Updates!

I have been behind. I just wanted you to know that we have added pictures to the following posts:



Sally Test (from August 30th) (updated 11/23)
Cat Friend or Foe (From 10/23) (updated 11/23)
Sur prises (From Nov. 2009)(4/4/2010)

Also New Posts: Star Wars & Fun Day around the house were moved in front of YW & Ice Skating (old posts), because they were prior!

ICE SKATING!

I hadn't been ice skating for at least 7 years. It was fun. We went with the Young Men too...but they didn't make it into this picture.

Young Women!

A nice fall day and all the girls at church! Perfect for some fall pictures. Do you know who is missing from the group pictures?

Fun day around the house! November 17, 2009

I had a bunch of kids from church over!

Star Wars! -November 6, 2009

We got to become a part of Star Wars at the childrens museum. Then we went and watched "G.I. Joe"

Live Life and Love it.

Life is wonderful. Life is a joy. There are so many things in life to enjoy. We are beings with infinite capacity. Sometimes I have a hard time containing myself.
There are people to get to know, people I wish I had more time to spend with, people I wish I understood better and I know it will take time.
Places I want to see, learn the culture, get to know the people, behold the beauty, understand the history. Although I’ve found there is beauty, happiness, and good people everywhere.
Books that help me understand people. Books that help me understand history. Books that uplift me. Books that make me think.
Music that uplifts me. Music that invigorates me. Music that pumps me up. Music yet to be made. Songs yet to be sung. Learning how to sing and learning how to play the music. Music that brings back memories. Music that will make new memories. Music that makes me happy and music that makes me reflect.
Make a movie, watch a movie, think about what that movie meant or read the book that went with the movie, wonder why they made the movie the way they did. Move you to action movies.
Watch the news, read the news, be the news.
Make a puzzle, figure out a puzzle, don’t make a problem, solve a problem.
Exercise with friends. Exercise to make you happy. Exercise to win. Try to be an Olympic athlete. Try to eat like an Olympic athlete.
Eat good food, try new food, try to make new good food.
Be a better wife. Be a money guru. Learn how to use the stock market.
Look at art, learn about art, live in the artistic beauty of our natural world. Be the art. Sit and think while you’re in the art.
Learn about plants, learn about animals, write about plants, write about animals.
Be smart, be scientific, be amazing.
Life is amazing.

Surprises

Surprises. I love surprises. Good suprises. Little surprises. Like when my husband comes home with his hands behind his back and says “I think you’re really neat” and then gives me flowers. I enjoy hearing from a friend I haven’t heard from for a long time or that Christmas gift you weren’t expecting. My family growing up would try to disguise our Christmas gifts under the tree. We would add extra weight, put gifts in weird shape boxes, or put a note in a fun filled box which didn’t have the real item in it. It was fun.
Not only do I like surprises, I like figuring things out and so it’s often hard to surprise me. I’ve ruined a few good surprises, for example the time when my husband was going to propose to me. I was not expecting him to propose to me after picking me up from my eight day work week at a wilderness camp. It would have been an awesome surprise. Unfortunately I couldn’t get a hold of him before I made arrangements for someone else to take me home ( a 2 hour drive). When I did get a hold of him, I couldn’t understand why he was so upset, because he usually wasn’t like that. Then I figured it out. I wasn’t too surprised a couple days later when he proposed.
I’ve enjoyed quite a few surprises parties . Some for me (one of which I almost ruined because I had to work late) and I’ve thrown lot’s of surprise parties. In fact we had one last night. We threw a surprise party for our bishop (like a pastor). His birthday was on Friday, but there were lots of Halloween events going on. So we invited their family over for dinner and Family Home Evening (family time on monday night that we sometimes invite other families to). After dinner other people just randomly (or not so randomly) started showing up at our house and joining in the fun until we had lots of treats and people in the house. People brought cards and treats. The bishop said “I knew you guys were social and I started thinking…wow do people just randomly start showing up at your house every monday night.” We made him pop some balloons with some get to know you questions. We got to guess what the answers would be and a treat if we guessed right. We sang happy birthday and enjoyed lots of treats. We had a good time and he was surprised. So Surprise someone today with a friendly note. Stopping by their work to say hello or bringing lunch. Or make them a special treat just for fun.

Halloween Pictures!

Can you guess who we are (if you haven't read the previous post). This was my last night of cornrows.