The Meaning of Life

Since I have been a blogger now for about 4 months, (3 1/2 which I didn't do anything, but that is besides the point) I have figured it all out. Yes and I am sure you would all like to know the Meaning of Life. Well it has been a very interesting couple of months. Without going into any dirty details, because they really don't matter in the large scheme of things, I have learned a lot these couple of months. Hopefully I won't forget these lessons, and as they say in church, "please help us (me) to apply them to our(my) lives." So here is what I have learned...
Tess just threw a huge fit and I lost all my great awe inspiring, world moving, life changing thoughts.
Oh well I guess I will have to learn it all over again.
Typical motherhood moment.

Originally I was going to end my blog there and talk later about lessons I feel I have learned, but really that is the meaning of life. We learn a lesson, then we forget it, then we learn it again. Life happens in between our great epiphanies. We have to learn these lessons over and over again so we can slowly begin to change. After awhile we will start to actualize these lessons and become better people. Throughout these last couple of months a scripture has be running through my head, almost daily:
2 Nephi 2:25
"Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy."
Mainly, "men are that they might have joy" has been in my head. I really feel that this is one of the lessons we are to learn in this life. What joy is. Trials are there to make us stronger, but they are also there so that we may have joy. If we never had bad stuff happen to us, how would we feel joy? I am truly grateful for the trials that I have been given these couple of months and continue to struggle through. It has given me a chance to stop and reflect on what is really important. And it has given to a chance to learn how to enjoy little things, and be grateful for what I do have. I feel like a spoil child whose eyes have been opened. I am embarrassed that I haven't been more grateful for...everything. Hopefully, I can change and learn this lesson sooner, rather than later.

TAG! Your It!

Thanks Summer for tagging me! So here goes:
A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1. What was I doing 10 years ago.
Ten years ago I was trying to figure out how to break up with Sterling. But dang it he bought be a really cool sweatshirt on a trip to California and I just couldn't do it. So I figured I would wait a couple of weeks then do it. Oh well. He stole me heart by then, thank goodness!!!
2. 5 things on my to-do list today
I got a ton done today!! That never happens. I guess that is why I have time to write this blog. I didn't get much sleep last night thanks to Tess, so to keep from falling asleep this afternoon I did laundry. (So that was pretty much it, but in my book if I get the laundry folded and put away in one day that is huge)
3. What snacks do I enjoy?
Anything with chocolate in it. or good ripe fruit. Any kind.
4. What would I do if I were suddenly a billionaire?
Pay tithing (thanks summer) then take all my family(s) on a nice vacation. Then I don't know. That is a lot of money. Just enjoy life and make sure others around me can enjoy it better too.
5. 3 bad habits?
Procrastination, stressing over little things, thinking I can do more than I can
6.5 places I have lived?
Washington, California, Colorado, Utah, Israel
7. 5 jobs I've had.
Warehouse worker at AMD, Diet Tech at Hospital, Outpatient Dietitian at Center for Change, Manager for Eclipse, and my favorite Mom and Wife!
8. 5 thing people don't know about me.
I love Jane Austen novels.
I can't ski, rollerskate, or ice skate. And trust me I have tried to be good many many times, but I always look like the idoit out there.
I have can't smile with my lips closed.
I broke my arm, fell out of a moving car, and got a huge black eye from my brother, all when I was six.
I took football stats my senior year. and I think i knew more about football than the players on the team. They sucked.
Ok so I tag
Lisa, Rich, Marla, Shar, Brooke

Flying Baby

I just found these photos on my computer the other day. I filed them under a folder i don't normally use. I was so excited to find them. Isn't Tessa adorable. Yeah I know I am pretty lucky. So here is a page I did with my fav photo.

