I love this quote!!  Change is always happening, to us around us, it's apart of our life's.  Do we want to take the Change and do something with it or not?  Change is upon us, Summer time!  Kids are out of school, new schedules to be made, opportunities for progress do we grab it and embrace the change or let it pass by grudgingly and dragging and kicking all the way.  : ) 
I'm excited for new adventures with the kids and trying to fill our days with fun, work, building and strengthening talents and some school stuff (reading, math for the kids and me, and a little extra biology for me as well).  Life is good an I feel so blessed.  Getting ready for girls camp next week and I'm so happy that Logan gets to spend it with the kids.  The kids are thrilled they love, love their dad.  It's good for them to get some time to be alone with him.
 On a side note I stopped drinking pop 2 weeks ago and I have to say I'm trying to embrace this new life style of getting more rest at night no naps during the day and no pop. To be truthful it has been quite hard....  I only drank 1 diet pop on average a day.  I really didn't think it was that big of deal.  Well, it was apparently! (HEADACHES)  I went to the Dr. 2 weeks ago and said I'm so tired and tired of gaining weight what's up with that?  My blood work was good, and the above was his advice.  So with the big 40 coming this year here is to better health and lifestyle. 
Realizing that "Change is Inevitable, Progress is a Choice,"

Things to do, in home sweet home : 0 )

  

There is always swimming.  See that snow on the mountains ?

Randolph's Swimming pool isn't she a beauty ; )

When you can't go swimming and it's a bit to cold to sleep outside there is always indoor camping!

Home sweet home...

Their Dad is the best!!  Always helping the kids create fun memories.  One for example is putting up a tent for them to enjoy!! (INSIDE)

Who says you can't bring the outdoors, inside?

and a little thought to go along with that...

"Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you but on what happens inside of you."

President Harold B Lee

Saturday Easter Celebration

In the morning we went to the park for a community Easter Egg Hunt!

Danny

Olivia in the black jacket.

Olivia, Maddi and me.

In the afternoon we went to the ranch.  We went on another Egg Hunt, ate some yummy food, rode in the mule, visited and flew kites.

Logan trying to get a kite in the air.

Dana is the photographer here and Craig and Mezz are in the mule.

Kids running

their on the hunt!!

Some of the group is behind Olivia, who is leading the pack.

Who says a swing set isn't fun?

Olivia helping her friend.

Maddi and Savannah checking out the goods!

This is a group of the kids at the ranch.

(My pictures got out of order)

This is back at the park.  Maud - me - Clint -

Ellen and Emma

At the park Olivia with Haydee.

Annie and Danny

Maddi

Picture below is back at the ranch.

Kites a flying!

That's how I remember Easter's when I was little we always got a kite.

What a fun bunch of kids!

We had a great day! A bit on the cold side but hey, we have had Easter in a blizzard before so what's a little wind and cold weather? Right!

***Weekend Cleaning***

Time for house cleaning:

So the house is a mess and I'm ready to spring clean before full on Summer is here.  I found this picture and thought it to be quite hilarious.  So, no matter how deep our house gets or how much laundry and cleaning there is, there is always one thing too think about!!   It could be a lot worse, you could be the...

 TOILET PAPER!      

  Ha Ha ; )

Here is hoping for one clean weekend...

Under my Belt ; )

One more semester under my belt!

Well almost, 3 out of the 4 classes completed!  One more test tomorrow and it's a wrap for two whole weeks.  Then summer semester starts.

Life has been a bit on the crazy side lately.  With kids, finals, Young Women's and a few sicknesses it makes for some interesting days.  Logan and I celebrated our 11th anniversary on Friday.  It wasn't quit the day we had anticipated.  We planned on going to SLC for the weekend him and I.  Instead Libby woke up on Thursday with spots on her face and a terrible looking sore nose.  I took her to the doctor to find out she has Infantigo. (Skin Staff infection)  Which is really contagious, so the plans had to be cancelled and we put the kids to bed on Friday and watched a movie.  If you were to ask us 11 years earlier what we would be doing now it probably wouldn't have been this.  Funny how time changes things and kids give you a new perspective and how as parents you have to be flexible.  Actually as human beings our lives would be a lot less stressful if we all could be more flexible.  Life happens and change is inevitable.  So, with 11 years I am grateful for one awesome husband who is and has been so good to me!  I love him and feel so blessed to be with him for always and forever!  I'm so happy that we have three great kids, who we love and feel so blessed to be apart of their lives.  They keep life interesting and I love to watch them play.  The other night they were dancing and singing and it was so fun and funny.  I'm glad they are so happy and like to entertain. : )  So grateful for a new week and hopeful I can get caught back up with our house that has been denied some TLC for a very long semester.  You have to let some things go and the deep cleaning definitley went out the window.  So here is to getting things back in order before I have to go back to school and the kids get out of school for the summer. 

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

Soren Kierkegaard  

Miracles

My heart is full tonight and I have to give thanks for miracles.

Logan, a neighbor and I witnessed an accident.

Three boys rolled a suburban and two were ejected.  By the grace of God none of them were killed.  I'm not sure of the extent of their injuries yet, but I know we witnessed a miracle, three to be exact! 

I'm so grateful for the tender mercies of God.  Thankful for second chances for those boys and for the ones who get them.  Thankful for the gift of life and again I'm reminded of it's preciousness.  How quick our lives can change forever.  It puts life's struggles in perspective and I feel somewhat ashamed of my last blog entry : ( 

I'm not always sure why God puts you in places, but I testify that he put us there tonight.  That we were suppose to be there and see and experience what we did.  It wasn't by coincidence that we saw it!  There was to many things that lead up to it to deny them.

I'm grateful for a loving Heavenly Father that knows each of us and cares for us.  He understands that mistakes will be made and has given us a Savior to help us.  I am thankful for my older brother who died on the cross and lives again. 

My hope is that I can be like Him and look at life with the bigger picture in mind.  Not to get so caught up with the little things. I hope I can be a little gentler, kinder and loving that I can serve others, learn more, and help our children learn more about our Savior and our Heavenly Fathers Plan.

Will we know all of the reasons we our placed in situations?  I'm not sure if we will?

But, I know for tonight I'm blessed!

Thanks Lord for watching out for those boys!

*Clean Windows*

Oopsie is that a word?  Well if it is not, it is now.  That means too too much!

Why do we over commit as women?  Why why?  I ask myself why and so does my husband!

But as a wise woman once told me (Mom, oh wait a minute she tells me all the time) "this too will pass".  and so it does....

So facing this week head on I shall go and do:

4 days of church activities (1x to SLC- 3x to Kemmerer)

Health Fair (1 day)

and Finals is next week!

Finding babysitters for three of those days!

and trying to get over a months worth of sinus infection!

Wow, I'm feeling better already : >

Funny what a little writing does...

and here is a little something from my book of thoughts:

"The most important part of vehicle maintenance is clean windows - so if you are broken down, you can still enjoy the beauty of the view"  Dan Eldon

so here is to tackling one thing at a time and not complaining, ANYMORE!  Off to do some English....