Rexburg

You know, I am so happy to be living here, in Idaho.  I love the weather.   I love the small town we live in.  Last night we went out as a family for our big Anniversary dinner.  We have been married 13 years.  We went to the fanciest place in town, Applebees.  You can't beat that with a stick, can ya'?  I didn't mind that there was nowhere fancy to go since I was just eating salad anyway.  Afterward, for our FHE activity we went to drive around and see the Christmas lights.  It was not like West Bayou Parkway...  The people don't pay thousands of dollars for other people to come decorate their house around here, but it was still fun to drive around the entire town in about 20 minutes.  On the way home we drove down Main Street.  You should see all the lights they have there right now!  It is gorgeous!  Even the courthouse is all decked out.  The kids ooh'd and aah'd almost as much as I did.  And I just sat in the car thinking how grateful I am to be where we are now.  This is our home forever and it really feels like home.  I have my great friends here, my family closer to us, and the perfect little town.  I miss all of my Louisiana friends.  We had started to get used to the idea that we might be there forever.  But this really is home.  It has always felt like home to us, even when we were students.  And now, as  I am typing this, I am looking out the window at the snow falling and I have a little skip in my heart.  I have a little tear in my eye.  Every time it snows I get excited.  It never gets old for me.  Even at the end of winter, (more like the beginning of summer!) the prospect of snow makes me want to giggle.  This place was made for me.  Rexburg is my home town and will be forever.  We have been so abundantly blessed.  I don't even know what we did to deserve it.  But I am so grateful.  I just love my little town.