Quotes of the Week

"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy."  

-- Robert Tew

 "If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives." 

 -- Lemony Snicket 

"In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are." 

-- Max DePree 

"Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life!" 

 -- Tony Gaskins 

Quotes of the Week

"You can't always please everybody, but you can do what makes you happy and just hope that those around you will be happy for you."  

-- Robert Tew 

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. So if you're feeling uncomfortable right now, know that the change taking place in your life is a beginning, not an ending."  

-- Neale Donald Walsch 

"I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart."  

-- Vincent van Gogh 

Dining With Friends and Family

After not seeing each other for quite a few years, my childhood friends and I got together for lunch. It was so good to see them all again and get caught up on what's been happening in each other's lives. (Me, Pam Stewart Byington, Tammy Bruin Gentry, Shellie Bollingbroke Anderson and Kelley Carruth Martin)

Another long lunch happened soon after this one when I got together with my friend Chris Janes Williams the week before her sealing in the Brigham City Temple. Such fun to chat it up for hours with great friends. I was kicking myself that I didn't get a picture of us at lunch, so this one will just have to do.

One evening Glen and I went to see a movie in Farmington and walked into the ParkStone Restaurant right next door and got seated at a table right next to my Aunt Mary, my cousin Angie, her husband Vinicio and their four cute children. That was so unexpectedly random. Just wish we had had more time to visit with each other.

Nani and I have birthdays one week apart and we always plan a birthday celebration dinner during the week. Once again I forgot to take a picture at dinner. I made an attempt to capture the moment a little later in the evening just as the movie was starting.

Here we are at the end of our evening freezing to death while I'm trying to figure out how to get the flash to work on my phone. I tried to figure out how to get the timer to work so we could move away from the camera, but I was failing at that attempt as well. A great photographer I never have claimed to be...!

Speaking of my birthday... My visiting teachers brought me these beautiful flowers.

Abe and Klarissa claimed the following news to be their birthday gift to me from them.

This is how I got my birthday greeting from Glen. It is how we are making our 6-months-and-counting, long-distance, Minnesota/Utah relationship work.

I considered this my heavenly birthday gift when I looked out our bedroom closet window at the beautiful autumn scene with the Bountiful Temple in the center of the view.

We hooked up with Ben after the BYU basketball game on Friday. He would only consent to go to dinner with us if we went somewhere quick. So we quickly pulled into JCW's - The Burger Boys. Ben was raving about how delicious their milkshakes are and judging by size alone--I'd say they are AMAZING!!

Quotes of the Week

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." 

 -- Albert Schweitzer 

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins; not through strength, but through persistence." 

 -- Buddha 

"A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are for what you have."  

-- Author Unknown 

Quotes of the Week

"People are attracted to you by what they see in you; they remain attracted to you by what you see in yourself." 

 -- Mark Amend 

"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."  

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."  

-- Jim Rohn 

"Failure means you've stopped. So don't stop. Keep at it. The more you move in the right direction towards success, the better you'll feel. Every day work on making new positive habits second nature -- make them automatic."  

-- Dr. Richard Bandler 

Quotes of the Week

"If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen." 

-- Cher

 "Stay committed in your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."  

-- Tony Robbins 

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."  

-- Richard L. Evans

"If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility."  

-- Napoleon Hill