SOCCER

 

This is our first year of playing soccer.  The kids think it's pretty fun and they sure can drink a bottle of Gatorade during a game. The weather has been beautiful and it's nice to be outside without mosquito's or to much smoke in the air (from all the fires).  Soccer goes from September to October, and they play at the park.  It's fun to watch the kids, and a good work out for them as well.  I'm kinda digging the fall.  If it could only last more than a couple of weeks.  Well lets hope so!!! 

New York

 

Bear River

 

This picture makes me ponder, I love the ripples that are formed and the color!  Makes me think of the other night.  Logan and I had been up to my parents after being in the mountains with friends for a marshmallow roast.  We pulled into our drive way and heard a car passing that sounded like they had a flat tire.  They pulled into the station and of coarse everything was closed it was 10:30 or 11:00 pm.  Logan said lets go see if we can help.  Long story short we meet a couple from New York!  Who knew in little ole Randolph that our paths could cross? It was fun to visit in the short time we had.  Makes you wonder why things happen the way they do.  If we would have stayed in the mountains longer or at my parents longer or shorter for that matter our paths would have never crossed.  I love being able to meet people from all over the country and world!  So fun to beable to help others and have good life experiences...

"2012" First Day of School!

 

Maddi 5th, Danny 3rd, and Olivia 1st grade.

 

This is the first day of school, and the excitement is in the air...

 

Backpacks on...

 

8 years old

 

6 years old

 

10 years old

 

They were so excited when I dropped them off they went running!!...

 

Mr. Ward is Danny's teacher

 

Mrs. Cornia is Olivia's

 

Mr. Brown is Maddi's

 

These two pictures I took the day of school pictures.

 

 

I can't believe our kids our growing up so fast.

 

I feel so blessed to be able to be their mom.  Although there are some days I feel totally inadequate for this job.  Some how the stress is dissolved when they say I love you mom, or thanks mom for all you do.  Those sweet faces and a hug and kiss from them make all the worries go away.  ( at least for that moment of time : )

 

So thankful to be a mother...

What makes me laugh:

 

SHELLY, SANDRA, BRIDGET

 

Good friends, make me laugh!

 

Camping this summer we had a moment of girl time... 

 

These two are a little crazy...

 

Fun, adventurous..

 

Just great to be around...

 

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

May Sarton

 

Isn't it great to be around people that you can truly be yourself around!

 

LIFE IS GOOD...

"Tension"

 

We got in bed last night after 4 hours of helping the kids with their homework and getting ours done too; and I felt so much tension in my shoulders and back.  Interesting that I would run across this Proverb today.  Makes me think?

 

I didn't have any relaxation in me last night.  Logan's advice to me was "is your stress affordable?"   "What do you mean by that?"  I said

He said "why did we do all that work?"

I said "so we can help the kids and ourselves be educated and get good grades."

Logan "was it worth it, your stress?" 

 

So my tension I think was the pressure I feel while trying to reach all of our potential.  When in reality I need to relax and enjoy who we are and we we are becoming!

 

 

 

 

 

Family

 

Putnam crew/Peart/Staheli

 

Us girls

 

We are on top of the world... well almost, kinda, Crawford.  My oh my does the days go by.  I remember when my mom was 27.  She just had a birthday a few days ago turning 63.  Where oh where does the time fly???  Dads 64 Dana is 43 and I'm 39.  Here is some thoughts on age....

 

"Age is the art that one crafts of the mind. Make it always more lovely for others to find. Take no thought of the body, or wrinkles of skin. The most beautiful art is what comes from within."

Wes Fessler

 

"Instead of spending childhood trying to be older, and adulthood trying to be younger, learn to accept who you are right now."

Wes Fessler

 

Let's enjoy today wth the knowledge we have and the things we get to discover!

 

 

Making our own Folklore

 

Isn't the world we live in magnificent?

 

 I was saying in my last post back to school!

 

Every new semester I get the feeling of being overwhelmed and wander what in the heck am I doing?  I wonder why didn't I do this those 10 years I had before I got married and had kids.  When I say this to Logan he says: If you would have we would have probably never meet.  This is true.  I worked with his brother Marshall and because of him and Logan having a surgery on his knee magic happened!  For me it was magical the first time we meet...

 

Life's pathways and patterns make up ones life. 

 

I for one wouldn't have it any other way.  Glad to be where I am in the pathway I'm traveling.  As for school this semester after reading all the syllabuses.  I find myself excited to have the opportunity to learn about these classes.  Folklore, Finances, Adolescent growth and development and Math ( this one is really hard for me, and after this semester it will be my only required class.)  So a little something I learned yesterday....

 

Folklore is informally learned and unofficial, part of everyday experience.  Who knew, I for sure didn't.  I thought I was going to learn about folk dancing or unicorns or something.  Instead I get to learn about traditions, and see different ways people express themselves. 

 

So coming from a gal that has attended the school of hard knocks, and is attending college;  I have to say that college is a lot less painful!

 

So here is to learning and making our own Folklore!!