Bonjour!

Bonjour!
I’m a 52 year old mother of five amazing daughters and wife to a caring, sensitive AND sexy husband. I adore my family. I’m dedicated to my faith. I enjoy a good laugh. I'm nostalgic and love to reminisce. "Remember" is my favorite word in the English language. I love life! I’m passionate about music, food and {dreams of} traveling the world. I wanna be a castle and waterfall chaser. I’m fascinated with anything European. {PARIS! Hello!} I love celebrating anything and everything! I love to read, especially a good biography, mystery, Regency Era Romance or Historical fiction novel. I love thoughtful gift giving. To me the gift wrap is almost as important as the gift itself. I have a bit of an obsession with gift boxes and gift bags. As well as old world maps & globes, apothecary bottles and jars! I love being creative…bolts of ribbon, coordinating scrapbook papers, producing a table scape, or planning décor for a themed party puts a smile on my face. I love the details! I’m a freak for anything theme oriented. I enjoy event planning, but oddly enough do not like to host or entertain. I enjoy fashion, but have to really be in the mood to clothes shop. I love purses and funky costume jewelry. Especially big rings! I’d rather wear wedges or heels any day than flats. I enjoy decorating and searching for the perfect decorative pillow or picture. However, you’ll never see me frequent high-end stores. I'm more of a Ross, TJ Maxx, Tuesday Morning kind of gal. My favorite decor style is an old world rustic Italian chateau/Spanish Villa look with a hint of bohemian! OR a vintage shabby chic French country cottage/English cobblestone farmhouse. My #1 cookie-Molasses! Autumn is my favorite season. I’d go through childbirth a million times. I enjoy biking with my man, Pilates, and power walking. You’ll never find me in a gym working out. I love movies, whether watching them in the theatre or cuddled up on the couch with my family. I enjoy a good chick flick or real life drama! I'm a sucker for movies on the Hallmark & Great American Family Channel. I have a tender heart for the elderly. I adore Disneyland. I enjoy being in the canyon on a summer or fall evening at dusk. I love my friends. While I have some extroverted characteristics. I’m a self proclaimed introvert. I’m generally quiet, calm, reserved and pretty darn private. Why in the heck do I blog? It’s a creative way to record family history. I enjoy photography. I really don’t like to write, although I write in my journal often. My journals, patriarchal blessing, scriptures, quote book, and beloved Christmas tree filled with ornaments of family memories are among my prized possessions. I love the beach. I enjoy WWII history. I love a clean, orderly house, but ours usually looks lived in. ;) PBS Masterpiece is my friend. I adore Jane Austen films. They transport me to another time and place. If I had to choose another time period in which to live, early 19th Century England would be my pick. "Sense and Sensibility" is my all time favorite movie. My 3 favorite TV series are...BBC's Larkrise to Candleford, the 1950's Spanish Drama "Velvet," and the travel/food show "Somebody Feed Phil." My biggest pet peeve is people who blow their noses in public. So gross! {Take it to the bathroom people.} I’d go on a wine tasting vacation if it wasn’t against my religion. I’ve always wanted to adopt a baby from a foreign country. I’m an avid BYU football fan. I'm a Educational Support Professional. I tutor elementary kids in phonemic awareness, phonics, reading, fluency and comprehension. I love our campfires at Scofield Lake. I have a 'thing' for fairy gardens, Gallic French roosters, fresh flowers in a vase, pretty bowls & plates, yummy smelling candles & soap. I love summer rainstorms and warm baths. I'm a scripture podcast fanatic. I'm also a fan of several Fox News shows; Hannity and Dave Ramsey Talk Radio. I very much miss Rush Limbaugh! I hate when my kids have homework. I'd rather clean 20 toilets than give a talk or prayer in church. I have quite a collection of Madame Alexander Dolls, children's books, Disney pins, and quotes. My favorite quote is "Don't underestimate me. I know more than I say, think more than I speak & notice more than you realize." True True LOL! I always prefer sitting in a back row versus the front. {I'm sort of a seat snob..yikes} I also have high expectations for my lemonade, salsa, and french fries too. HA! I work well behind the scenes. I love a good Dateline, 20/20 or 48 Hour Mystery. I’m a night owl. I'd rather be cold than hot. I love to budget our finances! I enjoy being a chauffeur to my children. I'm not a huge fan of social media. I don't snap, pin or tweet. All I want for Christmas every year is a ticket to the Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert. It's my FAVORITE. I’m an Anglophile…a royal watcher who loves anything English! Especially tea parties! I would like to serve a church mission to England with Jaren someday. I'm queen of paper towel, used kitchen dishrags and sponges kinda make me squirm. You’ll rarely find me out of the house not ready for the day, except when driving the kids to school on the days I don't work. I feel naked without lipstick or lip gloss. Mismatched socks, chipped fingernail polish, chapped lips and brownie crumbs on the floor drive me nuts! I like to organize and BE organized..but not saying I always am. ;) I enjoy hiking to waterfalls, ATV’ing with my family and snowshoeing with the hubs. Although I enjoy collecting recipes and occasionally watch cooking shows... (Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade, Paula Deen, Jamie Oliver, and the Pioneer Woman are my favorites) I’d rather not cook. Eating out is so much more fun. I'm a foodie. I live to EAT! LOL Trying new foods and restaurants is a favorite past-time, and believe it or not so is intermittent fasting. I'm not good at a lot of things... but gosh, if you need help with a themed celebration or someone to enjoy good food with, I'm your girl. I love the joy of anticipation and the celebration of holidays. Family traditions are important to me. I'm a memory preserver. I'm a pathological picture taker ;) a visual storyteller, and a lover of happy lists!

