My spiritual cup is overflowing.

I just had to post about my wonderful experience at laurels camp this weekend.

First off I have to say that I love YW! I don't think that I have felt as

close to my Heavenly Father as I have since I've been in the YW program.

I was extreeeeemely nervous but now I don't think they could tear me away!

I love it so much! 

Anyway, I am the laurels leader and was invited to go to the laurel winter camp.

 (this was our theme for the camp)

We packed up our stuff (LOTS of stuff for just one night....hey, we're girls!), met at the stake center,

prayed and ventured to our stake camp.

We got there, had some DELICIOUS dinner, played some fun games, had scripture study and

visited the most beautiful home I've ever seen in my life. There we received

some great spiritual guidance. (For those of you who know me, you know I did a LOT of crying.)

from a great woman. She let us snoop around her amazing home, which was a lot of fun, and we headed back to camp. 

The next day our awesome stake YW leaders had some fun and very heart felt things planned.

Lots of laughs, making new friends, and tears. That cabin was graced with the spirit the whole time we were there. It was so amazing to hear these

girls wisdom and feel their spirits and listen to their testimonies through what they said.

These girls are only 16-18 years old people!!!

Proud to say that I was able to rub shoulders with them for the weekend. 

I just want to say thank you to my bishopric for thinking enough of me to be

in these amazing girls lives.

I also need to thank our YW president for also thinking that I would be

able to do some good in their lives....don't know that I am...but I am sure trying.

If anything they help me with my testimony more than I do theirs. These girls are the best of the best. 

I am so lucky to serve these girls and to serve with the leaders that I do. I think we are all a pretty dang good team. 

Anyway, I had a blast and was so overwhelmed by the amazing spirit that was with me this weekend.

I came home feeling that my batteries had been recharged to the fullest. 

Love it! 

I can't wait for girls camp! ;) 

Hello??? Anyone there??

So I never post on this stinking blog anymore...but I really do wanna try harder since this is kinda my way of keeping a journal. I have been trying to get going on my craft blog more too so you (if there's anyone out there...do I hear crickets?? lol) should click on over and check it out. It's been nice cause its been forcing (it's not really forcing...more like enabling) me to do more crafty stuff. 

Also..I'm pretty excited about Valentines day coming up...not sure why...I just have always liked the holiday....Although I have NO idea what to get Ryan. He is so stinken hard to shop for so if anyone has any sweet ideas out there then I'd love to hear them. 

Anyway...Hoping to be back on here more...this is the start of more blogging! 

YIPEE!

Heaven and a heavy heart...

What do you picture when you think about Heaven?

This is what I think Heaven might look like...

Whenever I see beautiful clouds in the sky I always think about Bryce and my dad. 

This is a popular one for those of us belonging to 

the LDS faith....

 So comforting to think that our savior will be there waiting 

for us when we leave this earth. I like to think that there is

only an overwhelming feeling of love in Heaven, no sadness or anger.

I've been thinking an awful lot about this for the past week or two

now. There is a young couple in my sisters ward who just had a baby and 10 days later that baby's father past away due to leukemia.

My heart is breaking for this family.

My hope is that this is how he was greeted after passing....

I really put a lot of faith and hope into the LDS gospel's plan of 

salvation. I have to say that it is the reason I am sane today from the loss I've had in my life. It's so comforting knowing that

we will be with our families after this life and forever. 

My heart goes out to this family who is having to

deal with such a hard loss right now. I sure hope they can feel the

love and prayers that are going out to them.

Alive and well??

....I think so! haha This blog has been sooooo dang neglected.

I am trying to find time to blog...but I'm having a hard time. Hopefully once school starts. 

I am working now....Kid to Kid is the place.

It's great and I get some super things for the kids there, but man

oh man does it totally drain me!

I don't know if it is cause it's mixed with all this heat or what....but I just wanna come home and sleep.

Updates....I can't believe that I haven't blogged about this...but

Ryan Graduated in April. So proud!

He now has his bachelors degree in Clinical Laboratory Science.

It was a LOOOOOONG time coming! Huge milestone for us! (I say us cause I had to survive school too. lol)

 Other new news....Trey and Jadynn are both signed up for soccer! Yay! I'm becoming more and more of a soccer mom! Ryan is Trey's coach! (They must have been really desperate haha) and Jadynn's coach is HARD CORE! YES!!! Can't wait to see what he can transform her into!

