Helpful Info for every woman

I read this article this morning and thought it was very helpful. :o)
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5 Ways to Love Yourself
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1. Clean up your surroundings.Dump the fashion magazines and even the clothing catalogs if you can. They're not helping. Since fashion magazines are driven by advertising, the only thing you're going to get out of dose is a healthy dose of what you "should" look like and the products that will do that for you.


2. Stop talking about your weight or flaws.Most people don't notice until you draw attention to it. Be extra careful with what you talk about around younger girls and the men in your life. If girls only hear older women whining about what's wrong, they'll think that's what they're supposed to do: grow up to be continuously obsessed with their appearance. And your husband doesn't want to hear it either. He wants his fun, smart, confident wife to hang out with.


3. Make a list of things you like about yourself.It doesn't matter that your beautiful, glossy hair is framing a slight double chin—it's still beautiful, glossy hair! Write down everything positive you can think of, not only about your physical appearance, but also your mind, heart, personality, and quirks.


4. Tell your critics to be quiet.You look at yourself in the mirror every single day and you know exactly what you'd like to change. You probably even have a fairly good grip on what you'd need to do to accomplish it (just try to stay realistic). So you don't need friends and family throwing it in your face as well. Explain kindly that you're aware of what you look like, and you'd benefit much more from their unconditional love and support.


5. Enjoy yourself! Do the things you love. Spend time with people you care about. Do whatever you have to do to laugh. Make time to exercise if at all possible and actually plan to eat healthy, the feelings you have afterwards will be rewarding and you will feel much better about yourself. You don't need to be a super model or wear the latest clothes to feel and look great! Love yourself and tell yourself that over and over. Turn the inner critic off!

My Happy Mother's Day

So here's my Mother's day gifts....It was so cute!














Calvin made me two pretty cards and a coupon book. He said he didn't get any help...can you tell? I'm amazed that he spelled flowers but not will or buy. hee hee There were coupons for the dishes, 10,000 hugs and kisses...it was very thoughtful and cute. He also made me a caterpiller frig magnet and put the magnet on the front instead of the back by mistake. :o)




























McKenna made me a pretty card at school with her picture, a paper crown (not in the picture) and that green tube gift but she said nothing was in it...it's just to hold my necklaces or other items in it. :o)

Will got me a new cell phone with a navigation system and all kinds of stuff along with wireless headset that will allow me to listen to the tunes downloaded on my phone and take calls etc. It's red and I love it! I think he was more excited than I was and after a couple of days he ended up getting him a black one. Somehow I think that was the plan all along...ha ha...but it is the nicest phone I've ever had with really cool features.

I got injured at church on Mother's day on accident by Calvin he was laying down on my lap and I was rubbing his back but he suddently got up smashing his back into my wrist which had no where to go but down towards my elbow popping loudly about 4 times, it was so loud that people from all sides looked at us. Luckily I was teared up from the speaker already so it wasn't so obivious that I was hurt...but the people behind us for two rows asked me if I was ok after sacrament was over. Will asked me if it was broken because it sounded really bad. I had a nurse in our ward look at it because it really hurt and she suggested I put it in a wrist support thing and get it xrayed, but I thought I'd wait it out and see. After a couple of days of icing it occassionaly & constant pain I went and got a wrist thing from Walgreens. It is feeling better today having worn it for a full day & night. Calvin felt horrible...poor little guy and kept telling me how sorry he was that he broke my arm and tried kissing it better. I told him it was an accident and that he didn't break it but was secretly wondering if it was cracked! I think the kisses are what made it feel better don't you? ha ha I'm sure it's just sprained.

Overall I had a fantastic Mother's Day thanks to my wonderful family and I can't wait to start cashing in those coupons!!!

My kids have their own blogs....super cute too

My kids are always asking me about my blog and when do they get to type on it etc. So today I created their own blogs. They both loved them and are excited to create their first post.

Calvin's http://www.calvinbud.blogspot.com/

McKenna http://www.rosebudmckenna.blogspot.com/

Homework and then a piano practice for their recital tonight is on their agenda next.

