Lit Up

I have a very personal message that I want to share with you and this is the most effective way I could think of to do it! :)

Some Lovin'

Well, happy Valentine's day! We had a WONDERFUL weekend with a spontaneous trip to San Diego. We drove down there on Friday and Joseph did GREAT on the drive. We got there with enough time to check in to the hotel, go down to the beach and watch the sunset, go back and eat a yummy dinner at a restaurant next door to the hotel, debate whether or not to go swimming, decide against it and then crash for the night pretty early. For dinner I ordered a Hawaiin omelet - with ham, jack cheese and pineapple. I never thought of putting pineapple in my omelet, but I was mmmming and ooohing with every single bite. It was SOOOO good.

Friday morning we got up and hit the continental breakfast and then headed off to Sea World where we spent the day. We watched four shows there: Shamu, the sea lion's comedy act, 4D Sesame Street movie, and Pet's Rule.

While Joseph was napping in his stroller, we utilized the time to wait for the opportunity to touch the dolphins. We had to wait a while before one came up to us. They kept swimming by and John actually was able to reach out and touch them a few times before I could. I finally was able to touch one when it came up to me and stopped and let me pat it's head before swimming off. It was so neat. We made a stop to visit all of the creatures in the park.

Joseph did really well and seemed to enjoy himself, especially at the Pet's Rule show. He was clapping along and panting when the dogs came running out on stage.

The weather was beautiful the whole day. We left the park around 6 and made a visit to the San Diego Temple. What an amazing building. It looks like a castle with all of its spires!

We ate dinner at the same restaurant that night and then back in our hotel we watched 17 Again.

Sunday morning we found our way to a local Sacrament meeting and then went back to the hotel to pack up and check out. But before leaving the city, we went to the beach one more time and spent a few hours there. Joseph LOVED playing in the sand.

He became tired, but not cranky after a while. So John held him and we walked in the waves for a while. Joseph eventually fell fast asleep on John's shoulder while we were looking for seashells and sand dollars and trying to avoid getting too wet from the big waves. We were successful with finding some cool stuff, but not so successful at avoiding the waves. I, in particular, was nailed a couple of times in the rear from behind when I was paying more attention to a cool shell in the sand than the wave coming up behind me! And even though we spent the rest of the afternoon in the car driving home, it really was a fabulous Valentine's Day and a great little getaway. Our first real vacation all together since we've had Joseph. yaay. :)

Train of Thought

*driving home from school today I was flipping through stations and kept it on the classical music station which was playing a lovely violin piece*

wow, this is amazingly beautiful to listen to. I really love classical music.

I wonder if many other people my age enjoy listening to classical music.

I wonder if more people would feel less stressed if they listened to this kind of music more often.

Maybe it would alleviate those "Avatar blues" some people are having.

Avatar was a really cool movie.

I wonder what kind of person James Cameron is.

I know he did Titanic.

That was the first PG-13 movie in America where a woman's breast was shown. I remember that caused quite a stir.

I wish that nudity wasn't so emotionally tied to sex in culture. Like the time that John and I were at the DI and flipping through a book on pregnancy and there were full page photos of naked women and John said, "woah!" I wish there wasn't that stigma.

I wish more respect would be shown for sex. I feel like it's a beautiful thing.

I read this last night: "We declare the means by which mortal life is created to be divinely appointed" in the Family Proclamation.

wow. My train of thought has gone from a violin sonata to the act of sex.

This might actually make for an interesting blog post.

Perspective

Social networking is amazing. There is such an opportunity to share so many ideas and connect people from all over. Today I read a blog that one of my facebook friends had linked on her facebook account because she had seen one of her friends link it. And now I'm going to share it as well because it touched my heart deeply today. I needed this.

Read this story of a mother who almost lost her baby boy due to drowning in the bathtub. This is fresh. The incident occured on February 1st, just 8 days ago. This woman's character shines through, reaches out and grabs at the heart. I can't imagine how hard it would be to have the frame of mind to get through an experience like this, let alone blog it, but I must say I am so grateful that she has shared what she has because her emotions are so raw and because of that, it is so REAL. And it's this sharing of REAL life that means the most to me.

I want to do more of that myself.

Anyway, here's the link to "what happened" and after you read that, browse all of her updates since then if you'd like, but be sure to read this latest one from today.