Mom's Visit and Finals Week

This week was a busy one! Monday after Jake got off of work we went over to my friend Anna's apartment to help her load her car with all of her stuff for leaving Rexburg. Being the graceful person that I am, I managed to trip while carrying her ironing board...and broke the toenail on my big toe pretty far down. My toe started bleeding, but once we got home and I bandaged it all up things were fine. Jake called me Gimpy for the rest of the evening since I was hobbling around the house like a little old lady. My husband is SO hilarious.

Monday evening my mom arrived! She was in Utah to take one of my brothers to a baseball camp at BYU, and drove up to spend a few days with Jake and I. It was so nice to see her and spend time with her, and to show her our little apartment in person! She definitely spoiled us: she brought us supplies from Costco, took us to dinner in Idaho Falls at Texas Roadhouse, and shopping afterwards. She had to leave early Wednesday morning to head back down to Provo, but it was good to see her for the short amount of time that we could!

Thursday morning before taking Jake to work, I dropped off my last final exam on campus! It felt so good to officially be done with the semester, even though I know I'm going to miss having classes for the next few weeks. I'll have lots of time to catch up on some fun reading, though!

On Friday Jake and I cut some of the watermelon my mom brought up for us, and it was SO GOOD. Neither of us had had watermelon in a while, and it was a fun summer treat!

I spent my weekend relaxing at home while Jake worked, and it's definitely going to be another adjustment staying busy while he's gone all day...school and homework were great time killers. On Sunday my typical post-finals/end of the semester cold finally hit, so unfortunately I wasn't able to go to church.

This Week's Spiritual Thought

I found this quote on Pinterest today, and I thought it was super awesome. Our failures will fade away (like a bruise) if we use the Atonement properly and let Christ take away our sins. What's especially great about this analogy is that sometimes once a bruise has faded, we can still feel the pain from it. And while our sins fade away, we can sometimes still feel that pain--and use it to learn from our mistakes.