Spring

Well I am definitely ready for spring and spring cleaning. Paul and I have started to clean and declutter our home so right now it is a mess but soon it will be nice and clean and decluttered. We also went and bought some flowers this past weekend and planted them in our garden. I will take some pictures and get them posted. This is what I wish my garden looked like but we don't quite have this many flowers. I have to say that my favorite thing about spring is the warmer weather and the colors of the blooming flowers it is beautiful to see the brown and gold turn into green and vibrant colors of the flowers.  What do you like about spring?

Spiritually Uplifted!!

So I had two experiences this week that uplifted and strengthened me. The first experience was that I was able to go to the Draper Temple Open house with my family. It was amazing I wish I could accurately describe the emotions that I saw Lily experience it was very humbling to watch her face look at the pictures of Jesus and to see her face as we entered the sealing room and celestial room. She loved the "sparkly lights" that were throughout these two rooms.Lily also was very excited because she got to see Grandpa Teran at the temple as he was an usher the night that we went.


I was very grateful to be reminded of the blessings that I have through the gospel and covenants I made in the Temple. I am especially grateful to know that I can have an eternal family. This reminder was very strong as i had my second spiritual experience of the week on Saturday as I attended Larry Miller's funeral. Larry is my second cousin as his mom is my great Aunt and my dad's Aunt. I believe I have that right, anyway I attended the private as well as the public portion of his funeral. My testimony was strengthened about how much one person can do for the cause of good things. Larry was a very good man who did many good and great things at the service I had the chance to hear from President Monson and from Elder Ballard. Their tributes and talks were amazing and they just reminded all of us that we can do better and that we can all do things to help others. I also had the privilege of shaking President Monson's hand he is an amazing person and has an amazing spirit. he shared poem called "the bridge builder" that Larry had made into a beautiful statue and gave one to each of his children as well as President Monson. President Monson said the statue sits in his office and he has all visitors sit and read it. Here is the poem

The Bridge Builder

An old man, going a lone highway,
Came at the evening, cold and gray,
To chasm, vast and deep and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,
"You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way;
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide --
Why build you the bridge at the eventide?"

The builder lifted his old gray head:
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pit-fall be,
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."

Will Allen Dromgoole

I will just end with saying I know we have prophet of God and that we have the blessings of an eternal family available to us. I hope all of us will strive to remember those who will come behind us and build our own bridges to help others like in this poem and like Larry did for so many in Utah as well as for the state of Utah.

Uncoventional Valentines Day

So Paul and I definitely did not do or have a normal Valentines Day! I stayed at home in the morning and did a bunch of laundry and cleaned my house which made me very happy. while I was doing this Paul was at our friend's house working on car that has had a few problems lately. Through the past month he has changed the strut on the drivers side, and then the bearing and hub on the drivers side as well. He finished up with replacing the bearings and hub on the passengers side. He know has the strut left on the passengers side to do but we are waiting for warmer weather and some time to save money for the rest of the parts to do this change. Anyways that night when he got home I got to go to work until 8:00 and then we picked up my grandma and went to eat out at Olympus Burgers. it is was some good food.In the end although my Valentines was not a traditional one I enjoyed it. Besides Paul and I figure we will do an actual date some other time maybe this Saturday!! Oh I did get a very good gift I got a box of chocolate covered strawberries from Edible Arrangements!!
Very Very Yummy!! Thanks Honey I love you!!

Brooklyn's Surgery

So for those of you who don't know Brooklyn had to have surgery for an inguinal hernia. She had it about two and a half weeks ago. The surgery went well and she recovered fairly quickly though about two days later she caught a virus and was sick for the next week and now she has been teething and has a slight cold. She just can't seem to catch a break, though she is a trooper most of the time you can't even tell she is sick except for when she starts to get tired or hungry :) The day of the surgery Lily was really cute she was very worried for Brooklyn and when they took her back to do the surgery Lily asked us why we were letting him(the Dr.) take Brooklyn because Brooklyn was our baby and no one elses so he couldn't take her. We explained that the Dr. was going to take her and make her better and then we would get her back. That calmed Lily down and then she was okay. The other update on Brooklyn is that she is a happy and curious baby. she loves to take things or items out of the container or basket etc. and then put them back in. She loves to follow me or Paul around and gets sad if we don't pay attention to her when we pass her:) She is not walking on her own yet though! Which is nice because it is alittle easier to watch her with crawling:)

25 random things!

