{unwrapped}

{photo shoot sneak peeks}

It's been a crazy busy week for photo shoots this week and while my clients are busy picking out THEIR favorite shots for me to edit, I thought I would post a few sneak peeks of MY favorites from three different photos shoots....a best friends shoot, an engagement shoot and a prenatal shoot! Good times!!!

What do you get when you combine 4 complete wardrobe changes, an entire bag full of "possible accessories", multiple pairs of shoes and TONS of giggling, silliness, lipgloss and BLING? Four 13-year old teenage girls that refer to themselves as "BESTIES!"

 

 

My goodness..this "best friends" photo shoot that I did this week was by far one of the funnest shoots I have ever done. These girls are the cutest ever!!

 

  

These girls have a crazy difficult task at hand. Out of the 450+ shots I took during this photo session, I think there might be only one or two that isn't a classic. LOL! We even got a shot of the "besties handshake!" LOL! Love it!

They were simply adorable girls and EVERY shot is priceless. So since it might be a while until they can narrow down THEIR faves, I thought I would post a little sneak peek of MY faves from this shoot.

 

So to you four simply gorgeous "Besties," thanks so much for letting me be the photographer to capture your friendship on "film!" You gals are so much fun! Hope you have enjoyed this little sneak peek and I can't WAIT to see which shots YOU guys pick as YOUR faves for me to edit!!! Here's to GIRLFRIENDS!!!

 

And now, on to another great shoot from this week...ENGAGEMENTS!!!

 

In the past 10 years, I have done quite a good variety of photo shoots and although I enjoy every single shoot, there is none that I enjoy more than engagement photos. I think the main reason, is because they require very little posing. LOL! Engaged couples are so in love that I usually just have to get them in the general pose and then say, "OK..you guys just keep being all in love and stuff, and I'll just be here capturing it for a sec." They are so happy and lovey and giggly, that it takes very little effort to get some really fab candid shots. Love that!

 

 

 

Was able to do an engagement shoot with this fun couple, Bryant & Elisha, last week and wanted to post a little sneak peek for them while they are deciding which shots THEY would like edited out of the 450+ shots I took during this session.

 

 

Bryant & Elisha were both so much fun to photograph...and I must say, Elisha is without a doubt, a photographer's DREAM! GoodNIGHT...look at her! She is absolutely STUNNING!!!! What a beautiful couple!

 

Thanks Bryant & Elisha, for giving me the opportunity to be your engagement photographer! What an exciting time for you! Congratulations to you both! I hope that you have enjoyed this little sneak peek and I can't wait to see the pics that YOU choose to have me edit from this shoot!

 

And last, but not least, a fun PRENATAL shoot from this past week...

 

This past week, I had the fun opportunity to do another prenatal shoot.It's been a while since I've done prenatals and they are so much fun. Just finished editing a few sneak peeks for Candace before they choose the ones THEY want edited out to the 550+ great shots I took during this session!

 

 

 

 

And how could we resist this ADORABLE brown oven for a "barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen" shot! LOL! So fun!

 

Candace & Brad, thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to do this photo shoot. What a cute little fam you are and am so thrilled for the soon arrival of your little guy. Candace..you are simply gorgeous and these prenatals will be such a treasure!

 

  

Hope you have enjoyed this sneak peek!!! I can't wait to see the ones you choose for me to edit!

On the personal side, this past week was extremely rough. But as for the business side, it was great to have 3 absolutely crazy awesome photo shoots!! HAPPY HAPPY DAY!

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{sliver of light & roomies}

This week has likely been one of the most difficult of my life. Not necessary to share details, but it IS necessary to share that despite the difficulty, there have still been happy moments and great blessings in the midst of it all. My life is so blessed. Even in the darkest hours, there is always at least a sliver of light. It's just a matter of whether I choose to see that sliver or let the darkness consume me. I will always choose to see that sliver of light. So until I am completely consumed by sunshine again, I've decided to make sure I take time to blog the next few days and focus on those things that brought great happiness this week. My first "sliver of light" is something from TODAY....

