dear jana, i loved your post today. i think this picture is just beautiful so i am posting it on my blog as well-and i used your quote because i loved it. just so you know!

so i heard a story last night from bryan about his childhood. his dad went deer hunting, yadda yadda yadda, bryan ended up taking deer legs too school for show and tell. this is quite disturbing to me, but i am found without words that he took them for show and tell. who does this? the poor teacher, the poor scarred children.... i laugh and laugh and i am so thankful i married him. i got his quote off of janas blog because i love it, and find it so true. it takes a lifetime to get to know one another and that is the joy of it all....

"In marriage we marry a mystery, an other, a counterpart. In a sense the person we marry is a stranger about whom we have a magnificent hunch. The person we choose to marry is someone we love, but his depths, her intimate intricacies - we will come to know only in the long unraveling of time. We know enough about our beloved to know that we love him, to imagine that, as time goes on, we will come to enjoy her even more, become even more of ourselves in her presence. To our knowledge we add our willingness to embark on the journey of getting to know him, of coming to see her, even so wonderfully more. "

so i have not subscribed to any magazines this year, and enjoyment that i relish, because most of them have been cancelled due to the economy. then i found out about this magazine and i subscribed to it at once. it is a magazine about :"seeing the everyday is dedicated to the power and importance of seemingly small moments in life..." i wish to always notice these small moments and hope to live my life not forgetting to look for these moments. so i am cannot wait to get my first subscription! for information see below!

"in quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential."

-Elder Richard G. Scott

all photos via their website go here for a subscription:

http://www.seeingtheeveryday.com/subscription.html

go here for more information:http://www.seeingtheeveryday.com/

i have spring fever! the sun is out, it looks warm, it looks at though you could go outside and wearing only a sweater. i long to go outside and smell the smoke of farmers and peoples cleaning up their yard for the spring, burning the old debris, and waiting for a new beginning, listening to the lawn mowers and birds sing their song. however if i were to go outside it is only 18 degrees, no birds and no lawn mowers. so i looked for some new tunes to make me feel better and i found GREAT songs by ben harper and my mood perked up. songs that remind me of spring, and summer. now i can clean open the windows so all the flue germies can leave. this can hold me over until warmer days. i also began to think about when i worked in a greenhouse for a summer. it was really one of my most favorite jobs to be able to work with plants and nuture them, and watch them grow. i love nature and i am so grateful for it! i want to go on a roadtrip to jackson or yellowstone when it is warm. but for now, i think i might go see my sister in arizona!

"anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. "-author unknown.
oh how i love the rain! this week it has been my most favorite weather, rainy and cloudy. i think nothing is more beautiful then a cloudy day. as i write this rain splashes the window and covers it so i cannot see. oh i love this! this week has been a sick one with a sick me, and now looking like a sick husband. but one night i was feeling very sick, and my body hurt so badly and i could not get comfortable, i tossed, i turned, i woke up bryan so he could rub me, nothing helped. and then the rain started, and just listening to it, calmed me down and put me to sleep. sometimes all we need is a little nature to help heal us.

photog: http://pro.corbis.com/search/searchFrame.aspx

the sight and smell of spring orchards make me so so so happy!

"Abraham Lincoln said, “Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be” (in John Cook, compiler, The Book of Positive Quotations [1997], 7).
Make up your mind to be happy—even when you don’t have money, even when you don’t have a clear complexion, even when you don’t have the Nobel Prize. Some of the happiest people I know have none of these things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy. Why are they happy? I suppose it is because they don’t listen very well. Or they listen too well—to the things their hearts tell them. They glory in the beauty of the earth. They glory in the rivers and the canyons and the call of the meadowlark. They glory in the love of their families, the stumbling steps of a toddler, the wise and tender smile of the elderly.
They glory in honest labor. They glory in the scriptures. They glory in the presence of the Holy Ghost.
One thing I know for certain: the time we have here goes by far too quickly. Don’t waste any more time sitting on the bench watching life pass you by." -joseph b. wirthlin

photog:http://pro.corbis.com/search/searchFrame.aspx

today as i cleaned i realized i am out of stuff again. the same old stuff, so i made a list and here are the things that i always run out of. and if i could have a lifetime supply it would be of these:

comet

toilet paper

paper towels

bobby pins

i am WAY excited for spring!

