To the computer theif:

Dear Petty Theif/Probable Drug Addict,

I am feeling a little sad tonight. I am hoping for a miracle. I am hoping that you will have spent the money, and the decide that you don't need that computer. I am hoping that you will take it back to my Aunt and Uncle's house and abandon it in one piece on the front porch. I am hoping because on that computer are the last 2 years of my family's life in pictures. My babies entire life... all his pictures... they are all there. That was my Christmas project, to print off pictures, to hang them in my house and send them to grandparents.

Petty Theif/Probable Drug Addict, could you please return my memories? I'm not angry, I just wish I had them back. My daughter's first steps. My baby's first crawling. Family vacations and playing in the back yard. May I please have them back?

You've probably already pawned that computer. I know I'll probably never see it again, but maybe not. And if not, could you please please please bring it back?

Thanks,

Kari

Thanksgiving- 6 years soul mates

Six years ago tonight I was stressed out of my brains on the edge of tears...

I was getting married in the morning. 

I didn't have a whole lot of things I needed done, it wasn't extravagant by any means, I just wanted everyone to be rested, happy and in the Temple. I wanted to be able to enjoy spending time with people, and for them to enjoy that time as well. We were all so tired, but it was perfect. I married a man who was everything I had always wanted.

On Saturday, Melissa and Chris are getting married.

I'd be lying if I said that tonight I don't feel about that way I did six years ago... 

There is so much to get ready, and we're doing it out of a hotel room... 

I want all of those same things for Melissa and Chris this weekend, that I wanted for Cori & myself six years ago. 

I want to be in the Temple together as a family and feel the peace and joy there that  is so abundant, when you are prepared. I want to know that those first few hours of Melissa and Chris's marriage, are full of happy memories of their family celebrating this best of days with them.

I want to feel the joy of eternal promises being made. 

I want to sit with my family in the Temple and feel the Love of God, our Father.

Because, that is really what makes it all work in the end.

Faith in each other.

Hope for the future.

and the beginnings of Charity, that pure Godly Love, toward each other.

We go to the Temple to learn to be those things. 

To learn to be like our Father.

On this Thanksgiving night, I am grateful that Cori is the man I get to learn to be like Him with. 

He is the man that I measured everyone else against, and found them lacking.

He is the man that I am always amazed by.

He is the man I cannot imagine living without. 

He is not perfect, but he knows it, I am grateful we get to learn to be better together.

He is my soul mate, because we want the same things, and are working to get to the same place. 

What better match could I ask for than that?

What more could anyone ask for?

First house

Look at these two handsome men... they have nothing to do with this picture... their parents just happen to live kitty corner to the first house my parents ever built from the ground up... so look past the men and to the house.

I have a lot of happen memories of building that house and the short time we lived there. Fun to run into a little bit of your past on someone blog. Thanks to the York's for that. :)