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Thursday, July 14, 2011
ragnar relay Wasatch back
The middle of June I ran in the ragnar relay Wasatch back , it is a run from Logan to Park City and there are 12 members of the relay team. All together I ran about 18 mi. It was fun and surprisingly hard, braking it up into 3 runs in the space of 2 days gives your body time to get tired and ready to recover but does not recover, it may not sound that hard (it did not sound hard to me) but wow was my body sore. I most enjoyed applying the experience to life. We are blessed with a group of people to help us through life, family friends...being around them is usually encouraging, but everyone has to take their own turn with trials (has to run alone) we can get encouragement along the way but we can not take the trials away, this life is for us to grow and no one can take our place if we want to grow. I also like how your run would end and you would have time to rest and help encourage the other runners on there turn, then you get back out for another run. So symbolic to me of life, how blessed I am to have a great support team cheering me on through my trials and life. All in all a great experience.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
One of the many things my parents did right
All of my 6 siblings and I are adults, married, and all but one have or are with child (come on T-bone just jump in parenting if fun.) we all get along, like really well.
To let you know how well we get along, My patents live overseas and all but one of their children live in a 30 minute radius of each other, and we get together all the time, we find excuses to hang out. This is still the case when my patents come to town, we love them too.
Recently I was wondering why, why do we get along so well? Why are we all such good friends? (oh yes and all the in laws get along too, if they did not then we would not be able to get together so often) But back to why we get along so well, I have to add to that not only do we get along, we help each other, there are always prayers going up to the Lord for this brother to have help with this and that brother to over come that (did I mention I have 6 brothers, yeah some day I will have to blog about that too) when we need help we ask and are flooded with helping hands.
So why do I have such an amazing family, I am not writing this to brag, I am trying to analyze in order to recreate the same love and friendship in my own little family, and I fill that I have been inspired as to one of the many things my parents did right.
My mom always felt out of place, never felt quite like everyone else and did not like the feelings that came with it, so what did she do, with her kids she made sure to except us each as individuals, I did not fill compared to my siblings growing up, I did not feel that I was not good enough, even when I had such a hard time in school, or when I felt like no one at school liked me I felt loved for who I was by my mom and dad. I was encouraged to set goals for myself, because it is good to be better, but the only person we can and should try to be better then is us, striving for perfection (with the help of Christ and the Atonement).
My parents encouraged us to be unique, and be proud of the things that made us individuals, and this sunk in well, if you come around to a family gathering you will for sure feel the individuality all over the house.
*The acceptance is not just within our family, but anyone who meets our family is welcomed with open arms, and because of this we have a great group of family friends that have kept in touch and who are still loved and welcomed.
Now as kids we did not always get along as siblings, each one of us trying to find out who we where sometimes found us mean, rude and even sometimes cruel, but I believe that is an experience that comes with siblings around the board, just as it comes sometimes with being with people around the board, we sometimes do "not nice" things. But as we grew so did our love as siblings, and because we where not trying to compete with each other, only with ourselves, as adults we have come to appreciate and count on each others differences and try to utilize them as a whole family. And because we respect each others differences, we are forgiving and understanding of shortcomings that sometimes slip up. We all slip up, but if we feel disdain and reticule instead of support to do better, and unfailing love we will pull away from those who we feel should love us, and that is not what family was created for. Family must pull together not apart. To fall alone is hard, but to fall then have a crowed cheering you on makes it much easier to get back up and keep trying.
I love my family for cheering me on, for loving me for the individual that I am and for, their forgiveness when I make bad choices, or hurt feelings.
Now I pray that I can help my children love one another for who they are now and for who they can be. Life can be so much easier when you have a crowed of loved ones cheering you on.
Thanks mom and dad, and Thank you my dear family for cheering me on and for helping me when I fall.
To let you know how well we get along, My patents live overseas and all but one of their children live in a 30 minute radius of each other, and we get together all the time, we find excuses to hang out. This is still the case when my patents come to town, we love them too.
Recently I was wondering why, why do we get along so well? Why are we all such good friends? (oh yes and all the in laws get along too, if they did not then we would not be able to get together so often) But back to why we get along so well, I have to add to that not only do we get along, we help each other, there are always prayers going up to the Lord for this brother to have help with this and that brother to over come that (did I mention I have 6 brothers, yeah some day I will have to blog about that too) when we need help we ask and are flooded with helping hands.
So why do I have such an amazing family, I am not writing this to brag, I am trying to analyze in order to recreate the same love and friendship in my own little family, and I fill that I have been inspired as to one of the many things my parents did right.
