Gleeful

Here is a really good, happy thing...

We have been approved for a mortgage to build a house starting in a few months and we actually saw the exact house we are going to build yesterday!!! I'm not sure anything can beat that. We are really excited and looking forward to new changes.

We attended the Robert Munch reading at the high school and it was really good.

Watching Grey's with Susanne was awesome.

A quick dinner of nachos and then actually in bed by 9pm. This whole week I've been trying to get to bed by 9:30/10 but it hasn't happened at all. Last night was better and I made my goal.

If it makes you happy

I am going to look up in a thesaurus other alternative words for happy. THAT makes me happy...LOL


THURSDAY JANUARY 13

-KEEPING STEADY GOING

-CLEANING AND HAVING A GOOD VISIT WITH ONE OF MY "THURSDAY" LADIES

-A SURPRISE, LATE CHRISTMAS GIFT

-HAVING A REALLY NICE, REFRESHING, MUCH NEEDED SHOWER

-MY VISITING TEACHERS COMING





Wednesday January 12

-a really great day at work

-sticking to our menu plan (i can't BEGIN to tell you how much money we've saved doing this. it's amazing!)

-a funny tanner story: when i went to pick tanner up from amelia's, we had dinner with her family and afterwards while she was upstairs, i was helping by loading the dishwasher and wiping the counters and tanner said to me:

why do you always clean up amelia's when we have dinner here?
M:because that's what friends do. they help each other
T: I KNOW! that's called kindness! (they are learning about kindness at school as a theme this month)
M: you're right. that's called kindness

-watching toy story 3 while laying in bed having some trail mix and hot chocolate



Tuesday January 11


-nervousness turning into sheer, jumping on the bed (literally), excitement!!

do you wanna know what made me happy today???

JUST DANCE!

after 3 VERY long weeks away from dancing (christmas break) dancing has begun again and my heart is very happy

a delicious dinner at amelia's. i love that amelia is our neighbor and that we just hang out like we've always been friends. she's a really happy person to be around and i'm glad that we've become friends. we had a neighbor growing up that reminds me of her. they lived across the street from us and megan and i ALWAYS played at their house or k was at our house. our moms were and still are really good friends. when my sister was hit by a van crossing the street from their house to ours, we spent the night (maybe it was even 2) at their house while my mom and dad were at the hospital. they have always remained good family friends of ours. i hope that our family's friendship with amelia's family will be like that too.

watching hannah! she is so cute and we just love her. i remember after susanne had her, i couldn't wait to go over there every week (it was 2x a week then, i think) and hold her and rock her.

cleaning for my "monday" lady. i love being able to help people by cleaning their house. i love the end result and the shiny-ness that follows.

finding tanner's school blessing from kindergarten (last year). in all honesty, it will always be a worry for me as his mother that he'll get teased and "bullied" because of the way he looks...but in his blessing last year it said that his friends would look out for him and i KNOW that still holds true today. his friends DO look out for him and so that made my heart happy knowing that he is blessed with such good people in his life that love him for him no matter what the outward appearance is. he is such a joy and miracle in our lives. i truly see the Lord's hand blessing him and his life in ways that i just didn't think were possible and for that i am deeply and profoundly grateful.

so that's my day in a nutshell...until tomorrow.

Simple and Joy

Simple things Challenge:

I have been playing around with my camera this week and although I still am not very good, I feel like I'm learning a bit as a play.

This may look like an ordinary picture but it has a really good story behind it.

When I was a little girl, my Mom made the BEST peanut butter cookies EVER! I mean, they were better than anything else in the world (they're from Betty Crocker if you were wondering). Anyways, my Aunt got this squirrel cookie jar for my Mom when she was on her mission in france and this is the cookie jar my Mom always put the peanut butter cookies in. It holds special memories of deliciousness. When I got married, my Mom said I could pick ANY cookie jar I wanted to take with me and it only took me a millisecond to say that I wanted this particular one. And although I have since acquired a couple more of her more "pretty" cookie jars, this one is and always be my favorite.

