Oh, Happy Day!

Our beloved house, sold this week! Yeah!!!! We are so excited to "move" on to the next chapter in our lives. We are also sad to be leaving the house that "we" built 9 years ago, with all of our upgrades and special touches. It has been a fabulous house & yard for us and we will miss it :(

We aren't even talking about saying goodbye to all of our dear friends and neighbors because we know we'll still be in touch and hangin' out a bunch-probably forever. We have made lifelong friends. The kind you want to have til you die. We love the friends we have made over the years. (You know who you are.) Thanks for all of the good times and great memories that we'll be taking with us. We look forward to plenty more! We'd love to have you all over for a little house warming once we're all settled in.

Unfortunately, we have no idea where we will be going. Our plan was to sell, then find a place. SO, I guess that's what we'll be doing in the next couple weeks. Wish us luck. I'm very particular as my friends can attest! Might take a while-or not!? Who knows. It'll be fun to look though!

My First Babe Turned 12 Today!

Happy Birthday Coco! I can't believe its been twelve short years since I had you. I remember all the details just like it was yesterday. I am the luckiest mom in the whole world to have a son like you!

The Sky is Falling

Doesn't it seem like some some days (or weeks or months) the sky is falling? Let me explain what I mean. Lately, (it been one of those months) I feel like everything is falling in on me at once-I feel overwhelmed. I have been a hampster running in a wheel. It doesn't help that I am a self-admitted and incurable perfectionist! So, I take on too much, over commit and feel like I have to be everything to everyone and that it all must be flawlessly executed. Super mom, wife, daughter, friend, master gardener, chef, laundress, cruise director, housekeeper, Y.W. leader, party planner, taxi driver, alarm clock, day timer...you name it...I do it...ALL! The list could go on and on. How do I get it all done? And, with a cheerful attitude? Sometimes I feel like if one more person asks me to do one more thing for them, I'm gonna either flip-out or bite their head off or have a nervous breakdown. O.K., B R E A T H E. Overwhelmed, I tell you.

So I ask myself, "How do you simplify? So, that you can enjoy the moments?" Cause, I'm definitely missing a lot of them. I'm simply too busy.

I think I might need a vacation. In fact, Todd and I are most overdue for one without the kiddos. Ahhh...where to go? Tahiti sounds heavenly! Seriously, the beach, the sand, the sun, a daiquiri....instead, REALITY CHECK: I have Stake Youth Conference and Stake Girls Camp to look forward to in June a week apart...not quite the vacation I had in mind. Reality. Stinks sometimes? Don't it? I know, it sounds like I bit into a lemon before I posted this. But really, I just need a quiet place to vent and quite possibly a little validation for all that we are and all that we accomplish as women living in this day and age. It's a lot some months...and some months, the sky is definitely falling! I think I'll run away....FAST!!!

What Would You Rather...

So, if you had a choice would your preference be to have a great marriage with little money or would you rather have alot of money and be in a not so great marriage? (I know, we'd all probably like both, great marriage with money) but if those were your choices what would you rather? Just curious.

WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL MOTHER NATURE THAT I DECLARED SPRING'S ARRIVAL OVER A MONTH AGO IN MARCH!!!! ENOUGH SNOW ALREADY!

O.K., So you might think my declaration of spring was a little premature in March, but honestly, my yard is telling me it's spring. The weather just hasn't clued in yet. Maybe Mother Nature is on sabbatical somewhere. She needs to get with the program and usher in the springtime weather! I would appreciate a sunny day with temps in the seventies!

I Declare SPRING Officially Here!!!!

Oh, How I've Missed the Color Yellow!

Daffs are some of my all-time favorite flowers. But, who doesn't love any springtime flower? This little beauty is the only one in my yard. What a nice suprise! I have two weeks to enjoy her. Tulips won't be up for another 3-4 weeks. More color is on its way! Yea!!! It's been a LONG winter this year.

Cabin Fever!

I have cabin fever. BAD! I cannot wait for spring to come. I am so tired of feeling cooped-up. I am tired of doing the laundry and cooking meals and doing dishes, only to wake-up the next day and do it all again-Groundhog Day is my life! I am so tired of my house-and cleaning it-all the time. It doesn't help that it has been for sale now for 6 months and it hasn't sold yet. Damn the economy! Meanwhile, I have to keep making trips to our storage shed to retrieve items I thought I wouldn't need or wouldn't need to unpack until we moved into our new house. I was hoping not to have to go get the Christmas tree and decorations. But had to. When I took them back to the shed, I moved the box that had the kids Easter baskets in it. I distinctly remember cussing in December, that I better not have to come back to the shed to retrieve them, surely, we would have the house sold. Granted, I still have a month before Easter comes, but, I'm ready for a change. Maybe, I'm just ready for the weather to change, or to see color again, or eat a big piece of watermelon or wear my Capri's. Whatever. I just need something to change. I'm ready to trade cabin fever for spring fever.
How 'bout you?