Last day at Legacy

So Friday, May 9th was my last day at Legacy Traditional Charter School. Will & I decided to go ahead and submit my notice after I found out that the insurance benefits would be over $800 per month and would take a huge portion of my wages along with the long hours being required. It was difficult because I really grew to like all of the people there! To be honest I've never worked with a nicer group of people ever but overall it just wasn't worth it for us.

Today my list is about a mile long from laundry, cleaning to helping Will with real estate stuff and I'm so excited to get going on it. First I had to pay some bills online which led me to my blog of course. ha ha

Hope you all had a nice Mother's Day! I certainly did.

Happy Mother's Day 2008

I would like to pay tribute to just a few special Mother's in my life....

My beautiful Mom....Sherri (March 2008)



My Great Grandparents on my Mom's side my Great Grandmother, Ruth Crandell was a special lady and I really enjoyed spending a lot of time with her the last two years of her life...she taught me many valuable lessons.


This is one of my most favorite ladies in the entire world....my Grandma Glenna Crandell Hathcock Devine. She's my Mom's Mother. She is an extrodinary woman and the best Grandma anyone could ever have. I love her very very much!!!



My beautiful Mom....I could go on and on about her. She is the best Mom ever and I am so extremely blessed to have her as my Mother. She is beautiful inside and out. She is always there for me. She is a wonderful Grammy to my children and both McKenna & Calvin love her dearly. She calls us usually every couple of days and always bakes us great treats! We miss her constantly.


This is my Grandma Myrtle Gilliam and my grandpa Bob at her side just last month. She is my Dad's Mom and although I don't see her often I have appreciated her recent efforts to be more involved in our lives and expresses sincere love.


This is Maggie Fitzgerald....Will's Mom and she is holding our nephew Jarom. She gave birth to one of the best guys in the world, my husband Will. I can never thank her enough for that alone! We love all love her very much!

This is Carole Wright...Will's step Mom along with his Dad Mike, our nephew Jarom and niece Mailey. Carole is a wonderful lady and has always had a special place in my heart. She is super fun too.

Dancing Mamas....need I say more? Maggie has taught all of us a dance or two and so has the lady next to her Janie who is my sister in law Julie Wright's Mom.

My pretty Grandma Glenna....one of the best role models I've ever had! I admire her so very much!

And this is Sheri Gilliam....a very special Mother....she's the one on the right...Anna is her pretty daughter on the left....Sheri was my step Mom for about 11 years and to be honest even though her and my Dad divorced she has always remained my step Mom and very close to us. She has been a good Grandma to my children and is one of the nicest most genuine ladies I've ever met.

Nana.... or otherwise known as Dona Prosser is Will's Grandmother. She is Maggie's Mom and a neat lady. She is a great example of a hard working and determined lady. We are glad to see her smiling face every chance we get.

We can't pay tribute to these Mother's without Maggie having some dogs in the picture. Maggie is just not Maggie or Mimi without dogs in her life. We love them too!

Of course there are lots of other ladies out there that are wonderful Mother's and have made a special impact in our lives and I wish them all a VERY HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!! I just wanted to pay tribute to the ladies that (my husband and I) have Mothered us in some way or the other and let them know how very much we love them and appreciate them. So Great Grandma Crandell, Grandma Glenna, Grandma Myrtle, Sheri, Nana, Maggie, Nana and Mom....Happy Mother's Day!

Mother Dear I love you so very much! I miss you so much and wish you were here with me to give you a big hug. You are always there when I need you. You have given me so much and continue to help me through life. I love and admire more than you will ever know!

Being a Mom is one of the hardest, yet most wonderful & rewarding things we as women could ever experience and I'm so thankful to be one myself, especially when I had several doctors tell me I wouldn't be. I want thank my Heavenly Father & Heavenly Mother for their love and for the opportunity of having these Mother's and to be a Mother! I feel so very blessed to have so many wonderful Mom's in my life! Happy Mother's Day!

Pictures of our House

Some of my family members have requested that I post these. We love our new house and although we still have many projects it's coming along nicely in the 2 months we've been here. Some of these pictures are from March including this one of the front all of our these now have beautiful flowers everywhere.