Digital Scrapbooking

I have a had a few request about digital scrapbooking, so I will let you know a few sites that I love. When I started a year and a half ago there were probably 50 sites. Now there are at least 500. It can be kind of overwhelming. Anyone can be a designer of digi scrapbooking kits (it is so easy to do) and so there are a lot of them out there. A good way to start is just to google digital scrapbooking. Most sites have tutorials on how to get started. I recommend using Photoshop elements or Photoshop CS as the software. If you don't have it and never used it, it can be very confusing the first time. The helps with the software don't help. But there are tons of tutorials out there now on digi webesites and blogs. I have been learning as i go a long. I am no expert, but i will answer any questions you have. It is a lot of fun. I am warning you, I could spend hours on one page or surfing the web for new sites. Alot of sites have freebies. Especially designers blogs. Those are good places to start to pick up some free kits or free pages. All you have to do is click on the link and save it to your hard drive. Make sure you have lots of extra space on your hard drive. one kit could be like 70 MB. Right now I probably have 10 GB of scrapbooking kits saved on my computer. And about half are from free sites. So here are some of my fav sites:
www.digitaldesignessentials.com ( I love her kits, I could spend a lot of money here. Look at the gallery of pages. If you like them get the February idea notebook it is a great deal. I doesn't tell you what is in it, but you won't be disappointed.)
www.scrapartist.com (some cool freebies)
www.scrapgirls.com (not crazy about the gallery pages, but this site has some amazing elemets, templates, and actions that you can make youself. Really fun, but not a good site to start at unless you just want to read the tutorials. It can be kind of overwhelming.)
www.designerdigitals.com (i think this site has some cool freebies)
www.theshabbyprincess.com (go here first!!! Some really cool free kits, and tutorials.
(if you like a certain designer google her name and try and find her blog. Chances are there will be freebies on her blog or other cool info.)

So here are just a few sites. there are tons and tons more. If any of you are really interested I will post some more links of some great sites.
Let me know if you have any questions. I will try and help.
Enjoy!!

This page I made using stuff from the digitaldesignessentials.com feb. idea notebook.

Valentines Day

Yes tomorrow is Valentines Day. And since I am trying to get better about the blogging I thought I would post a special tribute to the love of my life, my sweet dear hubby in honor of V-Day (plus I want some chocolates). I am pretty lucky to have him. He is an amazing husband and father. Thanks for all you do!

Still trying to figure it all out

So it has been awhile, I know. Ster had no clue that I had started a blog, I guess I haven't really told anyone. So I really should get the word out and do some more posts. It is pretty fun. With my free time (hah hah) I have been not blogging obviously, but surfing the web looking at digital scrapbooking sites. I am official addicted now. I started about a year and a half ago with digital scrapbooking and it is amazing how much it has taken off, especially this last year. It is really fun, but for those of you not into it I am warning you it is very addictive. Once I figure out how to do a slidshow on here (I am sure it is so easy I am just retarded) I will post more of my pages, but for now here are a couple. Sometimes I love them, other days I am like I will defintetly have to re-do that one. But that is why digi is so great. No mistakes.

So has anyone seen that the old movie GIGI. I watched it the other night while Ster was at class and, I just love old movies, but anyway I love how sexist they are. It always makes me laugh that the men are so mean to the women and the women just swoon over the men. And finially they kiss such a passionitly almost hatefull kiss. (think of "Its a Wonderful Life" when George and his girlfriend i can't think of her name right now finially kiss, It is like he hates her when he kisses her and she is just chasing him) Anyway these movies make me laugh, because obiously we knew who directed them. But what I am getting at is in GIGI, the uncle sings this song "Thank heaven for little girls" All of you have heard it I am sure, but its kind of creepy when the uncle sings it because he is such a womanizer and he is like in his 60's and singing about young girls. The movies herione is probably 15. So i have had this song stuck in my head for at least a week. I really have to do a scrap page with this as the tittle, because of course all i have is little girls. Not because the song might be considered creepy. So I just have to laugh. I had the perfect photo opp the other day and just didn't get it in time. Syd and Tess snuck into my closest, turned over my laundry basket, put a step stool on top and climbed up to my jewlrey box. Syd was wearing one of my dresses, with some of my heels and tess had a blanket on her head like Mary. They looked so guilty. All they needed was some lipstick smeared on their faces. It was too cute, but I wasn't fast enough. Oh well. Next time. Thank heavens for little girls.