I can't cook

So I have learned in my marriage that I am not very good at some things. Cleaning, keeping up on laundry, being patient, and yes.. cooking. You know ... all of the things that make you a fantastic housewife.
Maybe by cooking I mostly mean baking. Like cookies - they are either paper thin/flat, or waaaay to fluffy... more like muffins. And lets just forget all about rolls or any type of bread altogether, they just turn out really heavy and not fluffy at all... except pizza dough which always turns out really fluffy... even when its not supposed to.
It has been really discouraging to me to not be able to do some of these simple things, but my goal as of late is to practice until i get good at it.
Most of the other stuff, I can blame on laziness, and I know that its not a good habit. So I am repenting and learning to become a better housewife, so that I can be a great mom someday. ( and no this is not me hinting that i am pregnant... cause i am so NOT pregnant.)
so this i promise you... blog people.

• I am going to cook dinner most nights, and most everything will be made from scratch
• I am going to do the laundry 3 times a week at the very least!
• I am going to be more patient with my adorable hubby who likes to annoy people just for fun (which mostly just ends up being me as we're around each other almost 24/7; you see where I'm going with this right? I'm not perfect and he doesn't help, so please don't blame me for not always being able to live up to this.)
• I am going to work harder at keeping my house clean, so that when my visiting teachers ask to come over I don't have to say "Can you come next week? My house is embarrassing"

So we'll see if this actually works out or not. I am however asking you to help keep me an honest woman. I will try and make a weekly update on how this is all going.

Also as long as I am here I might as well let you know how my Personal Progress thing is going.
I know I posted a blog about what I learned about Faith but along with that experience is that you make a habit of daily prayers for 3 weeks. I am having a really hard time with this. My goal is to remember to pray when I wake up and before I go to bed. and I'm really good most of the time with the Nighttime prayers. Its the morning ones.
My first thought when I wake up are as follows: What time is it, and is the bathroom open. After that morning prayers are long forgotten. I am hoping that by taking it slow and by keeping track in my journal I will get better at this. Also the other part of said goal is that after a week of 100% morning and evening prayers I can add a couples prayer with my husband. We were really good at this for a while but have fallen into bad habits all around. I really feel that couples prayer is SO important. After all, we covenanted with each other AND God when we were sealed. Should he not be involved then?


Other news in the life of our little Sovine house: we are looking forward to summer vacations and warm weather, assuming, of course, that warm weather is in the forecast eventually. All of this rain and stormy weather is getting me a little depressed, I won't lie.
Lake Powell is coming up soon, though, and we have been told that it will be hot. SO excited for that. AJ and I both plan to take it easy this year and just enjoy the down time, as opposed to going crazy on the wave runners and such.
I am also looking forward to our trip to Nebraska to visit some friends of AJ's that he met on his mission. We will also be going to a Brad Paisley concert while we are there, which we committed to right before they announced that said artist would be starring at the Stadium of Fire this year.
Also I am really, really, really excited to go to Yellowstone later this summer with Jake and Amanda Zufelt. We have been granted use of one of Amanda's grandma's time shares there. Yellowstone was one of my favorite vacations when I was little and I'm very excited to repeat.

This I will promise all of you as far as vacations: PICTURES, PICTURES, PICTURES.
I am terrible at this I know, so I will be better, and you WILL get pictures.