Grateful... and Overwhelmed

When I find myself getting stressed out, listing everything I am grateful for helps. Here we go...

-My fiance

-My family (immediate and extended)

-My health

-The mountains

-Shelter

-My new wedding band (so excited to wear this!)

-My experience traveling

-My education

-My opportunity to go to graduate school

-The fact that I have choices on WHERE I want to go to graduate school

-Scholarships

-A fiance that not only supports me in continuing my education, but is my biggest cheerleader

-My amazing, awesome, supportive and loving friends

-My religious beliefs

-The fact that I know where I'm from, I know why I'm here and I

 know where I'm going after

-My grandparents who immigrated to America

-My ancestors who travelled across an ocean and a country for religious freedom

-My jeans

-Health insurance

-The University of Utah

-My job(s)

-My laptop

-Access to a car

-BlackBerry Messenger

-Diet Coke

-Younger brothers -- they love you unconditionally 

-Our family puppy, Kola

-Access to food so that I'm never starving

-Birth control

-Football season

-A bed

-Popcorn 

-Salmon 

-A healthy family

-Modern medicine... without it two of my brothers wouldn't be living

-My brother Nate, who is serving people in CA

-Our military men and women

-First class on airplanes 

-Dishwashers

-Our Dyson

-Having not only shelter, but a home... 

-Having three homes (England, Salt Lake, St. George)

-My ability to read and write

-My able body

-My loving and supportive parents

-Amazing family that have Cal and I over for dinner

-Awesome aunts, uncles and cousins that I love dearly

-Grandparents that randomly drop off a home made dinner... just because they think I'm not eating enough or that I'm too stressed to eat anything other than cereal 

-Babies (not for me... not for a long time, at least)

-My professors

-Text books

-Novels

-Student Alumni Board and ASUU

-Pedicures and manicures

All in all, it's important for me to always remember that I have it not only good, but great. I am extremely lucky, blessed and loved. I am SO grateful for everything that I have. 

P.S. Less than two weeks!