This is Our Life

This is a time of year, when there are a lot of "new" things going on. A lot of people want to start fresh, wether that be in new relationships or their careers. I ALWAYS think of new goals that I want to achieve on New Years...or around the end of each year. I'm embarassed to say that I very rarely ever follow through with the goals that I have set. So, I ask myself why...why can I NOT achieve these goals? So because of frustration( and a little bit of bordom :) I looked up some information on goal setting. I found this little bit that I found when I googled "what is a goal" : "Long term achievements rely on short-term achievements. Emotional control over the small moments of the single day makes a big difference in the long term. One formula for achievement reads A= I*M[citation needed] where A = achievement, I = intelligence, and M = motivation. When motivation equals zero, achievement always equals zero, no matter the degree of intelligence. Simil...

I love Christmas Time. I love the music, I love the lights, the cozy feelings, and I am so thankful that I have the opportunity to celebrate the birth of our Savior. So thankful that I have family and friends to be with, to laugh with, to love with. I am so thankful for the bounty that my Heavenly Father has blessed me with. For a roof over my head, for food in my fridge and for the clothes on my back. I am so thankful for my husband, who I consider to be my greatest gift. I will be eternally thankful to my Heavenly Father for leading me to him. I'm thankful for the good man that he is. I'm thankful that I get to spend eternity with him. And lastely but most imporantly. I am thankful for my Savior. I'm thankful for His birth. I'm thankful for the example that He has set for me. I'm thankful to my Heavenly Father for sending Him to this earth. I'm thankful for His teachings, for His love, and for His sacrifice. I'm thankful for my life, and that I ...

My mom is great. Infact, she's the BESTEST Mom in the world! Later this afternoon, she came over and helped me to decorate my house...for...Christmas. Yes, you heard me right....CHRISTMAS! I love Christmas, it's my favorite time of the year. I love the lights, I love the smells and I love all of the decorations. My mom is so talented when it comes to decorating the Christmas Tree, so she helped me out. It turned out so beautiful. I'll post some pics. tomorrow. The atmosphere is so much more cozy now, and it's wonderful. I just love it! My mom has had her tree up for the last 1 1/2 weeks...it's so GREAT! It's beginning to look at lot like Christmas..... night all

The boys So last night...I met the backstreet boys! YES..you're probably FREAKING OUT right now, thinking that I'm FREAKTING OUT right now! But....you can STOP freaking out because it was just a dream! *sigh* It was TOTALLY realistic, and let me tell you I did NOT WANT TO WAKE UP!!! That's life right?! Maybe ONE DAY my dream will actually COME TRUE! *keeping fingers crossed* laterz!

So today I was looking through one of my Missionary Binders. I found a paper that we made up called " The Attitude of Gratitude". We would post this paper on our wall, and then each day write something funny or memorable. I have copies of the ones that we made. I cannot stop myself from laughing my HEAD OFF while reading them. One of my favorite ones that we wrote was when my companion at the time(Sister Hart) said to Elder Johnson while we were watching General Conference together " It's just a gobstopper Elder Jonnson, not an olypic sport". That was so funny! I'm sure most of you are like "what a weirdo", but it's times like that that I want to remember. SO, I've posted one in our kitchen on our cork board, and Richard and I are goin to start using it. You can write something funny, something that you're grateful for or whatever you like. The point is you're looking at the positive throughout the day, instead of focusing...

This past Wednesday night for Young Womens, we made a super cute Tin Magnet Board These girls did a GREAT job!! Here's the one that I made. I just put glue dots onto some magnets and attatched them to some cute buttons. Here's a super cute pic. of my niece Ryan. Ryan and Mady. So cute!! All in all, it's been a nice weekend. Now I'm going to go and get some cards made. I've been REALLY slacking this year with birthday cards...sorry! Better late than never right?!