11 Years ago, I moved in the basement apartment of the cutest little house on Cherry Lane (not the same Cherry Lane as Puff The Magic Dragon, but just as enchanting.) in Provo while I was attending BYU. I moved into the apartment alone, not knowing anyone, on purpose. I wanted the ultimate college experience of meeting new friends and knew that if you move in with people you already know, sometimes you tend to stick with that group instead of branching out. There were 3 individual rooms in the basement apartment of Liz's grandpa's house (Grandpa Edward Hart, who wrote the lyrics to "Our Savior's Love"...I think of him every time I sing that song. Loved him.) and Liz and her friend Erin were my first roommates there. And I will be honest with you. I was a horrible roommate. I didn't realize this until long after I had been married and grown up a bit. I was the roommate that other roommates dreaded....guys over constantly, blaring LOUD music, getting home at all hours of the night....it was ridiculous. And the more I have thought about it over the years, the worse I have felt about how inconsiderate I was to my roommates. Shame on me.

Fortunately, after 11 years (we actually saw each other 7 years ago, but for about 2 seconds at Liz's cousin's wedding..who was ALSO one of my roomies after Liz graduated and moved away..but that doesn't really count), I had the opportunity to apologize to her in PERSON today at Barnes & Noble in Orem. And happy happy day.....after I apologized, she said, "I don't remember you being that horrible." Oh yay. Thank heavens. We had such a good time today, catching up and laughing about all of the fun memories we have together. Obviously, in addition to dressing in matching shirts in the picture below (not sure what the story is behind that picture....but the tackiness of those shirts AND my pale skin with dark lipstick, are enough to make me just about die laughing...though we are MUCH cuter in the pic above with our friends Jeff & Brett. AND we're wearing different shirts in that pic..which is a good thing. LOL!), Liz and I had such a great time together. Liz taught me a few rounds that we would always sing together, and that I still remember...and WE SANG...today!! For example:

White coral bells
Upon a slender stalk
Lilies of the valley
Deck my garden walk
Oh, don’t you wish
That you could
hear them ring.
That will happen only
when the fairies sing.

and

I had tea with the Duchess last night
And it was just as I thought it would be..
Her rumblings abdominal
Were simply abominable
And everybody thought it was me.

LOL! Good times. We reminisced about me calling to borrow peanut butter from some guy she liked so that she could go and borrow it even though we had like 3 things of peanut butter in the cupboard, playing "TRUE LOVE" (you put your full name and the guy's name next to each other, count how many T's, how many R's, how many U's, etc....to find out what percentage of TRUE LOVE you have..LOL), playing on the teeter totter and playing Twister at Jeff & Brett's house for hours, Liz's INCREDIBLE homemade squash ravioli, and countless, countless hilarious moments with our friend Foxxey (Larry Fox, who was one of our missionaries in Germany and become one of our good friends and the source of UNENDING laughter for me. He was hilarious!!). It was such a nice afternoon and so fun to escape the rather difficult moments I have had this week to those fun and unforgettable college days...just for a little while. What a blast we had!

 

And as you can see in the picture above showing us in 1998 and another one from today, Liz and I have something pretty huge in common. We are both BIG LOSERS!!!! I realized after leaving today, that collectively, Liz and I have lost 150 POUNDS since 2007!!!! Crazy!!! That is so awesome. Liz just hit 70 last month and as of this morning, I am at 83 pounds lost since July of 2007. We had a great time talking about not only our physical transformations, but about the process of losing and how much we have changed in the past 11 years. Gooood good times. A HUGE HUGE accomplishment and it was so great to share that excitement with someone who has done the same thing so recently!! And Liz..if I may say so.....we have just gotten HOTTER with age!!!! YAY US!!!!

Liz, it was so great to see you today. I had such a great time. I am so glad that despite the fact that I truly wasn't the best of roommates to you back then, that you really only remember all of the fun memories we have together. And we sure made a lot of great ones! YAY! I love that we are back in contact and hope that we will remain so and that we don't have to wait another 11 years to see each other! Oh Lizzzzzzzz......I LOVE YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

{spa day with seneca}

I have always loved having my hair washed. It is by far one of the most relaxing things ever. Love it. And I remember, though the times were few, having my hair washed in the kitchen sink and how relaxing and wonderful it was. Even now, my fabulous friend Christy who does my hair here at my house, has me lay on my countertops so she can wash my hair (and do an awesome scalp massage) in the sink. It is a piece of heaven.

A few days ago, Kaden was spending time with a friend and Seneca stayed home with me. I decided that it would be fun to have a spa day. At first, she was a little apprehensive and wasn't sure she wanted the water sprayer that close to her head. However, as you can see in the pics above, she warmed up to the idea and had a lot of fun being pampered.

