This week...

I just thought I would give you a run down on my week. Life is insane here. I find myself eating more doughnuts than I should and exercising less and less. But, I am serving. Serving in my ward, neighborhood, and my family. Serving brings blessings. Who needs a skinny butt when you can have blessings of hapiness. I always try to tell my kids, when you are having a hard day and feeling down on yourself, go serve someone else. That seems to be the solution to alot of selfish depression in my opinion. Jeff is taking Garrett to father and sons tonight. He has horrible back pain and is going to suffer through it and camp for the night. We are so glad we have a boy to take camping. The girls and I are off for a girls night. Dinner and bow making. Maybe a little Pride and Prejudice after.

Here is a poem:

When the day is long and hard

And life seems much too fast

Just remember all is well

You could be living in the past.

Good thing we arent on the trail

sleeping in a dirty shirt,

Bathing in the nearby stream

and Pooping in the dirt.

We could be eating flour and water

searching for buffalo chips

or praying we wont be scalped or

eaten by wild um..........

I dont know, you finish it.

I would love to hear your ideas.

Kelsey C.

Happy Anniversary!!!!

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways....

Tonight Jeff brought home flowers for me. I figured it was because I had been a little stressed out with work and kids and stuff. How nice, I thought, to bring me flowers for no reason. What a great hubby!

Then, Jeff sayes, "Happy Anniversary Honey". I thought, Oh MY GOSH!!! It is our anniversary tomorrow! I totally forgot. How sad, to forget the one most momentous occasion in our lives. The day we began this journey. Does that tell you how I can definately have too many irons in the fire. Such is my lot. I can't believe I forgot. Good thing he loves me. I would do it all over again. That's for sure.

Especially for the honeymoon......

Ok, things are fine.......

There is a strong possibility that I have over reacted just a bit. You know when you're angry and Satan makes everything a little worse than it should be, I guess I have a tendancy to freak out a little. Just ask my kids. There is nothing horrible going on. Just normal teenage and post-teen stupidity. Please don't call and ask whats going on. Im over it and I am most definately not angry at the Lord. Still strong in the gospel.
Amy

Painted Nails

Tonights post is somewhat different. Today my sweet little sister offered to paint my toes and finger nails. Let me tell you, I never paint my nails. I am not at all good at it. So I took her up on the offer and picked a dark sparkly color, not sure if I would like it. Tada! I loved it. I suddenly had the desire to actually do my hair. I was feeling pretty frumpy this morning and It was amazing how a few little short painted nails changed my desire to spend a little more time on myself. So, my advice to anyone who is feeling less than fantastic. (Which pretty much sums up alot of mormon women.) Paint your nails. OR have someone do it for you. It is amazing what a difference this little thing will do for you. I feel very girlie and trendy even at 10 oclock this evening. I am enjoying watching my pretty fingers type. I know it sounds silly. But it did the trick.

Nauvoo!!!!

We made it to Nauvoo people. And we didn't give Jeff's parents a heart attack by suprising them. We love it here. The weather is freezing and rainy but we are having so much fun. Love to you all. Plus, I am getting homework done for my class! Ta DA!!

Somewhere in Nebraska

Tonight I am giving a little update as to our trip. We are on our way to Nauvoo Illinois. We are of course driving. We left little Marysa home as she doesn't like to travel long distances. We are having fun. Lots of time spent in the car. Nine hours the first day and nine hours today. They are being good sports. Aside from Kenna wanting a souveneir everywhere we go and driving through blizzards, we are enjoying the different scenery. Today I saw a sign for The Pony Express orginal Station. So, we took a little detour and Jeff made the kids get out of the car so I could take a photo. I loved it. They froze. It was snowing of course. SO FUN!!! I will update more. I did find a workout room at our last hotel. 30 minutes was all I could do. So not much weight loss on this trip, but lots of eating! FUN FUN FUN. Ok, The blog isnt letting me upload pictures, So i will try again later. We were talking earlier about if Jeff's mom would be upset that we didn't bring Rysa to visit, but Nicole assured all of us that her grandma wouldn't even notice because she loves Nicole so very much. Thanks Nicole.