November: Adoption Awareness Month

My sister made this video. Our family has been so blessed by adoption and these wonderful children. I am so grateful to their birth mothers I can only imagine what a sacrifice this was as I can't imagine life with out these three kids in my life.

Bridesmaid Dress Season

Oh that I looked like this model. I wish! But is this not a pretty teal? I love this dress and I can wear it even after the wedding. So excited for that. Happy Blogging!

Annie Leibovitz

I realize the nerd factors emanating from my blogging presence. But I have to say that this portrait orchestrated by none other than THE ANNIE LEIBOVITZ who you all know I love as I blog about her every year, is one of the best I have ever seen. It's beautiful. Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens are fantastically portrayed as Prince Phillip and Aurora from Disney's Sleeping Beauty. Can't wait until next year.

" Our forefathers never promised happiness, only the pursuit of it."

I have been reading a lot of the ins and outs of Obama's Health care Reform and I have to say that I am a bit confused. It seems like all he is saying is that it will be affordable. Affordable to who? I pay roughly one hundred dollars per month to keep myself insured and cared for. It's not a check I write out, it comes from my salary. Would I love to pocket that money and buy something else or save for a fun trip? Sure I would. Is it a reality? No it's not. I am taken care of by doctors and dentists because I found myself a job which includes a health care program. Now I am a 25 year old female and I realize I have only had that much time to learn about politics, life, and health care, but I beat a lot of people out with my experience of government-run health care because I did that for quite a few of my hospital visits as a little girl. Ask my family and my parents...it isn't fun. I realize that there may be glitches in health care, I have medications I PAY for and take every day and sometimes I get frustrated with my insurance company too. But I pay for the security of knowing that if I need to see a doctor or go to the ER, I can do that because I go to work and I work hard every day of my life for those benefits. Doesn't it seem like there is an easier solution to this ever so dramatic and difficult health care problem? Instead of being insurance-less because you're job-less...GO GET A JOB with a benefits structure. Insurance companies are more than willing to take you on as a customer and guess what? If you have a group program through your employer, OMG you get a discount, imagine that. I think the problem is that there are some Americans that want everything for free. Free of money and free of effort. I read something that inspired my blog title and it said that "Our Forefathers never promised happiness, only the pursuit of it." Being an American only entitles you to what you have worked for, the effort you put forth. I wish more people understood that. Put on your uniform whatever it may be, talk to your employer about benefits, and go to work people. We do it everyday.

I moved again!

Oh my gosh after an infestation of one hundred ants, two spiders crawling up my leg, one spider in my bed and something that slightly resembled a scorpion just waltzing through our door when I opened it one night...WE HAVE MOVED AGAIN. Third move in a year and a half. But I am much happier I now have a darling little condo with girls that I just love. Pictures to come when I find my camera. Love to all, hope you are all well.

Among things like reading the scriptures, cleaning my new apartment, and reading fashion mags...

I am LOVING this:

Mildly OBSESSED with this:

And completely HOOKED on these DVDs:

WHAT is YOUR guilty pleasure...

Sarah and Mike Branca June 18th 2009

The Three Besties

All of the Bridesmaids

Sarah and Ams

At the Temple

At the wedding dinner

One of my Best Friends in the world got married last week and once again I got to dress up in pretty clothes and dote on the "Bridal Beauty" of Sarah Geraldine Hammond. This was not difficult, as Sarah was perhaps one of the prettiest and happiest brides I have ever seen. Her happiness was something to covet. She just glowed all day. This is the second wedding in less than a year that Becca and I were asked to be bridesmaids in the same wedding. So once again it was fun to just hang with Becca for a few days. We have been best friends for almost ten years and we don't get to spend that many consecutive moments with each other these days as we are both pretty busy in our lives. The wedding was wonderful. Very pretty, we kept walking around saying "Oh that is so Sarah..." because it was. I love you Sarah. Thank you for endowing me the honor of being a bridesmaid in your wedding. It was a very special moment...and Mike, Welcome to the Family!