North Carolina, I sure do miss you

Oh sweet Carolina, I sure do miss you these days.  What I would give to taste the sweet goodness of your Cheerwine and and Cherry-lemon Sundrop slushies.  I want to run barefoot like I did for 20 straight years of my life.  I want to run along your beautiful beaches and bury my toes in the sand.  But most of all, I miss my family and the family parties!  I love Utah, don't get me wrong.  There are days when I drive down 4th North and the view of Logan Temple and the most gorgeous sunset you've ever seen, setting over the Wellsville Mountains, literally takes my breath away.  I love when that happens.  The mountains, the church, the weather, the people, and the adventure that dwells here in Cache Valley has a special place in my heart.  Now given, here in Utah, food is not like food in the South.  It's actually healthy and quite good for you.  Hardly anyone uses real butter and when they know you've used real butter, this look of terror comes across their face and they no longer have an appetite.  They just don't know what they are missing out on.  I saw my grandma cook in the kitchen everyday with real butter, everyday, at least a full stick of butter was used....and she's 99 and still kicking.  In fact she is healthier than me :) and she is one amazing cook!  Oh sweet Carolina, I still bleed baby blue and I sure do miss you!

Family Ties

My nieces and nephews are growing up so fast!  I miss them so much!

This is Spencer!

Taylor is a teenager and taller then me! She's been taller then me since she was 11!  Taylor and Ashton are little soccer stars and pretty much kick every teams butt! 

Jayden is such a stinker but the cutest little stinker ever!

Brittany's more like a sister to me.

Family I miss you!

"Sometimes that mountain that you've been climbing is just a grain of sand"

So life hasn't exactly gone the way I wanted it too lately but when does it ever.  It's funny how some things can consume you, body, mind, and soul, and it clouds every thought and makes every decision harder than it is already.  Not getting into the Special Education program at USU is one of the many doors that has shut, but i'm ready to start opening new ones. So the Lord's plan is not exactly what my plan would be but it all works out in the end. So I woke up this morning, and I had food in my fridge, warm clothes to put on, and car full of gas to take me where I needed to go.   So I went about my day with a smile and did what I do everyday, I thanked the Lord for all the blessings in my life, I made crafts with children at preschool, I talked about hot tubs to people that have stories to tell just like me, and at the end of day, I go home and  I feel good about who I am and what I did that day.  I have a lot to be thankful for and sometimes that mountain that you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and as a really good friend of mine that I love, says "life does get better." :)

Small joys I found in Logan

I have to agree with my roommate Linds, I love these cars!My Preschool where I work!This is were I find my peace, "A Refuge from the Storm"

Training to run a half Marathon

So yesterday while my roomate Ash and I were running..we discovered an hidden paradise of wild flowers!  As we were on this run we have decided and made a pack to run the half marathon of The top of Utah in September!                            

We also discovered a secret path!This is our running path that we are training on!

Paradise Island

lots of yummy fresh pineapple=ulcers in my mouth but worth every one

Having a flipping good time swimming with the dolphins!

swimming with the sea turtles

I'm going to give it another try....

So I started blogging over a year ago and then just ran out of time to keep blogging. So I'm going to give it another try! Today is raining and cold and all I can think of is going bare foot and laying in the grass under the warm sun. Instead I'm at work trying to sale a hot tub....but instead of make a sale on a hot tub, I'm blogging ha! So I just got back from O'ahu, Hawaii last weekend and I just can't help feeling so proud of the men that fought for our country and that fight for our country today. I visited Pearl Harbor, the USS Arizona, and the USS Missouri and my heart was just overwhelmed with gratitude for these men especially my father because they volunteered to protect our country.

"ThErE iS nOtHiNg StRoNgEr ThEn ThE hEaRt Of A vOlUnTeEr"