Laughter

I got a text tonight from a friend. This is what I read:

"r u outside? i can hear lovely laughter and thought u might be near."

He doesn't know it but it pretty much made my night.

Laughter is so healing.

I love to laugh. It makes me feel so warm inside!

"Courtney, it's not that funny." Is something I hear often.

But I don't care. Laughing makes me feel safe. And I love it.

Justin Hackworth told me I have an infections laugh. I was beaming!

A girl in my ward told me she laughs when I laugh.

If I can make people happy by laughing then it's just the icing on the cake.

A couple of my favorite quotes are from Audrey Hepburn and Sister Hinkcley. Check them out to the right. It is definitely the thing I like most. And crying does give me a headache!

I think Lord knew I would need to laugh a lot, so he gave me the ability to find laughter in lots of places. I am so grateful! It's one of my favorite things about me-that I laugh easily.

I hope you find some time to laugh today.

Enjoy this picture of me laughing with Mr. Hackworth!

30 Strangers

As promised, here is my story about my awesome time with Justin Hackworth.

It all started when I was reading cjane one day.

She had a link to Justin's blog to enter to be a part of his 30 Strangers with Justin Hackworth project. You enter. He picks 30 people. Takes a picture of you and your mom, grandma, or daughter. He gives you one free print. You give a donation to the Women's Center. Pretty cool right?

I thought "Hey I've seen some of his pictures before and I really like them. This would be so fun with my mom and grandma. I'm going to enter!"

Well. I won!

And on Monday we had our session with Justin. Let's just say he's awesome! Really it was so much fun. More fun than I've had in a long time! I couldn't stop smiling. We were having all sorts of laughs.

I told my mom at one point that I wanted him to be my photographer at my wedding. And then at the end he said "Here Courtney this is for you. Because someday you are going to get married." And hands me a business card about his photography for weddings! He's totally going to be my photographer. I love him!

You can see 4 of the pictures from our session on Justin's blog here. (We are day 19) As he says, it appears that we did not smile at all. But I'm pretty sure he picked the only 4 pictures we weren't smiling in. At one point he had to tell me to stop smiling.

I'm super excited to see all of the pictures on Tuesday!

just the 3 of us, we can make it if we try

I love us!

{kristen, melissa, me}

p.s. i'm not screaming...i'm laughing...go figure

Lesson Learned

I knew it was a bad idea. I did it anyway.

I ended up with water ALL over my bathroom floor. The toilet wouldn't stop overflowing with water. It was bad. And gross.

I laughed hysterically.

I turned the water off.

I called my father. He brought me our wet/dry vacum.

I sucked up all the water.

I then mopped the floor with a high concentration of bleach.

My eyes and throat were kind of burning.

Then I took a shower.

Note to self: Don't use paper towels when you run out of toilet paper.