Spread The Word To End The Word

So there is a word that I absolutely despise! Today associated with ending the use of this word!

You might have heard.
"Spread the word to end the word"

 SO I wanted to tell you all why I hate it and WHY

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think it should be taken out of everyone's vocabulary.

My little brother used to ride big yellow bus to School. Tucker LOVED  the bus rides. He had a van aide that would help the him and the other  students while they road to school. I remember a story that my mom told me and even now, over six years later, I still remember it.

The van aide was signing to a student that is deaf. She accidentally brushed her chest in a way that is commonly used in a negative way for describing someone with a disability. (The r word) Well, the student instantly started to cry! She did not mean it that way at all and was probably just not being overly aware with her hand placement. The van aide felt so terrible that she had caused this boy pain...
THEY DO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON 

Just because they have a disability does not mean that they don't understand what you are saying.

They are brilliant... No matter what a doctor says. I believe that they learn things through love and kindness.

Growing up I was not allowed to say the R word because it was a sensitive subject in our home.
<<<not a big shocker there>>>

i mean come ON look at his face. he is so stinking cute 

Still to this day tucker is the cutest little boy I ever have met. He would laugh at our jokes, tighten up all his muscles clench his jaw and glare at us when we would fight, I would sing him so sleep and whisper all my secrets to him... He knew what we were saying and doing.

I think about my brother all the time and I cannot imagine saying that word in front of him because I KNOW it would hurt him.

This video might help you understand...



Having a special need is something that these people CANNOT CONTROL.

And everyday I think about people who have a special need and I KNOW without a doubt that they are some of gods most precious people.

People who have a special need are amazing. They go through trials that I try to imagine but cannot ever grasp. And even through these trials, they have a big smile on their faces!

When we use what used to be a medical term, as a harsh, cruel insult. We are causing these wonderful people pain. These people don't look at their disability as a bad thing! But when we say the R word we are making them feel that they aren't good enough!

It DOES matter what words we use. Just because people think it is socially acceptable... It isn't. If you are thinking that I am exaggerating or just being emotional... Go meet someone who has a special need. Once you genuinely care and love them... Then you too will want to do everything to make them feel loved and happy because you know that is what they want to do for you.

Some of my greatest friends have a special need. Some of them can't tell me with their words that they love me... But I know they do. My heart aches when I hear of the pain that my sweet friends have. I just want to take all of it away and make it okay with a hug... But a hug won't stop this problem.

And because I love them more than words can possibly express, it would be horribly rude if I didn't speak up for them.

They need a voice.
 

Click HERE to learn more. 

Trying Something New

Okay so I know I don't do this a lot... actually I do this next to NEVER but I have been feeling a little down about just everything. I don't know if it is due to the winter blues or just cause I am sick of school BUT I have been a bit of a "Negative Nancy"! so if I have said something rude or not so tactful to you, well I'm really sorry. But now the thing I don't do a lot is share my straight up feelings so here they are. If you don't like them, then i guess you have to choice to not read this ...

It wasn't until this last week when I was reading a blog that I really got a kick in the pants and it told me to be happy. (not the fake happy that comes on your face when someone walks up to you and asks you how you are but the real.. DANCE LIKE A CRAZY PERSON HAPPY... the way that i idealize myself to be)So this blogger was writing about a new movie and how there was "gay propaganda" in it. I have seen the movie and i honestly did not feel that there was any bit of propaganda at all! I just felt so truly bad for the poor author that wrote the blog because she was digging for something negative!

I don't want to be a "Negative Nancy" anymore! after I read the post I had this thought that was that there are so many people trying to push their thoughts and opinions and they don't realize that they aren't even trying to be happy! I want to put some happy thoughts on the internet. So whether or not this gets read at all, it will just make me feel happy that I made the internet a little bit happier.

