This is Our Life

Hey All!!! Wow what a month....!  Where has April gone?  It has been such a busy month.  I suppose that's not a horrible thing.   A fellow co-worker has recently motivated me.  She has lost a great deal of weight and looks amazing.  She comes into the office, with much enthusiasm and is excited about food.  Excited that she's in control of what she's eating(at least that's how I see it:).  I have watched her for several months...kind of just wishing that I could loose weight as she has.  Then a few weeks ago something just kind of clicked. ...I CAN loose how she is loosing.  Nothing is stopping me but me right?  Right!   So....2 weeks ago yesterday I started weight watchers.  I have to tell you that I feel liberated.  I know, I know...you're thinking "drama queen much"?  But seriously it's so awesome.  10 days into it(5 days ago) I weighed myself and I've lost 8.5 pounds so far.  I've been eating healthier, but I've also had s

Where has this year gone to already?  It's nearly the end of March, and it feels like it was just Christmas!  I guess it's true what the say....the older you get the faster time goes.  I sure it wish it would slow down. I am thankful for my life.  I am thankful for my beliefs.  I am thankful for the freedom that I have that allows me to live my beliefs.     I am the kind of person who LOVES to set goals.  I can write them down on paper, make them look super pretty and get myself totally pumped up!  I will work on these goals for maybe a week if I'm lucky and then the excitement and motivation is gone.  Earlier this year I mentioned how I had struggled.  It's a miracle that over the past 2 1/2 months how my spirit has changed.  I set some very simple goals for myself.and I've actually stuck to them.  Reading my scriptures is something that has been a struggle most of my life.  The desire is always inside of me, but I just have had no follow through...up u

Have you ever made a wish for something you could only dream of when blowing out your birthday candles?  Have you ever thrown a coin into a wishing well and wished for something you wanted so badly, but never believed it was possible? I love the movie Tangled.  Seriously, one of our favorites here in the Roth household.  Rapunzel has this great dream to see the floating lights.  She has watched the floating lights out from the tower window every year since she was a little girl...wondering what they really were.  She goes on this amazing adventure to see the lights up close and personal.  She gets much much more than what she ever bargained for. I am a dreamer.  I often go to bed at night, picturing myself in certain situations, with many different dreams that have " come true " ....literally in my dreams!  There's one dream though, that I have had most recently.  I have to say that perhaps, this is one dream that I want possibly more than anything else

Happy Happy Saturday Peeps!  Seriously I am so happy today is today. So, remember the little service project I told ya'll about a few posts ago?  Well last weekend myself and my nieces made the Valentines cards for the people that live in the seniors home here.  We seriously had so much fun!   So...this afternoon at lunchtime while the residence were having lunch we delivered the cards.  Hayley wasn't able to help but Mady brought her friend along.  I wasn't able to take many pictures because we were so busy handing out the cards.  The men and women were so happy and seriously loved them.  One of the ladies got up afterwards and thanked us for the lovely cards.   All it took for us to bring a smile to their faces was a few hours of crafting.  Not all service involves crafting, but seriously it goes to show you what your efforts can do for others.   I love love.  I love loving others.  I love that I have love in my

2 1/2 weeks ago I attended a Relief Society Conference.  There were different classes we had the opportunity to attend.  The first class we went to was about music.  How music can fill your life and soul with love and purpose. Each person in the class was given a booklet with different songs.  The class sang just about every song that was in the the booklet.  Some were hymns, some were not.  With each song I felt peace. I'm sure most of us that listen to a radio have heard a song called "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten.  If you haven't heard it, you should.  The lyrics are powerful and very uplifting. Here's some lyrics from the chorus " This is my fight song Take back my life song Prove I'm alright song My power's turned on Starting right now I'll be strong I'll play my fight song And I don't really care if nobody else believes 'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me" The teacher then went on to

We are officially coming up to "love month".  So many of us think...oh here we go again...another reason to blow bunch of money on some commercial holiday(I personally don't think this, but have heard a lot of people say this before!) I am a hopeless romantic.  I've watched nearly every Hallmark movie I can get my hands on, and although they are so predictable I cry after watching nearly all of them.  But you know what, that is one of the qualities I genuinely like about myself.  I love that I get moved to tears when people fall in love, and I love that small or large acts of service make me feel all warm and fuzzy.  We hear the words "be mine" around this time of year.  We know what this popular question means....but let's for just one minute stop to think about what else it could mean. Be my.... confidant friend listener companion caretaker mouth piece smile It doesn't matter how put together others may lo

Happy Monday! Hope you all are well.  I have to say that I am excited for this new year?  Why you ask?  Because for once in my life I'm actually looking forward to making positive changes.  I actually feel some hope in improving who I am as a human.  Sound cheesy?  Probably...but it's all good.  I'm down with being a cheesy person(wink wink Chrissy hehe :).   Honestly I have been a really negative person last year and years past.  I work on trying to not be, but honestly I don't really work hard enough.  I have basically walked away, or have not taken seriously, some of the things that have always been important to me...like music, church, scripture reading, service...to name a few.  A week and a half ago  I felt so disconnected from myself I just wanted to break down and well let's face it...break down!  I felt so hopeless and discouraged.  It wasn't just one thing that made me feel this way, it was a combination of EVERYTHING! I have allowed life t