 

After we washed her hair, I had her sit with her legs in the sink so I could give her a pedicure.  We washed her feet and used a bunch of fun leg scrubs and creams and then lotioned them up with a yummy Vanilla Amber Musk lotion at the end while I massaged her feet and legs. Afterwards, we put her in a little white robe and she looked so shiny and clean and was having a blast. The it was time for nails and toenails...

 

Seneca is hilarious. She can only be be serious for so long and then she just HAS to be silly....she can't resist. So we got one good smiling picture with her nails...and then, well, you can see how the others turned out. LOL!

 

After her pretty pink fingers and toes were dry, I made her a bowl of watermelons balls. My mom used to always used the melon baller and I realized that that is something I have never done for my kids..and it was about time!! Seneca thought it was the coolest thing ever, to have her watermelon in little balls.

 

What a fun day we had!! I love my little Seneca so much. She definitely exhausts us so much of the time, but when we are able to really sit and spend one on one time with her, we are able to truly see her very sweet spirit. I definitely need to do it more often. What a sweetheart and what fun to have a spa day with my precious little girl! I love you Seneca!

{heal the world}

Whether you love him or dislike him as a person, there is no denying that Michael Jackson was and will always be a music legend. My entire childhood, teenagehood and adult life has been accompanied by his record breaking music hits and constant news surrounding his life. And today, with his passing, my heart goes out to him. I have to say that it makes my heart hurt when I think of his life and everything went through. I don't know for a fact that he did or didn't do everything that he was accused of doing. And ya know, to be honest, what a relief that it isn't MY place to judge him...or anyone for that matter. All I know, is that he was completely and literally smothered by the media his entire life and I can't imagine what that does to a person...how it affects who they really are, their good judgement and even their sanity. I have ALWAYS loved Michael Jackson. Always will. There is no denying that his talent was OFF THE CHARTS RIDICULOUS, not to mention TIMELESS! And yes, I too even went through a phase (when he was the absolutely handsome and confident artist in this picture! One of my favorite pictures from a time when Michael Jackson was loved so much by the world..including me! Look at that smile...love it!!) where I was head over heels in LOVE with him and even did my hair to look just like him and to match my Michael Jackson folders and Trapper Keeper. :-) And in the end, after all of the media trash that I believe very literally sucked the life out of this outrageously talented artist, and yes, perhaps even after unwise and some forbidden and unmentionable choices he may have made (heaven forbid he not be perfect!!), I believe that Michael Jackson had a good heart. So much so, that I am shedding tears today at his passing. And in his honor today (because I do believe that he deserves that), I want to share the lyrics of one of my favorite Michael Jackson songs, written and composed by Michael himself. I believe that these lyrics best illustrate the true intentions of this talented, yet troubled, man's heart. Michael...you will be missed!!

"Heal The World"

There's A Place In
Your Heart
And I Know That It Is Love
And This Place Could
Be Much
Brighter Than Tomorrow
And If You Really Try
You'll Find There's No Need
To Cry
In This Place You'll Feel
There's No Hurt Or Sorrow

There Are Ways
To Get There
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
Make A Better Place...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

If You Want To Know Why
There's A Love That
Cannot Lie
Love Is Strong
It Only Cares For
Joyful Giving
If We Try
We Shall See
In This Bliss
We Cannot Feel
Fear Or Dread
We Stop Existing And
Start Living

Then It Feels That Always
Love's Enough For
Us Growing
So Make A Better World
Make A Better World...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

And The Dream We Were
Conceived In
Will Reveal A Joyful Face
And The World We
Once Believed In
Will Shine Again In Grace
Then Why Do We Keep
Strangling Life
Wound This Earth
Crucify Its Soul
Though It's Plain To See
This World Is Heavenly
Be God's Glow

We Could Fly So High
Let Our Spirits Never Die
In My Heart
I Feel You Are All
My Brothers
Create A World With
No Fear
Together We'll Cry
Happy Tears
See The Nations Turn
Their Swords
Into Plowshares

We Could Really Get There
If You Cared Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
To Make A Better Place...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

{what i give a "hoot" about}

GOODNESS...it has definitely been a long time since I posted a Circle Journal Entry, hasn't it!? And the terrible thing is, I haven't posted one, because I haven't DONE one. Things have been so busy and they have apparently been busy for all members of our group (Thank Heavens!), that we are just slightly WAY behind. LOL! BUT..never fear...after a little break due to the craziness of life, I was able to complete an entry for another one of the fun and fabulous journals in our group this week. This journal belongs to my friend Amy and the theme for her 8" x 8" journal is "What I Give a HOOT about!" Love it! Along with designing your pages to share the things that you care about (or give a HOOT about), we were asked to all use OWLS in our designs! Fun stuff!! Here are pics of Amy's Sign-In Tags Pocket & Instruction Page for her journal.

