my new life

over the past few days i've been assessing my new life in utah. my conclusion is that i love the lifestyle we have here. examples? all of our fruits and veggies come from our garden or a produce co-op. our dairy is delivered straight from the farm to our front door. bryn and cody ride their bikes to and from school each day. i can walk abby to preschool. our neighborhood is FULL of great kids who want to play with our kids all the time. braden could walk abby to school (which started at 9:30) on her first day. we left at 3pm last friday for our long weekend getaway (braden can do that now!)

there are some things that are tough too, but in general, our family is much happier than we've ever been. i know that this is where we are supposed to be!

196 blocks

i have 196 fabric blocks cut and arranged for my first quilt. time to start sewing!

why?

i love this blog post. i hate that women (particularly mormon women) are so critical of each other.

silver lining

it is 80 something degrees right now, but with the humidity it feels like 91. a storm is on its way in so we can't go swimming. the silver lining?? summer will be ending sometime in september for our little family this year rather than sometime around christmas. we're moving to the beehive state! *****an afterthought (aka more details) it is just time for us to move on. we feel like we've done what the Lord needed us to do here. braden has resigned from the firm (he'll work there until may 26th) and plans to continue the business he works with his dad as well as pratice law on the side in utah. bryn turns 8 on june 24th and we'll have her baptism that day and then head out. we're excited to see what is in store for us next and have already bought season tickets for byu football!!

once upon a time...

i wanted to be a runner. and now i am. now i want to be a quilter. so i signed up to be in a quilting bee and i've never quilted before. yikes bikes! hopefully it doesn't take me 18 months to get into it like running did...

Revolutions

after much thought, here are my revolutions for 2011:

make my easy run 5 miles rather than 3
run 3, longer than 5K, races
get back to my pre-baby weight (working on this one for the second year in a row...)
read one fiction and one non-fiction book each month
read the 4 standard works (working on this one for the 2nd year in a row, too)
earn my YW medallion
wear jewlery everday
make a quilt (anyone want to quilt with me???)