BuSy SuMmEr!!!

I has been a busy summer. We have been going and going since June and it's not looking like it will be slowing down any until after Labor Day when we come back from Montana and the first home game for the Montana Grizzlies. We are super excited to go because all of my family will be there.

We were able to spend some time in Glacier National Park in June and that was amazing. Here are a few of the pictures...

GLACIER PARK-THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE EVER!!

Last week Jared and I went up to Glacier National Park- it was AMAZING!!! Everything about it was just perfect, the weather, the animals, absolutely everything. This is just on of the many waterfalls that we saw. I will post more when I get a some more time.

Rain Rain go away...

Here it is the end of May and surprise surprise it's RAINING!!! I am so tired of the rain and the wind and the cold. I am ready to be outside and go on walks and go golfing with my husband and BBQing with my friends, and yeah!! But no I am stuck in my house with the windows closed (the only one that is open is the bedroom cause Jared likes to sleep in a freezer). I keep hoping that someday Jared will feel the same way and we can get out of this place, that's not looking very promising. I am sorry that this post is kinda raunchy, but I have to vent, (Jared is tired of hearing it) I am hoping by posting this Mother Nature will read this and feel bad for us in Cache Valley and change her mind about keeping winter here for 9 months.

It's been a while...

I just noticed that it has been a while since I blogged. a lot has happened in the last month. Girls Scout Cookies are done, we are on the tail end of Girl Scouts for the year ( I can hear the angels singing) We made our plans for our summer trip. We are going to Glacier Park. I haven't been there in 17 years, and I am so excited to show Jared the places that I use to go when I was younger. We have enjoyed the warmish weather that we have been having, we got to invite some friends over and BBQ yummy hamburgers and all the fixin's, Gary seemed to enjoy it. Other then that we are just waiting for summer to come. Hope everyone's having a good spring.

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!!