  

It was harder than I thought to find OWLS...and to try and make sure that I didn't use the same owls that everyone else did. I found a few sheets of scrapbook paper with owls and then found this huge pink owl on a school notebook at Target. HAPPLY DAY! So, without further ado, here is my 2 page spread for Amy's fun journal, illustrating what I GIVE A 'HOOT' ABOUT.....

 
 

It was so hard to limit the things that mean so much to me to just a handful of things to spotlight on these pages, but I decided to just pick the things that were at the VERY VERY top of my list and could NOT be left out. Here is a closer look at the things that I GIVE A HOOT ABOUT:

 

Love, Germany, Thunderstorms, Photography, Music, Massage, My Testimony (realized AFTER THE FACT that it was probably a little weird to put that pic of MASSAGE right over the top of The Book of Mormon. Oops...oh well. Funny.), Friends, My Family, Overall Health & Wellness  and Making People Happy.

Circle Journals are likely one of my very favorite "extra-curricular" activities. They are a fabulous creative outlet and also a wonderful means to get us as a group to reflect on topics and themes that  encourage us to dig deep inside of ourselves and learn more about who we are as women. I love that!!!! And this journal was no exception. AMY...such a great theme! LOVED IT! And adding the OWLS theme to it made it extra fun! I am so happy to be getting back to some of the things that I haven't had time for the past few months. Happy, happy day!!!

{blog challenge: ipod shuffle}

A friend of ours told me a while ago that he really likes to listen to his entire ipod library on shuffle to mix things up a bit. SUCH A FUN IDEA!! With my EXTREMELY eclectic music taste, I thought that would be fun to try. It becomes especially interesting when you have books on tape on your ipod as well. LOL! So you may listen to a song and then a chapter of a book and then another song, etc. The key is, you have to listen to whatever comes on next. Since the only books that I have on my ipod right now are inspirational self-help books, this has been a really fun and spontaneous AND inspirationally uplifting thing for me....to listen to my ipod library on shuffle instead of just the playlists I have made. And the cool thing is, you end up hearing songs you haven't heard in ages and have forgotten are even on your ipod. I find myself memorizing my playlists so that I always know what songs are coming up next. THIS WAY, I never know what I am going to get. I may go from Anne Murray to Beastie Boys to Oak Ridge Boys to Michael McLean to Pitbull to ABBA to Bing Crosby Christmas to Dire Straights to Dan Zanes Kid Songs to Neal McCoy to Erasure to Michael Buble to Bar J Wranglers to Dean Martin, etc. etc. You never know what you're going to get. LOVE IT! I love music so much...ALL KINDS..and I love hearing all of the different genres all together. It's a fun way to keep you on your toes and add a little SURPRISE tand SPONTANEITY to our otherwise slightly mundane daily routines! YAY!

So anyway...I thought it would be fun, while I'm editing pics, to document the next RANDOM 40 songs that pop up on my ipod and challenge you to do this on your blog...just for fun! And NO CHEATING....you have to write down the next 20 random shuffle songs that pop up. For this challenge, I am not going to document the book on tape chapters that pop up in this next 40 (mainly because the book that is on my ipod is one that deserves an entire blog entry and not just a brief mention on this list), but will record HOW MANY chapters I listened to in the midst of these 40 songs. :-) So, turn your entire ipod library on shuffle, push play and then push forward and that will be song #1 on your list!! Good times...just for fun!!! HAPPY LISTENING!!! And here are HEATHER'S RANDOM 40 (I have done this over a longer period of time and not all in one sitting...if you want to do it quickly, you can do the next 10 instead of 40) .....

