Almost five years ago!!! WOW

Yay Spring

Spring has sprung OH YEAH!!! Today is beautiful. Not only is it Friday, its payday and the last day of work before spring break . It's so warm I cleaned out the flowerbed with only short sleeves....... :) March Madness is in full swing there are even some teams in Boise this weekend!
GO WHOEVER AARON PICKED TO WIN!!!!!!!!!!! YAY TEAM Oh, I've meant to post this before just F Y I Coryn has changed his name to Diego! Kayla our "roomie" has informed us she will be moving out on the 27th. She is excited to become a "real grown up" I have enjoyed having her around, although I really never see her!!! Caitlin I don't know if you ever look at this blog but if you do check out song #6 on the playlist..... remember that song?? AH memories

Playlist Correction

Just thought I would clarify that the song Bellas Lullaby really isn't! This is the song they were going to use in the movie Twilight, but didn't. It's called A River Flows Through You and its by Yiruma. A lot of the mutual kids have been playing it on the piano lately and it really is beautiful. I am going to try and find an "easy piano" version. Just F Y I

The past week

Last Friday, the 20th, Aaron and I were watching a movie when someone rang our doorbell, it was about 9:30 at night. We thought "what the?" when Aaron answered the door I couldn't hear him talking to anyone so I though it was a ring and run but when I turned around he was looking at something. there was a bird in a cage on our doorstep! It took him a minute to realize it was "Priddy" then I hear him say where are you guys? Jared and Natalie were hiding beside the porch and they pop up "surprise" they were in town for the weekend! Jared was working the store so Sharlene the work horse could have a day off. They were also looking for possible houses to rent and places for Natalie to open a Pilate's studio!! Now for those of you who have been waitin for them to move back to town don't go gettin to excited ( I channeled my inner cowboy for that sentence !) They are still in the "we can't decide what to do phase" but it looks like they are thinking seriously about coming back home. YAY it was a fun weekend of running around and running around and running around. I bought a book shelf on that weekend and its still at the store as of this weekend!! Aaron and I went to pick it up Sat. but it wouldn't fit in the van boo hopefully I will have it home on Tuesday. Nita and I went thrift storing after work on Friday (the 27th) and I found some bargains. One was a train that I want to put up under my Christmas tree this year (its never to early to think Christmas, HAHA ) We set it up and today I turned it on while the cats were in the area! That was funny!! Poor kitties, they are so skittish. On Sat. Cindy Pond stopped by for a visit. We haven't talked in what seems like forever! Thanks for stopping Cindy, it was great to see you. Aaron starts a knew schedule at work tomorrow 5 days a week 8 hours a day. We'll see how it goes. I think he's looking forward to getting off at a decent hour. It should work great especially after next week when we start daylight savings. Have a great week!

Sundays are a funny thing

Sunday March 1st. I love the talk by F. Enzio Busche titled Unleashing the Dormant Spirit. I read it a lot during sacrament. The two things that stood out to me today were. "In your life there have to be challenges. They will either bring you closer to God and therefore make you stronger, or they can destroy you. But YOU make the decision of which road you take." and "First and foremost you are a spirit child of God. If you neglect to feed your spirit, you will reap unhappiness. Don't permit anything to detract you from this awareness." I have had some real struggles in the past few years. I was pretty lost and made quite a few mistakes. But what I never stopped doing was going to church. I don't know why except that that is what we have done on Sundays for years... I cried, I questioned, I rebelled, I prayed because sometimes it was the only thing I knew to do. One Sunday I was asked to talk in sacrament. I prepared my talk wondering if I really should be the person to give it given my current bad attitude but I prepared and gave a talk on faith. Now usually after you give a talk people are nice and they tell you they like it (but I always kinda thought it was because they were secretly happy it wasn't them that had to talk :)) but I got lots of feed back this Sunday. A few days later I received a note in the mail from a mother in our ward. She shared with me how my talk had affected her son who just happened to visit our ward that day. She shared her testimony and thanked me for sharing what her son needed to hear that day. I realized that I too could be a tool in the Lords hands and it began to change my perspective. I now see that the Lord was aware of me and my struggles and provided a way for me to learn what I needed to lean. Since then I have begun to find the peace and happiness that I know living the gospel can bring into our lives. Our testimonies truly are a roller coaster, sometimes up and sometimes down. I still make mistakes, some have been BIG I am not perfect nor will I be in this life, but I can try again and again to get it right. That's the gospel of Jesus Christ. I know I am a child of God , that He loves me and I know what I need to do to find happiness in this life. It's my choice, I can't blame it on anyone or anything else. I believed that when I joined this church I was giving my family a great gift that would benefit them for a life time and beyond. I still believe that. We are a forever family and that's means more to me than they might ever know.

The goings on

Well Hello,

It's been a little while hasn't it. First and foremost Aaron was gone for two weeks on the final leg of the torch run for special olympics. From what I can tell this was a fantastic experience for him. He loved the "job", he loved the people he met, he loved the athletes! WOW thats a lota love. Someone told him they hadn't seen him stop smiling the whole time!! Who out there knows my husband? You know that this is something special. I believe only his family could make him smile that much. He is even going and try to get on the "board." This might become a new passion. Well now thats an empty nest moment for ya :) For my part of this -two weeks is as long as I have ever been on my own in my whole life!! Just between you and me I LOVED IT but its nice to have my hubby back home, yes really. One weekend our son in law Jared was in town. We had a great time. We went and saw the movie Slumdog Millionaire. We both liked it. I like how it showed that you don't have to be a product of your envirnment. It's all about the choices we make. The next night it was dinner and shopping! Almost more fun than going out with my girls, almost :) Anyhoo where was Natalie you ask? (See the " just the facts " post from below) now you know..... Tomorrow its back to work after a four day weekend and I just had two of the four of us in the kitchen call in sick.........YAY thats gonna be a good day

My Monday Creed

Embrace this day with an enthusiastic welcome, no matter how it looks. The covenant with God to which you are true enables you to become enlightened by him, and nothing is impossible for you. I like the last part. I wonder how long it takes before we have progressed enough to realize that??? I have a car and garage door again!! Yay !! Not that I don't appreciate the van, I do. I am so glad it is still running. Elaine and I went and saw the movie New in Town on Friday night. It was cute. I enjoyed the chemistry between Rene Zellewiger(sp?) and Harry Connick Jr. Finally recovered my chairs! Woot The fabric is awesome. If I knew how to take a picture and post it I would. I guess that should be my next blog lesson. Ok gotta run. PS I WILL GO TO THE GYM TODAY :) I wonder if any of my many followers will hold me to that? TEHE And last but not least. Why Arizona Cardinals why?? :(