Things that make me happy:

•   I will be on SPRING BREAK in a week! and I get to spend it with some pretty awesome people who I love dearly
•   I just got a cool new shirt that has tulip style sleeves... and now I really want to sew that little black dress pattern that i made up way back in November (im getting excited)
•    Yesterday Kevin helped me clean the house... and now everywhere i look my tiny house i can't help but SMILE because it is CLEAN (which is a really big deal for me)
•   I am cooking THE BEST TOMATO SOUP EVER for dinner... and i think that it is one of the greatest soups on the entire planet so I'm a bit excited.
•    I got to spend 2 hours with my sister AKA one of my best friends
•   I finally  changed my last name to Pickett on my drivers license and the picture is still bad despite my efforts in getting ready... i just have to laugh because I tried so dang hard to not look like a man... and i do! it kills me
• I got an email from one of my friends on a mission... and i sent an email to one of my other friends on a mission
•   My little sister will actually talk to me on the phone for longer than a minute.... she is so fun to talk to.
•   also i am still just so HAPPY about my clean house
•     I have some of the greatest parents that anyone could ask for... also fabulous in-laws, they really are great too.
•       my husband does goofy stuff with me... like he waxes his nose hair and i laugh/cry hysterically
  

Well those are a few that are just the most pressing... who knows i might right like this another time! 

I hope you are having a wonderful day. And don't forget someone loves you. Okay I know it's cheesy and it might be because i am trying to be happy that i am acting like a darned cheese ball but SERIOUSLY someone loves you.

we just arent cutesie people

 Last weekend kevin and i drove down with kendra and chase to salt lake for the annual Mormon tabernacle choir concert.  We went to our favorite hotel restaurant, little america. 

if you know anything about their turkey dinner, you will know that they give you ice cream after. so being a dork i thought it would be great to copy those people who do things only for pictures to make themselves look all cute.... yeah we failed! 

we just kept laughing

so needless to say we just aren't cutesie people! 

we are funny people... so laugh.

Drugs are Bad

    This Monday i had surgery on my nose. Well if you can imagine me on drugs, you wont be too surprised to hear that after my surgery i begged kevin for my phone. he kept asking what i was doing and all i said was, "just looking at it" when i was actually snap chatting a few people.

Thank goodness i had enough brains to not instagram these gems. 

Well yesterday my mom came up and she told me that amy, my little sister had said that i was sending her some weird snaps... so i went through my history and found out that i had sent pictures to at least four different people. so for those of you who were privlaged enough to get some snaps, im sorry. and for those of you who didnt... here are two  the most beautiful pictures you will ever see of me (: 

This is just depressing, 

So i took the first picture, and as you can see i looked gosh darned terrible. my eyes are swollen, my hair isnt done and my noes is bleeding. 

good thing i looked at the picture and decided to do my hair and open my eyes really big! 

the only thing that would make this better would be if i would have gotten a clean gauze pad! 

 my mom says the title of these pictures is don't do drugs... so just remember... if you do drugs you could look worse than me!

Recent Events

Story: 
    Kevin is my sicky for now... we have been working on figuring out what the HECK is wrong with him since May. After He did about a bagillion and one tests, over Halloween, they finally found some stuff out. Kevin is not processing his fats correctly so this may be why if he doesn't eat he is getting super sick... someone (cough cough) needs to follow that one through with the doctor to know for sure... also he got his galbladder tested and i am not an expert in the ways of gallbladder but aparently they test the function and give grades out of 100. Kevin was one point away from being in the danger zone. Which means he might need his galbladder removed. He has an apointment with his GI doc next week to see what he wants to do now. But honestly we are just gratful that this problem isn't anything worse.

I just think this is cool so more for me than you.

but this semester i am in a foods class and we make tons of amazing things... these are my group members making PASTA! how cool is that?

sometimes i am amazed by how thoughtful people are... my grandpa's baby sister brought a cute little goodie bag to me, my sister, and my brother. just to say happy Halloween... im go glad im getting to know her better. she is an amazing woman

kevin made this ginger tea(not made with real gingers) that he used to drink on his mission all the time. he was raving about how amazing it was. so on Halloween i was making dinner had extra ginger so he made his scrumptious tea. he was the only one enjoying it cause i thought it was so nasty

this is gram. she is my grandpa's sister's mother-in-law. and kendra and i, along with a lot of other wonderful people help take care of her. she is 99 and man she has lots of spunk. some days she makes me a little crazy but she always brings the spirit into the room. I love getting to sing hymns with her while i feed her.

some fun lunch visits from our cute mom 

I wish they lived closer! (hint hint)

gettin amy ready for preference

my mom and i made aprons for my cousins'. they turned out cute and it was so fun to get to sew with my mom.

oh good CRAP who is this child?!

i am obviously a pro shooter and 

am not freaking out about how loud it is!

