Week 37 - Nine months out and I am a Momy!

Hey friends!

So last night we got a call from President Christiansen! He said that Sister Stolworthy is going to follow up train Sister Moore's (my first trainer) trainee in Woodstock, VA and I am going to train a new sister here in Braddock Heights! Holy cow! Can you believe it?? Oh man! And if you count the MTC I will be on my 9th companion in 9 months! Crazy right? I can't believe it sometimes. But I did get to have a picture with all of my companions I've had so far at our Sisters Conference!!

Isn't this the coolest! From left to right we have Sister Johnson, Sister Jeppson (she is going home in 3 days :( and my follow up trainer) Sister Moore (my first trainer) Sister Ward, me, Sister Buchi from the MTC, Sister Nish, Sister Bindrup and Sister Stolworthy! How awesome! All my companions in one place!

For sisters conference we got to do the hike on Thursday with all the sisters in the mission! It was so amazing! We had breakfast and then little lessons from all of the senior sisters in the mission! I learned so much about Gods love for me! Sister Christiansen said they aren't allowed to do this kinds of things again but they like it so much that they don't think it will be the last one :) Woohoo!

This week was filled with miracles as always! I can't think of specific ones at the moment, I am all out of time! But I love the Lord and I love His work! Feel free to send me stories about you on your missions if you served! My mom sent me some and I loved hearing about them!

Happy November! Pray for me and my new companion :)

Sister Nakata

Mother's Day Highlights

Mothers Day Highlights

Being with my Family and having a good RELAXING Sabbath day.

Minimal work with a very Simple Yummy Dinner 

* Pre-cooked rotisserie Chiken

* Grilled bell peppers with Feta & olive oil

* Pasta tossed with Pesto, Pine Nuts, Sun-dried Tomatoes & Feta Cheese.

(Most of all the products purchased at Costco)

Getting to Skype our A W E S O M E  Sister Justine Nakata for an hour!
We LOVE our Sweat Pea!

One Fine Day

A fine day to go through the Temple with Justine!

What a wonderful experience it was.

*****

Hearts were Full

This one is in Color for Justine!

Birthday Flowers

My Birthday flowers from Mike

I love Sunflowers

I love Mike

I love growing old with him

I love my life.

Pool time

Love being lazy in the lazy river at our community pool...

Good times!

Chloe

T H E   M O S T

B E A U T I F U L  

S W E E T

F U N

L O V E L Y

P  E  R  F  E  C  T

D O G

EVER

W e    L O V E    H e r

Enjoying our Quiet Neighborhood

Our traditional Sunday walk. 

We grab the dog, bikes, longboard, razer-scooter and go around our neighborhood.

This was Mother's day!

I love where we live!
I find it so relaxing and peacefull...
Well exept when you encounter some loud, abnoxious family taking a strole...
Yeah, you know who you are!

Mother's Day Spur of the Moment Photo Shoot & Ramblings

After all the photos we took with my phone, I decided to bring out the big camera.
Sure, we could have thought about matching outfits, but we didn't,
and it's OK because they turned out pretty cute in black and white!

I've been using my neglected Canon Rebel with my 50mm 1.4 a little more...

I do love the photos it produces.
I think I had it on the wrong ISO like at 800...
Oups!

*****

I love photos.

Photos are awesome for capturing life as we live it and personalities.

It is such a big part of who I am.
I may not be this powerful woman with a carrier or medals or tons of achievements and worldly success.
But I have my family and I will certainly leave behind lots of photos! :)
I love life.

I love capturing life and recording it.
I love Journals.

Since the age of 14 I have kept records, in Journals and now in blog format.
I love blogging.
I blog and record and snap because unfortunately our memories don't get better with age,
like french cheese.

I love french fromage. With french crusty baguettes.

*****

This is a sample of some of my favorites
I'm uploading all of them on google+

There that does it!

To make mother's day even better, I wish Alexi would have been with us!

