Me & My Beautiful Sister!

Yep, you guessed it...it's Christmas Picture Time!!!!

This is me and my sister's favorite time of year...

NOT!!!!

But at least we got through them...yet another year down...ssssssoooooooooo many more to go!

We're sorry we can't help it!!!!

We're gorgeous!

Everything Happens for a Reason

My favorite quote has always been:

Everything happens for a reason.

I just finished up another few months in Idaho and let me tell you, it was probably the hardest one yet. I always think, okay this one will be easier, but it never really ends up that way. It seems that the more confident I think I am the more I realize I face more challenges to help me grow and help shape me into who I am becoming. These past 4 months I've had to deal with challenges a lot of people probably think aren't really "challenges". But to me they've been some of the biggest and I've learned so much.

I really am amazed at how things really do happen for a reason. There is a reason that I had to face challenges including roommates, work, and everything else this semester. There is a reason that there were nights that I wanted nothing more than to get on a plane and go home to my family. There is a reason I had to forego things that I thought were important just to learn the lesson that they weren't important.

This is a lesson that I will continually be learning. Learning to accept the fact that everything happens for a reason. Everything, including, the good times and the bad, the happy and the sad, the expected and the unexpected! It is all part of the plan and I'm so grateful that there is a plan. That there is a reason for everything that we go through in this life. I'm so grateful for that knowledge and I am blessed because of it.

Everything happens for a reason and for a reason it all works out in the end!!!