5 blessings for today

1. Jen, who went and got lunch AGAIN today! She is a rockstar.

2. Gummi worms, they have kept me a little bit happier today.

3. Excedrin migrain; COULD NOT have transcribed today without the double dose I took this morning before work.

4. A night off; nowhere to go, nothing to do but be home with my hubby and all the kids. It's been awhile since we've just been HOME.

5. Amber, Ariel, Chandra, Jen and Kristy; thanks for listening to me vent and making me realize there's not a thing wrong with me :D I love you guys!

Have a good weekend, everybody! And remember, it takes two seconds to put someone down, but it's worth the two minutes to build someone up!

Blessings for today

1. My mom and sisters. Thanks for a fabulous girls night! Can't wait to do it again :D I love you guys!

2. My boys. You are such good kids! I love you so much!

3. Excellent medical care. I know, I work for the company, but Intermountain Healthcare is AMAZING, especially IMC and Primary Children's. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking good care of our Kati.

4. Chandra and Bill. You guys aren't just co-workers, you are friends and I appreciate you both so much!

5. Scrapbooks stores. My own guilty pleasure! I went to JoAnn's last night and they were having a great sale (50% off!!!) on DCWV scrap pads (my fav). I bought 3 and I'm completely unapologetic!

Have a good day my friends. I love you!

TEN things for this weekend

I know, I know; I tried to start a new thing and I've totally slacked since Tuesday. So, to make up for it, we'll do 10 blessings for this weekend. We camped, we vegged, we enjoyed. :D

1. The 1/2 of Ten. Thank goodness Gramps was smart enough 28 ( yes 28!) years ago to invest in 5 acres in Holiday Oaks. It's been the best playplace we've ever had.

2. Grams and Gramps, without whom the 1/2 of Ten would be pointless; indeed, without whom I would not be, along with 14 other fabulous people I know.

3. Green bags; I know, I'm turning into a geeky environmentalist, but these bags are GREAT! I use them for everything!

4. My sweet husband, he puts up with so much and just keeps coming back for more! I love you sweetheart!

5. Aunt Niesa; thanks for bringing over my I spy quilt! It turned out fantastic and the kids played with it all weekend long!

6. Dominoes; again cheap entertainment for the masses!

7. My camera; I am a HUGE believer in capturing memories, no matter how strange! Can't wait to see how all my feet pictures turn out after I'm done tweaking them.

8. A DVD player in the van; smartest thing we ever bought! Makes those "long" trips to Nephi bearable!

9. Jake's portable swing; could not have camped without it!

10. My sweet house; it was so great to pull in the driveway and know that we were home :D

Good night my good friends; God bless you all!

A new old thing

Hello friends! Today I felt ambitious and did something I've wanted to do for a while now. I decided it was time to delete my MySpace account. Does this make me a grown-up? Anyways...I never use it, I don't like it, I'm totally addicted to Facebook and I like blogging here better! But, being not quite as tech-tricky-savvy as I'd like to be, I couldn't figure out how to import the MySpace blog into here! Is there a way? Anyway, doesn't matter as I just printed it off and then deleted my account. I read through it and remembered something that I used to do that I'm gonna start doing again. I used to blog about 5 blessings or things I was grateful for about every day or every other day. There were gaps, of course, but reading those old "Blessing Blogs" reminded me that there are lots of little things in my life I'm grateful for every day. And it's not always the big stuff! Sometimes it as simple as comfy shoes, a yummy Slurpee or a great joke. I don't always have the time or inclination to BLOG every day, but I usually have 5 or 10 minutes to jot a quick note. Sooooooo, that's my goal. I'll still blog when I can and want to, but I'm going to try to post a "Blessing Blog" every day.

So for today, I'm grateful for:

1. Amy--who brought me a yummy Slurpee for no reason! It made my whole afternoon.

2. My job-I can never say this too often, but I work with some of the best, nicest, coolest people on this planet and I LOVE MY JOB.

