sunday afternoon

Chase and i just got back from a wonderful bike ride up in our mountains. Its been such a beautiful day. We had a wonderful easter weekend at my parents house....post will come soon after i get some pics from my sis.

Hope you all had a great weekend too.

i still love spring.

happy easter

haha....cute bums! Hope you all have a happy easter. I sure do love this time of the year.

good day

yesterday was a good day.

nothing special or important happened,

it was just simply good.

maybe it was cuz i was more grateful for life (previous post)

i like days like that.

my man is out of town, again....(that job of his)

so i'll take advantage of that and head home

to spend some quality time w/

my lovely parents and adorably twitterpaited lil sis.
(and my other darling sis's too)

i love general conference weekend.

i love spiritual inspiration.

i love weekends @ home.

i miss my husband.

the end.

(left my camera in utah...so i'm being a boring blogger till it returns to me, sorry)

...a little inspiration (mostly for myself)

A Thankful Heart

When you feel the impulse to be judgmental, let that be a cue for you to first be thankful. When you discover that you’re focusing on what’s wrong, use that as a reminder of all the many things that are right.

Immediately upon waking up each morning, think of ten things you are grateful for at the moment. As you fall asleep at the end of the day, fill your thoughts with thankfulness for the good and valuable blessings in your life.

Give the power of your thoughts to the positive influences in your world, and they will become more influential. Remind yourself often of what works well, and you’ll naturally find ways to make many other things work well.

The way to enjoy success is not to study failure. They way to experience success is to extend and expand the success you already know.

Gratitude is so powerful because it makes you so powerful. Gratitude puts you in a positive frame of reference within which many more positive things can happen.

Begin each day, end each day, and live each day with a sincerely thankful heart. And as each day passé, you’ll have more and more for which to be thankful.

-Ralph Marston

*i think i should try this sometime. I think we would all be a happier people if we strived to look for the good in our lives, instead of always seeing the bad.

HAVE A HAPPY DAY!

family

i've been pretty lucky as of late with being able to spend lots of time with my family.

Last weekend Lis, Kell, and sweet Avery came to stay the night with me. I seriously love them!

This would be miss Mckell Webb...

That same weekend, Garet and Rulon were out of town, so Sharee and the boys came to stay with Kathy. They are so fun to be with. It was a beautiful sunny weekend, so we went to the park, and played with the kids. Here's little Grayson at 6 weeks old. so cute.

Chase is such a good big brother to Parker. He really takes such good care of him!

Then, this last week has been my spring break, so the Jones went up to Targhee to go skiing for Rulon's birthday. I hadn't been skiing since i was probably in 5th or 6th grade. But we had a lot of fun together, and it was nice to get away for a couple of days.

Here's my ADORABLE niece Charlotte!
...and innocent Easton

Hope you all had a wonderful week too.

We're off to Utah for some more fun.

Later.

two things....

First of all...my first spring flowers have sprung. My mom gave me these tulips a while back....and i was so happy this morning when i woke up to see that they had popped out. i can't wait for more.....secondly....i've become a brunette! why...i don't know, but i did. I did it about 2 weeks ago, but i've been having a really hard time adjusting to it...its suprisingly been really hard for me. chase really likes it (which was a shocker) and i'm starting to...i just keep looking at myself and seriously thinking i'm Melissa...weird i know. its starting to grow on me. (its a pretty crappy picture, sorry...it was on my phone) One of my beehives in Young Womens yells at me everytime she sees me because she liked me blonde better....but its hair, and i'm sure it will be blonde again eventually. i think i'm finally starting to like it a little.

change is good.

spring...

i am lovin every second of this beautiful weather outside. (i'll pray it lasts longer than 2 days)
its makin me oh so excited for the months to come.
i think i am a much happier person when the weather is warm.
yesterday was the first day i didn't need to wear a coat at school..

Heres my list of things i can't wait to do in the sun...

1. go running outside. i'm gettin pretty tired of the treadmill/elliptical.
there is just something about running in the fresh air that rejuvinates me.

2. plant my garden. my first garden ever. but i've waited for this summer for a long time, to
actually have a yard/garden, where i can plant whatever i want. i love vegetables.

3. have picnics. we've never really been much for picnics, but i'm hoping we can change that this
spring/summer and have many.

4. Go hiking. my chaser loves the outdoors, and we pretty much have our own supply of
beautiful mountains to roam on @ the ranch....so i'll look forward to those days.

5. plant/pick spring flowers

6. being able to pull out my t-shirts and shorts. i like them lots better than my sweaters.

7. not go to school everyday. summer=no school. i like that.

theres more i'm sure...
i just know i'm a happy girl when i'm warm.
bring on the sun.