{ Me Thinks....}

..in and out

A new month already summer is more than half over and

.... July went by so fast.....it was

so crazy busy I feel like today is the first day I have sat and relaxed & almost caught up on laundry...

 after a month of ......

family pictures {twice our with fam and D's whole fam} 

those are to come when we get them back...here`s the one I forgot to order from Kinsey but she nicely added it for me! I want to put it on a large canvas for my basement can`t wait!

I love that M is looking up to k, That L is watching carefully where she is walking that K2 is watching them all and that D and I are trying our best to walk straight ahead and have them follow just like life and the background is the ranch that D is in the General Manager over. 

I ♥ it.

its perfectly imperfect. us.

a trip to Utah

visitors and company

babysitting

air mattresses all over the basement for a month

homecomings

{love this picture M was the first to run up to uncle ryan in the airport and he was only barely 2 when ry left..so cute}

reunions..

waterton

family dinners

swimming

swim lessons

parties 

bbq's
drama

campfires

parades

birthdays

unbirthday party {thanks mom}

 boating

cousins

going away parties

2 trips to ER for M

spray park

lots of driving from here to there

Zoo ...{pun intended lol}

movies 

{{m wore his "cd3D" glasses all around after we went to shrek}

cool kid that he is ha ha} 

Lake

SO FUN but

I AM SO TIRED....and

ready to relax and enjoy some D&C family time

so we have a couple camping/boating trips planned before school starts and we are all looking forward to it! that and school starting...

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ME THINKS 

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

To each their own but for me 

This is me. This is who I am.
and its okay to be ME and its okay to be YOU.
We are all different.

I am a short 5'2 big haired, big shoes

feisty, impatient stubborn {sometimes} kind of girl.

My Norwegian side of me shines through alot.

I like organization and communication.

 I enjoy getting up early walking/running because thats what makes me feel better.

I like to have my prayers said scriptures read and shower done before my kids get up because thats how I function best. 

{doesn't happen everyday but for the most part}

Doesn't work for everyone but it works for ME.

I like to get things done before I go to bed and start each day fresh because that is what works for

ME. Getting up to a clean house feels good.

I like to take lots of pictures and I have a nice camera because I like to take pictures now not 10 seconds after I push the button missing all the action and the reason I took the picture in the first place. Pictures are important to me and I am responsible in sending 4 sets of pictures multiple times a year to my children's birth parents therefore to ME it is a good investment.

I like to get my nails done once a month because I like it. I used to do them myself before I had 4 kids and no time but getting them done lasts all month not three days before I pick it off. SO the 20 bucks is worth it to me. Besides it the only pretty thing that wakes up every morning with me. lol

I get embarrassed when my kids do things in public like pee on a tree at a friends party like they've never been taught to us a bathroom or something, or scream and cry in a playhouse under blankets that they are tired and want to go home, while 20 kids stare at them wondering what they are doing...or seem as though they have no manners...

I get frustrated with people who don't do what they say they will and misunderstandings and back biting really bug me.....

comments meant to belittle and hurt people... bother me...

contention and competition bother me.

Where is this all coming from?? Lately I 've run into old friends and received comments about certain things or snide remarks meant as a joke or otherwise.... because I like to do things the way I do them..or just who we are.

but this is ME. 

I am who I am.

and it is what it is. 

What you see.... is  pretty much just what it is.

I write how I feel on here and some days its good or bad, but I feel like we always need to have a positive attitude and HOPE for the future. That things happen for a reason and we are who we are for reason.  

Each one of us is shaped by the events and happenings in our lives.
Our circumstances and experiences shape us from a young age. We have no idea what people are really like inside their aches, hurts, feelings, past experiences they and each of us has been through to get us to where we are today.

I  sometimes get emails or messages from awesome people sometimes ones I don't know in real life..... asking me how I do it or that we seem so perfect...whatever that definition may be but I can assure you we are far from it...just like most people.

Although they make my day I hope that this blog doesn't make it look like that is how our life is...

we are striving to do our best but for the record

 we are not perfect by any means

My kids fight sometimes

M has been taken out of sacrament every Sunday of his life.

i raise my voice to much sometimes

I am impatient a lot more than I should be.

We are late sometimes 

i cry i hurt and I have fears just like alot of you.

etc etc....just like all of us we are working on it. 

Day by day that's what we do. 

We are happy, we are blessed  and we have fun but we are just like everyone else working on forever.

Yes I like my kids to match or I like them clean and pressed but does that make me so different.

You might like to wear your pj's all day, I like like to get completely ready either way who cares we are all individuals and all here for the same reason none of us better than each other, and each of us should be treated just as that. 

No matter what we look like, feel like or no matter what we are going through we should be able to depend on one another. Not feel judged and scoffed on for who we are.
We all have our strengths and weaknesses some of us more than others but its okay its who we are.

Get past the outside cover and find out what's really inside.

Judging is a waste of time, really get to know someone before you judge a book by its cover.

 SO Take time for yourself and find the strength to do the things you were sent here to do.

There isn't time for all that "other" stuff.

What lies behind us
And what lies before us
Are tiny matters compared
To what lies within Us

Have a great week...