Pictures on Blog

First of all, I am so excited that I was able to put some pictures on my blog!! Yeah me and a huge thank you to my sweetheart!!

The camera is a little $10 job that you just aim and click. You don't have a chance to see how they turned out until you download them. Someday soon I hope for a real digital camera but in the meanwhile this will do for little items.

I hope you enjoy the pictures as they come over.

Mini Moo--Isn't she beautiful

Pictures of some of the yarden

These are some of my bean plants getting big. I will be picking beans for family home evening.

Sad strawberry plants

Small baby oranges, keeping fingers crossed

a sampling of the aloe vera garden

12 years and going strong

On August 9, my sweetheart and I celebrated 12 years of married life together. I am so thankful for such a wonderful man to share my heart, dreams and life with. We spent the day quietly at home and just enjoyed talking together and spending the day with each other. Every Saturday is our day and we enjoy them every week. He is the love of my life and I don't know what I would do without him. "He is my life now!" (Twilighters will know what I mean by that). I am thankful for his support and love and I appreciate him and love him more with each rising and setting of the sun.

Pennies are Powerful

On Thursday evening we had our Gourmet Book Club and it was awesome. I was the presenter for the book "Three Cups of Tea". It was an enjoyable evening. Greg Mortenson is someone we can all get inspiration from. One person has done so much for the children, women, and men of Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is awesome to learn about brothers and sisters in other cultures and to learn how such a little bit helps so much. So we now have a pennies are powerful campaign in our book club. Every month we will bring our pennies and spare change and I made a container for them. We will then turn the money over to one of the sisters in our ward that spends a lot of time in Mexico helping with the orphanages down there. It is incredible how much we take for granted. We all donated toiletries, sheets, pillow cases, clothing etc. She was amazed at how many of the children were sleeping on raw mattresses and pillows. The children loved the donated items.

I will keep the blog posted on future inspirational events.

Fun week

We had an audit this week that we passed 100%. It was an internal audit from our parent company but it is still unheard of to not have at least one thing they find that they want to change so I am very proud of our department at work!!! Mini Moo is really starting to open up to us and we play every night now. She loves chasing bubbles and she is really funny to watch. Also, I have a ribbon that I use as a book mark that she loves when I play tug of war with it. She is feeling more at home and it is good. She is almost always smiling and purring. She does not like to be held or petted for very long at a time. She is a great addition to our family and we love her.

Great things coming.....

This week was a good work and very productive. Got a lot done at work this week. There were not any activities this week. Upcoming this week another ward invited me to a provident living activity that the sisters have once a month. It is going to be awesome to spend time with old friends (we were in 10th ward before), and to learn so new things and hopefully have some ideas to bring to Vista 5th ward. Our Gourmet Book Club is reading a book called Three Cups of Tea and I will do the presentation on the 2nd Thursday of August. It is a wonderful book and I encourage you all to read it. It will inspire you to great things and is especially uplifting.

Hears to great things ahead!