Today is the Best Time of My Life

Seriously. And it’s not because I had a dark chocolate ganache-filled cupcake in the last 24 hours either.  (Of course, that doesn’t hurt.  Until you take body fat measurements using the Bod Pod. Yes, I did that today too. I have fabulous timing. Technically, the cupcake was last night. It managed to stick around for those measurements, I’m telling you.)

A week and a half ago, my fabulous Aunties, my mom, my step-grandmas, Alisha, Jessie and I all got together to party. Going to Time Out for Women was just our excuse to get together. It was great! I only made it to the Saturday session (our JRCLS annual dinner was on Friday night, and since I’m on the board I definitely couldn’t skip), but the first speaker was fabulous. My totally-crafty-very-amazing-aunts made the best journals for us to take notes in, and I was looking through mine today. The quote that jumped out to me was from Mariama Kallon – “Today is the Best Time of My Life.” Because it is.

Just in the past two weeks, I’ve gotten to:

• See the amazingly wonderful aforementioned women that always blow me away with how beautiful, kind and talented they are. They are all so fabulous that I sometimes can’t believe I am lucky enough to be related to them. (And yes, I am related to every single person in that picture.)
• Be a part of the JRCLS Annual Dinner where we had an inspiring talk by Elder Lance B. Wickman, who is the Legal General Counsel for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Sing one of my favorite hymns as a solo in Church. (For a beautiful version of someone singing the same arrangement, go here.)
• Attend the Association for Women Lawyers first “CLE in the City” (a la Sex and the City – of course I wore stilettos!)
• Dance to salsa music. All. Night. Long. (Also wearing stilettos. Naturally.)
• Celebrate Logan’s 23rd Birthday with my family. We all had the best laugh when Cassie realized that Logan and Alisha are the same age for the next two weeks. In order to spare my father the embarrassment, I won’t go into detail about her comments. Let’s just say Cassie is very skilled at math. And way too knowledgeable for my dad’s health. The video’s courtesy of Wade. I take no credit for it.
• Watch Cassie in her very last Primary Program.
• Eat dinner with a girlfriend from elementary school (along with her husband and wonderful six month old!)
• Work. Really, this is one of those wonderful things. I represent some incredible, resilient people, and I feel fortunate to do the work I do.

With all those great things in my life, how can I not agree with Mariama Kallon? Today. IS. the BEST time of my life.