1. "Move If You Wanna" - MIMS
2. "Close Enough To Touch" - Women At The Well
3. "Tall, Tall Trees" - Alan Jackson
4. "Evening at Lafitte's" - Squirrel Nut Zippers
5. "A Little Respect" - Erasure
6. 'When You're Lookin' Like That" - Westlife
7. "I Don't Believe In IF Anymore" - Roger Whittaker
8. "Back Home Again" - John Denver
9. "Short Skirt, Long Jacket" - CAKE
10. "One Last Love Song" - The Beautiful South
11. "I Got A Girl" - Lou Bega
12. "Promise Me" - Jerry Goldsmith ("First Knight" Soundtrack)
13. "Dancing Queen" - Mamma Mia Soundtrack
14. "Voodoo Banjo" - Bonepony
15. "Roamin' Wyomin'" - Randy Travis
16. "Cruisin' Together" - Gwyneth Paltrow & Huey Lewis
17. "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" - John Denver
18. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" - Dean Martin
19. "Espiritu de los Andes" - Espiritu del los Andes
20. "Down The Trail To San Antone" - Bar J Wranglers
21. "Womanizer" - Brittany Spears
22. "Hey Santa!" -Carnie Wilson
23. "Lucky" - Jason Mraz
24. "Right Round" - Flo Rida
25. "Everyday" - The Oak Ridge Boys
26. "Goodbye" - Kristinia DeBarge
27. "Someday He Will Come" - Felicia Sorensen
28. "Waterloo" - ABBA
29. "Shake Your Groove Thing" - Peaches & Herb
30. "Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah" - Barenaked Ladies
31. "Denk an mich" - Anna Maria Kaufman ("Think of Me" - Phantom of the Opera - German)
32. "Let it Snow, Let it Snow" - Michael Buble
33. "Trials Turn To Gold" - PFR
34. "How Do You Do!" - Roxette
35. "Rag Doll" - Aerosmith
36. "Love, Me" - Collin Raye
37. "It's Going To Take Some Time This Time" - The Carpenters
38. "Malti" - Dan Zanes (NOGGIN Kids' Songs)
39. "Fire Burning" - Sean Kingston
40. "Won't Go Home Without You" - Maroon 5

And in the midst of these 40, I listened to 9 chapters of the books I have on my ipod. :-)

LOL..so funny how random the list is when your music taste is as broad as mine is. This was kinda fun..just might have to do it again sometime. :-) Good times!

{welcome, olivia sue}

 

"It is not a slight thing when those
so fresh from God love us."
-Charles Dickens-

Yesterday at 7:28 PM, the Dahlquist family grandkids count went from 10 to 11....5 boys, 6 girls....with the birth of my newest little niece, Olivia Sue Edwards, weighing 7 lbs. 11 oz. and measuring 20 inches long.

 
 

We were all waiting outside the door of my sister Julie's room when little Olivia was born. Dad kept little Charly (my little sister Kristin's little girl...SUCH a cutie!!) entertained by reading her book after book after book (love watching my dad read to the grandkids just like he read to me and my little sister until I was 16) and letting her tickle his forehead. LOL!

 
 

Before we were able to go in and see little Olivia, we were able to chat for a second with our fantastic OB, Dr. Greg Tanner, who has delivered all but MAYBE just 1 or 2 Dahlquist grandbabies and our good family friend Bobbi Jo Wetzel, who has been the NURSE for the majority of the Dahlquist grandbaby births as well. So great for all of us Dahlquist girls to have such a great doctor and nurse who are such good friends of ours, helping with all of our births!! Such a wonderful blessing!!

 

And as it should be, the grandmas were the first to be able to see their new little grandbaby girl. Love these pic of the grandmas first glimpse of Baby Olivia and the second one where Olivia is look right at Grandma Zella...SO PRECIOUS!

 
 

Olivia is so beautiful...absolutely perfect. Can't wait to be able to snuggle her!!! So fun to have another new little baby in the fam. It's been a while. And in the next few weeks, we will be having ANOTHER one, when my little sister Kristin has HER baby...YAY..two new babies in ONE month! Happy daaaaay! Love this picture of Dad showing little Charly the new baby. It was a good warm up for when her new little brother or sister arrives in a few weeks (Kristin and Jordan don't know the gender of their baby...and yes, it's driving me NUTS not knowing!! LOL!).

 

So happy to have another little one in the family and such a wonderful blessing that both she and her Mama are doing so well. CONGRATULATIONS PULSE & BOO...and Welcome, welcome to beautiful little Olivia!!! WE LOVE YOU!

