My Grandma

Today I found my self thinking of one of my favorite people in the whole world, who I miss so much!
My grandma and I were so close and I love that I had that with her she was so crazy and so sweet and funny I just loved all her crazy corks! I wish that my daughter would have had the opertunity to get to know her and have a relationship with her, she was always a great listener and most of the time she knew just what to say and I will always hold her close to my heart. I LOVE YOU GRANNY!!!!

SILLY GIRLS AND FLASH BACKS

Today as Echo and her friends were dancing and singing in the livingroom it took me back to my childhood when I was their age and I could not help but laugh. When I was a pre-teen my cousin Sarah and I would mack up crazy dances and we would have dance contest and we would have so much fun being silly, so as I watch these girls do the same thing and my house is filled with girls being silly and having fun dancing, I am so glad that they I get to experiance it again in my life. Every time a song comes on that has bad words in it they all scream and change the song it is so funny, they make me laugh so hard...

NEW YEAR

Today as I was cleaning my craft room I come upon this saying and I thought it is a great way to start the new year that is quickly approaching and I am so excited for it, so I thought I would share it..

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF 

AND ALL THAT YOU ARE

KNOW THAT THEIR IS 

SOMETHING INSIDE YOU 

THAT IS GREATER THAN

ANY OBSTACLE 

I thought that this a great way to look at the year and know that I can make it in this life even as hard as it can be sometimes. 

SWEET GIRLS

Megan, Shariya and Echo

Echo has this sweet friend named Megan, she is so kind and sweet I just love her.
Last year in June Megan lost her mom she passed in her sleep and Megan don’t say much about her she just deals with it in her own way. We have gotten to be very close with her and she spends lots of weekends here and we just love having her..
Today Echo’s school choir was singing in the Arbor day festival they sang 2 songs and then the 3rd was a mother’s day song and Echo’s friend Megan is in the choir and I looked over at her and she had this sad look on her face and I started to cry and couldn’t even imagine how she must be feeling, they gave each kid a flower to give to their mothers and Megan was so sad she didn’t have a mom to give hers to so she came over to me when it was over and she gave me her flower and I hugged her and told her I loved her and that she did a great job and I started to bawl and I could not stop crying she melted my heart right then. Every time Megan sleeps over she always wants to be tucked in like echo and she loves to just sit and talk with me she even asks on a weekly base if we will adopt her and we tell her that her dad would miss her so much it would make him so sad and she laughs it off. I just wanted to share this experience I had with her today cause she touch my heart and I feel honored to be a substitute mom for her.

TOO YOUNG

Tonight one of my daughters friends came over and was visiting with Echo and I and as we were talking I was giving her a hard time for never coming over and visiting with us and she quit spending the nights on weekends, so I was giving her a hard time about it. She for some reason has no problem telling me things she just cant tell her mom, so she was telling me about her sleepover with another one of her friends and she was telling me about this movie they were watching and I was so shocked and disgusted with what she was telling me I freaked out and said were you watching a porno and she said yea I think that is what it is so she was telling me more about the movie and from what she was saying it was a porno. I asked did her mom know that you guys were watching it and she says YES and I wanted to cry for those little girls who are only 11. So asked her if her friend has had sex and she said yes and I asked about another girl that she hangs out with if she had, had sex and she said yes so I then asked her if she had had sex and she says HECK NO I AM WAITING TILL I AM MARRIED, so after this conversation with her I told her Echo will never have a sleepover anywhere but here cause that is not OK and those parents should be shot. So I told Echo we had to talk after we took her friend home so I told her we had to have the sex talk if she liked it or not cause I am so scared for these kids at this point in their lives it is so scary and it makes me kind of sick to my stomach, so Echo and I had the sex talk tonight and she was just horrified about it.. It makes me so sad that kids cant be kids they have to grow up and at the old age of 11 start having sex it makes me want to cry and I just want to love all of them so they don’t feel they have to do that.

My new church calling

I have just been called to be a Young Women adviser. I am so so excited to have this opportunity to learn and grow from these young women. I am teaching the Beehives, I think I have been called to teach them so I can learn how to care for my own, cause in less then a year my sweet Echo will be a Young women and she is so excited as I am to. I am excited to help her finish her faith in god for girls so she is ready to come to young women and Echo and I have decided to read the BOOK OF MORMON together it will be a wonderful experience for the two of us. I hope as I learn and grow from my new calling that I will become a great leader and teacher to all the wonderful girls I am going to get to know and to my Echo pie.

Daphne's wedding

Just a few of the pictures I took on her wedding day

Bridals





engagement pictures