7 days of thanks

Today I am thankful for the Relief Society. We were able to go help paint for a Sister who just moved into our ward from out of state, it was very fun and rewarding!
I love that we are always there for each other and can be counted on whenever there is a need. We as Sisters in Zion have a job to do, and we do it to the best of our abilities.

7Days of Thanks

So I guess I shouldn't call this 7 days of thanks anymore since I missed yesterday too, but like Friday, I will just post 2

I had every intention of posting this one yesterday.

I am thankful for the Temple and the ability that we have to go whenever we want to. I have heard so many stories of people who have had to travel 100s of miles and even some who have sold their homes to go to the nearest temple in neighboring countries. I am thankful to know that more temples are being built to make it possible for even more people to enjoy in the blessings of the Temples. I am thankful to have the power of the Priesthood in my home and the blessings that it has brought to my family. I am thankful that I was able to be sealed to my amazing husband and my kids for time and all eternity because families can truly be together forever!


This is today's:I am thankful for blogs and the wealth of information they provide. You can find everything on blogs! Some have recipes, organizing tips, scrapbook layouts, card ideas and even freebies! I love it! There are so many more things, I only listed a couple of my favorites

7days of Thanks

I am thankful for Creativity.

The creativity of whoever wrote the Seussical Musical, The teachers and helpers that designed all of the costumes, and the people that donated their time and money to create the hat cookies for the intermission snacks, and the set designers.

The creativity of my kids who inspire me every day and the creative minds that continue to post scrapbooking ideas and cards to inspire me to create my own.

And I know this was supposed to be 1 thankful thing every day (at least in my mind that was gonna be how it worked) but I just can't stop there.

I am thankful for everyone that worked behind the scenes of the musical who made it possible for the kids to participate in this experience.

I am thankful that my daughter has the desire to be involved in school. I know I get cranky about it sometimes because I feel like I am having to do 1000 things at once some days to be able to get her to where she needs to be, but I wouldn't change it for the world! She has such high hopes and dreams and if she can continue to stay on this path, she can accomplish anything! I love that she is in FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) and FCCLA (see post below) and the musical and I know she will have plenty more to do since she tries out for EVERYTHING and that makes me happy. Coolest thing of all is she is keeping straight A's and is very involved in her Young Women's program as well!

Seussical Success!!

Tonight was the final public performance of the musical. (they will do it again for the school on Monday) IT WAS FABULOUS!! The kids did a great job and the casting was perfect, and after stressing out Friday at work and using my lunch and breaks to finish her costume, Sierra looked great along with the rest of her Who family. This was such a cute play, I highly reccomend seeing it if it comes to a school near you! I didn't get to take any video(except a short one in the hallway on the way out, I took it with my digital camera that I didn't think I about until the play was over---duh!) since I don't have a video camera anymore (I broke mine when I dropped it on our boat, which we don't even have and haven't had for a couple of years, so yeah, I have been without a camera for quite some time now) They will have dvds available of tonights performance and I couldn't be more excited! I just hope you can hear everything on the dvd.

by the way, the video clip has NOTHING to do with the actual musical and I am really getting aggravated with YouTube because for some reason I can't copy and paste the whole embed code GGGRRRR

Ooops I did it again...

No this isn't gonna be a post about Brittney. I just realized it has been over a week since I posted last. I really had every intention to do my 2 page Tuesday this week and with that said, ok, I will not try to make excuses, I just didn't do it. I had a WW Wednesday post running through my head all day Wednesday(I lost another 1.6 lbs which has me at over 20lbs lost!), unfortunately, I had about 100 other things running through my head at the same time and with the exception of sleeping from 12am to 5:45am and then the 45 minutes to get myself ready for work and the kids ready for school, I only saw the inside of my house for about 30 minutes all day! This whole week has been like that. Sierra's play was tonight and tomorrow. This week was dress rehearsals, every day, just adding to everything else we had going on. Tomorrow is looking to be just as busy. We have Scouting for Food pickup in the morning and Moms and Muffins at the school. Then Steve and I are going to the temple together in the afternoon, then we have to pick his mom up and make it back home in time to get Sierra to school for hair and makeup before her performance tomorrow night. Just sounds crazy huh?!
I also wanted to do 7days of Thanks, which should have started yesterday with the last one being posted on Thanksgiving. So here you go, all of you lucky people, you get twice as much Thanks tonight to make up for yesterday!

1) I am thankful for my kids, as busy as they keep me and as stressed out I have been all week, they have been extremely patient with me and all of my crabbiness. Isn't it amazing how a simple smile from a child can change your whole perspective on things?

2) I am thankful for allowance points in my WW program. (and for chocolatechip cookies) I don't think I need to elaborate on this one

Stay tuned for tomorrows Thanks!! (it may be late, but I WILL do it!)

Whew...

Ok, so I have really been slacking, sorry. I had every intention of doing my 2 page Tuesday this week, but Monday night I went to a friends house to make Christmas cards and we used the last of my adhesive. Bummer. I still haven't made it to the store to get more, so no new layouts.

Wednesday's WW meeting was great, ok to tell you the truth, I missed most of the meeting, but the weigh in was great! I have now lost a total of 19lbs! I hope that anyone I have inspired to do this is also seeing great results!

This has been a REALLY busy week! I have barely had time to breathe!

I had a StampinUp workshop and we had a blast with it! AND to make it even better, I got lots of free goodies! Can't wait until it all gets here! It has already shipped...come on UPS!!!

Sierra's musical/play is getting closer and I am getting excited about it. The paractices are beginning to run late though...