cute kid you were and that you are still that person, only grown up.
Isn't Becky just the cutest chubby little girl!
Kindergarten. I remember walking to school on 10th east from my house on Sunburn Lane. I learned how to hitch-hike from the boys I used to walk to school with. The day I learned, I had my thumb out and a big, black truck stopped and an even bigger man got out. (memory is a bit distored I'm sure) but he could have been in the band ZZ Top, he was hairy and scarey looking. Anyway, he gets out of his truck, the boys I was walking with took off and left me alone there and the man told me never to do that again. I didn't!
This is 3rd grade. At this time of my life, big changes were happening in my family. My dad had left, and my grandma Asay was really sick. My mom was trying really hard to keep everything as normal as could be.
This was 5th grade. We had just moved to a new house (condo), my parents were divorced and I had to start all over and make new friends. I remember vividly how boy crazy I was! I had the biggest crush on a boy named Justin. When we moved, I quit piano and ballet/tap dancing lesson. Then I started playing JR. Jazz Basketball and loved it. I remember watching my uncle Kelly play for the Hillcrest High School basketball team and loved watching him play so I wanted to play too! This is also the time when mom met Alan. Alan came along at the best time and raised me and Becky as his own. I love Alan so much, and we all feel blessed to have him in our lives!
And here is 8th grade through 12th. I wish my friends would have told me that the "bi-level" haircut was ok for a year or two but for crying out loud, 7 years total that I had that haircut. YIKES! Business in the front, and PARTY in the back is what they call it now, or AKA - the mullet. I cringe at the thought.
Ricks college, I wish I could say that I loved it...but it was not my favorite. I regret that I only lasted 1 year. Then I went home, went to SLCC, worked and went to a singles branch where I had a blast.
Its awesome looking back on how I decided to serve a mission. I truly had no intention of going. I was going to work and have a career and make lots of money. I was dating a guy that was leaving soon on his mission who really wanted me to go too but I kept telling him that it wasn't for me. Driving home from work one day, in September, the spirit said "you need to go on a mission"
I had my radio on, LOUD, and thought I was hearing things. Well, not 5 minutes later, it came again. And so, I did. I can't say I didn't face obstacles. I prayed and prayed that it was the right thing to do, and my answer was always the same....YES. I'm so thankful I listened. It changed my life forever and it was one of the best things I ever did.
I had some awesome experiences and I loved every person I met. I am so thankful Heavenly Father let me have that experience. But the greatest blessing I received from serving a mission is.....
Paul....and my girls!
Thats definitely something to smile about!