3. Corn on the cob--it's just not summertime without it!

4. T-ball--the best, cheapest entertainment you can ask for.

5. Facebook--I know, some of you are thinking, "blessing? really?" but I adore Facebook. I've been able to reconnect with old friends, keep up with friends and family and turn acquaintances into friends. Never underestimate the positive power of friendship--no matter how far away you are from a friend, being connected through any means can only make things better :D

Good night my friends, sleep well, be safe.

Jake's Blessing Day!

Okay, I know I'm horribly biased, but how cute is that face?!?! We had Jake's blessing today and he was so good all day! He knew it was all about him and he is a little attention hog! All those grandmas and aunts fawning over him?? Forget it! He's 3 months old and already knows how to work the ladies! After church, everybody came over to the house and we had yummy waffles (thanks Mom and Nichole!) and yummy fruit (thanks Grandma Karen!) and ham (thanks Grandma Phyllis!) and everyone got to visit and watch the kids run around and it was so wonderful! My Grandma Ann (Dad's mom) had never been to my house before and so it was nice to show her around and then her, Dad and Marci took the "Memory Lane" tour over past their old houses in Kearns and the little league field where my Dad spent almost all his free time as a young lad. But the most random thing happened in Sacrament! Today our ward was doing a program of music and stories to celebrate our pioneer heritage (which was absolutely wondeful!). They had gathered pioneer stories from people in the ward to share, which I thought was awesome. The very last story told was shared by our friend Brother Steve Bingham and after the meeting ended, Gram asked me to point him out, so I did and she shocked me to my shoes by saying that the story was about one of our relatives! She has a copy of it in her personal history books and Brother Bingham is actually my relative! How and where and why I'm not sure just yet, but how's that for random? But I'm so glad that we chose to bless Jake today so that Grandma Ann was with us, otherwise, I would never have known about this connection in my ward. Isn't it amazing how things work?

It was such a wonderful day! I wish my brother and his fam could've made it, but beyond that, the day was almost perfect! And so ends another busy weekend and begins another busy week.

Have fun and be safe out there my friends! Love to you all!

Let the summer madness begin....

Hello friends! It's Sunday night; July 5th, and I am enjoying the last piece of my 4th of July divinity from the "Country Store." It's been a very eventful week and it's only the beginning.

First, I went back to work on Monday. I was so worried! I knew I would be okay once I got there, but after being away for 9 weeks, it was strange to think about going back. I worried about leaving the baby boys at daycare, especially Hayden. He's already a mommy's boy and being home with my every day for 9 weeks wasn't going to help that! But he did great and now he loves daycare. Jake doesn't really notice a difference, but the ladies at daycare just love him! He's the youngest and they all love to cuddle him and rock him. But the boys did great and once I got to work, I knew it was the right place for me to be. I LOVE MY JOB! It's so wonderful to be back in the land of the grown-ups! I missed everybody so much and I missed working. Things have changed some, but it's going to get better and better. It'll be a busy week at work, but I'm excited for it.

This weekend marked the beginning of what I'll affectionately call "the madness." We went to the carnival in Nephi for 4th of July and it was so fun! Even though it rained and they cancelled the fireworks, we still had a great time hangin' with the Nephi bunch. We got there and my mom asked if Jax could stay with her this week. And I thought, "what a BRILLIANT idea!" Ute Stampede is coming this week and we'll be there Friday night, so it seemed very logical. I think we'll make this a yearly tradition....as long as Grandma and Grandpa are okay with it! Jax LOVES to stay at Grandma's! And then as the boys get older, they can stay too! But after Stampede, we're blessing Jake on July 19th, the next weekend is Pioneer Day and Hayden's birthday. Not sure yet what we're going to do, but I'd like to go camping. I think that might be the only weekend we have to camp. The next weekend is Shane's family reunion, which is August 1st, then the Memphis RedBirds are here to play the Bees and we have tickets for at least one of the games, then it's my work party at Boondocks, Saturday is Salem City days, Saturday night is the Demolition Derby for the Juab county fair and I think that's the end! How crazy is that? Every weekend there's something!

At least I work during the week so that I can rest up........JUST KIDDING BILL!

Good night friends, love to you all!