WOW...I haven't blogged in a while. I usually start most of my posts this way, don't I ?! Well, I wanted to post today mainly because something really inspiring happened to me yest, but first, let me back up and give you some background on the situation. I work for Truehope Nutritional Support. I work with people on the phones every day, encouraging them, and helping individuals with the struggles they may be having. We work with an amazing product called EMPowerplus. This product is a natural product, that pretty much takes the place of antidepressants, psychotropic meds. I work with people helping them to come off of those medications, and cross taper to the EMPowerplus. As a lot of you may already know, this can be a very challenging journey, especially when one is faced with depression, anxiety, bi-polar, etc. So, I work with individuals encouraging them to continue on the journey, and reminding them how just AWESOME they are, because THEY ARE! These people have so ...

So, I just wanted to upload a few pics. from Jacksons(my nephew) birthday party we had yest. He is such a little stud! He's so shy, but SO NOT! The family and here's Jackson, the b-day boy! It was a fun b-day party:)

Well...it's been a really odd summer! The weather this summer has kinda stunk unfortunately. Normally I wouldn't mind it not being so hot, but because we have a pool....having colder weather is kind of a let down. But, we make the best of what we've got! Richard and I were on holidays at the beginning of this month, which was REALLY nice! We didn't do a whole lot. Because of money, we wen't camping...in our backyard! It sounds super dorky I KNOW, but it was actually A LOT of FUN! Here's our Lovely Tent! We had a lot of fun on Aug. 4, going to Calaway park with the entire family!! Calaway Park is an amusement park in outside of Calgary. It has more rides for children, but it was still a lot of fun! It was a really nice day out! I was actually REALLY impressed with all of the little kids, because they went on rides NON-STOP ALL DAY! Mellis with Hayley Adam, Mir and Richard. Easton and Jacks are in the front...the rest of the kids are in the back. It was a...

Well, as usual I've waited a long time to post something. Nothing really new or exciting has gone on, so I use that as an excuse I suppose. OF COURSE it's not a good excuse, but I use it as one none the less. Yest., was Magrath Days, and it was super fun! The parade was great. We sat with my parents and the Towells. After that, we had a nice lunch at my parents house, where everyone in the fam. was their. I was able to participate in something really fun in the afternoon. Back in November, 2008 our young womens class did a time capsule where we wrote letters to ourselves. Our teach at that time, also made a video of us during one of our activities. I must say, I was SUCH A DORK! But if that's the worst thing I can say, then I'm doing pretty good right?! Anyway, it was fun to read the words that I hoped for myself. Unfortunately, I didn't say much. But there were a few things that I did say, like : always treat others kindly, always love my family and sta...

Ok, so I only have a minute because I NEED to go to bed! Today in Church one of the speakers was of course speaking about her father. She told a story about how one day...she noticed a "poster" on one of the walls in her home. She didn't know how it got their, or how long it had been their...but the poster stated "Family comes First...if I forget Remind me! Doncha love that? I sure do! Happy Fathers day! Night!

Ok...so Richard got a new job and his hours are from 1:00pm-really late!(last nite he was home at midnight and 2nite he's still not home yet). It's seriously been TWO NITES...yet I miss him LIKE CRAZY! *I miss coming home from work and being greated with a kiss. *I miss cooking/cleaning in the kitchen together....stealing a kiss here and their *I miss sitting and hanging out cuddled on the couch together *I miss just sitting around talking about absolutely nothing-but that nothing made some great conversations *I miss being able to hold his hand *I miss just being with him Ok, of course there's much more that I miss, but I'm doing my best to keep busy! Let's just say that over these next few months my home is going to be spick and span! On a lighter note, I wanted to upload a few pics/videos from the last little while, while we've had Ione, Jenny and Anea with us: Here's a video of Anea wearing her curlers...getting ready for bed. Is she so not so adorabl...

