Thankful Tuesday : My Journal

On May 4, 1984 at the age of 11, I got my very first journal at a Father Daughter activity.  Now, almost 29 years later at the age of 40 I still have a journal and I love having one.  Sometimes I got back and look through them and its fun to read some entries, but other entries it is not so fun.  I know I have talked about it before, but I was made fun of a lot growing up and well many years later it still hurts.  Only sometimes, I wish I could go back and change things, but I can't go back and change the past.  Nobody can.  Sometimes I wish I had an easy button, so I can let the hurt disappear, but I can't do that either.  Enough about that, I think I will stop talking about that.  Moving on.

I am on my 32nd Journal and sometimes I let months go by without writing in my journal, but it has been years since I have done that.  It was back in Oct. of 2000 that I had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and I guess you could say I was upset by that and that is when I started not writing in my journal all that much.  Then about 8 years later, I started writing in my journal everyday, even though I sometimes missed a day here and there, but I was better at writing in my journal.  If you don't have a journal, I think you should get one.

My Journals

My current Journal

                                                                                 

Thankful Tuesday: Scenery

It seems like Thankful Tuesday is getting harder to think about what to write about because I have already talked about the people in my life.  I love looking at scenery and talking pictures of it, but there is so much of the world that I haven't seen yet.    These are the places I hope to go to someday when I have lots of money, which I probably never will have:  Europe, Hawaii, Vermont, Australia, Virginia, North Carolina.  Someday I hope I can travel parts of the world, but we will see if that happens.  Enjoy the pictures that I have taken over the years.

 

Thankful Tuesday: Temples

I remember when I went to the open house of the San Diego Temple in 1993, saying this is the temple that I am going to get married in and well about a year and a half later on Dec. 17, 1994 I did get married there.  There is over 140 operating temples worldwide right now and more to come.  I love temples, there is a peaceful feeling that comes over me, when I see a temple.  Here are the temples that I have been in: Jordan River UT, San Diego CA, Saint George UT, Atlanta GA, Mount Timpanogos UT, Los Angeles CA, Portland OR.  I hope to go into more because that is only 7 out of 140, which is sad, but oh well it happens. Enjoy the pictures of some temples that I have taken over the years.
                                    San Diego CA                      

Saint George UT

 
Salt Lake City UT

Portland OR

My Favorite Things

Not many people really know about me because I am shy and I usually keep things to myself.   So I thought it would be a good idea, if I make a list of things that I love and its been a little while since I have done this.  Enjoy.

TV Shows (Past and Current ones)
Charmed
SuperNatural
Friends
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Full House
ER
 Crossing Jordan
all 3 of the CSI's
Criminal Minds
Go On
The X Factor
Survivor
Hawaii Five-O,(the new one)
Elementary
Law and Order

Movies- I have to many to list, so here are some of them
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Sherlock Holmes( both of them)
 all 4 Indiana Jones
 all 3 Mummy's
Tangled
Mulan
Sleeping Beauty
Les Miserables
Another Stake Out
Sky Fall
all of the Harry Potter's
all 3 of the Pirate's of the Caribbean
Herbie movies
Mirror Mirror
Sound of Music

Music- Classic Rock is my all time favorite thing to listen to, but here are some other people I like.  
Adele
One Direction
Carrie Underwood
 LeAnn Rimes
 Mormon Tabernacle Choir
 Martina McBride
 Harry Connick Jr.
 Muse
 Mumford and Sons
Taylor Swift
 Phillip Phillips
 Elvis
 The Piano Guys
 Charlotte Church.

Food
chicken
pizza
strawberries
Cookies 'n Cream ice cream,
lasagna
Jack in the Box

Everything Else I love
being a wife and mother
watching my oldest son play soccer
all of my nieces and nephews
all of my uncles, aunts and cousins
my grandma
spending time with family and friends
Tinkerbell
Care Bears
corvettes
taking pictures
riding my bike
building puzzles
driving
Duke (the college)
Vermont (I hope to go there someday)
keeping a Journal ( I got my first one when I was 11)
amusement parks
scrapbooks (my idea of a scrapbook, is probably different then what most people's idea of a scrapbook is)
blogging
purple
my part time job
collecting dolls
collecting figurines
being organized

Thankful Tuesday : Babies

This is a very hard one to do, but I am thankful for babies.  I have 3 boys and I have always wanted a girl, but the only way that will happen is if I adopt.  Adoption is expensive, so I don't know if that will happen, unless we win Publishers Clearing House and I have been trying for the past 17 years.  It used to be really hard for me to be at church, when a new baby was being blessed, but not anymore.  For the past 2 1/2 years or so I have been giving a new baby outfit to a new baby born in my ward and sometimes that is a lot, but I love doing it.  It helps me because like I say I probably will never have another baby.  Here are some pictures of the boys, when they were babies.  Enjoy.

Thankful Tuesday: Grandma

I want to talk about my grandma.  She is my last grandparent that is living and she is 97 years old. Her husband died in 2003. Years ago, my family used to live right next door to my grandma and grandpa in Sandy Utah.  I remember going to her house and asking for a piece of cheese all of the time  I was named after her mother and I never met her because she died when I was only a few weeks old.  She lives with my uncle and aunt in Sandy Utah and they are taking such good care of her.  I don't get to see her very often, but when I do its the best thing ever that I love to do.  She is the best and I love her very much.  I hope to see her soon, but it won't happen until the summer sometime.  My husband and kids love seeing her.  I have many wonderful memories of her, like she was such a wonderful cook, she went on two LDS missions with her husband- Canada and England and she gave me and Will a shower before I got married, when they lived in Kanab.  I have more memories of her, but I can't think of them right now.

Thankful Tuesday: Friends

No matter how old we get, everyone needs friends.  I sometimes feel like I don't have many friends at all, but that is the way it has also been for me.  Sometimes it takes awhile for me to make friends I am shy after all.  So I thank everyone who has stuck by me over the years, I really appreciate it.  I am sorry if I don't talk to some of you for awhile, but I am thankful for the times we do get to spend together.  I wish I had more pictures of friends to show you, but this is all I could find.  Enjoy.