Fall

Today I am grateful for the amazing fall weather we have been having lately!  I know it's suppose to end this week so I'm enjoying it while it lasts!  I wore flip flops today!  I feel like usually we go straight from summer to winter so the last few weeks of warmer weather have been great and I've loved every minute of it!

Kids

I absolutely love children!  I am so glad I got into a profession where I am surrounded by them all day!  They make life fun!  I love the things that they say!  The kids in my class are always making me laugh!  Yesterday I substituted in primary which was a blast!  Then there is my adorable niece and nephews!  They can always bring a smile to my face!  I cant wait for the day when I have children of my own!

Sundays

Today I am so grateful for Sundays and the opportunity to go to church every week.  We are so lucky to live so close to churches so we can go learn and come closer to our Savior.  We are so blessed to have the sacrament, so we can renew our baptismal covenants with our Heavenly Father!  

Couple friends

In the last week we got to hang out with 3 awesome couples.  On Friday we hung out with Emily and Mike which was lots of fun. Saturday Jose got to spend the afternoon hanging out with his best friend Parker and his wife Holly while I was at work then Sunday they came back over and we had breakfast with them and spent a few hours talking and laughing.  Then last night Jessica and Josh came over and we played some games.  I'm grateful that we have such great couple friends we can spend our weekends with!

Fridays!

I am so grateful for Fridays!  They are my day off from the school, so that might sound silly since just yesterday I said how much I love my job, which I real do!  It's just so nice to have Fridays off.  I get so much accomplished it's a great way to start off the weekend!  Then once four hits I get my husband home and I get to spend the rest of the weekend with him!  I love it!  Yay for Fridays!

November

As some of you might know I like to blog every day in November about something that I am grateful for, so we'll see how it goes this year.  Today I am grateful for my job.  I am so lucky to work at such a great place!  I absolutely love it!  I can't believe how fast the work day goes there. I start the day and before I know it it's already over.  I wake up on Monday and blink and the week is over.  I am so grateful that I pushed through those 4 years of school so I could be where I am at today.  But I never would've been able to make it through college without my sweetie by my side cheering me on, he's the best!

Tender Mercies

Isn't it amazing how the Lord knows what we need when we need it?!?!  I love it!!!  Last week was such an amazing week!!! It started off rough.  I was having a hard time with some students at school and getting extremely discouraged.  I was on the verge of tears as my 4th graders were leaving the computer lab, but then came in my adorable kindergartners.  These kids are just the cutest things EVER!!!  One little girl walks in, looks at me and says "You're cute!" and then her friend behind her looks at me and says the same thing.  I know those were just 2 little words from 2 little girls but that made me suck up those tears and go on with my day!  That to me was a tender mercy from my Heavenly Father, telling me, don't give up!  Then I got to come home to my sweet husband who always knows what to say to make me feel better!  He is the best!  He puts up with a lot from me but he is just oh so good to me!
The next day as I'm getting out of my car and walking into school the first student I see says "Hi Mrs. Matos! You look really pretty today!" Talk about starting off the day great!  That day finished off amazing too!  We had a huge blessing come our way!  A long story short, there were some things stopping me from getting my diploma and that night everything got taken care of so any day now I should be getting it in the mail! I can't wait!
On Friday we got to go to my cousin Brian's wedding in the Salt Lake Temple!  I love going to weddings there because that means we get to go back to the place where we were sealed!  It was a beautiful ceremony!  Those always make me so happy!  I love weddings!
So I went from starting off my week ready to just give up and by the end the Lord had sent me so many blessing that I realized just how silly I was being!  I have so much to be grateful for and I am just so glad that my Heavenly Father knows me so well and knows how to help me when I'm feeling down.  I am so blessed!