So, here we are. It's a few months since my last post, and lots of things have happened since then. We've had Jenny and Anea(sister in-law and niece) with us for about 3 weeks, and now have Ione (Richards mom) with us. We've had a pretty crummy "spring/summer" so far...because we've only had a few days of decent weather. One of my best friends Mary Ann...is getting Married July 16. I SOOOOO wish I could be their, but I'm so happy for her...LOVE YA! Back in January, we started the "biggest loser" at work. It finished in at the end of April. Both myself and another co-worker and I tied. We both lost 23 pounds. That was pretty exciting. We started up again at the beginning of May and will go for another 4 months to do another biggest loser. We'll see how that pans out. One thing I do have to mention, is how thankful I am for such a good husband. I seriously just love him to pieces. There isn't a man in this world that I would rathe...

So here I am, feeling like a bawl baby. I can't STOP worrying and thinking about Wednesday. Of course the most important thing is to be with Richard, and as long as we're together then everything in my life should be content. Of course, I sit here and like most of us, I tend to think and focus on the negative instead of the positive. We've worked so hard for the past 6 years trying to accomplish so many things to do with his permanent residents, and now that the time has come where we get an answer, it feels like my whole world is coming crashing down. I have so much fear in me, that it's making me physically and emotionally exhausted. I don't know how to stop myself from FREAKING OUT...but I have to try, or else I will make myself go INSANE! All I know is that Richard is the love of my life, and nothing, I mean NOTHING will keep us apart. I know that we were meant to be together, and from that we will continue to be together no matter where on this earth th...

So...It's been a little while since the last time that I've written a post. Nothing TOO exciting has gone on lately. But a few thoughts have crossed my mind lately that I wanted to write about today. First being my job....I LOVE IT! I mean sure, every job has it quirks, but overall I feel really blessed. I absolutely, positively love helping/serving others. I feel so enriched after I hang up the phone knowing that I've helped someone in some way. If you're wondering what I do for work...I work at Truehope. It's a company that sells natural supplements, for mainly people that have mental disorders. We help people come off of their medications that they've been taking for many reasons, for exampe: Bi-Polar, Schizophrenia, Depression, ADD, ADHD, Anxiety...the list goes on. I work as a support person. Anyhow, these individuals in my eyes are very strong, couragous people. I have so much respect for them. I love that I have/get to be someone that can ma...

So...this is a kind of boring, random, and VERY QUICK post...but I will post more later. I just wanted to update my background...! It's kinda silly, but it's for my hubby. So here you go Richard, love you lots!

So two Fridays ago, Jer, Jenny and Anea came up. Jer stayed the for a day and a half, and then Jenny and Anea stayed until two days ago. It was so much fun having them here! It was nice hanging with the girls. I must say though, it was so hard to see them go. It didn't really hit me that they were gone until Monday mid-afternoon...when I started to get a really achy feeling in my stomach :( It was sad coming home on Monday after work, because I knew they were gone. Of course as I was sitting on the couch Monday night, watching tv I got all so randomally aland started bawling like a baby! I sure miss those too! Anyhow, life goes on right? I need to buck up and suck it up! So...onto some HAPPY AND EXCITING NEWS...! Yesterday we got a letter in the mail from Canadian Immigration. Richard has an interview on March 31st. This of course is just a formality, but it's one of the last steps in this whole process. We are so totally excited, but also SICK TO OUR STOMACHS bec...

Ok, so a totally random posting tonight. Last night I had a strange, but kewl dream. I woke up this morning to it. I was sitting, in an airport on a bench waiting for Richard to come and meet up with me. He was in some store( I have NO CLUE what the store was, or what he was doing in it ). All of a sudden Ellen, yes I mean Ellen Degeneres, was sitting right next to me. I started telling her about how we have been working on Richards paperwork for nearly SIX YEARS. It was really odd because as we sat their, watching people passing by us(a lot of those "people" were other celebrities) she tells me that she's going to pay off all of our debt, and "take care" of his permanent resident status! After she told me this, Richard walked out of the store he was in and walked towards us...and then....I WOKE UP!!! Oh, how wonderful life would be if it could be as easy as something in our dreams! But as I sit here and think about it...I am living my dream, so YAH me!...

