Really Late Update Again!

I'm just going to assume this will always happen! So next time it has been 4 years, I won't mention it! Haha!

I am almost done with my engineering degree!! *Cue cheering crowd*

I have been going at it since 2011, and next May of 2019 I will finally graduate! It's been a long time coming! I am so excited! Since my last post I had another son! WHAT?! Lol

 He is three now. He is a handful, but I am so glad I got to welcome him into our family. He is so full of love and energy. He can be so silly and times, and just say things that make me laugh!

Morgan and Danny have also grown up quite a bit.

Morgan is 12 now and in young women's. She loves it, and I was so excited to take her to the temple to do her first baptisms for the dead! What a beautiful experience that was! She is in sixth grade now and has begun the accelerated learning program at school! She is so smart!

Danny is now 9 and he just amazes me all the time. What a bright young man he is becoming! So smart and so sweet! He is always thinking of ways to do nice things for his sister, just to make her happy. And he is still so deep in thought all the time. He loves being silly and playing legos. I just love him so much.

I just love these kids so much! I am such a lucky person to be their mom.

Rick is pretty wonderful too... ;)

Well, until next time!!

A Good Week

He puts up with the love the best he can. :)

(He is spiderman)

Happy morning!

Silly kids

Beautiful scenery

A heart shaped rock to love.

Sweet tiny hands!

She loves this rock!

She is the most beautiful little girl.

His silly faces always make me smile.

Sisterly love! <3

   This week was good. I have been in summer school this year, and I haven't been able to do as much as I would like, but this week was good. I took the kids to see the Pioneer Day parade, and the kids had a great time. Then today I was able to drive them up Ogden Canyon to go hiking. We desperately needed a way to get out and do something active, without spending money, and without dying in the heat. Well, hiking in a windy canyon was a perfect idea. :) It was lovely up there. Between the creek, flowers, and trees it was a lovely site. The kids didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped, but they had fun rock hunting, and posing for the camera. I took that as a need to go hiking more. Then it would be a lot less about the immense amount of walking, and more about the fun.

   The best part about all this, was the kids getting along for a short time. They weren't so bored, so they didn't fight as much. My favorite thing I caught on camera, was Morgan lifting Danny up to see the parade better. <3 I love it when they are sweet like that! It just makes my day to see them loving each other. It is the sweet reminder I need to see that I am doing SOMETHING right! 

   The more time I spend with them, and they aren't bickering, the more I get to see the wonderful things I love about them. Like when they are being silly, or the way Morgan's hair is untameable and beautiful, or the way that Danny is so in tune with what is around him. He may not hear a word I say, but he hears everything else, and sees so many wonderful things. 

   My kids make me happy. The fact that I get to be their mom makes me happy. I always wanted a big family, but I am so grateful to have the two little people in my life to raise. They are so beautiful in so many ways. What a blessing to be a mom. 

Sweet Love and Grace

  I have noticed more than a few times how much having the gospel in my life has blessed it. I am constantly given blessings and reminders of blessings to keep me going. When I have a hard day and I feel like the world is crashing in, it is followed by a day of wonderful blessings to remind me that all is well.

  I had one of those "hard days" recently. I was losing my ability to stay positive and when all seemed lost, my prayers were answered! I was able to turn around my whole week and start new again. I feel so lifted up and peaceful again! I want to share with the world how happy this life has made me since returning to church about 3 years ago. I was able to receive my endowments almost two years ago and it has given me the promised blessings of strength and safety that I so desperately needed in my life! My heart is so full today, I wish I could share it with everyone I came across in my life. The ability to express my joy for life is totally lost to me. I have no words to help others understand just how much I feel inside.

  I am so grateful that I had the courage to get on my knees one night and ask for God's help. I didn't even know for sure that he was there and that I would get an answer, but he knew my heart was ready. I had really gotten to the place where I had a "broken heart and a contrite spirit". It means so much more when you get there than others could understand. It's not so much a  reaching in thin air as it sounded to me in the beginning. It is the ability to humble yourself to a point of being able to listen. God spoke to me in numerous ways since then, but because I was willing to follow and grow my faith in him, I have come so far. My life will never be the same, and I am sooo glad! :-D

HEY! I still have a blog!

