Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

The dawning of a new year always brings exciting change. A fresh start for our goals and resolutions, a new semester, a change of pace. This year is no exception.


For example, to start blogging in 2010 off right, I now can write at my own desk! It's beautiful, I love it!

Special thank you to Mom and Dad for picking out the perfect desk :) The only drawback was the the desk came in far too many pieces!
Fortunately, another change in my life helped me take care of that problem

Meet Austin Baxter. We've been dating for a few weeks now, although we met shortly after I moved to Tempe. My second Sunday in the ward, during Sunday School (which we had first hour of the block last year) I was sitting directly behing him. I bent down to grab my purse at the same moment Austin turned around to stretch his back. As fate would have it, he elbowed me square in the face :)
He immediately apologized, and I, slightly stunned, laughed it off. He came up to me again before Sacrament meeting to apologize again. He sat by me and Tarina (my roommate) and we ended up talking for a while again after the meeting. He asked me out for the following weekend!My roommates deviously left us alone for a while and went to talk to a friend, Anita. As I went back to meet them and said I'd gotten a date, Anita said, "Oh Austin is such a good guy. He bears his testimony every month. "
This sentiment has been reaffirmed by countless people. I was talking with a guy named Brian at a Munch and Mingle a couple weeks later about Austin (they serve together in the Elder's Quorum). Brian paid him a high compliment when he said, "If I were a girl, I would want to date Austin!" Fortunately for me, Brian is out of the competition.

Time will tell where we will end up, but I am definatly excited to see where this big change will lead :)