Yep its Time...I am Going Private

I know its been F O R E V E R.

I would like to say that I have been gone because I have been on a fabulous vacation, or because a new promotion has me working insane hours (well that one is kind of true) or I wish I could say that I won the lottery and have been too busy spending the mulah to blog, the truth is things have been tough lately but I want to start blogging again and I have even thought of some great posts lately

but

I need to not have it out there for everyone to read.

Things have changed in mi vida loca and I need some privacy, for lots of reasons. Some good some bad, just lots and lots of reasons.

I know logging on to Private blogs can be horrible believe me, I know and I personally don't check my private blogs nearly as much as my normal ones but it's TiMe for this to happen. I won't do it for a little while but please leave me your email that you use for blogger, or email me, or text me or call me or best of all, stop by and give me your information and I will invite you to continue being a part of our slowly getting crazier life.

Love you all!

P.S. This is not a promise I will blog more, this is a way to make so that if I want to, I can freely.

P.S.S. I missed blogging, and my blogging friends and my blogging family.

Technical Difficulties

Due to some totally out of my control, not so easy to fix right now, not sure how to handle them, technical difficulties I will have to finish my last 6 happies later......

I want them to be awesome, so I am not going to just throw a few up here so rest assured I have not forgotten and I will finish them soon....

Thanks for your patience with me.

Happy #6

I know I promised you Part 2 of Race for the Cure but my computer is acting funny. So I can't get my pictures to upload....AGHGH!!! Andy comes home tonight (that alone should be it's own Happy, he has been gone training for 2 months and tonight, he is home! For good! Wahoo!)
and he can help me, so tomorrow will be Part 2.

Today I want to say Passion is my Happy.

Sometimes I am so overwhelmed when I witness Passion. Passion for life, for love, for running, for kids, for music, for family, for success, for anything. Today was emotional to see so many people running in memory of, or in celebration of people who they love, and there was so much passion. I hope that sometimes my passion shows like this.

Yes, this makes me Happy.

Only 7 More to Go....

Today's Happy is 2 part Happy, the second part with come tomorrow.
PART 1 -

Today I am Happy when I think of this organization. I have to admit I hope none of my "readers" are intimately familiar with this for obvious reasons but on the other hand, I hope everyone has some knowledge of how amazing they are.

I have been wanting to run forever, in fact when I was about 21 I wrote a list of Things to Do Before I Turn 30. In one of my many many many moves over the years I lost the list that was posted right on my fridge for all to see but I read it so many times I have most of them memorized. Since I am over 30 the list title has now changed to Things to Do Before I am 40 but the idea is still the same.

One of those is to "Be a Runner" this was actually number 1 on my list. Years and years later I am still not a "runner" but I am still trying. Tomorrow is my first 5k. I am running (well let's be totally honest here, I don't RUN, I am more of a jogger, or old man shuffler if you will) in this 5k.

I am so excited to be a part of this. Every single part of this process so far has been so fun. The people are amazing, it feels SO good to be a part of something this great. I have spent some time reading the background and some of the success and survivor stories. They are truly amazing strong brave women. I am in awe of the respect and love the organization gives the survivors. I can not say enough nice things about this process.

Tomorrow morning my time will not be good (I didn't even bother paying the $5 for the timer chip). I will not run the whole thing. I am very very nervous. I have worked hard to try and train. I already am planning my next 5k and what I will do different. I did not raise the most money for the cause. I have realistic goals for tomorrow morning BUT I am so so happy that my first 5k (which also is the first step to fulfilling a goal I have) is part of such an amazing thing.

I am proud of participate in the Race for Cure tomorrow morning.

Happy Number 8....

Kassie is a beautiful Violinist (is that a word??) and she plays for the Las Vegas Youth Orchestra which is a fabulous program and we love that she is a part of it.