My Fam!

My Fam!

The Hubs and I

The Hubs and I

My Girls!

My Girls!

Kyleigh Dawn (28)

Kyleigh Dawn (28)

Emma Abigail (26)

Emma Abigail (26)

Hannah Isabelle (24)

Hannah Isabelle (24)

Brielle Olivia (19)

Brielle Olivia (19)

Kate Evangelene Lyllie (14)

Kate Evangelene Lyllie (14)

Mr. Charles "Bingley" Wentworth III (5 yrs.)

Colonel Edward Fitzwilliam "Darcy", Duke of Westridge (4 yrs.)

My Man!

My Man!

Good Times!

Good Times!

Wedding Day 5*17*22

Lillian "Lilly" Belle

Disney Food Fun! 2019

Disneyland Tips

What I Believe!

Our Missionary

We Bleed Blue! {Except for the Poppi}

My list of favorite movies!

Learn more about Dyslexia!

Music To My Ears!

Monday, November 06, 2017

What's On My Happy List?



A Peek Into Our Week....

Halloween!

Kate and her cousins did a Camelot theme.
She was Queen Guinevere
Taylor was King Arthur and the twins were Medieval knights...
and Brie dressed as Merlin...just for the pictures 😂
Although she refused to wear the top part
of the wizard wig...
{so you don't get the full effect
but you get the idea...}
Brie's best friend and Kate's came trick or treating with us. 
pic with the Bell cousins ...
Our Halloween-y porch...

Loved my spider-y theme...but gosh nothing topped the White House!
How cool is this?
*****
 Halloween school lunch for Kate...
Meat and "monster" cheese quesadilla

Halloween school parade....
Kate had a cheering section..
the best costume award goes to a friend's family...
she has seven kids dwarfs
How stink'in cute is this????
Emmsie did her hair so pretty!
I got to help with Kate's classroom party
at the apple nacho bar!
*****
Our Family Halloween Dinner...
Pumpkin relish tray...
and pizza mummies
{both ideas I saw online}
cutest Visiting Teaching Message this month 
by the talented Marci Coombs HERE
*****
Young Women's In Excellence was also this week!
A Hawaiian Moana Theme...
Hannah got to conduct the meeting- 
She also talked about her 10 hour 
Choice and Accountability Project.
She used her hours working at her job for her project...
Brie talked about her Individual Worth Project and the
importance of developing your talents...
This girl loves to draw
and spends hours doing it...
She has an undying love for anything Disney so she draws mostly Disney characters.
Her sketch book is chuck full of them...
She would like to be a Disney animator one day!
 *****
Took the kiddos to Sweeto Burrito to celebrate good report cards!

I flipped over their s'more burrito...
so dang good!
*****
Night out with neighbor friends....
We tried Alamexo Cantina for the first time.
It's been rated the #1 Mexican restaurant in SLC.
Their fresh guacamole was a win win...👌
everything was just SO SO delicious!
This restaurant has quite the
Day of the Dead ambience.
I loved it!
And so fitting we went this week
since Mexico just celebrated that holiday!
😉
*****
And in other random.....

Here are my little Primary friends presenting the Bishop with a thank-u gift!
*****
Kyleigh's social life...
cracks me up.
I love her stories!
This was a blind date.
hanging with one of her best-est buds.
She went and sat with Hannie and friends at the late night 
Murray Hockey away game in Provo.

on campus impromptu mission gathering.... 
Girls Night with her besties!

Lunch with a Korean family and mission friends.... 
Halloween Night!
She missed out on our Star Wars 
Halloween Theme last year. 
She's such a Star Wars fan so she
 dressed up as Rey.....
dance down in Provo...

Hang'in with her Korean friends...
and at the Korean K-pop dance!
Along with an almost all nighter Netflix's Stranger Things 
party at her apartment.
*****
Two video funnies!
From a current BYU student on the
University Snapchat page.
We got the giggles over it. 
Cuz my college girls feel this way too! 
And THIS!
Oh gosh toooooo funny!
The majority of our family
{other than the hubs and Kyleigh}
HATES to answer the doorbell...
99% of the time we just don't do it-
unless we are expecting someone..
so we find this SO hilarious and true!!!!}

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