Utah State Ambassador Scholarship

Keep Your Fingers Crossed! 

Time

"This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it - or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in it's place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure, in order that I shall not regret the price that I have paid for it."

One Good Family

Memory is a funny thing. Recollections slip in and out and around in time . . .leaving plenty of room to weave and backtrack . . .and drift and glide. In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.

Birthday Bash - A Fun Night To Remember!

If everything seems under control, Your just not going fast enough!

A Foggy Day

I love it when the wind comes up and blows the fog out.

Sometimes I need the wind in my head!

The White Tornado Lives On

Two important thoughts to remember today. First; When it comes to the Laundry, I am my mother's daughter, I can clean anything! Second; If you hope to remove any stain, it must never see the inside of a dryer, that is of course unless I do your laundry. Finally, a note on the likes of rust. It's like a bad character flaw, nearly impossible to get out. And last, my quote for the day. "The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell." ~Joseph Smith 

Icy January Days

"January is here, with eyes that keenly glow,

A frost-mailed warrior

striding a shadowy steed of snow."

Clear Skies

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.  ~Walt Whitman

I Love Ewe

SHEAR INSPIRATION

It's All In How You Look At It

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."

T.G.I.F.F.F (Thank Goodness It's Faye Fun Friday)

If you want to improve your day, just invite your grandkids over!

Thirty Years Ago

Journal entry:
I still remember the day he gave them to me, a dozen roses made out of one dollar bills. It's been thirty years since that day. It was hard to part with the dust covered vase of love, but a cleaning frenzy hit me this morning. In an effort to de-junk, I took each rose apart, washed, dried, and ironed each bill, now tomorrow I'm going shopping.

It takes three dollars to make one rose. In the end I counted my money and only thirty dollars could be accounted for. Two roses had been confiscated. I wondered who the thief was.

Deserey came home late and saw my cleaning efforts strewn everywhere. "Mom, what are you doing," she said. "I started at seven this morning Des, and now it's nearly midnight. What does it look like I'm doing," her question was annoying me.

Em and Kaedell also came to see the mess. Kaedell had to put in her two cents worth as well. "Mom, you're suppose to finish one room before you start another," she touted. "I'm up to five bags Kaedell," It felt good to brag about my hard efforts. Then I told all three of them how I was going to be making a large haul to the DI.

After seeing the mess and visiting for a bit, Emilyn and Kaedell went home. They promised to come back and help me though and I was happy about that. After they left I told Deserey all about the missing money. "Can you believe someone raided my roses?" I was very complaintive. She started to laugh.

"I remember the night exactly mom," she said. Then she went on to tell me how her and Kaedell were home alone one night and decided they needed pizza. They both hunted the house over for some spare cash. That's when Kaedell spotted the green dust laden roses. "Mom will never miss two roses Des," she told her. Des went on to tell me all about how fun it was to steel my money and how they really enjoyed the pizza! Her memory of the whole event was crystal clear. It left me laughing.

I think tomorrow when I go shopping, I'll buy more than just pizza. I think I'll spend more than thirty dollars too! Hahaha I'm going to buy myself something really nice to remember my roses with.

Today was a great day!

Today's Philosophy

"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear. and not bothering."
Piglet

Done

To finish the moment, 

to find the journeys end in every step of the road, 

to live the greatest number of good hours 

is wisdom. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look To This Day!

Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the varieties and realities
of your existence:
The bliss of growth;
The glory of action;
The splendor of beauty;
For yesterday is already a dream, and tomorrow is
only a vision;
But today, well lived, makes every yesterday A dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a
vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.
                                  -from the sanskrit

Alfred Hitchcock

Rice Krispie Treats and The Vanishing Lady. I love a good movie night at the cabin.
It was so scary when the power went off. There Des and I were all alone,
Then suddenly the power came back on just as the lady vanished.
"Alfred, did you plan that?"

When In Doubt Throttle Out

Life; ride like you stole it.

Grandmother . . . A Grand Mother!

        taken with my iPhone

Some moments in life are so precious they can't be described with words. They can only be savored and tended to in the heart. So that when you look back on them they spring to life again and again, bringing forth the sweetest joy the soul can feel.

Home Is Where The Heart Is

"A House is made of walls and beams; A Home is made of love and dreams."

Good Things Come and Good Things Go

"Sometimes you have to let go to find out it wasn't worth holding onto."

Change Is The Only Constant

We don't just go through life, we grow through life and sometimes we just need more room.

One Cold Day

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

Life Celebrated

Call it a clan, Call it a network, Call it a tribe, Call it a family;

Whatever you call it, Whoever you are ---You need one!

Jane Howard

Shiny Hopes Of A New Year

The Survivor

When everything in life threatens to eat you . . .Just keep swimming!

The Unexpected Guest

Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune--without the words,

And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

Emily Dickinson

Simplify

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." 

~Hans Hofmann

The Gift

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson

New Beginnings

Saving is giving up what you want now,  for what you want most.

The Guardians

God's Light & Love

Where Will This Year Take Me?

So today I set out on a journey. 365 days and 365 pictures later. It will be a visual journal. The idea isn't new, record one's life one photo at a time. Can I capture the essence of a single day in one photo? I find the challenge intriguing. It will be as difficult for me to limit myself to just one picture, as it will be to keep up with pressure of posting daily or weekly which ever I choose. Despite the obvious challenges and nerve wracking anticipation, I know this will make me a better photographer.

I look forward to where my footsteps will take me. I wrap my heart around my lens ---Dress in your very best Life, and smile big . . .I'm going to take your picture!