Five Years, Valentine's and Life

WOW! This weekend has been so many things, amazing, spiritually uplifting and discouraging. Last week was spent dejunking and cleaning and getting ready to ask our real estate agent about listing our house. Turns out our house really isn't worth what we put into it, but I don't know that there is a house out that right now that is. So we have decided, with a little nudging from the Lord and some extra spiritual experiences that it is time to sell our house. We are very bummed because we love our house and really don't know what we are going to do if it sells right away or if it sits on the market. We are just going to walk by faith. So by Friday we were looking forward to celebrating our five year anniversary. It was so nice to go back to the place where we spent our wedding weekend, the Armstrong Mansion in SLC. We LOVE it there. The staff is wonderful, the room (we have only stayed in the one) is very nice and quiet and the food is great. We celebrated on Friday so that we could head back home on Saturday and get the rest of the baseboards painted. Then we decided that we really needed to get the rest of our 3 month food supply, aka dried milk, eggs, sour cream, butter, bread mix so that I can make bread etc. The best store that we have found to do that at is in SLC. So we ended up staying around a little longer, but thought that it would be okay because Creed had Monday off. So we went home later Saturday, didn't get any more of the house stuff done, but enjoyed sharing Valentine's day with Sarah. Sunday was great, we went to church, had a few moments where baby decided to let Daddy and Sarah feel it move and kick, had a stake fireside on preparedness and then went back to SLC (we needed to order some more bread mix and pick it up in SLC). Monday arrived we went and ordered our bread and picked it up and then our car started to make some funny noises when we turned. I am here blogging and the car has been in the shop the whole day, and no one knows what is really wrong or when it will be fixed and we are stuck in SLC. Thankfully Shirl and Elizabeth happen to have an extra car that we can drive home tonight and hopefully come back tomorrow and pick up our car.

With all that has happened I started to think back on the last week and today. Someone in Sunday School once said, when you start to do what the Lord wants you to do Satan will play his cards. Today I felt that. We have been trying to follow the Lord and to do His will, and we really feel like we are doing that the best that we can, and then Satan played his card. The car place thinks that our axle is broken somewhere, which says to me, MONEY! Which really just made me feel bummed almost all day, because there was so much to get done at home and we weren't able to do any of it, and it means that we might not get to take Sarah to the Draper Open House on Friday like we planned. Anyway, we will still go, I just have to be optimistic and look at all the things I have been blessed with in the last week and in the last year. So I guess I just wish everyone the best and hope that even when Satan plays his cards we can recognize that as saying we are on the right path.

10 Things I Love about YOU!

So I finally finished one of the projects that I started at the Close to My Heart Album Retreat. Thursday night we started a mini album using a product that doesn't come out until the next Idea Book (April I think, sorry not thinking so well today!) it is a chipboard mini album and I LOVE it and can't wait till I can buy more! The paper that is used is the That Amore paper pack. The ribbon is the blush ribbon collection and we used the dimensional elements numbers, tulip and chocolate ink pads, love letters rub ons, a few brads and the My Acrylix Love Letters stamp set. If you are wanting to do this project let me know because it is actually kind of easy and fun. I have the instructions and am thinking that if I am well enough I will do this workshop when the Mini Album is available. For those that live far away I think that I am going to be putting kits together, meaning I can do all the cutting and just send you everything and the instructions, or just the instructions if you want just those. Anyway, here it is and I hope you all like it. Let me know what you think! (PS I just looked at the blog and the pictures and captions are all out of order and I don't feel like fixing it so sorry!) Front Cover Inside Front Cover #1 I love your smile #2 I love your Adventurish nature #3 I love your funny faces #4 I love your creativity #5 I love your silly dances (which I haven't gotten a picture of EVER!) #6 I love your eyes #7 I love how smart you are #8 I love how strong you are #9 I love how great you are with our children (had to make it plural so it lasts for years!) #10 I love how you love me Back cover (nothing special on inside back cover)

Happy Birthday to Close to My Heart

So this year is Close to My Heart's 25th anniversary and to celebrate they are offering a really cool stamp set for FREE! All you have to do is go to my website and order $25 in stamps set and you get the Good Times Stamps set for FREE! To see the stamp set just go to my website. Also I can't remember if I told everyone but Close to My Heart has their own TV show on my website as well and you can still order some of the products that they use in the shows at a discount. If you have questions let me know!

And the winner is......

Angela! You got all but one of the movie quotes right. The first movie was Wall E, one of Sarah's favorite movies, she sometimes wanders the house singing the song from Hello Dolly! She makes me laugh. I also wanted to say that Caroline, it wasn't your fault that I had some contractions, so stop fretting about it. Stuff like that happens sometimes and we just have to roll with the punches. I also thought that what Jeanette Lynton wrote on her blog about saying I love you is really inspiring and I encourage you all to read it. Also if you have questions on her art, let me know! This week looks like it will be a good one and I am very happy about that so off I go to conquer the first Monday in February!