Dear friends and family,

May your table overflow with plenty.

May your heart be filled with love, peace and kindness.

May your countenance shine with the spirit of Christ.

I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

I really do have the cutest grandchildren :)

A few weeks ago my wonderful family came together to take new pictures for Grandma and Grandpa to put on our wall. I still have a long way to go before they are on the wall, but I just wanted you all to see the delightful and beautiful grandchildren that are mine.

Thanks to all of my children for the wonderful job you are doing... raising your children... it's not an easy thing to raise little people with personalities all their own. But I think that each one of you are doing a marvelous job.


Love, love, love you all, Mom Y.

Happy Easter

Sometimes I think that what I have to say is not important.
Sometimes I feel like what I have to say is boring to others.
Sometimes I am really shy about putting my feelings into words.
It's like praying in public, you feel self concious and you don't know what to say.

But what I have to say today is very important...

I am grateful for the birth, life, example, atonement and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
He is everything to me!
I testify that he lives!
May you all have a beautiful Easter Weekend.

Whoops...

"Finally feeling better" was supposed to be the title of my blog..not the blog itself. I guess I pushed the wrong key because a customer came in or was it because I found myself having a coughing fit for the 3000th time.
Actually after 2 full weeks of the flu (starting the day after Valentines),being quarantined to my house by the doctor, one week of regaining my strength in tiny increments and still an irritating cough I finally felt like putting on make-up again to come to work. It's amazing how many people told me I look good instead of looking like death warmed over.

It really makes me appreciate good health and gives me empathy for people with life long illnesses. Can I just tell you how good it feels to feel good!:D

Finally feeling better

Finally feeling better

Love

Just a little shout out to ya'll...

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

It's a good time to remember the things you do to make me smile and bring joy to my life.
Thank-you all!!!!

Why?

Why do we insist upon making our own lives and other peoples lives miserable? Why do we sometimes take life way too seriously? Why do we berate ourselves and look at the negative and dark side of everything? Why do we look for each others faults and not their goodness and abilities? Why don't we see our own goodness and abilities?

It seems that we are our own worst enemy!

Life is hard but that doesn't mean that we have to dwell in the negative or find fault.

There is so much in life to be grateful for! So much that is good!

I challenge each one of us to find 2 positives for every negative.

To think Two good thoughts for every negative thought we have about ourselves, our spouse, our children, our job, our home, our lives, our neighbors, the world we live in, etc...

Ok, I'll get off my soapbox.
Have a nice day :)

I was just reading Noelles blog about climbing 20 foot ladders while being pregnant. It reminded me that I was up a ladder and on the roof helping Greg shingle our new home. I was 8 months pregnant mind you. We moved into our new home 2 weeks later and Adam was born a week after that.
Oh, the crazy things we do when we are young (and have a deadline).

Do you ever have one of those days?

Well today it's my turn.

Living Room, Kitchen and Family are clean. My laundry is done. Life is good.....

Well, what do I write about?

I have hundreds of wonderful thoughts with hundreds of wonderful things to say...But when I sit at my computer actually trying to write...poof they are gone and my mind goes blank!

Does anyone else have this problem?

So maybe I will ramble and something good will come of it.

I sit in an office with hugh windows from floor to ceiling on one side of the room. And let me tell you it is cold. When the morning front desk people come in the temperature is in the 50's. With the help of a floor heater it finally reaches 65 by the time I come to the front desk. Still, I have to have the heater blowing directly on me to keep warm (the fact that people are constantly opening the front door and letting in the cold air doesn't help matters). Do you feel sorry for me yet?

I was thinking about the really cute things children say and I remembered when Krystal was three years old. Greg had been growing a beard for a couple of days. Krystal climbed up on his lap and just stared at the new growth. She gently rubbed it with her hands and then she said,"oo, doesn't that hurt"? "what" asked Greg. She replied," all those slivers in your face"?

One day Erik was about 3 and a neighbor had given the kids plain flour tortillas to eat. "Don't spill", she said. Erik looked at her and asked "does these have water in em"?

I was talking to a neighbor one day about how much I loved children. Ryan who was 4 looked up at me and said " you love little children"? What an eye opener. I realized that I needed to be kinder and more patient. Oh, the things our children can teach us if we will pay attention and soften our hearts.

I am taking an adult religion class at BYU on tuesday nights. The teacher seems to be a marvelous and interesting man named " Ronald Bartholomew. We are learning about the 2nd half of the New Testament starting with the book of Acts.

He said something that really hit home. Something I had always known but never really understood until that night. We were talking about the Holy Ghost and of course we all know that we are given the gift of the Holy Ghost when we are baptized. That he comforts, teaches and bears witness to us of truths (and much more). Well brother Bartholomew said " do you realize that the Holy Ghost is a member of the Godhood? That you have been given the gift of having a member of the Godhood with you at all times if you live worthily?

That thought fills me with humility and gratitude to know that we really are of such great importance to our Heavenly Father, his son Jesus Christ and the third member of the Godhead, the Holy Ghost. There really is a plan and each one of us is an important part of it. Sometimes I have felt like an ant or even an amoeba when compared with the humungous amount of individuals on this earth. How can each one of us be important? How can the Lord know each one of us?

Well if you think about it we have probably been around for millions of eons of time and, even now,

the Lords time, spacial abilities and dimension is different then ours. Who knows what he sees past, present and future.

I just know that he is aware of me and that he really truly loves me (ask me about it someday).

And if you think about it and remember those special witnesses given to you personally, you too will have a testimony that the Lord loves you.

Remember that I love you too!