January went by so fast! Tomorrow will be our 9 month anniversary! It is so fun being married. I'm not saying it is not work - I am saying that it is a lot of fun and so much better than being single! Being married means you have someone to come home to at night - or in our case every few days when we are not working opposite schedules.
Yesterday was Jared's Grandpa's (Hap Johnson) funeral. It was a very nice funeral, he was a funny, hard working man. I met a lot of Jared's cousins, aunts and uncles that I had never met before. We were able to be by Grandpa Hap's bedside when he passed away last Friday. He so quickly and peacfuly passed from this world! We are so grateful we were able to be there telling stories and jokes with 2 of Jared's uncles and his mom. I felt it made the transition easier to have his family around talking and joking about happy times in his life. My favorite memory of Grandpa was whenever we would leave after visiting him in the resthome he would grab Jared's arm and say "If you ever mistreat your good wife I will beat the puckey out of ya!" It would make me laugh everytime. Even when his time was short here on earth he had a good sense of humor. It's nice to know he is still watching over us but is free from pain. (The picture at the top is of us on our wedding day visitng Grandpa Hap in the resthome. The one below is Jared and the other men carring Grandpa's casket.)
With the passing of Pres. Hinckley I keep thinking of all the things he taught me. He is the prophet I remember most. He has given me a lot of strength to keep moving forward through trials while in my teenage years. I have one of my favorite quotes by him posted at my desk at work, I read it daily. It reminds me to never give up and to keep going. I felt that is exactly what he always did. For an old man he had amazing strength and energy! He was an amazing man of faith, character, charity and so much more. I am so happy he is now again with his sweet wife. I have been reading and watching all that I can this week about his life. It is amazing how much I have learned more about him. One of my favoirte wedding gifts is an 8x10 picture of Pres. Hinckley made up of many snap snots of him. it is framed and sits on a shelf in our family room. I look at it daily and it makes he smile. He was such a happy, smiling man who really had the light of Christ in his eyes.
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