My new found love

I painted this one for my dad for Father's Day

I painted this one for Jared
I started taking an oil painting class the beginning of February and these are the 2 paintings that I have done so far. When I go to painting, I am in a totally different world. I am very quiet and leave all my worries out in my car. I am so relaxed while I am painting and feeling so refreshed after each class. I never thought in a million years that I would be able to paint like this. I LOVE IT!!!

Decison making skills...

I am speechless at some peoples decision making skills. They make poor decisions and then wonder why they have consequences. I was taught that there are consequences for every decision that you make, they could be positive or negative. As parents (most of you) what are we teaching our children? They see us make bad choices and receive the punishment for it, and try and take the easy way out, or pass the blame on to someone else. That isn't what we should be teaching them, we as parents, adults, should stand up and take the punishment even if we feel it is unfair. We teach the kid that LIFE ISN'T FAIR" and to deal with it. Maybe we should practice what we preach...

Gluten Free Diet... What?

I have been having really bad tummy aches and I talked to a friend and my Dr and they both suggested that I go 2 weeks with no Gluten. Do you know what that means to a girl that loves bread, cookies, pastries, that kind of stuff? It's pretty much HELL!! I have only done it for 2 days and I thought I was doing okay until I got to work today and with me I had everybody's Girl Scout Cookies. I put the box on the floor and started to work. Lunch time came and I ran to the local store to buy some " G-F" food. I came back with a bag of Spinach, a bag of carrots, broccoli and cauliflower, craisins, and some poppyseed dressing (not sure if that is G-F, but it's good). Lunch was yummy,and refreshing. As the afternoon wore on people came into my office to get their cookies, then all of the sudden I got the BIGGEST craving for some THIN MINTS!! I took a drink of my water, that didn't help. Sipped some of the Dr. Pepper that I have, that didn't help either. I tried talking to my friend Savannah about it and she was having the same craving. I kept eyeballing the box that all the cookies were in (trying to remember who ordered what so I could take theirs and replace it tomorrow)trying to talk myself out of it, but it didn't work. I walked over and took a box of THIN MINTS out of one of the orders and promptly opened it and hurried and put one of those fresh delicious cookies in my mouth, turned around and handed on to Savannah. We are both saying " this is the best cookie h\I have ever had" so what do we do? We have another. Lack of self control? It is going to be so hard to "re train" my body to not eat whatever I want when I want. But Girl Scout Cookies only come once a year and are sooooo delicious!! I am going to put up a valiant effort to get through this, I have been through worse... I think!!

Neice # 10 is almost here...

I am so excited for this next week to come. My sister is having my 10th beautiful niece. There is absolutely nothing better then being an AUNTIE. I love the fact that I can buy them WHATEVER I want and send them home, I can pretty much whatever I want with them and of course...send them home. But, for me that is the saddest part. Sending them home. my heart breaks every time I have to say goodbye to them. I have such a strong bond with all my nieces all in different ways. All of them are so special to me. I was told once (not by anyone worth mentioning) that the reason that I love my nieces so much is because I don't have kids of my own, and if I did have my own kids that I wouldn't love my nieces as much.That is so not who I am. I think they need a National Auntie Day!! I know I would send my Aunts a card or something. I can't wait to go home and hold this brand new baby girl that was sent here from Our Heavenly Father, and to look into her eyes and let her know that her Auntie loves her so much and would do anything in the world for her. I Love you: Alexandria, Heather, Chesnie, Cambrie, Elizabeth, Brooklyn, Meggan, Kennady, Paislee, Maryanna, and of course the nephews Justin and Peyton.