It's been 3 1/2 years since I posted on this blog. I forgot all about it and found it recently! I feel the need to update. :D

   So since my last update (I mentioned that I was going to start school) I am still in school. I am almost half done! I will transfer from Weber State University down to the Salt Lake community college. I will attend there for two semesters, then start my Junior year of College at the University of Utah. I will have "two years" there till I am done with my bachelors. I say "two years" with quotation marks because it will be closer to four. I slowed down my schooling too so that I could be with the kids more. Homework is very overwhelming sometimes and it would make me slack on being a mom. So I am doing as much as I can handle at one time.
   We have been living at Jordan's house (Rick's dads) since starting school, but the house is on the market now and could sell at anytime. So we are just sitting ducks until it sells. For his sake, I hope it sells soon, but I will miss having this home, neighborhood, and ward members. I am sure blessed to be surrounded by so much goodness.
   Morgan is in 1st grade, and Danny is in preschool. Although he will be 5 in September, he misses the cut off to start kindergarten. Which is good for him. I think he will do a lot better in school if he waits a year. So he will start kindergarten and go to school with Morgan when I start attending the UofU. I think that will all work out very nicely.
   Rick is currently working as a handyman until I finish school. He is doing a great job and his music business is doing really well too. He has a few record labels supporting him, and quite a few clients that come to him periodically. I think in 5-10 years his music business will be exactly what he wants it to be. (Rick's business website). On top of that he likes to write his own music too. He has a couple albums that have been released and is pretty popular in the UK. I am very proud of him. :) (Rick's music)

   To keep with the theme of this blog, all of these things make me happy. My life is wonderful!

Planning!

I love knowing when and how things are happening. I love to plan things so I'm not rushed or running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. I love schedules and thought out days. When I plan things and they go wrong... fine. But when I plan things and end my day feeling accomplished... GREAT!

I especially LOVE knowing what is going to happen to me. I hate living day to day wondering what will happen next. I love knowing that things are taken care of and that I don't have to worry when and how things will get done. I have spent the last year and a half of my life in chaos. Never knowing when and where Rick was going to get a job drove me crazy! :)

I always knew things would work out, but I never knew how. Know that me and Rick have decided to go back to school I feel a million times better! We will not be living in our own place, but we are going to do something that will benefit us in the future more than we will know.
YAY for planning!! Yay for school!! And Yay for taking our first step out of the unknown waiting period!

Sleep :)

This is obvious. haha. But I don't get much "good" sleep these days with Danny. The other night he woke me up in bad mood that I did not care to deal with being the middle of the night. I don't blame him for being in a crappy mood, he was probably having teething pains or something, but it sucked.

BUT! last night he was a goooood boy :)

He slept from 8-1 and I didn't even have to get up with him. He was kind enough to go back to sleep after a few minutes!! Then he didn't get up until 5 to eat. After that (I have to admit I stayed up till 11pm which was dumb) I had 6 hours of sleep without having to get out of bed. I felt so good I almost got up at 5am to do stuff around the house :) I decided it was a good idea to stay in bed though. (just in case) Plus I can't do much cleaning with everyone in the house sleeping.

I was in such a good mood today because of it though!! Ahhhhhh Sleep!

Summer Rain/Milk/All around good days :)

I already said that rain makes me happy, but it rained early this morning.  So I have to add to it :)

When I got up this morning it was soaked outside. It was overcast, and it smelled WONERFUL! I might have missed this beautiful morning if it wasn't for the lack of milk in my house. When I went to get Morgan some cereal she reminded me that we had no milk. So I slipped on some jeans and a coat, stepped outside to walk across the street for a jug of milk, and took the most luxurious breath of air I have had in awhile. :)

Since then I have managed to take the energy from waking to a rainy day, and turn it into mommy strength! I started the dishes, swept the floor, and cleaned the toy room. Then when Danny took his nap I got a long hot shower. I'm dressed and ready for a nap but not so much that I can't accomplish anymore. Lunch is already over and I started rolls for dinner.

Today is a good day!