photog:http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/

i just love this photo. the bright pink walls and the lamps. it makes me happy. so there are two kid shows that i like and will tolerate, okay 3. one of them is tigger and pooh show. where there is darby, the person i thought was a boy until months ago, i still think her voice sounds boyish. but the show today was about thunder storms, and i just wish for a classic thunderstorm with lots of lightening and rain, and i wish for it to last all day. this has not happened in years. a really good long thunderstorm. and sometimes i wish i had a house in a tree.

photo via:http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/fall-colors-2007-west/13-dan-and-amys-chinatown-loft-034426

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown

when i was little we took valentines around. my mom would take me at night or in the day and i would drop the valentines off ring the doorbell and run. and i remember people doing this as well to me, and my family. leaving sugar cookies, treats, cards, and i don't think people do this anymore-do they?

well i am going to be sure to keep this tradition going in my life. i think valentines day is not only a romantic holiday but a friend holiday as well, just to say thanks for being friends. a lady i used to work with had a tradition every year she would do with her family, her husband would cook this amazing meal for her and the kids, shrimp and steak, the works, then they would have a candelight dinner, with the family. i love that everyone was involved. this is all....

photo via:http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/at-australia/house-tour-camillas-armadale-abode-melbourne-071291

oh boy! i do love masking tape. ask bryan. it is sort of a problem, i love to even wrap it on my hands. i love the smell, i love it. and look at these beauties. i think this might be

my lucky day! yipeee!photo via:http://www.jordanferney.blogspot.com/

sometimes we all need to feel like we still got 'it.'

photo via:http://absolutelybeautifulthings.blogspot.com/index.html

what is it about nighttime, when i am home alone, with bella sleeping....i have dishes to do, a lesson to plan, and things to be done...yet i am little afraid. that is right folks, i am sometimes scared to be home alone at night. tonight as bry has to leave to go to an experiement at the school, i tell him i am nervous. his reply is loving and he remind me that i am always nervous when he has to leave at night. but i really was nervous. i am okay now, even though i am listening to every noise, and wondering if that door opening is someone coming in, or the neighbors. as i am doing the dishes i have to pause to go upstairs and make sure that i did not hear someone walking around. then i sit down to blog to take my mind of my troubles. then i do wish the neighbors were home, and that we were good friends, or friends. or i wish my police scanner worked-a strange comfort when i am nervous. so i guess i am silly for announcing this, but it is true, tonight i am a little lily-livered as ms. manda would say... at least i am brave enough to post this.

photog via:http://absolutelybeautifulthings.blogspot.com/index.html

i do love these felt hearts. i think i will make them into a garland.

yesterday and today i have spent cleaning and rearranging my house. okay it was mostly yesterday. i did one shelf, today i haven't really done anything, but think about all the things i want to do. there is something so fresh about taking everything off a shelf, polishing the shelf with good smelling furniture polish, then putting everything away in a diffferent spot. i have so much i want to do, but the days go by and i have not done all that i wished. i have my window open with fresh cold air coming in, and it makes me so so so excited for spring!

go here to find directions for the felt hearts:http://www.purlbee.com/valentine-heart-pins/

yesterday was bittersweet. bryan's team for the super bowl lost. however my guy won. and won big. i have been watching the australian open every day and rafael nadal is my most favorite tennis player of all time. he is a brillant player, and is amazing to watch. he played his rival rodger federer and apparantly at the award ceremony federer wept. and nadal was very kind and gracious and did not boast. our dvr quit recording the event and we missed the ceremony. RATS! however i do have a good quote for the day:


""The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed."" — Maya Angelou