a ministering angel shall my sister be

who would've thought i would catch myself counting down the hours when taylor gets done with school so we can hang out.

in case you're wondering she only has 6 hours and 15 mintues left today, and then we're road trippin' it to kellies for a girls night.

and yes. she'll be missing school for it tomorrow.

us mobergs live on the edge.

i feel like the worst sister in the entire world when i drop her off for school.

it's like throwing an innocent lamb into a cage filled with starving lions, or at least that's what it feels like. 

i had a dream the other night that when i dropped her off at school some kid barely nudged her and what did i do? i got out of the car and curb stomped him. yes, i curb stomped an innocent little 9th grader. can you say mama bear?

my children are going to love me.

not only will i curb stomp anyone that bullies them.

but we're only half way through this week and i've realized that i make awesome pump up CD's to listen to on the way to school.

my after school snacks are BOMB.

i'm right on time whenever she needs to be picked up.

i make sure she looks fly every day.

we make cool music videos.

i totally help her cheat on her homework.

(just kidding mama.. or am i?!)

my breakfast's? excellent.

oh! and i tell good jokes.

taylor's been quite entertaining too.

one night i was telling my dad how great the new footloose is and how he needs to see it and taylor sits up in her kitchen stool and says with all her sassy head snaps and swinging fingers .."uhh no. that movie is bad. like, not good. they drink and party and use bad words. IN-A-PPROPRIATE. pull it up on youtube i'll prove it to you." 

i took a nap yesterday and taylor did not like that.

her teacher left me this note on her homework;

 and then taylor wrote this on the back of it;

"kendra is not helping me"

well i guess i can't take naps anymore...

 i can't take naps and i can't take my dad to footloose!

but i'm loving every second of it.

i drive a big nice car with heated seats and satellite radio everywhere i go. (thanks mom)

i get starbucks every morning.

i get to do all my laundry for free.

i take advantage of my parents giant shower.

i sleep like a bear at night.

i can listen to my music however loud i want.

and i get to hang out with the coolest people i know every day.

my little sister, and my dad.

moses lake, i'm all yours till saturday ♥

desert oasis

 early flights are the best flights.

my brother making me hot chocolate to sip on during the drive to the airport? even better.

we had a connecting flight in oakland, and oh dear..

OAKLAND IS BEAUTIFUL.

currently in my top five places to visit now.  

on the last leg of the trip i sat next to a gentleman that hooked it up with broadcasting peeps.

i know people on the inside now. what's up?

half way through the fight the flight attendant announced that there were two girls selling chocolate bars for one doll hair. oh, and they had carmel.

have you ever ate a delicious carmel filled chocolate bar 39,000 feet in the sky?!

well, i have. and it made my life.

the girls made a killing! that chocolate was like drugs in a rehab center.

the pilot even came on the intercom after the flight attended first announced it and requested five dark chocolate bars, and one milk.

such a genius idea! 

now all i want to do is go on a plane, sell special brownies, and see what happens.

best plane ride of my life.

seeing my mama for a short five minutes bleewww.

but you bes believe i rocked out the entire way home.

i sang my soul out.

i found two lovely notes from my roommates tucked away into my suitcase when i unpacked.

sooo precious. i'm already missing all of you.

oh, and all of my mama's halloween decorations are still up.

but i'm not suppose to tell anyone that. (sorry mama. i'm just lovin' them way too much..)

there's nothing like seeing taylor jump up and down as soon as she sees me pulling into the seminary building.

she hopped into the car and told me what she learned about in seminary.

and what did she learn about, you may ask?  "to love."

when i asked her who she loved she responded, "i love my best friend."

thinking it was ME i was thrown back a little, until i heard her whisper under her breath..."not you. justin bieber." 

..i should've seen that one coming.

we did the ritual of grabbing a blizzard at dairy queen and then picking up a nail polish from walmart to paint her nails with the second we got home.

she's already getting on me about her having to do her homework, and going to bed..

what have my parents done to my party animal little sister? 

5

i will be coming home in 5 days.

home, as in the big ML home.

april is having her baby (which i'm sure will be adorable) and my mama is flying out to help her with her precious new baby.

so who gets flown in to take bubba to and from school AND to have sick parties with that 16 year old animal?

this girl.

 

i love love love taylor.

my parents took her to the movie "real steel" last week and she's been going out to my dads shop every night since then and beating up his punching bag for 30 minutes.

no big deal.. she's just going to challenge me to a UFC fight the second i roll up into the driveway. 

i'm coming my little fighter.

i'm coming!

tuesday, november 1st

i've never attended a BYU devotional, but i'm sure as heck thankful that i attended yesterday.

President Thomas S. Monson was the speaker. 

YES! PRESIDENT THOMAS S. MONSON

i'm such a nerd for being so excited about this, but this little ginger has never been so close to the prophet himself. he's a little jokester!

SO! my first BYU devotional + being oh so close to Thomas. S. Monson = a mind blowing spiritual experience.

he talked about being an example of the believers. 

he told us that one of the greatest ways we can all be missionaries is by being a shining example.

 now i've heard this before, but never was able to witness it until this past year when they started dropping like flies!

my ex boyfriend got dunked, then one of my best friends, and soon to be the beautiful miss kelly starman who i met this summer.

i know I'M not why they got baptized, but i know that at sometime somewhere i was doing the right thing that made us LDS folks not seem so bad..

he then continued to talk about us members.

the good and the bad.

he worried that some of us have become so wealthy and rich in knowledge that we begin to believe that we no longer need any help from a higher power.

wrong. we do not have all the answers.

we will always need our Heavenly Father.

this earthly experience is one we chose to have, and one Heavenly Father allowed us to have.

 he then said; "we are not physical beings having spiritual experiences, we are spiritual beings having human experiences."

next he stressed about gaining our own testimony of the Book of Mormon.

many of us still rely on the testimony of our parents, siblings, friends, and/or mentors.

and many of us still doubt in our own religion. 

he then told us: "faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind. for one will outpower the other."

now you bes believe this girl knows that for a fact.

i never started to TRULY know how amazing and true this gospel is until a few months ago.

and it's crazy how quickly it'll change your life.

this time last year i had all my tattoo's planned out.

i knew exactly what i wanted to get, and where i wanted it.

i had my plan of moving to california on lock down.

i would save all my pennies, buy the nicest camera i could find, take pictures during the week, and sell them at farmers markets on the weekends.

oh, and i would do all of this while living out of my car that i didn't have.

talk about the american dream.

i had no idea what i was doing. i doubted everything i had been taught.

i was slowly allowing doubt to overpower my faith.

in his powerful voice full of authority he then said; "when you choose to follow Jesus Christ you choose to change."

now can i get an amen?

i am so thankful for a living Prophet.

and i am oh so grateful for opportunities like these when i have the chance to hear him straight deliver.

he ended with this quote...

"you are more than what you have become. remember who you are. you are my son and the one true king. remember..."