This is Our Life

A couple weekends ago, my husband Richard and I had to run some errands.  While in the Wal-Mart parking lot, I noticed this elderly lady who was getting out of her vehicle.  She had two other people on both sides of her helping her walk.  She was a shorter lady.  That was the first thing I noticed, was her height.  Is this a strange thing to notice?  Probably.  I had this instant thought of my Grandmother.  Dorothy Lindhorst.  That's who this lady reminded me of.  I don't know why.  I've been told my grandmother was a very short lady, under 5 feet!  That's probably why so many of my family members are so short.  I'm the tallest of the girls in my immediate family and I'm only 5'4! hehe  Anyway, I thought of Grandma Dorothy.  This sweet little short lady, whom I never had the privilege to meet.  She passed away from breast cancer before I was born.  This actually makes me quite sad.  I think...

Do you know why I love February?  Because it's a month dedicated to love.  Now I'm not talking about buying that "special someone" some chocolates or flowers.  Sure, it's nice to get flowers and chocolate right?!  Who doesn't love getting pampered with goodies?   I want to take a different direction with February...the love month.  I want to branch out a little....here let me show you what I mean...and as cheesy as it is listen all the way through... Now...do you get where I'm going with things?  We need to show more love to each other!  How many times have we heard "if people would just show more love, more kindness this world would be a better place"?  Well...it's true isn't it?   February gives us an excuse to be better.  Not that we NEED a reason to show love, but it gives us a little push...a little shove in the right direction.  We don't need to only show love to those we know, but everyone around us....

Wow, what an awesome weekend!  I have to say it was very uplifting and just fun!!!  We had a Church women's conference on Saturday and the topics were fantastic...but I'll talk about them another time.  I wanted to quickly mention a few things this morning that light up my life. -Music- oh what joy it brings to my soul.  Isn't amazing what kind of effect music can have on us? It can either make me incredibly sad and emotional or have bursts of energy and make me instantly happy.  I know I speak of music a lot, but it plays a huge roll in my life.  I have my phone with over 1000 songs on it wherever I go.  I have some sort of speaker sound system in each room in our house so regardless of where  I am, I can play my music and play it loudly if I want to.  Or I have 2 pairs of headphones so in those moments where you know other people are sick of listening to the same music over and over again , I can still enjoy myself without pestering oth...

What is friendship?  Truly...what is it? To me, a friend is someone who makes you smile.  Who cares sincerely about you.  They take time out of their own lives to listen when you've had a bad day, or when something exciting is taking place.  They make you laugh.  They lend their shoulder for you to cry on.  A friend is someone who you can trust to tell your deepest, darkest secrets to.  A friend is being selfless, kind, compassionate and loving.   As I sit here, on my couch this lovely Sunday evening I cannot help but think of all of the friends that I have made over the years.  Some have come and gone throughout my life, but many of them still remain.  I have friends scattered about, and I feel blessed.  Each person has made a great impact on my life.  I wonder if we have any idea on the kind of way we can effect someone's life.  Do we?   What sparked this whole idea of this post ton...

Yesterday's Sunday School class posed an important question....who are we?  Seriously, do YOU know?  It got me thinking.  Do you know who you are, and where you came from?  Why you're here?  Yes, those are pretty loaded questions.  I agree.  But you know what?  I know who I am. I am a child of God and He has sent me here.  He's given me an earlthy home with parents who are kind and dear.   This is truth.   I believe it.  For me, there's no doubt in my mind that this is reality.  How thankful I am to know these things.  There are many who live this earth, and leave this earth without this knowledge.  To me, this is sad.  I have to say that living this life, not knowing who we are would be like walking around, in the dark without any light to guide us.  We would be lost. I know that God exists.  I know that God loves us.  I know that God and His son are two separate beings,...

