Where does the time go?!!?

   I can barely believe how quickly the last few months have gone by!!!  It's kinda crazy to think that in just a short couple of weeks I'll officially be back in Logan.   To be honest I think it has been a bit hard to get excited about moving back to my good old home town, but I truly believe it is a great choice for my life!  I am learning that I'm getting to a point in my life where I need to grow up, at least just a little bit!  =)   I think that the move to Logan is going to help me do just that.  It is going to bring more stability and a more permanent setting than I have had for quite some time!   For most of my life I have been quite flighty, moving from one place to the next, and I am finding it is time for me to settle down somewhere for more than a years time!!!
   I don't know as that Logan had to be the place that I chose to settle, but I feel like it is a good choice for the here and now...   I'm excited to be around the family more, to be so close to my new niece that is coming in November, to spend some time with Grandma Larsen while I live with her, to hopefully start building a career for myself!  I'm sure there will be some challenges along the way, especially working at dad's office... but overall I believe it will be an overall good experience.   Who knows exactly what lays ahead in the future but I am working really hard to get out of debt, hopefully invest in a house, and just live life to the fullest with NO REGRETS!!!  
   The last few weeks have been great!  I've had some fun weekends with friends and just feel blessed to have such a great life...  For the fourth of July, I went camping with Sara and Felipe in Yellowstone!  It was so much fun and such a great adventure.  I'm so glad I was able to spend some time with them.  =)  I love that they live so close and I am able to see them on a pretty regular basis.    I also took a quick trip to Vernal with the Swedes!  Sophia text me last minute and asked if I wanted to head out to the rodeo in Vernal and I thought why not!??!  We had a great trip and I loved going to a rodeo...  It's been a while since I went to one...
    I've spent a few weekends in Logan, one of which I got to spend in the temple with B.J.  He got his mission call and is headed to the Salta, Argentina mission the 17th of August...  (well, he enters the MTC on the 17th at least).  I'm so excited for him!  I can't wait to watch him grow over the next two years!  I feel like I've been really blessed to spend a decent amount of time with my adorable nephew Conner and niece Umbria as well!  I got to go to the zoo with Conner, we've been swimming at their pool a couple of times and I've been able to watch him so Jer and Stacy can have some time just the two of them!!!  I even got lucky enough to watch Umbria one evening so Brandi could go to one of Courtney's dinners at Sonora.  Hopefully I can watch her again sooner than later!!!  

  I love being an AUNT!!!   I'm pretty sure I would love being a mom even more, but...  for now I'm just grateful for the opportunity I have to be an aunt.    I have the coolest niece and nephew ever and can't wait to meet the niece on the way!   I'm glad that my siblings call me to watch them and that I live close enough that I can spend a decent amount of time with them!!!
  So... I guess, here is to the future and whatever it holds!  I'm excited for the new adventures that lay ahead!!!   I'm excited to start a new job, and to make the most of each day!  Hopefully the optimism will stick around and I can really learn to love my new life in Logan.  I'm most likely in it for the long haul so I may as well learn to love it!!!