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3 Joys
My husband
My kids
Spending quality time together as a family
3 Fears
Not being the mom that my kids deserve
Not being the wife my husband deserves
That in worrying so much about the future that I miss out on the present
3 Goals
To always try to make it happy
To take steps to stregthen our family (spiritually, financially...)
To spend more time together as a family
3 Current Obsessions
Scrapbooking
Doing crafts with my kids
Organizing/cleaning
3 Regrets
I try hard to live my life without regrets. Me and Chris have a mantra, "Make your choice and then live with it and move on." We try to live life like that and not dwell on the past. If I had to pick out a regret it would be:
Not getting my teaching degree when I first went to college
Leaving Logan
Not spending more time with my friends in Utah (Jamie that means you) when I had the chance.
3 Facts About Me
I love to travel
I am currently in Grad School getting a teaching degree
I make lists for everything and have a wall of lists
3 Annoyances
When my house is dirty or cluttered
That there are never enough hours in the day
People who like to comment on that fact that I have three kids or look at me funny in the grocery store (it's like unnatural to people here in Texas that we are so young and married and that we have three kids...we're like a freak show)
I tag Jamie.
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Joys in my life
The kids and I made these cute bats for the house. They were really easy and fun to make.
Words to live by...
A Tribute of Sorts...
My Thoughts
This is just my fun blog where I share my ideas, thoughts, and projects I'm a little all over the place so bare with me. I'm not super profound and I don't promise to be interesting but I like to have fun and be creative and I invite you to take a look at what we've got going. Make it happy actually comes from my 3yr old son. One day he was unhappy having a hard day and he looked up at me and said "mommy I'm going to make it happy." It sort of became our family motto.
My Beautiful Kiddies!
Joys in my life
The Joy In My Life
So after some thought, I came up with the things that bring me Joy in my life...The things that are helping me to Make It Happy! (The first two were a given)
1. My wonderful husband
2. My three beautiful children
3. Being creative
4. Finding my niche in life
1. My wonderful husband
2. My three beautiful children
3. Being creative
4. Finding my niche in life
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What needs tweaking?
I'm the kind of person who thinks that you should constantly be learning, and improving yourself and your life. Nothing's perfect and I know I'm far from it. Anyway I decided that every month I'm going to focus on something in my life that I want to improve or tweak.
This month: Creativity-I'm hoping this month to get crafty and add to my collection of fall decor by making some decorations on my own. Wish me luck. I'll post my successes if I have any...
This month: Creativity-I'm hoping this month to get crafty and add to my collection of fall decor by making some decorations on my own. Wish me luck. I'll post my successes if I have any...
What to Wear?
I try to keep up on the latest fashions and buy a few things here and there to "stay in style" for me the key is to be classic and sophisticated, to get out of the mom rut, but to stay a little trendy.
Fall Fashions (2009)
Here are the new fall fashions pick and choose what works for you...remember with trendy items less is always better especially the older you get.
There's an edge to fashion this fall, while sophistication begins to sparkle, shine and get just a little bit rocker.
What's hot this season?
Staples for fall:
Lace, Leather and Denim
Bohemian chic
Colors: Rose, Olive, Blues
Vests
You'll see lots of faux fur collars and animal skin fabrics, as the tribal trend appears to be here to stay. But that's not all – there will be a lot of tailored, contemporary looks.
Skinny jeans
Skinny jeans have been hot for several seasons now, but now skinny pants are big as well. You'll continue to see leggings and tights. It's part of a trend leaning toward sleek, slim and streamlined.
Pleated tops
I love this trend because it's GREAT for us girls who don't have a lot going on up there – but it works for those of you who do, too. The accordion pleat neckline is feminine, new and pretty much universally flattering.
Military jackets
We can blame it on Michael Jackson tributes, but it was actually on the way back before he passed. The military look – jackets, vests, even pants – is a huge fall wardrobe staple. My personal favorite shopping destination, Loehmanns, says they are noticing several distinct looks from their top designers this fall:
Rocker chic
This style is powerful, with sophisticated polish: acid wash, leather, studs and similar embellishment.
Sparkle and shine
Opulent and edgy details for day or evening; look for tons of metallic, sequins and gunmetal gray.
Statement accessories
Statement accessories will be all the rage, with embellished shoes, boots of all heights with thigh high becoming key, statement necklaces, eye-catching gloves, scarves, hobo and other relaxed bags taking the forefront.
