Desperate Housewife...

Ha! True confession time...sometimes it all comes down to moments like this. We had NO clean cups at all in the house and NO plastic cups, so my poor boys had to drink out of baby bottles! So sad, but true. Now, I saw this picture and wanted to post it to journal my REAL life. Some days, are fabulously fabulous and others, well not so much. Do YOU ever have days like this? If you do, it's OK, and if you don't, then feel blessed and organized. As I sit here and type this, I am sure there are dishes in my sink and laundry to be washed, and yadda yadda yadda, but I wanted to document what some of my days are like. So Laura Lee, when you are a mother and you don't have any cups, or whatever the "crisis" is, it's OK, just hang in there and remember, "this too shall pass"...Life is good!

MUSIC TO MY EARS

Music is amazing. It can make you feel happy, or sad, or bring to mind memories that you haven't thought of for years. My sister Missy constantly had music on in her home and her son Hawkley has his mama Missy's love of music. I am so excited to have this playlist on my blog now. Some of the music is to me, timeless and beautiful, others are nods to days gone by and some are just fun. They will change from time to time and I hope you listen to some of them and enjoy...the arrangement of Somewhere Over the Rainbow is my favorite..have a listen, you'll like it!:)

Special girl!

I love you Margaret!! Thank you for the wonderful drawing
and picture of you! It made me sooooo happy! I can't wait to see you at
Thanksgiving! Love, Aunt Jenny
P.S. You are a very talented artist!

Still 12...

About the blinkies of Twilight and Harry Potter. I love 'em! I am still 12 years old I guess!:) I had fun with Laura getting these on here. I just thought it would be fun....again strong evidence that I am a goofball....and if you've read Harry Potter 7, you HAVE to love Neville Longbottom!! OK, back to my laundry:)

MONDAY THOUGHT...

“I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk’s lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”
~Sister Marjorie Hinckley


My sister in law Maria has this quote on her blog and I love it. I am going to try to have a new thought each Monday to start of the week, because I need a better attitude, I HATE MONDAYS! Here's to new attitudes and letting the Lord know that we really lived and were really here...

FUN ON FOUR WHEELS...

Ray, Trey and I went to the Sand Dunes with Michelle and some friends on Friday the 17th. It was great fun! I tried to be brave, but my definition of "brave riding" is another man's definition of "wuss"...

The weather was a little too warm, but it sure was pretty there. ST. George has never been my first choice of scenery, (I like the mountains of Northern Utah) you'd never know I was raised in Phoenix! The contrast between the red sand and the clear blue sky was amazing. It reminds me of my favorite primary song, "Heavenly Father Loves Me". If you can't remember the words, look it up! I can remember Sister Laura Larson teaching it to us in Primary...

Thanks for taking me Ray and teaching me "some of the ropes" of the Dunes. I am excited to try it again with the kids, even though I ended up crashing and tipping my machine over. It was a pretty easy wreck, just scary. Trey and Ray are great riders and I enjoyed watching them going up "the back of the bowl" as they call it. I liked watching THEM do it, but for now I think I will stick to the trails!;)