change...

so pretty much as the summer wears down things start to change. i don't do change very well and obviously i have to deal with it. it's scary to think that all the little things, words and moments that happen now with the people i have will be completely different in a few short weeks. high school. my sister leaving to college. my brother receiving his release date. emma turning one. life is coming so fast and it's freaking me out. i like things how they are now. change, scares me.

pioneer day weekend...

this weekend we got to go surprise hailey up in wyoming! it was an absolute blast being able to see my big sister again. she's doing well and it was awesome to be able to talk to her and hang out with her! we had emma sit in the middle of grandmas kitchen and she walked in and saw her and said "my family is here?!" it was quite exciting! she's coming home next week and i'm absolutely stoked to be able to have her home! but not soon afterwards she's leaving for college, i guess i'll just have to get used to her being away from home...

hailey kate...

hailey kate hamblin is my older sister, my role model and my greatest example. haileys final ohs terms grades were flawless. hailey is the most fun-loving, high spirited person i've ever met. we have our fights but all in all she is the best big sister i could ever ask for.

not only does hailey have her priorities strait, a strong testimony and amazing will power but hailey is beautiful. she helps me through so much and i wouldn't be who i am without her. she's my best friend

i'm too wise...

so yesterday i got my wisdom teeth out and my face now looks like a fat superman... oh well! yesterday my friends came to say hi and hang out with me. james brought me a coloring book and jaxon got me a frosty, what nice guys right? so anyways i'm pretty sore and like i said, my face is a cross between a chipmunk and superman... so here you go!

Hey so anyone reading this my sister has a wayyy good blog you need to look at! hailey-kate.blogspot.com

true followers...

So these last few weeks have been super busy! i've been down to Dixie, up to Heber and than to Bridger Valley Wyoming leaving two days or less of each other. Girls Camp always the best right? So our ward theme was being True Followers of Christ and it was almost like it was reveled to me that my mother was possibly the most "True" woman i've ever known. Eight months pregnant and my mom is about to have her fourth baby, Abigail. Her doctor told her that Abi was healthy enough to have early but my momma wanted to make sure so she waited for a month. Little did any of us know our little Abi's fate. i was too young to remember much of what happened that day but Abi did not join our family here on earth. In an eternal perspective we are all A Forever Family but in the moment of this it was devastating for our family. Like i mentioned before, i was about five or six at the time and don't remember a whole lot. But i remember my mother never failing in her testimony of the Gospel. We all could have easily questioned Heavenly Father as to why this had to happen to our baby and easily could have questioned the Gospel but we had such strong parents. A mother who knew her testimony and had her entire soul believing in the things of our church. And a father that held the priesthood with amazing class and honor. My mother never fell away, even in the times that were the hardest for all of us to understand. i believe that Heavenly Father was preparing me and my siblings for the time when we would lose our mother. i didn't realize it but my mom was the biggest example to me on how to survive hard things. She never once thought twice about everything happening because Heavenly Father just wanted it to. We all have a divine mission here on earth. One may be serving as the daughter of parents who don't believe in the Gospel. One is be serving as the daughter of Shannon and James Hamblin and to grow up having the gospel in their lives with a strong testimony. We've received our mission call and i'll do what i can the fulfill with my whole heart that mission call. My mothers has been fulfilled and she is a forever standing testimony in my heart of being a True follower of Christ.