Jadynn is also going to be celebrating her 11th birthday in a few weeks. Can't believe it! She is getting 
so big! We went school shopping today and we didn't really go to any kid stores for her. We shopped at Runway Fashion Exchange (amazing btw!), Rue 21, Justice (the closest to kid store we got), Old Navy (turns out she has out-grown their jeans. I am not a fan of their jeans and she is now old enough for me to not like them on her anymore.) And Famous Footwear. Lots of shopping. We got some great stuff. Speaking of school....Jadynn is going to be in 5th grade this year. Holy Shmoly! I feel OLD! LOL
I kinda can't wait till next year when Trey is in school! haha Can you say "more me time"?? lol Love the kids but I need to be ME sometimes.
And as for Libby....she is almost 16 months old and STILL NOT WALKING!!! What a lazy turd! lol We know she can...she will do it back and forth between us...but to get around??? Forget it! If she's going to be carried everywhere what's the point! haha But I can finally put her hair in a little fountain pony on top of her head! haha Love it! Finally....some hair!


So there you have it....some updates on us....no great pictures of my kids or anything cause I'm a loser! ha
I will next time....I hope!
Also....I hope to be getting more on the ball with my craft and photo blogs too. I have some exciting changes coming for my photography. Can't wait to share! 
EEK!

Our vacation to Seaside Oregon.

Okay...don't fall over and die!!!

I am ACTUALLY posting!

Wow, It's been a LONG time since I have 

done a post! There is so much that I would 

need to post to catch up that I don't even wanna

think about it! lol So I will just start from right here!

Ryan's mom paid for all of us to go to

Seaside Oregon on vacation! It was so

good to get away! But it's always good 

to be back! So here are a few pics from the vacation. 

I will try to post more later as I get them done!

 This is what you see when you walked out to the

beach and look south! Pretty WOW! 

This was at low tide so I was able to get a cool reflection

on the wet sand. Yay! lol

Jadynn and Grandma Lola looking for sand dollars!

Jadynn was Grandma's beach buddy! lol

Jadynn loved the beach!

This is a view of the houses and hotels that are along the beach and the beautiful mountains behind them. Pretty awesome!

This is a cliff that is at the lighthouse we went to see. 

Grandma had to have family pics by the lighthouse! They turned out great! Amazing scenery!

The whole Fam at the lighthouse!

I just spotted this awesome wildflower hanging out on the cliff

so I snapped a shot of it! So cool to have the waves crashing below it!

One of the lighthouse itself! So pretty!

This is a building that you can reserve and stay in that is just a little walk away from the lighthouse. How cool would it be to stay there?!?!? I bet it's haunted! LOL

This is what is along side all the winding roads. This is what I 

picture when I read the Twilight books. 

And of course I couldn't have gone without getting awsome sunset pictures!!! Jadynn is the little spec playing in the water! 

Love this one too! I got tons of sunset pictures! LOL

This is on the walk to Canon Beach. This is where Twilight was filmed....when Jacob is telling Bella the story of the cold ones.

And another of the Twilight beach! lol So cool!

So that is it so far! I will try to get more done soon! Thanks Lola for taking us along with you! 

Yay for posting on the blog! haha

Big News....

....in my photography world. I am starting a new adventure and hope it will be a great one. I am going to start doing birth photography. I will be offering super duper discounted sessions for the first 5 births I get to capture. If you or someone you know is having a baby in the near future please let me know. You can contact me for more info. I hope this will be a great adventure for me and for my clients. I'm so excited! 

Yay for babies!

AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!

So I have decided that I HATE getting ready for vacation! I am so stressed out and I am the one doing it all cause Ryan is working. I guess he did pack up Stella's stuff....but man oh man....It's not been a good week!

This is TOTALLY me right now!!! It's probably best that no one approach me...they could get their head ripped off! haha

Hopefully the next pics on here will be amazing pics of out fab trip! Hoping all

the stress pays off!

Peach out!

Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot....

FLIP FLOPS!!!!

How cute are these??? Got them today at Old Navy! $3.50!

It is so hard to find shoes for this little darling of mine....she has TINY feet!

These are 0-3 months....she's almost 11 months old now! Ummm....hello!!!

So her feet are fat and little....hard to find shoes that fit that! But these ones do the job! Can't wait for her to wear them on our trip! YEEEEHAW!

Isn't she a doll?!?!? We are all polka dots today!

And I SWORE when jeggings came out that I would NEVER buy them....well lookie what Libby is wearing! And the are ADORABLE!!! Love this girl! More than she will ever know!

Yay for Spring....nothing says spring like

 yellow polka dot flip flops!

It's on it's way! WAHOO!