Thankful...

This year I am thankful for so many things, but especially...

• Family, family, family :)


• My husband graduating and getting a job that he loves


• Teenagers... even with all their attitude


• A hubby who isn't afraid to do laundry or whatever else needs doing


• Finally buying our own home


• My parents deciding to stay in Utah after their mission


• Being able to visit my home land for the first time in 17 years, even though it was for a sad occasion


• A fabulous ward with fabulous friends and neighbors


• The Oquirrh Mountain Temple


• Scriptures and Prayers


• Both of us keeping our jobs through a lousy economy


• Trampolines and jacuzzi tubs


• Dinner on the deck


• Filtered water straight from the refrigerator door... mmmmmmm


• Starting a food storage


• Not living paycheck to paycheck


• Living, Laughing & Loving :)

You know you are getting old when...

• Lifting a frozen turkey into your cart seems like a good workout
• People notice when you wear purple eyeliner
• Shaving your legs becomes a once in a while thing
• Your mom shares a video of you as a teen and then proceeds to tell you the video is 21 years old
• You take ibuprofen with your vitamins every day
• Your sink has eye cream, wrinkle serum AND moisturizer on it
• Unless you are wearing make-up, you look like a raccoon
• You have to limit your liquid intake at night
• Bed time is before 10pm
• You consider 7am sleeping in
• Your kids think it is funny that there was no Internet or cell phones when you were their age
• Your daughter begs to text for you because you are too slow
• You are checking the amount of fiber in everything you buy
• Your purse looks like a pharmacy exploded in it
• You buy face powder that has "botafirm" in it
• You have to do your roots every 2 weeks to cover the WHITE
• You can only count three couples in the whole ward that are older than you
• Your birthday seems more of a commiseration rather than a celebration

Sticky Note Saturday...

Thursday Therapy...

I remember being a teenager...
I remember the ups and downs of what I thought love was...
I remember having my heart crushed and thinking life was over...
I remember thinking I would never find love again...

I wish you could see your future...
I wish you could know what it is like to truly fall in love...
I wish you could realize they aren't worth the heartache, that there are others much better for you out there...
I wish you could see how insignificant he will be five years from now...

I hope you will continue to open your heart...
I hope you have a life full of as much love as I have had...
I hope you will look at your true love years from now and remember, that all this heartache didn't matter...
I hope God grants me the lifespan to be there to see it...

The price of being a woman...

Men have it great. A two minute shower, throw on whatever is clean, fingers through the hair and they are out the door. That's it? Seriously?

We women go through WAY too much to try and make ourselves beautiful. We spend about an hour every morning getting ourselves as pretty as we can... shower, body wash, shaving, make up, curlers, straighteners, perfume, six different outfits before we find the one that is "just right" for the day. Then there is the shoes, the purse, our finger nails, toe nails, lotion, jewelry... when does it end???? And heaven forbid we go out anywhere that evening because the morning beautification has been obliterated by then and we have to pretty much start all over. It's madness I tell you!

Does a man ever turn to you and say:

• Does I look fat in this?
• Which pair of shoes looks better with these pants?
• I am having a terrible hair day!
• Dang it, I chipped my nail.
• I can't wear that to church, I wore it last Sunday!

It's bad enough that women go through sooooooo much to try and look prettier, but there is one thing that I seriously question our sanity over. WAXING. Why oh why do we allow ourselves to be put through this dreadful psychotic ritual??? It is torturous! Putting hot wax on our bodies, spreading a cloth over it and RIPPING it off when it starts to dry??? I would like to know who thought of this and what on earth made them think that it was a good idea at the time...

And THAT is what went through my head while I watched my daughter get her eyebrows waxed today at the salon!

Marriage Monday...

Thank you sweetie for:

• Packing me breakfast AND lunch this morning
• Texting me through the day to let me know you were thinking of me
• Fixing the toilet paper holder in the bathroom
• Throwing in a load of laundry
• Going to the store with me even though you just got home from work

I LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURVE YOU :)

Sticky Note Saturday...

Flashback Friday...

December 17th, 2002. I was YW President of the White Oak Ward in Silver Spring, Maryland. (This was the same ward I had lived in since I was 11 years old.) We lived just 20 minutes away from the Washington DC Temple, and so we took the Youth down annually to see the Christmas lights. Talk about Deja vu... I still think about these girls so often and peek in on them on Facebook. :)

Thursday Therapy...

I LOVE this song.. It is a song I can dance around the living room to when I am needing a pick-me-up or BLAST in the car and sing along to when I want to feel happy. Do you have any songs that you use as therapy to lift your spirits???

I just recently saw the video and it is soooooooooooo cute... especially the end. :)

Enough Already...

I am SO sick and TIRED of all the ILLNESS in our HOUSE!!!!!

Flu, stomach bugs, colds, sinus infections, knees, backs, ankles, strep...

I am SO sick and TIRED of buying lysol and gatorade and going to the doctor...

I HAVE HAD ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!

Thanks, just needed to get that off my chest. :)