So this is just a post to figure out the signature thing

My friend and I went on a "I Spy" walk on the Jordan River trail the other day. It was so much fun watching them use their imaginations to discover jungles and fish and psycho cats. Oh wait the Psycho cat was real. Yah! scary real. We saw it and decided to just keep walking and leave the poor skinny decrepit thing alone. But, it was not satisfied to leave us alone. It got on its hind legs and started to run after our dogs. It is the only time in my life that I condoned kicking and rock throwing at an animal. All and all the rest of the walk was rather normal and lasted a whole lot longer than I had planned on.

The picture above is of the cute little boy that I watch during the day. He was informing me of how to fish.

Mary Mary quite contrary how does your Garden Grow.

We got back from being gone for a week to find that we had scads of peas!!! I love the Lincoln variety so large and sweet. It has been so fun picking and eating them. To our dismay though we did lose our lettuce to slugs and 3 of our Tomato plants to some sort of black spot. They even had tomatoes on them. So sad.

Road Trip

Thursday I get a call from my sister saying, I am going to head up to Park City for an outing do you want to come? Sure, I said and so after dropping the boys off at school I meet her at the mouth of Provo Canyon and we pile into the van. On the way up to Park City we realized that neither of us really knew how to get there. So Johanna started to use our lifelines to find someone to give us directions. Finally Cody saved us and we made it. After walking the outlets for awhile we decided that we better head home so that I could be there in plenty of time to pick up the boys. Looking out the window I ask Johanna do you remember those red hills on the way here. We then decided to stop talking and pay attention to the signs. The next sign we saw said Evanston 17 miles. Oh great. How did we end up here. I quickly decided that this was an emergency and used the "do not use U-turn". By the time that we got to the school the boys had informed everyone that there Mom got lost in Wyoming. Needless to say I was a little embarrassed. When we got back to the mouth of the Provo Canyon do drop Statton and Johanna off at there car. We took some time to play at the park before heading home.

My version of the S.H.E. method.

So I have been wanting a better way to organize my day. I have had the sidetracked home executive book for years and loved it but, it always seemed to intense for me to pull it all off so I have invented my own version of it. So far it has been great. I love waking up with a plan in mind instead of just a million things running wildly giving me stress and chaos. I am beginning to be a morning person again. It is great. Now the job of turning it into a habit and not a whim. I head off to do the next card while singing the song from Snow White. Whistle while you work tra la la................................

Count down to Spring

The sun is shining today and we are so excited to get going on the garden. The boys and I have created a maze/fort garden for this year. Trevor has asked for a cucumber fort with a little shelf for his salt shaker. Ammon wants a gourd garden because he thinks it will attract less bees. I am still working on convincing him that bees are good because they will give him more gourds. It is going to be quite the adventure to see if we can actually pull this off. I think that we are going to have to enlist the help of my ever talented sister Rebecca. If the garden really produces as much as it says it can beware neighbors we may have to be unloading some of our vegetables in your direction.

just thinking

So I have been thinking. I seem to be a work, work, work person lets getr' done type of thing. Lets problem solve, make it better. Strive for that ideal until I go to my "little bit of heaven on earth place". Then I just want to be. Go visit this Grandma or that Grandma. Go for a hike. Do the dishes. Weed the garden. Smell the air. Drink the water. So what is the difference in my way of being and why is it such a difference. I don't think either way is necessarily wrong just different. A thought just came to my head maybe it is a little bit because I am wimpy at times. It is so big and busy and unfamiliar to me here. So I feel safe in just getting the work done. ummm thoughts that come into my head as I lay awake in bed in the morning.

I have been working on my next lesson that I will be teaching to the YW and also on Trek I came across the information on LDS.org about their new YouTube videos. I really enjoyed it. I love how the church is able to use new technology or ideas that come for the good of the gospel. If you have not checked it out lately here is the address www.youtube.com/MormonMessages.

On a completely different note. I was driving Trevor home from school today and asking him about a decision that he had to make for the weekend. I was letting him know that their was no wrong choice and he just needed to decide what he felt in his heart that he wanted to do. He thought for a moment then said: "My heart says I should ask you what you think I should do". Ah the honestly of children.