Memorial Day

We had a BBQ at Brian and Chelsie's new house for Memorial Day.  We had to make it quick since Chelsie had to work that night and needed to take a nap.  Brian manned the grill since my dad was at work, too.  It was freezing so we stayed inside.  The boys had fun making messes in Chelsie's house and Gavin decided to dump his food on the stairs instead of eating it.

My mom made pumpkin chocolate chip cookie sandwiches that were soooo yummy!!  And Gavin loved eating them.

Branson finally talked us into going outside for a bit.  So we bundled him up because the wind so was so dang cold and went outside.  He loves blowing the dandelions.

We hurried and got pictures of Jade and Brittiney and Josh and I before we froze!

Luckily the sun was out for a lot of the time we were up there but as we left the storm clouds moved in again. We've seen these way too much lately.

31 Days of May ~ Day 30

30.  Who are you?

When I hear this saying, I think of the CSI song by The Who.  Can't get it out of my head!
Anyway, who am I?

* I am a child of God

* I am a daughter

* I am a sister

* I am a wife

* I am a mother to my 4 furbabies (that still counts as being a mother, right?)
* I am an Auntie

* I am a friend

* I am nice

* I am loyal

* I am loving

* I love to laugh 

* I am a girl who likes to be annoying and take pictures of everything. :)

* I am a blogger

* I am a reader

* I am a dancer (behind closed doors for only me to see these days, except for Zumba class :) )

* I am an American and am so thankful on this Memorial Day for those in the military who have fought and who are fighting for this great country of ours and for the freedom we all have.

31 Days of May ~ Day 29

29.  In the past month, what have you learned.

I don't think I've gained any life-changing wisdom during this past month.  But I have learned that my family is strong.  We all have our demons we have to fight and we can succeed when we stick together.
I love the rain but one month of it straight is just too much, especially when horses are up to their bellies in water.  We went for a drive on Saturday and saw this.  Poor things, it really needs to dry out.

31 Days of May ~ Day 28

28.  A picture of me last year and now, and how I have changed.

I don't know that I've changed too much in the past year.  Maybe just another year older.  I have learned so much about photography.  That first pic is the first time Josh and I used the tripod to get pictures of us up in Logan Canyon with my new camera last year...oh and it was warm, not 50 degrees.  The first 10 pics were awful, the focus was on the mountains behind us instead of us.  That one is the best of the batch and it still isn't very good.  I love learning all I can about photography even though I have a beginner DSLR and don't have any fancy lenses, I still love it.  It inspires me daily.
I dared to go shorter with my hair and to straighten it more.
I've tried harder to accept my life for what it is and the life Heavenly Father has planned for me.  That doesn't mean I don't have my bad days because believe me, I do.  I still get in bed at night and cry silently to myself often, especially on the nights when Josh is at work.  I try to hide how much it hurts me that I haven't been able to and maybe even can't give Josh the family I know we both deserve.  It's something that seems so easy for others.  I get really angry and I mean ANGRY at people who can have kids and get pregnant so easily, especially when they can't take care of the kids they already have and take them for granted.  But that's on me, it's nobody's fault so I keep that to myself.  There are only 4 people who know how much I struggle with this.  Thank you to Josh, my mom, Shannon and Tara for listening to me and being there for me.  My friend Kenna has a quote on the side of her blog that speaks to me and I'm working on it.

She also said on her blog once, before she and her Josh adopted their adorable Boog, that she'd trade her best day without kids for someone's worst day with them.  I whole-heartedly agree.
I've applied to start my pre-reqs to get into nursing school.  I have a long way to go but I'm finally jumping on the bus to do something I know I've wanted to do since I was 16.

31 Days of May ~ Day 27

27.  Why are you doing this challenge.
I'm not very good at posting a lot, maybe once a week.  We're boring and don't have much going on.  So I thought this would be good way to post more at least for one month.  It also sounded like fun.  I had fun thinking of things for each day and subject.  It was challenging but I really enjoyed doing it.  And since this challenge is only 30 days and there are 31 days in May,  I need suggestions for the last day.  So if you want to, leave me a comment of something you would want to know about me.

31 Days of May ~ Day 26

26.  What you think of your friends.

Well, they are my friends so I like them.  Life takes control sometimes and you lose touch with the friends you had in high school.  That's one reason I like Facebook.  It's so easy to connect to people.  Jessie and Vicki are a few of my friends where it doesn't matter if you haven't seen each other for years, it's like you were with them yesterday when you see them again.  I love that.  I like my Bunco group for that reason, too.  I'm in it with Vicki and other girls I went to school with so it's fun to reconnect with them.
I love the friends I married into.  Ben and Ila and Jamiee and Jason are great friends and they are the same, we don't see them very often but when we do it's like we're just together.  Ben and Ilaria live in Switzerland so Josh and Ben try to stay connected with Googlechat a couple times a year.  And we keep saying we need to get down to Henderson to see Jaimee, Jason and their kids, we just need to plan a weekend and go!
Tara and Cody are our best friends and we love them like family.  Had Tara and I known each other when we were younger we definitely would have been friends.  We have so many of the same interests and like the same things.
I love all the people in our lives, that's why they're there.

31 Days of May ~ Day 25

25.  What's In Your Bag?
Oh man, I carry everything in my purse.
When I go purse shopping, it's a process.  I can't just pick any purse.  It has to be cute on the inside, the inside is just as important as the outside, and it has to have lots of pockets.
My camera is usually in there, I know that's terrible.  I really want an Epiphanie bag!  Either the Red Lola or the Pink Clover!  My wallet, toothbrush (which reminds me to get more toothpaste), lotion, nail file, pouch that has, tweezers, ibuprofen, band-aids and feminine products, gum and my sunglasses.  Then in one of my pockets I have all my lip stuffs, I have a bunch and don't know why I carry them all with me.  The main ones that I use is my Burt's Bees and my C.O. Bigelow Mentha Lip Tint.  The other pocket carries my sunglasses and iPod.  Then my antibacterial hand sanitizer.

In other news:

Today was the last day of Oprah.  She is one of my favorite people and I'm really going to miss her show.  I learned so much from her.  I wanted to watch the last show with my mom, who introduced her to me at a young age.  I got up to her house at 4 and they had breaking news of Brian David Mitchell getting a life sentence.  I'm glad he got that, he deserves nothing less for what he did to Elizabeth Smart.

Oprah's last show was really good, just her.  No fancy guests, no amazing giveaways, just her.  We did the ugly cry.  It was good to share that with my mom.  We always talk on the phone about "did you see this or that on Oprah" and I'm going to miss those conversations, although I don't think Oprah's done for good.  But I'm going to miss her and as she said on the end of her show, until we meet again.