Happy 2018 peeps!  What, I'd have to say that I'm more of a slacker than normal.  Look at me here, it's been over 1 year since I posted.  Actually it's closer to 2 years.  WOW!  Where does time go?  A lot has happened with us here, especially in 2017.  As I reflect on the past year, I cannot help but feel thankful.  Sure there were many trials and struggles but what I want to post about today is something that I feel thankful for. In February of 2017 I was called as a Relief Society teacher in our ward.  Relief Society is when the women in our church 18 years and older meet for the last hour of church(it's a 3hr block).  I was asked to be one of the teachers, and I teach the second Sunday of each month.  Every single month that I've taught has created some major stress and anxiety for me...and it's been one of the best things for me to go through!  Does that sound crazy or what?  You may be asking yourself what kin...

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...

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...

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 po...

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 lov...

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 combina...

Well, I've been a total slacker.  You know how you miss doing something for one day or one week and you continuously keep putting it off until you just don't do it period??  That's me and this blog! I do have good intentions...promise! I've kind of had a hard time since we got back from Oregon.  This is totally me ever since... It only took less than 1 week for me to completely fall in love with it.  There is just something so special about it.  I could have sat on the deck of our beach house for hours( I didn't...but could have)...listening to the water and waves crashing to the shore.  As I previously mentioned, there was the coast almost everywhere we traveled.  It's a view that I just couldn't get sick of.  I'm kind of "homesick" for it...I have to say.  If I could go back...I'd probably spend the majority time at the beach.  Just hanging out on the sand, reading a book, and enjoying the water.  One day...I hope...

Well here it is...Sunday night and I am exhausted.  we were so busy during our vacation that I can honestly say I didn't have time to blog while we were away...I can tell you that our trip was amazing. I will blog in a day or so to give you some fun details of our trip.  For tonight?  I just want to sit on my couch, in my cozy p.j.'s, with our fireplace on watching a Christmas movie...yes I said Christmas movie. Toodles, and we'll talk soon!

 The week didn't start off too awesome...when I tripped and fell at work and hurt my back.  Every other bone in my body is super sore.  Anyway...I'll survive.   I am so excited for our vacation.  We leave this afternoon.  We are heading to Great Falls for the night and leave early tomorrow morning.  We'll flight out of Great Falls, and have a stop in Seattle. Then we'll fly from Seattle to Portland.   I will upload lots of pictures while we're there or when I get home.  See ya'll later!!! Here are some pictures of the Beach house we rented: Here's the beach house we're staying in The kitchen.... Here's the view from our beach house View from the kitchen The Deck...and you can kind of see the view... sitting room view... The Hot tub The beach Awesome right?  Toodles!

Do you ever meet someone and think to yourself "this was definitely not by chance"???  I had many experiences like this on my mission.  More than I can count, honestly.  It's one of those things where you know that you were meant to be in that exact spot, on that exact day, at that exact time.  Sure someone else could have filled your shoes....but could they...really???  I personally don't believe they could.   I believe that most things in life have a purpose.  I believe that each decision we make changes the course of our lives.   When serving with Sister Forrest for that too short of a week, she introduced me to one of her favorite families...the Muirs.  Out of the very few family wards I served in in Rexburg, the Muirs happened to be their Ward's Mission Leaders.  This is one amazing family.  I cannot tell you how many hours I spent with this family.  They were truly my family away from home.   ...

It all started back in November 2003.  I was on my Mission, serving in Idaho Falls...and my companion was sweet Sister Song. I remember clearly when Sister Jerelyn Roth was called to be a ward missionary in Eastview First Ward.  I remember her telling us how scared she was to serve in this calling....but how thankful I am that she did!!! One night in November, she had taken both Sister Song and I out to do some team teaching(but this time the 3 of us stayed together).  Half way through the night I started to feel pretty miserable, so she took us back to her house to get some cough medicine.  Little did I know this was the night that would change the rest of my life. I remember it clearly.  Brother Roth(Fred), Richard, and Matt were at the Roth home.  They had just been eating supper...spaghetti(yes I actually remember this!). This was the first time we met some of Brother and Sister Roth's sons.  Richard was not active.  We were en...