{ Me thinks ..}

D took me away this week for a nice getaway just the two of us Friday night and even asked grandma if she'd babysit the kids and K2 went to his other favorite person DJ:) Thanks so much you guys!! Everybody had fun we had snow relaxation, and a nice brush with a guard rail on straight ice with a cliff on the other side below in the mountains thankfully we were fine a little scary and we weren't going fast at all anyway...

cold and windy in case you couldn't tell by my awesome hair:) so fun i♥us

       

Stayed here and enjoyed the wintry bliss we were going to go cross country skiing but when we woke up the next morning there were 100km wind warnings so that wouldn't have been to fun:) But it was SO nice to get away just the two of us! The best kind of mom birthday presents time away and peace! Simple things

After the night there we got back to grandmas and headed two hours away to my nieces baptism which I had to speak at too. Was a beautiful occasion and turned out great. Wish I would have got a picture with her or of her though sad. Then we booted it home and went to a party ha ha crazy people we are! It made for a long day but so much fun.

Our new couch also came this weekend..... talk about barely fitting in our house thanks to friends who know what they are doing and D they made it and we are loving it!! Thanks C & T for all you did:) 

simple things...friends an d family that go above and beyond

We are slowly getting things done around here its nice the bathroom is almost done, and the dresser makeover is just about complete.....  then I can show pictures :) The basement is a constant but we are slowly getting there. Any suggestions on what to do for the windows? and pillows that match the room:) thoughts??  LMK! 

This couch is so dang comfy!   Love it!

Simple things that make us happy .....home & comfort.

so with simple things a recipe like this..... my friend gave me a loaf on my birthday and it was so so good we are making it this week my kids loved it!  Simple things = good comfort food Banana Bread best ever:)

for the recipe click here

make it :)

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Methinks

{Turn up your volume the first song goes great with this post}

This article made me think about the next generation our girls..about how we see ourselves what our real goals are..we think its bad now it can only get worse I hope our daughters, and women in general can understand someday the difference between...and be more of what we need in this world ....

READ THIS

thoughts? i think we live in a sad, sad world. we look around and think we need to look like a specific image when most of those images have been so altered they aren't realistic in anyway, its sad that we don't think we are good enough so often that we think we have to live up to certain standards that don't exist....

where purity and strength, cleanliness, what god gave us doesn't matter anymore. That there has to be a certain level of competition or the fear that we aren't good enough so we go out and change it or try to and become something we aren't or weren't meant to be...

if we even had the slightest clue what our potentiality and ability to change the worlds thinking if we didn't try so hard to be and do what the world "thinks" we have to live up to....we have enough of those in this world....

It would be much easier to just be us and be okay with every imperfect part of us instead of striving for the unattainable things that don't matter or are so far out of our reach we lose sight of whats important....goes for so many aspects in our lives..

if it were only that easy its a hard world to live in and feel pretty or successful or important or needed....there is so much around surrounding us telling us we aren't good enough or don't measure up... its sad.

It happens to all of us in the moments where we let the negative thoughts creep up on us that we aren't good enough, pretty enough or whatever....

we are good enough, we are all trying hard to keep up and sometimes we lose sight of whats most important.

By building up those around us, not tearing down, not judging, seeing whats inside.... sharing it, building on it and helping each other see can open our eyes and see the beauty within and the potential

that is there in all of us...

Don't let the world tell you otherwise.....

sometimes the simplest things are the most beautiful things in life

and sometimes the things we think matter so much aren't really issues at all or whats important summed up perfectly here....

is what we need more of...

Have a great week...