My mom always felt out of place, never felt quite like everyone else and did not like the feelings that came with it, so what did she do, with her kids she made sure to except us each as individuals, I did not fill compared to my siblings growing up, I did not feel that I was not good enough, even when I had such a hard time in school, or when I felt like no one at school liked me I felt loved for who I was by my mom and dad. I was encouraged to set goals for myself, because it is good to be better, but the only person we can and should try to be better then is us, striving for perfection (with the help of Christ and the Atonement).
My parents encouraged us to be unique, and be proud of the things that made us individuals, and this sunk in well, if you come around to a family gathering you will for sure feel the individuality all over the house.
*The acceptance is not just within our family, but anyone who meets our family is welcomed with open arms, and because of this we have a great group of family friends that have kept in touch and who are still loved and welcomed.
Now as kids we did not always get along as siblings, each one of us trying to find out who we where sometimes found us mean, rude and even sometimes cruel, but I believe that is an experience that comes with siblings around the board, just as it comes sometimes with being with people around the board, we sometimes do "not nice" things. But as we grew so did our love as siblings, and because we where not trying to compete with each other, only with ourselves, as adults we have come to appreciate and count on each others differences and try to utilize them as a whole family. And because we respect each others differences, we are forgiving and understanding of shortcomings that sometimes slip up. We all slip up, but if we feel disdain and reticule instead of support to do better, and unfailing love we will pull away from those who we feel should love us, and that is not what family was created for. Family must pull together not apart. To fall alone is hard, but to fall then have a crowed cheering you on makes it much easier to get back up and keep trying.
I love my family for cheering me on, for loving me for the individual that I am and for, their forgiveness when I make bad choices, or hurt feelings.
Now I pray that I can help my children love one another for who they are now and for who they can be. Life can be so much easier when you have a crowed of loved ones cheering you on.
Thanks mom and dad, and Thank you my dear family for cheering me on and for helping me when I fall.
Broken dish washer
My Dishwasher just died, RIP. I thought this would be bad, I thought I would have to scramble to get a new (used) one asap, but instead I just told my husband no rush I will just wash by hand till we get a new one.(he is working going to school full time, and hardly has a minute to himself, I did not want to add to his stress) As it turns out I am enjoying doing the dishes by hand. I was reminded that as a kid dishes was my favorite chore. In fact when I was first married I thought the Ideal wife washed the dishes by hand and so chose not to use our dishwasher, this did not last long because my hubby assured me it would be more time effective to use the dishwasher and that he would not think any less of me:) from that point on we have always had a dish washer and I have never felt like washing by hand again. Now being forced to wash by hand though, brings back good memories of the joy of keeping a house clean, and I am glad for the reminder.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Crockpot refried beans
3C Pinto beans
7C water
1 1/2 t salt
2T butter(or shortening)
then a few shakes (to taste)
of: garlic powder, Cumin, and chili powder.
put this all in a crock pot and cook on hi for 8 hours(or longer)
When done I use a hand blender and the beans just blend right up.
*if water boils out before time is done add more water, just enough to cover most of the beans.
this is my own recipe so let me know if you have trouble with it.
7C water
1 1/2 t salt
2T butter(or shortening)
then a few shakes (to taste)
of: garlic powder, Cumin, and chili powder.
put this all in a crock pot and cook on hi for 8 hours(or longer)
When done I use a hand blender and the beans just blend right up.
*if water boils out before time is done add more water, just enough to cover most of the beans.
this is my own recipe so let me know if you have trouble with it.
Monday, December 28, 2009
sleeping through the night
I have 4 kiddos and so that means 4 times getting them to sleep through the night.
Before I can expect my kiddos to sleep through the night though I try from day one to get them on a *routine this may sound strict, but just like rules, routine is there to help life function more smooth. The routine is simple I feed my baby right when it wakes up then let it have awake time (as a new born that could be like 5 minuets) my 3 month old is awake right now for about1 hour. Then it is sleep time, and back to feeding them right when they wake up. So I get my babies on this routine as soon as I can it does take time like a few days of this consistent pattern and then they start to expect to be feed right when they wake up and for me it seems to make newborn life much nicer.
So now to get my babies sleeping through the night I watch to see when they are ready. Usually this is around 3 months.
I know they are ready because they do 90% of the work. They sleep longer and longer as the nights go by and they even sleep through the night on occasion. Now I know they are ready, and that they do not need to eat in the night I say need because, they may still want to eat but their bodies have already shown me they can sleep through the night and they just need help making it a habit.
This can be the tough part for everyone do not get them at night! let them cry it out. Now to do this you need to know that they can sleep through the night and if you are not sure you may want to check with your doctor to see if they are old enough.