Loads of color
Look for everything from black and white combinations, to hot pinks and cobalt blues, to cognacs and chocolate browns and plums and raspberry.
Never Wanna Say "I dont have anything to wear" Again?
10 Fashion Staples you need in your closet
1. Trench coat-throw it on with jeans to run errands around town instead of sweats or t shirts you look so much more put together.
2. Great turtleneck in black or white...why not both?
3. Black slightly tapered trousers-instantly dressy
4. Tunic-throw over jeans or any color trouser...great look and quick!
5. White jeans
6. Dark jeans
7. A simple black dress-it can be simple b/c you can dress it up or down with your accessories
8. Denim jacket either white or dark dark blue not the in between light blue
9. Black skirt
10. Classic white button up shirtI'm going to throw in another a Ballet Flat. Wear them instead of tennis shoes or flip flops to run around town and it looks so great and so much more put together and less frumpy.
Fall Fashions (2009)
Here are the new fall fashions pick and choose what works for you...remember with trendy items less is always better especially the older you get.
There's an edge to fashion this fall, while sophistication begins to sparkle, shine and get just a little bit rocker.
What's hot this season?
Staples for fall:
Lace, Leather and Denim
Bohemian chic
Colors: Rose, Olive, Blues
Vests
You'll see lots of faux fur collars and animal skin fabrics, as the tribal trend appears to be here to stay. But that's not all – there will be a lot of tailored, contemporary looks.
Skinny jeans
Skinny jeans have been hot for several seasons now, but now skinny pants are big as well. You'll continue to see leggings and tights. It's part of a trend leaning toward sleek, slim and streamlined.
Pleated tops
I love this trend because it's GREAT for us girls who don't have a lot going on up there – but it works for those of you who do, too. The accordion pleat neckline is feminine, new and pretty much universally flattering.
Military jackets
We can blame it on Michael Jackson tributes, but it was actually on the way back before he passed. The military look – jackets, vests, even pants – is a huge fall wardrobe staple. My personal favorite shopping destination, Loehmanns, says they are noticing several distinct looks from their top designers this fall:
Rocker chic
This style is powerful, with sophisticated polish: acid wash, leather, studs and similar embellishment.
Sparkle and shine
Opulent and edgy details for day or evening; look for tons of metallic, sequins and gunmetal gray.
Statement accessories
Statement accessories will be all the rage, with embellished shoes, boots of all heights with thigh high becoming key, statement necklaces, eye-catching gloves, scarves, hobo and other relaxed bags taking the forefront.
Loads of color
Look for everything from black and white combinations, to hot pinks and cobalt blues, to cognacs and chocolate browns and plums and raspberry.
Never Wanna Say "I dont have anything to wear" Again?
10 Fashion Staples you need in your closet
1. Trench coat-throw it on with jeans to run errands around town instead of sweats or t shirts you look so much more put together.
2. Great turtleneck in black or white...why not both?
3. Black slightly tapered trousers-instantly dressy
4. Tunic-throw over jeans or any color trouser...great look and quick!
5. White jeans
6. Dark jeans
7. A simple black dress-it can be simple b/c you can dress it up or down with your accessories
8. Denim jacket either white or dark dark blue not the in between light blue
9. Black skirt
10. Classic white button up shirtI'm going to throw in another a Ballet Flat. Wear them instead of tennis shoes or flip flops to run around town and it looks so great and so much more put together and less frumpy.
Fall In Love With Your Husband...a list of ideas for date night, or to just fall in love agian.
- Get involved in something he thinks is cool. I joined Chris's college fantasy pick em group. He thought that was so cool and we watch the games together on Saturday and root for our teams it's a little playful rivalry. But he likes that I'm involved in something he's involved with.
- Do something he likes to do go to a football game, a concert, golfing, fishing whatever he'll love it!
- Go get pictures taken of just the two of you like you did for your engagement pictures.
- Recreate your first date.
- Make a mixed playlist (or CD) and add it to his MP3 labeled something cute like I love you, or you rock my world!
- Go on a romantic picnic in the park.
- Weekend getaways for no reason. With out the kiddos of course.
- Flirt!
- Write little love notes back and forth for a week like you did in high school and leave them in strategic places. Like his pillow, his shoe, his wallet, the visor in his car be creative!
