lazy Sunday

I think that everyone should be able to take a guilt free lazy Sunday. Well I woke up this morning and my ear was pounding and stabbing me. So I figured today was going to be my lazy Sunday to try and get rid of this anoying ear infection I've had for a while. So I've spend the day being just that...lazy. I ate some cereal at about 11 o'clock. sat around watching movies and the big soccer game. At about 11:50 I get a text from my good friend Lisa asking me why I wasn't at church today. I explained to her and asked her why she was texting me from church. She had her reasons why she was leaving church early. I think today is just one of those days (at least for me) that you just need to stop thinking about the stress of work and just relax. I know Saturday should be that day, but I rarely get a Saturday to do that... we are always working on the house or, out driving around looking for a complex to buy, or just busy. So yay for lazy Sundays! I promise I won't get used to this. Plus I couldn't! I love my Young Women and I think I would miss them too much. I know church is where we go on Sunday so we can take the Sacrament and learn more of the gospel to gain a greater testimony. And jsut because I REALLY enjoy these lazy Sundays doesn't mean I don't know the gospel is true because it is! I just needed a break from everything today!

The Art of Racing in the Rain

So, my dad gave me this book while I was in Washington last. I thought, great another money book he wants me to read. This book is nothing like that. Its called the Art of Racing in the Rain. IT is absolutely amazing! I started the first chapter and it made me just immediately addicted to reading it.  Just after the first time reading it I felt a special bond with my dog. I didn't look at her as just a dog. I really believe that she follows us around because she whats to be a part of our lives and she watches us to learn things and sometimes I really do think she understands exactly what we are saying and I think that she wishes she could talk and tell us something we are overlooking or something we didn't see. I don't know about the whole turning into a human when they die, but I do hope that I will be able to see my dogs again when I die. I mean really though, not knowing breaks my heart. Its almost what I would think it would be like to not have the gospel in my life. Not knowing what happens after life. I know that people can be together forever, but we don't give birth to dogs....or cats for that matter...so what happens to them when they die? When I get to Heaven someday and my past dogs aren't there waiting for me to lick my face and let me scratch their belly's and just love them, I know I will be pretty ticked. They HAVE to be there! I wish I knew... Does anyone know? Is there doctrine that says we will see them again?

Anyway this book just made me that much closer to Pookey and even Cassie and all the animals I have had in the past that have passed on. It takes your heart on an emotional roller coaster, at times it is so funny you literally laugh so hard, and at other times you just bawl your eyes out. By the end of this story I was covered in tears, but so happy I was able to read it. I suggest anyone read this book. It really makes you look at dogs in a new light.