Well, we had Jer, Jenny and Anea came up on Friday afternoon. We had so much fun on Friday night, laughing SO MUCH! We watched some CRAZY videos, ate some yummy food and just had a blast. On Sat. we got up early had relaxed most of the morning. I had planned on making a nice breakfast, but then we got a thankfully unexpected call from a member in our ward who had offered to help us move our piano to our house(we have been renting a storage unit for the past 6 months and blowing $105.00 doing so and we really just cannot justify it anymore). So, after collecting a few other cheerful volunteers, we got my 100 year old piano over here. Then we made some delicous breakfast burritos and went into Lethbridge to do some shopping! It was nice to get out with them. We then came home, bbqd some dinner and watched a movie. By the time that was over, it was ALREADY 10:30 and time for bed. Jer left this morning at 7:00:( and after hanging out for the morning and going to church...BAM the...

So this weekend has been very laid back, which has been nice. Richard and I went to the late show on Friday night to see Avatar. I think the story line behind it was really neat. It had WAy too much swearing! Why, oh why do these movie makers feel the NEED to put so much swearing in movies?? The graphics, in my opinion, phenominal!!! The love story in the movie was BEAUTIFUL ! I really loved how they would look at eachother, how they said to each other "I see you". It's just so deep, lol. Maybe you think I'm a dork for thinking these things, but I DON'T care. Hopefully they'll come out with a "cleanflix" version of the movie( keeping my fingers crossed ). So then we really did nothing yest. but relax and chill at home. Got some housework done, and started to get things ready for this coming weekend(Fred, Jer, Jenny and Anae are coming up from Idaho).We're SO EXCITED ! Fred and Jer are staying only for the weekend( wish it was longer ...

Wow, so I totally meant to blog yest. but Sundays are always super busy, especially considering that we have church at 1:00. It makes the day just fly by. I also had to speak in Sacrament Meeting yesterday, so that was another distraction, which by the way I'm thankful for is over with. Anyhow, I just wanted to publicly tell the world how much I LOVE and CHERISH my husband. It's hard for me to say certain things to him because I get so emotional, but I'm going to try and say them now! So bear with me. I know, without a doubt that we were meant to be together. If so many things hadn't have happened to me or him for that matter we wouldn't be together today. Richard is the best gift I could have received from my Father in Heaven. As long as I'm with him, my life is content. Whenever he walks into a room, and even just smiles at me my heart melts and my knees wabble...like I could fall at any moment. Just the site of this man, makes me want to giggle(don...

For so long music has been such a big part of my life. I love listening to the stories found in lyrics. The way the words flow to the sounds of the melodies. I love the way hearing a sweet love song makes me feel, and how reved up I can get to a song that has a good beat. For as long as I can remember, one of my most favorite things to do growing up, and even until this day has been to just go my bedroom and lie on my bed and just listen to music. DORKY RIGHT?! I know it is, but I really DON'T CARE! So...one of my goals this year is to smarten up and put my talents/passion to good use. I want to start teaching piano again, and finsih writing some of the songs that I have totally put off...for what seems like FOREVER! One of my new favorite songs is sung by Jennifer Paige and Nick Carter...called Beautiful Lie...so I thought considering the theme of my post, to put the lyrics on here...and I've also uploaded the song to play when you first come to the page...so here ya ...

Well...welcome to 2010! I'm really excited for a new year. It's a great one so far! We started a little "game" if you will, our own version of the Biggest Loser at work. There's a lot of people that want to loose weight and get healthier, me being one of those people. Besides the Jackpot Prize(everyone put in $40.00), the greatest thing will be to just feel good about myself again. So...we started this past Monday, and I have to say I've been kicking butt! I've been eating super healthy and have been exercising too. It's amazing how good your body can feel, and how much extra energy you can have because of eating properly and working out. Like tonight...for example. What would have been a usual night to sit back and watch tv...I um...I guess I started doing that by watching one of my soaps from earlier...BUT I after that worked out..doing our Biggest Loser Wii game. After that had dinner and that is where I'd normally be done for the night...