{little brody man photo shoot}

Was fortunate enough to have been asked to do a photo shoot of my good friend Jodi's little man a while ago..and have you EVER in your life seen anything as cute as this little guy? What a crazy awesome way to start a busy season for a photographer!

 

I could NOT get enough of little Brod...he looks like he just stepped out of a Children's Place ad! LOVE IT! He is so cute that I could just munch on his cheeks all day long. This little bud is a photographers's dream!!! LOVE HIM!

 

If you would like to see all of the proofs from this shoot, please feel free to visit the BRODY MAN PHOTO ALBUM on my photo blog, WHITE HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHY. This album will remain on my site until a week from today, Wednesday, June 24th, 2009, at which time, these photos will be sorted into their appropriate categories on my photo blog. 

 

HUGE thanks to Jod & little Brod for letting me capture his CUTENESS on film..and for being so patient waiting for these to be edited! LOVE YOU BOTH!!!

{are you for real?}

There is only one reality show that I follow and as far as I am concerned, it's the best show on TV...So You Think You Can Dance - a show where dancers experienced in ONE particular genre perform PERFECTLY FLAWLESS CRAZY AWESOME NUMBERS in dance genres they have never ever attempted before. It's..WOW..it's just awesome! Catching up on episodes tonight and when I saw this, my jaw LITERALLY HIT THE FLOOR!!! Samba is by FAR my favorite ballroom dance and this GIRL HAS NEVER EVER (NOT EVEN ONCE) DONE ANY BALLROOM DANCE IN HER LIFE!!!! Are you FOR REAL???  RI----DI----CU---LOUS!!! Sick talent.....oh my crud. Hilarious thing is, my response was EXACTLY....EXACTLY the same as the first judge, Adam (you have to watch through the end of the dance to hear his critique, because it is EXACTLY what I was feeling and LOVE how he expresses it!!), who critiques them after this CRAZY CRAZY AWESOME performance! I literally couldn't stop...and still can't stop...saying, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? OH MY GOSH...ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????" Ridiculous. Crazy awesome talent...I don't know what else to say. Forward to the 2:00 mark to go right to the dance. HAD to share....

{very old soul}

It was at the International School of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany (where I attended school from 9th-11th grade) that I was first told by a teacher that I was "an old soul." At the young age of 16, I wasn't quite sure what that even meant. But it would not be the last time I would hear it. Throughout my life, there have been many that have told me the same thing. So tonight, when I happened upon a quiz on Facebook entitled, "How old a soul are you?" it won't surprise you that I was eager to take it...out of simple curiosity. Most of the quizzes on Facebook are just fluff and designed for entertainment. I found it interesting that the questions for this particular quiz were very well thought out and required much more reflection that the other more mindless quizzes. Still, as soon as I read each question and the given multiple choice answers, there was ALWAYS one answer that was a *FOR SURE* answer that fit me perfectly.

As with the other quiz results, I expected a "fluff" result to this test....but was surprised when I saw the long description that accompanied my quiz result of "VERY OLD SOUL."I wasn't even finished reading the first sentence, when my eyes welled up with tears. I realize that this is just an online quiz and I am sure that hundreds of people receive this same result every minute of every day. However, I was overwhelmed with how much EVERY single word of this description so accurately described who I am and what some of my very deepest feelings are. And since it was so beautifully written (another aspect that sets it apart from the other quizzes on FB) and truly touched me, I wanted to share it here on my blog.

Heather completed the quiz "How old a soul are you?"
with the result Very Old Soul.

When the winds of change blow, you sense the outcome ahead of others, having seen so much before. Surprises come in smaller forms to you, as in the unexpected experiences of the senses, deepening your appreciation of the physical. You want life to last so you can explore your mature understanding of existence. You have become patient with the younger souls, understanding their paths and of the challenges they face. You forgive much, often acting as mentor without pushing your beliefs upon others. You give without great expectations of receiving. Love has become the most valued concept in your universe - this life may be your quest to perfect your ability to express and receive perfect love. Thoughts of dying do not fill you with dread, as you understand death is a part of life, and life is a process of becoming... so death is a graduation, not an end. At rest, you feel at one with the universe and are grateful for your current home, Earth. You have a heartfelt affinity for history - the connections to various periods throughout time are undeniable. Very old souls are adept at recognizing other old souls... mutual respect forms naturally between them.