So I am doing this because I have been tagged now by to family members. If I tag you it's because I want to know more about you!

1. I have a twin sister her name is Chandra and I am one minute older than her.
2. My twins baby Alex and my baby are two months apart mine is the older one :0
3. I love to read books all kinds I like when friends recommend new authors to me.
4. I like to travel but haven't gotten to go very many places
5. I would love to go to Hawaii and England one day
6. I love to talk I am definitely a people person
7. I am a night owl and not a morning person :)
8. I graduated with a Bachelors in Marriage, Family, and Human development
9. I rarely ever argue with people unless it's my husband he seems to bring it out in me :0
10. I have only lived in two states Utah and Texas
11. I am scared of spiders I absolutely dislike them!!
12. I like to scrapbook and learn how to new things, that is when I have the time to learn new things!
13. I think I am a boring person that no one likes
14. I want to learn to speak fluent Spanish
15. I don't really like to cook and usually don't have to since my husband does like to cook.
16. I do like to eat, I love Chinese food and Italian food
17. I like to watch movies though I don't go to them very often
18. I love to have time to myself to do things like read, scrapbook or swim
19. I love the ocean and wish I lived closer to one
20. I really enjoy the outdoors and my goal is to hike more this summer
21. I don't like to run but I do like to swim
22. I want to get better at taking pictures of my family and friends
23. I have a hard time making lists like these :)
24. I don't really like to wear much jewelry though I am starting to like the beaded necklaces
25. I Love the Utes! GO UTES!!

I tag Sherilyn, Angie, Amber Tingey, Candace, Liz Carr, Heather Carr,Michele Betancourt, Dedra Tregaskis, Ranae Bates, Brittnee Bates, Marcele Bates, Karon May, Jessica Dowden, Brandi Davis, Ardy Evans, Marlene, Missy Riffle, Rachel Teran, Rachel Morley, Anneliesa, Nicole Lundberg,and any other friends that are interested :)

Bugged!!

So I have been tagged by my friend Candace about ten things that bug me! So here they are

1. I do not like when your driving and people wait till the end to get over to the exit lane or turn lane and cut you off to do it. Be courteous!!

2. It bugs me when people give me that look when I am at the store with my girls and they are being loud or throwing a tantrum and I am trying to get them to calm down but the look says wow you need to control your kids I am doing the best that I can!!


3. It drives me crazy at work when I am having to work with one of the high school kids in the cafe and they just stand there and talk to their friends or just stand there and watch while you are cleaning and serving the customers. you are not getting paid to do nothing!

4. It bugs me when people cut into a line any line when you have been waiting and being courteous but they had a friend save their spot for them while they were doing something else.

5. What really bugs me is people not using their blinker lights at all and just switching lanes or turning and cutting you off to do it while ignoring the fact that you have your blinker light on to come over or to turn.

6. I also get bugged when I am talking to Paul trying to share my opinion and he will be like no but or that's not right. Just let me share my opinion!! :)

7. I hate when at the last minute people ask me to cover their shift at one of my jobs and I do it because of needing hours but when I try to get the favor returned they can't do it!!

8. It bugs me when people will see me with my two girls and will come over and say oh they are so cute you must be done having kids. I appreciate the compliment of my girls being cute but not the assumption that I am done having kids because I have two.

9. It bugs me that I don't seem to have enough time in the day to do everything that I want to do.

Well I was suppose to do ten of these but for now these are the only things that I can think of that bug me. I am going to tag Marlene, Missy, Dedra, Michelle, and Megan.

So What's Up?!

Well for me it is work that is up the only days lately that I have been home are Sundays though two of the past four Sundays I have had to work which was not alot of fun. My other break from work came from the Scrapbook Charity Crop that I went to hosted by my Sister In-law Marlene and my friend Missy. It was so much fun and it was great to be with friends and family and try to catch up on my scrap booking from last year. I am proud to say I finished thirty pages and am now at least half done through Brooklyn's first year album :). Marlene and Missy you are amazing to me with the things that you can do and accomplish the crop was great and thanks for the items I got to take home for free even if my luck at the raffle wasn't great, I at least got the free items to take home so I didn't feel left out. Besides work life is good my girls definitely keep me busy like today I took a nap and when I woke up my girls room was a disaster they had taken every toy out and about half their books and all of the blankets and blanketed their room. I wish I would have taken a picture though I am sure it will happen again so next time I will take a picture. though I do have to say that Lily was really good about helping me clean it up!