My Girls

I have been thinking for some time now about how blessed I have been by the women in my life. I have a fantastic life, filled with fantastic people. I have been wanting to write about the fantastic females in my life for some time now, but haven't taken the time to get around to it. But I am feeling so much joy in thinking about them today that I am going to.

The first group of women is my family. I have SIX sisters - I am so blessed. My sisters are the greatest gift my parents gave me. When people hear about how many sisters I have they will ask what that was like and if we fought a lot - I LOVE having all sister - all six sisters. Anyone that knows me well knows I love my family. My mom is superwoman - literally - the best woman I know. This is not only acknowledged by me and my sisters, but people outside my family as well. Why I was so blessed to be her daughter I do not know, but I am forever grateful. And then I have 6 AMAZING sisters, I love them all. I was also the granddaughter of the two BEST grandma's in the world. I have done a post all about my mom's mom, Grammy, before. I will do one about Grandma Lissa sometime - equally amazing. Added to my group of family women have been my super nieces, my aunts, my cousins, and my mother-in-law and sisters-in-law. I know not everyone really likes their in-laws or feels like their in-laws like them. I LOVE Ryan's family, they are so super good to me, again, I am so blessed.

I grew up in one house - from the time I was one until I graduated from high school and moved away I lived in the same place - my parents still live there. Most of the people that lived around us did the same. I grew up with a HUGE group of girls my age - so lucky. I have two best friends - Wendi and Wendy - who I have known since before I can remember. They are phenomenal. And then there are about 20 more who even though I haven't seen some of them in years I still love them to death and feel close to them (Facebook and Blogs help with this).

I was blessed with great friends at BYU - from roommates to neighbors to classmates - I was blessed.

And then I went on a mission - I was again blessed with companions who taught me TONS and who I love (I will do another post on this).

I got married - to the BEST MAN IN THE WORLD - but this is a post about women so I will have to post about him another time.

We moved to Texas and I have again been blessed by great women. Our family ward here is filled with women around my age (give or take 10 years) and they make my life here joyful. Even though we have been in the single's ward a year now so I don't get to see all my friends as often as I would like - between book club, play group, and game nights we still keep up pretty well.

So why did I get blessed to have so many great women in my life? I don't know, but I think Heavenly Father knew I would need them to bring out my best self, to learn the things I need to learn, and to be happy. Thank you Heavenly Father, and thanks to all the women in my life - LOVE YOU!