Temple Square Visit

Temple Square in Spring time!!
Tina and I have wanted to go to Temple square in the spring for years and years. Life keeps getting in the way. This year we finally figured out a time. Luckily for us Spring was late arriving so we were blessed with the most beautiful spring flowers in years!

The flowers are absolutely amazing! There wasn't a spot that wasn't covered in some glorious peace of beauty.

There is always a lovely feeling that exists on Temple square. I am grateful that we got to have such a lovely, lovely day!

Summer has Finally come!

Summer at Last!
My garden is finally starting to look like summer! I just love it when my blossoms start to show their beautiful colors! My peonies are fabulous! Their smell is just heavenly, I can smell it coming through my window in the early morning.

My crazy wild rose bush is more loaded than ever before. I had to remind the Daddy to not trim it in the spring-or else we would have no blooms! It is one beautiful bush but it is a mean thorny thing! This rose bush was from my elderly neighbor Margaret. She has been gone awhile now. It makes me think of her. The other day while I was trying to cut out a wandering start I smelled these yellow roses. I totally remembered being at my Grandpa Roses house when I was a very little girl. The side of the house seemed to be lined by rose bushes. The smell was intoxicating. I know I was small because my Grandpa died when I was six or seven and the house was moved so the freeway could come through. However, in my minds eye I remember that house, the hedge out front, the flowering trees down both sides. I remember sitting on the front step and playing around the side wondering why we couldn't go into the cellar. My siblings and cousins ran around and around while our parents sat on the front step and visited.
Grandpa always had lemon drops and peppermint candies for us. The stairs to upstairs were so very very step. They seemed to lead to the largest bedrooms I had ever seen. In reality, it was because I was so small. My Mom and eight other children slept in those two bedrooms. Two or three to a bed!

I really do love my summer garden.

Mother's Day 2010

Happy Mother's Day Mom!



I was blessed to have lots of lovely flowers to brighten my day! E and J hiked the mountain and came back with lovely wildflowers-just for me. Big Daddy brought me a lovely bouquet with pink roses, lilies and other beautiful things.

I am a lucky girl.

(someday I might write about how conflicted I am about such holidays--just not today)

Sunshine!

I hate to jinx it---The Sun is Shining in my world!!!

I hope that this will be a trend, we are all a bit tired of pouring rain. I have had very little energy(what's new?) and I am usually much more energetic in the summer. I usually wake up early because of the wonderful light. Not this summer. I still feel like it is January!

I am hoping to be able to really run again. Now when I say run, it really means moving a bit faster than walking. My first born likes to tell me that I don't pick my feet up when I run. I have been trying to run a few(when it isn't raining) times a week. I am only up to two miles---however---the best part is that my dumb foot HAS NOT HURT! That is huge! It has been two full years since my plantar faciitis started to bother me. I am hoping that I will be able to get to three miles very soon and then up to at least six. It is a personal thing---before I am dead I would like to actually try a 10K---maybe even a 1/2 marathon.

I hope that it is lovely all day!

Blossoms

Spring Blossoms

It finally feels like spring! We have had a few days of very hot temperatures and then a few with rain showers. I am so ready for some heat. I have really struggled with the cool temperatures this year. It has felt like winter even though the calendar has said it was spring.

I looked out my front door and realized that my apple tree was in full bloom. The smell of apple blossoms is one of my favorite smells, it is so fleeting that I have to just drink it in for the few days it is in the air!

Random Bits of Nothingness!

*My computer is alive! However, we are going to be adding a bigger hard drive so we will be without it again. So, my posts will be sparse--with no pictures.

*It is still winter here. It is April-Spring must come soon!

*I bought lovely daffodils for my table. My wonderful tulips finally bit the dust.

*I am still struggling with energy, the cold and dark weather just doesn't help me want to go out and go running! I am trying to enlist a friend to start going to the gym in the mornings with me. Perhaps it will be the motivation I need.

*I have been studying my photography books. The more I study the less I know.

*I am avoiding laundry. I have mounds.

*My children have been doing more chores--happy Momma-not so happy kids!

*I went to a scripture study class today and came home depressed. I don't think that is the intention of the class. I felt unlearned and like a failure as a mother. I took the little man to McDonald's after to try and relieve a little gloom.

*I bought more frozen fruit and raw spinach so I can have my green smoothies again.

*My best friend leaves tomorrow for a trip to Germany---without me! I will miss her, every single day.

Fresh

I have always loved fresh flowers. I love it in movies when people walk down a city street and buy a bouquet of flowers and bring them home for the table. I have always lived in a desert climate. Flowers are rarely sold on street corners. So, rarely have I had fresh cut flowers in any season except summer when hopefully, there are some to be cut from my own flower beds.

I still LOVE flowers.

On Friday, the first day of spring we made a trip to town. We went to Walmart. I really don't like shopping, I really don't like shopping at Walmart. It is just too big and too impersonal. It overwhelms me and then makes me feel depressed!

Friday was different! As we walked in I saw them. Beautiful tulips! I love tulips! They are up there at the top of my favorite flower list. We looked at them, I picked them up, put them back and then decided that I was going to buy them. JUST BECAUSE!

I am so happy! I have beautiful fresh flowers on my table!