My thoughts were with him.
Love ya Lexi!

A Mother's Day Without a Hitch. Well Almost.

 I had a great Mother's Day today!

I do love being a mother, even if some moments/days can be hard and oh so stressful.
I wouldn't trade it for the world!
Motherhood comes with so many emotions, all of which are part of me.
They are part of who I am and who I am becoming.
It stretches my soul, makes me grow and want to be better for them.
It drives me crazy too sometimes.

But it is worth it!

Justine on Saturday night finished the laundry,
mopped the floors and cleaned up the downstairs
until 2:30am!
So the house would be nice and clean for me today...

Emric made crepes for breakfast.
They ended up being eaten for lunch.

We had no time for them before church for breakfast...

So we made yummy Diner Crepes for lunch.

 Amelie sang a mother's day song at church with all the other kids 

and made me not one, but 2 love notes at church!
By the way everything we got at church was chocolate!
Hershey bar, Hershey kisses and hugs, M&M's.
Yuck. Yuck & Yuck!
But that's OK cause at home I had some yummy stuff!

About the hitch!
I said that this was a mother's day almost without a hitch because
I kinda over-reacted when a bag of candy had spilled some sugar on the counter while I was cleaning up.
I threw the bag away, Amelie wasn't very happy and said something not nice to me!
I can get a little uptight when I have to clean up after everyone
(especially on mother's day when everything in my mind should be perfect)
I kinda locked myself in my bedroom, and worked on these pictures, but only for 5 mn.
I realized just how precious our family is.
And that our kids are only with us for a little while.
And that I over-reacted.
I though twice about it and decided to go on the bike ride with the family instead of sulking in my room because of my uncalled for reaction!
It was not worth ruining the day for something so little.
Oh how I wish I was a better mom sometimes...
I try. I fail. And try again.

I love my girls!

I got spoiled once more by my Man...
Friday night diner, movie, favorite cookies, Sunday help in the kitchen...
He is so good to me.
 I could imagine life without
 my lovable-crazy-sometimesanoying-funny-neverboring-talktoomuch-generous Man...

By the way, the cute dress I am wearing, he got it for me on his Birthday!
hihihi!

 I also got a 5 mn phone call from Elder Benny Boy Johnson!!!!

So happy to hear from him from his mission in Sacramento California.

Today is Part of Eternity

This Week

I enjoyed doing yoga outside for the first time this year!

I enjoyed a clean house for a few days

My visiting teachers were coming.

It's amazing how much I can get done when I have company coming,

or when I talk on the phone with a friend!

I enjoyed some yummy home made Greek yogurt. It's so easy to make!

Recipe here

I enjoyed, on my walk, this fancy tire swing. Well kinda, it wasn't very comfy!

I enjoyed taking pictures of mini wonders I encountered along my path.

I did not enjoy the $800 repair bill for Mike's car that broke down.
I had to pick him up and take him to work for 3 days...

I enjoyed, that today, on March 1st, Mike still had a job to go to!
They have extended him for another 2 months, and maybe more!?

Mike and I wrote every day in our little Valentine 'Like Book' during this lovers month!
We have decided to give it a rest and pick it up later.
It was fun.
I was always so exited to look inside, when I would notice the book on my side of the bed,
that ment my man had written something he liked about me! :)

I enjoyed helping Emric finally do his Eagle project!!!!
More on that soon...

I enjoyed clean sheets and a freshly, nice smelling, clean Chloe!
Again, she adorned herself of some very pungent something's-been-dead-for-a-while smell.

I enjoyed cooler weather, wearing scarves and jackets.

Over all this has been a lovely week, very busy, but a lovely week...

Oh, I almost forgot!
I did finish watching season 3 of Downton Abby and was very very very shocked,
in denial, angry, distraught, I just couldn't believe it!
It was not supposed to end that way!
It needs to be scratched and redone!
Seriously?