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It makes me Happy

Sunday January 9th

-having hot chocolate on a cold wintery, snow blowing day

-discovering more about the "nativity" story

-going to church

-listening to good music

SATURDAY JANUARY 8

I made a new recipe yesterday. It was okay. Not as flavorful as I thought it would be, but good nevertheless







We told Tanner that on Friday night that he would have to clean his room up the next day before he did anything else. So on Saturday morning while Matt was out doing papers and I was still sleeping, he quietly cleaned his room and when he saw I was awake, he proudly showed me what he had done.

cleaning the house and getting some much needed things sorted through and thrown out

staying warm in my house


Friday January 7th

I've been playing around with my camera settings and I like how this picture turned out. It's my wedding bouquet

having a dance party with Tanner and Matt

playing wheel of fortune with Tanner

I'm happy that I have time. Time to grow, time to learn, time to love, time to raise a family, time to mature, time to appreciate, time to be healthy, time to LIVE. Life can be so fragile and not everyone gets to have the time here on earth that they want.

What makes YOU happy?

January 6th:

driving to calgary and home again safely. the roads were really bad the night before and so i'm glad they were good the next day


good news at tanners appointment

seeing my mom and her treating us to lunch

my mom's shortbread cookies she brought for me. she forgot to tell me about them when we were up there at christmas so she brought me some (they were in the freezer)

the beautiful sun setting as we were driving

huge sky and open fields




JANUARY 7TH

laying on the verteflex at work for 20 minutes at the end of my day (if you know what this machine is or have ever been on it...you know what i'm talking about)

spending time with suzie

playing scrabble with my scrabble friend

wearing no socks

the color red

being daring and wearing something i wouldn't normally put together.

daily dose of happiness

It's only 12:40 and I'm posting happy already! It's going to be a great day!

HAPPINESS IS:

-eggs on perfectly toasted toast with melted butter and ketchup (i know, some of you may think that's gross but it was delightful)

-finally having my iPod touch back...leaving it at worked was not the best thing since i use the alarm on it for waking up

-reading my scriptures this morning AND last night when i was reading, i couldn't stop. i was aiming to go to bed at 9:30 but i didn't put the scriptures down until 10:15.

-reading a great article in the ensign this morning

-having a home

-having clothes

-the sound of laundry

-predictability

January 4th happiness

Happiness is:

-a good, busy, productive day at work

-eating home made broccli and cheese soup that was made by my husband

-having some candy popcorn and a good chat with amelia

-feeling like a daughter

-snuggling with tanner at bedtime

-feeling 'girlie'

3 days late

I posted in an earlier post that in 2011, I wanted to do a daily Happiness post. I know this is late, but still, here it is.

HAPPINESS IS:

Jan 1. being back at home with Matt and in my own bed after 2 nights on the love seat at my Aunts

Jan 2. wearing a dress I LOVE, seeing Susanne at church, and having quality time with just Matt to talk about finances, life, goals etc.

Jan 3. FHE with Tanner (we talked about families), building his crazy fort, being super productive and getting an adjustment (as a result of sleeping on the love seat, I was in desperate need of one).

Christmas Post

We had a very quiet Christmas this year. My Mom and older sister were in Utah visiting my Aunt for her 60th and that left my younger and little sister and other Aunt and I. We didn't do too much which was a really nice break. We went swimming, to the Festival of Lights and to Cross Iron Mills Mall for a little shopping (really, we just went to check out the boxing week sales...we only got a calendar and a Tanner bought a toy at the Disney outlet).

Here are a few pictures:

















This and the next picture are things that I made for people. Easy and really inexpensive.





UPDATE: if you want the link to the ho ho ho art, it's HERE

and the Christmas tree HERE

The Simple Things

Rebecca is doing a weekly photo challenge and I thought I'd give it a try. We'll see how long I can do it : )

If you want to check it out, go HERE