Day Eight

Today I'm thankful for a long warm fall...as predicted, tomorrow will be cold, wet and dark. I'm grateful we've had a long warm fall and not an early winter. With crunchy leaves, long warm afternoons and good snuggly mornings. You have to enjoy the small things in life sometimes! :)

Day Seven

Today I'm thankful that I live in a country where I am allowed to voice my opinion and share my views. To vote without the fear of being murdered or my vote not counting because I am a women, not a land owner, or any of the other reasons that do prevent other countries from allowing women to vote. In other news, I'm also thankful this election has passed because now we can remove all the negative political ads from the TV. It's hard to teach my daugther to be positive, to see the good in people and to only say nice things about people when she is bombarded with negative campaign ads slandering the other canidate.

Day Six

Ok, I missed 4 and 5, but here is day 6. Today I'm thankful for a job. It may not always be great and some days I wish I could stay home, but I'm grateful to have a job with some flexibility and that I learn something new everyday.

Day Three

Today I'm grateful for my best friend Jenna. I can talk to her all day and still never run out of things to talk to her about. Even though she's across the country, it's a weird day if I don't talk to her. Libbi: she says shes grateful for animals

A Month Of Gratitude: Day Two

Today I'm grateful that it's Friday....for no particular reason except that I love weekends.  :)

Libbi: She's grateful for Grandma and Grandpa...me too, but it's for different reasons.

A Month Of Gratitude: Day One

Today I'm grateful for amazing grandparents who have shown me how to love, how to care, how to smile, how to care for a family and how to stop and enjoy the quiet moments and small joys in life.

Libbi: She says she's grateful for the iPad at Grandma's...I guess it's the little things in life.

A Month Of Gratitude

I'm going to try to post something each of us are grateful for each day this month.  I feel like as of late we have really just been going through the motions of life, loving the good parts but not really living.  As I was leaving work today, I followed an older gentleman who was walking very slowly with a cane.  As I watched the rest of the world hustle and bustle around him, I was reminded of my grandparents and how much I love them and how much we have to learn from them.  I thought it ironic as I stood waiting for the elevator in the parking garage, that this gentleman caught up with all the people who had passed him in a rush.  He held the door open for each 'young' lady and politely smiled and wished us all a pleasant evening as we got off the elevator.  It's things like this the world needs more of.  I want to be able to look back and see the little things I'm thankful for.  Enjoy the posts.  :)

Words to Live By

Last night as I was driving home from work, I put in an old CD (yup, we still own those and listen to them).  As I scanned through it, the song below came on.  I forgot how much I love the words of wisdom in it.  In fact, I came home and wrote one of them on the mirror in the bathroom.  A place we would all see it every day.  It must have worked because Libbi read it last night and said..."Really...Do I have too!"

No, you don't have to, but why not?!?!

Read through it...maybe you'll find something you needed to hear again today.  :)

Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’99

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be

it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by

scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable

than my own meandering experience…

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not

understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.

But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and

recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before

you and how fabulous you really looked….

You’re not as fat as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as

effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing

bubblegum.

The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that

never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing everyday that scares you

Sing

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss

Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes

you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with

yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your

life…

the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives,

some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t,

maybe you’ll have children,maybe you won’t,

maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…

what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your

choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people

think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own..

Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

 Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you should hold on.

 Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard;

Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you.

Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it.

Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen…

Five Year Olds Say Funny Things:

Since I'll be removing the side bar (because my once 5 year old is now 7) here are the things I want to remember:

"Dad, you'r hair is skinny!"

"Nobody ever watered my neck!"

"I don't want pancakes, I'll just have yogurt. Because last week, nobody would cut my pancake, I'll just have yogurt."

"What's a girl to do on a cold cold day without some warm tea?!?!"

"How come I only get to sleep a little bit every night?"

While I was finishing my walk/run on the treadmill, I told her how long it had taken me and the distance. She told me to do it again, because my numbers weren't big enough yet. She is the best motivator for me.
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At Wal-Mart, she wanted to buy grapes, but they were the old grapes that you either buy today or they throw away. So I told her those were some sad looking grapes. Later we walked past the produce that was fresh and she said, "Could we have those grapes? They aren't sad grapes, they are happy grapes!"

While doing her homework , which was to write her name on the straight lines 3 times and having a meltdown about it: "Mom, I can't write my name straight. While nobody was looking, Jayden (the little boy who is always in trouble for this or that at daycare and school) stole my straight line writing right out from underneath me!"

Some Housekeeping

Well Folks...we did it.  We got married.  It was a fabulous day and full of fun and family and happiness.  Thanks to everybody who came and loved us and for those who supported us and loved us from far away.  There will be more to come, but today I just wanted to draw your attention to the fact that I've changed the address to our blog.  You can now find us at BouldenFamilyFun.blogspot.com.  :)

To see pictures, hop on over to our Amazing Photographer's blog.

Love to You All!

Panic....but the good kind

I'm in a sort of panic.....I have all these ideas for our wedding, now I just want to nail down some details and get going on it. I'll feel better when the location is booked and my dress is purchased. Which brings me to my next point....where the heck are my w-2's from marriott and the state of utah.....hopefully the tax return is big...I'm probably going to end up using most of it to pay for this wedding.....

127 Days!