Bang Trims

My husband once stripped me of my "scissor rights". 

You can't blame him though.... Someone had to.

I looked in the mirror one day, pulled out some scissors and started going at my bangs. 

I didn't think it looked TOO terrible...

Obviously not terrible enough to stop me from doing it again....

This time we were in town (we lived in Utah at the time) staying at my In-Laws who live in the same neighborhood as my parents did at that time, for my sisters wedding. Morning of wedding, I discovered some scissors at my In-Laws.... I was in need again of a bang trim and went at it. But I couldn't make it look good to save my life and it was a SERIOUS hair emergency. (Can you feel the exaggeration in my words?) I mean, family and friends were going to see me that day! 
So, I got in our car and drove ten seconds (ish) to my parents house and begged the bride-to-be (who also was a cosmetologist for a few years) to stop all that she was doing and fix my bangs. Focus on me, darn it! :) 
As you can imagine, she didn't think I was very cute or funny. But I still think it's kind of funny. And even she couldn't fix it...I hair sprayed and pinned. 
After that, everytime I held my bangs and looked cross-eyed at them funny, my husband was saying, "Don't do it!"

So, when I got the idea to trim Aleah's bangs....I didn't. And I put it off. And off.... There was never a good opportunity to go see my sister to have her do it. Last night though, I watched a couple youtube videos and today I got enough courage to give it a good shot. 

Cookies are great incentives!

I did GOOD!

...I think...

 

Anyways,

who is next??

One of my Favs

“Never in our time has there been greater need for all mankind to turn their lives around and live by the teachings of Jesus Christ. 

One has only to read a newspaper, listen to news broadcasts, or engage in conversation with someone to become despondent with the state of the world, his nation, or the individual plights of his neighbor and himself. 

 
 
'Where will it all lead?'  
we ask in dismay. 
What is happening to the leaders of men and of nations that has brought us to such a condition? Where, along the way, have we failed?

 

The answers are found in an examination of the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the nonconformity in our lives to the truths found therein. It is the individual responsibility of each of us to so live that we may extend our influence for righteousness to others who, seeing our good works, will be led to glorify our Father in Heaven. As we have often heard, the way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

 
 
'Your task: to build a better world,' God said.
 
I answered, 'How? The world is such a large, vast place, so complicated now. And I so small and useless am. There’s nothing I can do.'

But God in all his wisdom said, 
'Just build a better you'"




-I don't know who wrote this. And I don't remember who gave this to me. But I LOVE it.

I DARE You

To all of my readers (all five of you...) who do not have a blog or haven't written in theirs for a while--

I DARE YOU 

to start one or to publish a post in your old one.

Why? 

becauseilikereadingblogsandiwantmoreblogstofollow...

I saw this:

How to Create Your Own LDS Blog

And it got me thinking.

- I have friends and family who have good things to share and should share those things with the world. ...Married with kids, no kids, single, LDS or not LDS, young or old....I'm telling you to start a blog--Share good somethings in the world.

-To my LDS family and friends--Two words: Member Missionary. 

Blogging CAN BE a really good way to share the Gospel.

The world needs a good example, and you are that. And you can share and do a lot of good through a blog. Even if you aren't perfect. You don't have to be. In fact, even better! Mess ups and slip ups are apart of this journey. Learning from them is beneficial for ourselves and others. Blog about it.

(I love me an open book kinda person!) 

-Blogging is an easy way to record memories and special thoughts or feelings.

 -It's fun. And mostly pretty positive....except when you choose to not be...and that's okay every once in awhile too.

*You don't have to be great at writing (duh, look at me!)

*You don't have to write in it everyday. 

*And you are allowed bad days and writing rants, but if you decide you are over it and want to delete your negative nancy post--you can. Or you can keep it up too because it's funny and hey, I'm not perfect. ;)

*When you have writers block, you can google blogging topics.

*You don't have to be the most interesting person ever--Just share something brilliant on your blog that came from the most interesting person ever instead.

*Tell us about 

Your healthy lifestyle

Your struggles

Your favorite hobbies
Your homeschooling---(I know I have family who can teach me something on this topic!!)

Your talents

Your children

What makes you happy...

Your top five reasons for whatever

Your singles activity

 What you saw that was good in the world today

Teach yourself how to create a blog 
 (or ask rachael burnham @ www.rachplusdan.blogspot.com to help you. that's what I did...haha. I'm kidding, you should probably not ask her for help unless you actually know her. But her blog is adorable right?) 
 And get after it! 

I can't wait to read it!!

5 Reasons

FIVE reasons-- You should get a dog right after you get married!

 The year is 2010. It's a warm July day (I think it was July... or June). We were blissfully, semi-newly, engaged--just hanging out at a friends home when.....we discovered the chihuahua puppy litter. We picked the CUTEST littlest puppy out and .... WE HAD TO HAVE HER. Our future landlords okayed it, we agreed to the price with our friend and just like that this little pup was going to be OURS! Right after we got back from our honeymoon. 