Be Creative Everyday
stay tuned for my latest projects
Halloween Fun
The kids and I made these cute bats for the house. They were really easy and fun to make.
Family Home Evening
So Chris and I decided that it was time to start having Family Home Evening with our kids we hadn't done it before because they were so little we didn't think that they would even know what was going on, but Carson's 3 now and he's starting to get it. We also decided as they always say that if you start young then it becomes habit and the norm and they'll start to get it sooner. So we decided to throw FHE into the weekly scheduale mix. It's been a couple of months now and it's been great! The kids love it, and they are learning a lot more than I thought they would. Not to mention that having Family Home Evening on Monday's has really kicked our week of to a great start! Since the kids are young we try to keep our lessons short, sweet and fun, and every now and then we mix it up with just doing something fun together as a family. Anyways you're welcome to some of my ideas.
Stay tuned for my family home evening ideas.
IDEAS:
General Bible and Book of Mormon stories.
-I try to tell the story with a game, or a fun interactive story board. For example I did the story of Noah and the ark, I wrote out a kids appropriate story and had an Ark with Noah and his family and had all the animals. All the pieces the kids could add to the story board as we went along.
Morals and lessons
-Every now and then I throw in a lesson that deals with morals or lessons for life that I think the kids need to learn or work on. For example I had a lesson on different behaviors. I had two faces a mommy and a daddy with removable mouths. One mouth was happy and one was sad. I had a basket filled with behaviors written on strips of paper, they'd pick one out we'd read it and they would decide if the behavior if acted out would make mommy/daddy happy or sad. I( had things like sharing, or fighting) and then they would put the mouth on the face corresponding to what they thought. They had a lot of fun with this one and they still refer to it when they do certain things.
-Another example is that we had a lesson on prayer. Why we pray, how we pray, who we are praying to. We practiced all of this and it was a good lesson. Since then the kids have wanted to say all the prayers and they are getting really good at praying on their own. It's really cute.
-We had a lesson on Heavenly Father and who he is, and how he created the world and everything in it. I had a bag filled with lots of random things they would pull out and we'd talk about what it was and how Heavenly Father created it, and all our many blessings.
Fun
-Every now and then we like to just have a family home evening where we just do something fun as a family. We play a board game or watch a movie, or we'll just hang out sing songs, and read stories, or play Wii. It's fun we enjoy it and we like to mix things up. The kids are young and we don't want to over whelm them with lessons all the time.
Stay tuned for my family home evening ideas.
IDEAS:
General Bible and Book of Mormon stories.
-I try to tell the story with a game, or a fun interactive story board. For example I did the story of Noah and the ark, I wrote out a kids appropriate story and had an Ark with Noah and his family and had all the animals. All the pieces the kids could add to the story board as we went along.
Morals and lessons
-Every now and then I throw in a lesson that deals with morals or lessons for life that I think the kids need to learn or work on. For example I had a lesson on different behaviors. I had two faces a mommy and a daddy with removable mouths. One mouth was happy and one was sad. I had a basket filled with behaviors written on strips of paper, they'd pick one out we'd read it and they would decide if the behavior if acted out would make mommy/daddy happy or sad. I( had things like sharing, or fighting) and then they would put the mouth on the face corresponding to what they thought. They had a lot of fun with this one and they still refer to it when they do certain things.
-Another example is that we had a lesson on prayer. Why we pray, how we pray, who we are praying to. We practiced all of this and it was a good lesson. Since then the kids have wanted to say all the prayers and they are getting really good at praying on their own. It's really cute.
-We had a lesson on Heavenly Father and who he is, and how he created the world and everything in it. I had a bag filled with lots of random things they would pull out and we'd talk about what it was and how Heavenly Father created it, and all our many blessings.
Fun
-Every now and then we like to just have a family home evening where we just do something fun as a family. We play a board game or watch a movie, or we'll just hang out sing songs, and read stories, or play Wii. It's fun we enjoy it and we like to mix things up. The kids are young and we don't want to over whelm them with lessons all the time.
2 comments:
I feel your pain about three kids in Texas. People do give funny looks and comments. I love your pic on the top of your blog...very cute :)!!
Oh thanks! It's so nice to see you and Jess and your cute kids on your blog! We really hope that we'll be able to make it out there soon!
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