We had thanksgiving with the picketts this year. 

it was so fun! 

we had a great weekend... after we ate our feast we drove up the canyon and shot some guns as a family. 

turns out lots of people do this on thanksgiving

 

then we got a cute family picture before we hopped back in the cars to go eat so PIE

dont worry the kids just played with plastic guns

 

the friday after thanksgiving we had a GIRL'S NIGHT! 

we went to the Copper Mill where Christan had got us cute folded napkins and palate cleansers. 

after a great dinner we went to the nutcraker. 

It was a fun night and i'm so glad we are making this a tradition.  

 There was a basket ball game over thanksgiving weekend... and because USU is my favorite team (probably cause the have a kid with a fro and a guy that looks like an albino black ginger) we all drove down to salt lake for the game. It was a depressing loss but after listening to a reject of byu, current usu student be down right RUDE the entire game 

(IN that GOSH darned student section mind you)

I have come to the conclusion that I am a die hard aggie fan 

and may or may not have a strong rage toward our blue neighbors to the south. (but just during games)

Can you blame me though??? they tired to steal our winning team cheer! that is just rude (:

so now i think that i might also support the U? who knows... that might be a little to far.

We got to see temple square and take a cute picture in all our aggie gear

Also i need to add that this next picture is of how full the energy solutions arena was. our team might not have won but our fans completely annihilated theirs... so i guess since i was apart of that i still won... right?

 

Kevin and I stayed with Karen,Wade, Abbie, and Christan in salt lake for the night. We went to music and the spoken word the next morning and it was just wonderful. We liked it so much that we listened to it twice!

I couldn't decide which picture I like more. 

Here are both of them.

Kevin fell asleep during the program! I love this picture. Seriously, i think it is great. I guess this is what happens when your sister is talking to you and your wife is laughing hysterically all night!

These next two pictures are of my spazy sister and brother...

 hahaha love them

This was our last cooking lab together... so it required a picture

Kevin and I went on a fun little date tonight and when we got back we were being PRETTY hilarious so i started snappin pictures. In the pictures it kind of looks like Kevin shaved his head but i assure you he did not.

It's days like today that i feel i can break out my inner "cheese-ball" and say im so glad im married to this lovely fella. He keeps things fun and interesting...kind of weird some times!(: But i wouldn't have it any other way! 

fun week

 oh my goodness i have the best husband ever! on Sunday kevin wanted cookies... and so did i obviously (: but i was being grumpy and didn't want to cook so kevin went in the kitchen and made some amazing cookies! honestly i was surprised but he must have inherited his mom's cooking skills.

 If you don't know the pickett family then you probably don't know that october is the birthday month for almost the entire family. we have kev, steve, evy, sophie, gray, jackson, and katie. so on sunday we went to shera's to celebrate jackson's birthday.

 I was playing with evy and drinking dr pepper... things got a little out of hand. it turns out that i am the one that feeds little kids bad stuff! Evy couldn't get enough of it.  she kept reaching for more Sorry Katie and Steve!

 I can't believe that jackson is two now! he is getting so big and more handsome every day!

 i was talking to kar while she was drinking juice and when she moved the cup she made a goofy face so i told her i had to take her picture... she is so cute

 grandma and grandpa pickett called on face time and were talking to everyone... this is what savannah did when she saw them(;

 i went to the pumpkin walk this week with one of my sweet friends and we just loved is. she kept dancing to the music they had at each display. I never knew people did things like this but it was fun to go. The day before we went there was a huge storm so some of the displays were knocked over. we were worried that things would be ruined but things looked good when we got there.

 Hope your week has been great like mine!