Why Me?

Often times we ask yourself "why me?" when bad stuff happens in your life, but really we should ask yourself "why me? why am I so blessed?" It's a humbling thought. Everything I have been given just because. I made a list of the top fifty things I'm grateful for but here I will just share a few.

50. Ice cream
33. Internet
20. My jobs
17. My dad's job.
10. My good looks.
9. My parents and their examples of hard work and love of God
8. My siblings and their examples
7. My Grandparents and ancestors for their work that I am now able to live a comfortable middle class life
6. The Book of Mormon
5. My emotional state of being
4. My education (especially that I can go to college)
3. The restored gospel of Jesus Christ
2. Personal revelation and inspiration from a loving Heavenly Father that has led me to where I am now
1. The atonement of Jesus Christ and the ability I have to repent

But after I try to put a list together, I am reminded of what President Uchtdrof  "Perhaps focusing on what we are grateful for is the wrong approach. It is difficult to develop a spirit of gratitude if our thankfulness is only proportional to the number of blessings we can count. True, it is important to frequently “count our blessings”—and anyone who has tried this knows there are many—but I don’t believe the Lord expects us to be less thankful in times of trial than in times of abundance and ease. In fact, most of the scriptural references do not speak of gratitude for things but rather suggest an overall spirit or attitude of gratitude."


For Thanksgiving I went to my grandparents, and what started as a 5 person dinner turned into 17! So after a quick run to the store for another turkey everything worked out just fine. We all ate plenty and there was left overs. I started a little contention by wanting to take a family picture so I put the camera away. Here are a few pictures I did get:

His first cheese ball!