Yay, so exciting! 

Except, my Dad totally kept raining on my parade with things like, 

"You shouldn't have a dog in your first year of marriage"

...whatever, Dad.... ;)

These are my top five reasons why your Dad doesn't know what he's talking about

 and why you should get a dog right after you get married:

1.It's fun, not spending time with your new puppy. 

And it's even more fun staying in with a new puppy than going out with your new hubby. Duh.
 "Well, we don't want to go do that because we'll have to leave the puppy home again and we just left her home all day today while we were at work". LAME.

2.When you move to your next apartment--you'll have to put down an AWESOME pet deposit on top of the normal deposit. Our last apartments pet deposit was $300. It was so great. Who doesn't love to fork out extra money that could go towards something else more necessary?

I was never this happy

 3. When you have a newborn (especially a first) you'll still really enjoy taking your dog on a peaceful little walk around the apartment complex to go pooh. Yes, after you've told her all day, "Ok, hold on a little bit longer!", "I'm almost ready!", "Wait, wait, wait!!" Finally, you'll find the perfect time, put your dogs leash on, get some more clothes on yourself, sometimes have to bundle up the baby because they will not lay down and take a nap.....and then take that walk. Aw, fresh air.... Come inside and then...."What the heck dog, we just went out an hour ago! Whyyyyy, do you have to go out again??" (Either said in deep growl voice or long whiny voice).









4. Your dog might be as sweet as this little puppy. Or it might not and want anything to do with your child for the most part, but I'm sure our deal is just a fluke deal. I probably just got the wrong size of dog and timed my child and the dog adoption at the wrong time.

How I look keeping my daughter out of dog poop in the backyard

5. When you become a homeowner, you no longer get to walk your dog around on a leash so it can go poop. But thank goodness you still get to clean it up every time before your new little clumsy walker comes outside to play. Your neighbors probably think you look cool walking with a shovel, eyes glued down to the ground, walking row by row, cleaning up poop...

Okay, I'm being completely sarcastic. And I'm SURE that the dog lovers hate me right now. 

But, here's a little bit of why I wanted to do this post: Because I could have fun with it. AND....So you don't buy a dog and then turn around and give it up for adoption. I'm just saying, think about some things and then decide if you can still make it work or want to at this point in your life. 

My dog is not abused. We like our dog. She is actually pretty spoiled. 

Bike Ride--She's in the basket---Maybe this is a bad example of being spoiled...

Oh smoochy smooshy smoocher...poopy.

And she gets to go on fun camping trips with us!

One time she hopped out of our car and tried to go round up some buffalo. Coolest chihuahua ever moment.

 

 It isn't all bad having a baby and a dog. There is something a little bit fun about your baby having a pet to play with. I've really enjoyed watching our baby learn about our dog and our dog try to play with our baby. But, it's been a lot of work having a dog as we became new parents. And if I were to do a do-over, I would have adopted a pet AFTER I had all of my babies and probably after the last one was walking. It would have been easier to bring her into the mix and then she could have grown with our kids instead of "I was here first".
And what if one of our children comes with a dog allergy? Something I didn't think about until having children.

It just would have been easier for us to have a dog10 years after being married rather than the first 10 years of being married. 

But we like her and that is why we have kept her.

But sigh....Dad was right...Ha.

Spring/Summer 2014 Bucket List

Sssummerrr!!!

I am READY for SPRING!!  

I have spring and summer fun on my brain. Last night Cade and I created a bucket list for our Spring and Summer. Most of it involves Aleah, but some things like Jump Creek, will be just Cade and I.

I'll add more to it, but so far this is what we have come up with....

 *Camping Trip

*Starlight Mountain Theater

*Roaring Springs

-Cade has NEVER been there, whaaat??

*Play Sand Volleyball

*And basketball at the park

*Jump Creek

-I've never been...

*Check out Lake Lowell

-Cade's never been..and it's been awhile for me. We're also close to it now.

*Go to the Zoo

*Feed the ducks

*Birds Of Prey

-We've both never been..

 

*Have a picnic with friends  

 *MK Nature Center

*Create a slip-n-slide...or just go down someone elses

*Start a garden

*Go to a Splash Pad

* Hit a few golf balls

*Go to the fair

*Rodeo

We also have plans to go to Utah this summer, but I made my list based off of mostly what was closest to us here in Idaho.

Pin-Win

Healthy winner-winner from Pinterest. White Bean and Kale Stew. I liked this. But, I have also been known to make some pretty boring soups, so this wasn't too different for me. Boring as in, I only really add in my pot: vegetables (whatever seem like a good mix), beans, water and whatever seasoning in my cupboard that look okay, kind-of-boring-soups.
I also liked this more without parmesan cheese the next day I ate it for leftovers. With the parmesan cheese the night before I was having texture issues. The kale?--couldn't taste it. And I also added kidney beans. It was good. I'll make this again. How does the hubby feel about it? ....He's a sport. He'll go along with anything I plan to make for dinner, even if he's secretly dying inside. :)