We still have a lot of painting to do and decorating but it will come in due time. I'm not patient so of course I wanted it all done the day after we moved in. ha ha The paint you see was already done and with 20 plus foot ceilings in the living room those colors will stay. Although I love red we might tone the kitchen down a little to blend in with the rest of the colors...in our other house my kitchen was red so it's not that I don't like a red kitchen. :o) We absolutely love the house! I'll post some of the upstairs at a later date.

My Sister Brandy...

Yes I'm bragging! My little sister is amazing and I'm so proud of her! I've been meaning to brag for awhile on my blog about her and am just finally getting to it. :o) Brandy is my one and only sister who lives up in Utah along with my other favorite lady...our Mom. Actually they live across the street from each other and I'm the odd ball out down here in Arizona. They love the snow...I love the warm sun, but I love to visit them and miss them both very much.

Anyways, my sister has done many great things and continues such as she was in the U.S. Army for 8 years serving our country. She has been a writer, editor and reporter and now a co-host of a talk TV show that airs weekdays for 2.5 hours.
She works for the LDS church in many capacities such as: running a camera for various things including General Conferences, other live broadcasts, Temple dedications and concerts/plays; being a floor director; makeup artist to the General Authorities including Prophet Hinckley, President Monson, President Faust and other General Conference speakers; she has flown to Spain with the church; she has helped produce LDS films and has even been in a few herself along with other family members.
Brandy has her own video business called Inventory Video Specialist for home & business owners in case of a disaster. This was inspired by our own house burning down to the ground when I was 15 and she was 12 years old which was very devastating for our entire family. Check out her commerical for it at http://www.ivsutah.com/ it's pretty cool and I bet you can't recognize the actors!

Brandy has done a ton of charity work for homeless shelters, domestic abuse women shelters and so on. She has a big heart! I've probably forgot to list a million other things that I'm proud of her for because really there are so many. She definitely is a go-getter and always has been. Brandy has always been a hard worker even at an early age when money was tight and she needed braces she went and worked at a hotel at age 11 cleaning rooms earning $36 usually for 2 hours of fast paced hard work and saved it to pay for 1/2 of her braces. She was always looking for odd jobs to pull weeds or sell you rocks and was smart with her money usually saving it all. She's still very good with money and is one of the smartest bargain shoppers I've ever seen.
Brandy is the Mother of my two beautiful nieces Adia almost 6 & Kyah 1.5 yrs old and married to a wonderful hard working man named Tyson. I'm very proud to say that they were married in the Bountiful Temple and seem to compliment each other very well. I've seen Brandy emerge into a wonderful woman and a caring Mother & wife. Here's a cute Halloween 07 picture.
Brandy's newest accomplishment of being a co-host on television began last November but actually aired on TV in January 2008. I think she is doing an outstanding job and looks absolutely beautiful! She has worked for many TV stations and Associated Press, been in movies, interviewed hero's...but best of all I get to call Brandy my sister. I love ya sis!


I've put the picture that http://www.kjzz.com/ has on their website showing the KJZZ Cafe team and their clip about it below.

Brandy you're awesome! Thanks for being a great role model to me and my children! She is living proof that if you put your mind to it you can do anything you want to!

KJZZ Cafe -
Hosted by: Danny Allen, Brandy Vega (my little sister), Steve Anderson and Andy Waits
Channel 14
Time: 6:30 am - 9:00 am
When: Monday-Friday


KJZZ Café is a time and place where viewers gather together to talk about the significant matters of the day with friends they find thoughtful and intelligent. The Café features three hosts that are grounded in the life experiences shared by most Utahans. As hosts, they will serve up news and issues with a hefty side of observation, analysis, and opinion. Much of that opinion will come from viewers, as the Café opens up its microphones in the studio, on the street, over the phone, and on the internet to serve as a voice for the community. KJZZ Café is dedicated to news and issues that are important, interesting, and inspiring; after all, not all legitimate news is bad news. KJZZ Café is “News Worth Talking About”.


News that is thoughtful, intelligently provocative, relevant, fair and balanced.

To view more of Brandy or clips of her on TV click on this link

http://www.kjzz.com/news/cafe/18148639.html?video=YHI&t=a