The only downside is that it is a BIG time committment and she sacrifices alot to be a part of it each year. She had to join another ward in our stakes young women's program for the weekly acitivites because this year her group practiced every single wednesday from 6 pm to 8pm and this is when our ward's YW's was. So it has been crazy trying to juggle our schedule each week. (Here is where I say that I have NO idea how mom's of more than 1 and 1/2 kids do it.)

So here comes the Happy - WE ARE DONE FOR THE SUMMER!! YEA!! We got to go to our own Young Women's last night and it was good to be back! So now we have one more free night a week and I can give my calling 100% again. Total Happy in my book!

Happy Number 9....

I am not lucky enough to be one of those "Naturally Beautiful" women. It takes WORK for me to be beautiful (actually the other day I was adding up how much I spend on " beauty" stuff each month and I am EXPENSIVE to maintain....just a little side note) so this is why makeup makes me happy. Just this morning I was in one of those moods where everything was hard, getting up was hard, spin class was hard, showering was hard, doing my hair was really hard and all I wanted to do was climb back in bed. Then I started my makeup and I noticed that the better I looked the better I felt. So I did not climb back in bed, I found a cute outfit I had not worn in awhile, put on some cute jewelry and came to work happy. Today makeup changed my whole attitude and that makes me happy.

10 More Happies! 10 can you believe it?

I have mentioned that I love reading books but I also love reading these. We used to have a subscription but I thought it was a waste of money. However it is NOT a waste of money to buy one at the grocery store if the cover looks good. Nope it's not. Reading is reading right? Want to know a funny fact? I read them backwards. Not sure why but I always start at the back of any magazine. Magazines make me happy.

11th Little Happy of Mine

These ALWAYS make my Happy.

ALWAYS.

If I had a million dollars I would start every morning at Tropical Smoothie.

I don't have a favorite, I try new ones all the time.

Today I tried the new Caribean one with Papaya. So yummy!

So today HAS to be a good day right? I have a smoothie on my desk.

How can i not be Happy?

!2th Thing that Makes Me Happy

Sundays.

Sundays are usually so relaxing and so low key that sometimes I forget important things...like my Happy. (Whoops, good thing we are almost done right?)

So Yes, yesterday my happy is that Sunday was so relaxing I didn't do anything but church and hang out at home. There was obviusly no computer time, and as much as my love my computer, sometimes I am happy to not touch it.

Sundays are one of my favorite days of the week. They make me happy!

13th Thing that Makes me Happy

Peanut Butter!!!

Peanut Butter Sandwiches

Peanut Butter cookies

Peanut Butter on Apples

Peanut Butter M&M's

Peanut Butter Reese's Eggs

Peanut Butter on crackers....

My beautiful cousin MyrLynn plans her peanut butter for the year. This made me laugh (and gave me the idea for this post) but I agree, It's THAT important.

Peanut Butter is a Happy. How can it NOT be a Happy?

Happy #14

This was Kassie's favorite song when she was little, it still brings a smile to my face to hear someone sing it.

I may or may not use this in one form or another as a password at work to remind me how much I love sun.

I love the feel of sunshine on my face, I love sitting in the sun.

Sunshine makes me happy.

Happy Number 15 of 100 (going backwards...almost done...)

Bethany Frankel. Oh My Gosh. She is so funny. If I could be anyone she is in my top 5. I love her brutal honesty. She is so comfortable with who she is that she is totally uncensored. She just says things. Not caring how they come across. This makes me laugh, really hard. She is hilarious. Her show and her humor always makes me happy.

16th Thing that Makes me Happy

LAST NIGHT KASSIE VOLUNTEERED TO PLAY WITH MY HAIR!

This is a TOTAL happy.

I love my hair being played with. It is one of my favorite things. Emmett plays with my hair for "time" on his video games. (AWESOME for me since he gets to play anyway but hasn't caught on to that yet) Andy does it in exchange for rubbing his feet (believe me he gets the better deal, I have great hair and his feet are nasty BUT having my hair played with is worth touching his feet) and Kassie, well Kassie is a different story. Kassie has to be paid to brush my hair, so that is why her VOLUNTEERING is a total happy.