Traffic engineers

I get to plan a half marathon. I am SO excited about it! Today I had a meeting with a few key people to discuss the race route. I'm thankful for our traffic engineers. It was SO much easier to plan a course with their input and their ideas.

Windshield wiper fluid

I'm often thankful for things when I no longer have them. While I was driving home from work today I ran out of wiper fluid. It snowed earlier today so the roads were all wet and salty - not the best time to run out of the only thing that makes it possible to see!! But I survived. And now I am thankful to have a full windshield wiper tank!

Visiting teaching

I know I've been thankful for visiting teaching a few times before, but I can't help it. I really do love the girls I get to visit. I have never gone out visiting teaching and regretted it. I always feel uplifted and thankful - thankful for the girls and thankful for the opportunity I have to visit them!

Clean air

I saw the mountains today! And I saw BLUE sky! I even had to wear my sunglasses for the first time in who knows how long! I'm a summer girl - I like warm and sunshine and beaches and flip flops. But, I will gladly take all this snow and even be thankful for it if it means I can at least breathe clean air!

Tender mercies

I got to teach Relief Society at church today. I really love teaching Relief Society. The lesson did not go like I had planned. My printer didn't work so I couldn't print what I had prepared. I rely on my notes - probably too much. I prayed the printer would work. It didn't. I prayed I could get my notes to come up on my iPad. That worked, but I felt like I would be too distracted trying to teach from the iPad. So I prayed, until my lesson was over I prayed. I taught with no notes. And surprisingly, it was awesome. The Spirit was pretty intense. I had everyone attention...if anyone was whispering, I didn't see it. People contributed. I could see in people's eyes that they got it. I am thankful that I get to teach! I'm thankful that Heavenly Father let me be the mouthpiece to teach His children today. I am beyond grateful that the lesson went as well as it did today. I don't think it would have been the same if I had my notes...so I guess I'm even grateful that I couldn't print my notes.

Teaching the lesson was a tender mercy. I'm also thankful for another tender mercy. We finally got a great set of home teachers. It's been 3 years since we had home teachers that actually came! Today it snowed - quite a bit. My rockstar home teacher loaded his snowblower into his truck and drove to our house to clear our driveway! I am so thankful for him and that very thoughtful service!

Wood crafts

My roommates are really into wood crafts. There's a store that sells all the pieces for you to make cute decorations. They sell the plain wood cut-outs and you have to add paint/paper/ribbons/glitter. (Don't get me started on the glitter - it is everywhere...but that's just part of the process). I'm not big into these woods crafts - mostly because I don't feel like I need them. I'm not home enough to want to really decorate my house a ton. I don't mind if its decorated, I just don't care to be the one doing the decorating. But, I have a new office. And that office is very empty. I've been thinking about trying out some wood crafts to liven the place up a bit. Tonight I used some leftover scrape wood I got from work to make a Valentines Day decoration. It was pretty fun to put together. And I'm more inclined to make more because I have a place at work to put them and actually be able to enjoy them!

A key to my office

Before today there were 2 people that I knew had a key to my office - me and our maintenance guy Dave (who lives an hour away from the center). Today I found out one more person has a key - Todd. I found out because I locked my purse in my office. My keys to my office and my keys to my car were both locked inside! I'm so thankful Todd had a key and was willing to come let me in to my office! Otherwise Dave would have had to come in and I would have even worse then I already did! We will have to figure something else out so that doesn't happen again!