This can be hard because they may not just go to sleep one night and every night after, they may wake up in the middle of the night out of habit and want to eat, and when you do not come they may cry and cry and cry, they may even cry for hours, usually it will not take more then a few nights of this, but if your child is really familiar with waking up at night it may take a long time to figure out the new routine.
I know this sounds bad let your baby cry and cry for night after night, but if your baby really is ready then it should not take more then a few nights for 3 of my 4 it only took 2 nights of crying it out, but my 4th (who is 3 now) took a few weeks it seemed like for ever, but we noticed before and notice still that she really latches on to routine. A good way to describe her is if you do something once she wants it to happen again and if you do the same thing more then once it is a habit so for her it made sense that she would take longer to sleep through the night we where asking her to go from waking up in the night for like 3 months and then expected her to just stop waking up at night at all, it was a hard habit to brake but we did she slept though the night eventually and is now growing strong finding new ways to challenge our parenting skills.
*There is a book that was so helpful to me when I had my first baby, and the things in it have helped with every child since that is where I learned about the routine I mentioned the bookis it is Secrets of the baby whisperer
it is a great book to have.
Before I can expect my kiddos to sleep through the night though I try from day one to get them on a *routine this may sound strict, but just like rules, routine is there to help life function more smooth. The routine is simple I feed my baby right when it wakes up then let it have awake time (as a new born that could be like 5 minuets) my 3 month old is awake right now for about1 hour. Then it is sleep time, and back to feeding them right when they wake up. So I get my babies on this routine as soon as I can it does take time like a few days of this consistent pattern and then they start to expect to be feed right when they wake up and for me it seems to make newborn life much nicer.
So now to get my babies sleeping through the night I watch to see when they are ready. Usually this is around 3 months.
I know they are ready because they do 90% of the work. They sleep longer and longer as the nights go by and they even sleep through the night on occasion. Now I know they are ready, and that they do not need to eat in the night I say need because, they may still want to eat but their bodies have already shown me they can sleep through the night and they just need help making it a habit.
This can be the tough part for everyone do not get them at night! let them cry it out. Now to do this you need to know that they can sleep through the night and if you are not sure you may want to check with your doctor to see if they are old enough.
This can be hard because they may not just go to sleep one night and every night after, they may wake up in the middle of the night out of habit and want to eat, and when you do not come they may cry and cry and cry, they may even cry for hours, usually it will not take more then a few nights of this, but if your child is really familiar with waking up at night it may take a long time to figure out the new routine.
I know this sounds bad let your baby cry and cry for night after night, but if your baby really is ready then it should not take more then a few nights for 3 of my 4 it only took 2 nights of crying it out, but my 4th (who is 3 now) took a few weeks it seemed like for ever, but we noticed before and notice still that she really latches on to routine. A good way to describe her is if you do something once she wants it to happen again and if you do the same thing more then once it is a habit so for her it made sense that she would take longer to sleep through the night we where asking her to go from waking up in the night for like 3 months and then expected her to just stop waking up at night at all, it was a hard habit to brake but we did she slept though the night eventually and is now growing strong finding new ways to challenge our parenting skills.
*There is a book that was so helpful to me when I had my first baby, and the things in it have helped with every child since that is where I learned about the routine I mentioned the bookis it is Secrets of the baby whisperer
it is a great book to have.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
I am SO domestic
I have wanted to be a mom ever sense I can remember, and with that dream I tried to learn the things I would need to be a good mom. Well I got a good running start with things, but I have learned so so much more once I got married and started having kids.
One valentines day my hubby and I had a double date with one of his friends and date. Well we where put in charge of planning the date and I thought it would be fun to make heart shaped pizzas as a couple for our activity and this sounded fun to my hubby too so we did, making pizza is something we did in my family growing up and was just a fun thing for me. But I guess it was new to our friends date as she could not believe that we where making our own pizzas instead of buying one. The thing I will always remember is when she then said "wow you are so domestic" it was not meant as a complement just an observation, but I took it as a complement, and so sense someone gave me the title of so" domestic" that is what you can call me too.
One valentines day my hubby and I had a double date with one of his friends and date. Well we where put in charge of planning the date and I thought it would be fun to make heart shaped pizzas as a couple for our activity and this sounded fun to my hubby too so we did, making pizza is something we did in my family growing up and was just a fun thing for me. But I guess it was new to our friends date as she could not believe that we where making our own pizzas instead of buying one. The thing I will always remember is when she then said "wow you are so domestic" it was not meant as a complement just an observation, but I took it as a complement, and so sense someone gave me the title of so" domestic" that is what you can call me too.
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