Happy 2025!

 

Happy 2025. Hope this year is more gentler and kinder to us. 

Happy 2024!

 

A little late wishing everyone a happy new year but here's to making more memories and relishing every moment with our loved ones. More adventures and not taking the little things for granted. Noticing the simple pleasures of life without documenting them online! Being offline more! Only certain moments should be shared! Nothing but positive vibes this year! Cheers to 2024!

Happy New Year!

It's 2023!!!!!

How quickly the years pass us by especially when you're still raising kids in your fifties! What a life! I love that all our years are imperfect and that we are who we are. Just us. Living life each day and managing whatever the universe throws at us. I personally don't feel the need to change but to only do better with how I view myself and others. To love and to simply be kind. To not hold grudges and to just live each day to the fullest. Appreciate our loved ones and never take anything for granted. 2022- like all other years have been quite interesting but so thankful to wake up each day and to still be breathing. To have survived another year. And that in itself is a miracle my friends! Cheers to 2023 y'all! Let's make it another great and imperfect one! 

My Wish For 2022...

 

The best part of getting older is knowing your worth and identity. Especially at the age of 50. Embracing it and loving every thing about it. Grey hairs and all! Picking back up the pieces of ourselves that we left behind that helped us find our way through our journey in this life. It’s never ending....

Walking Into 2022 Like...

 

Happy 2022 from the big apple! 

As you can see I am welcoming the new year on the 10th of January and Here’s hoping the first week of the new year had good vibes only. I personally want to focus more on my family in real time and in person than being online. Even though I feel I don't blog or post as much I still want to document the good things and eventually make my blog into some kind of memoir before I die! I want my kids to know that I always thought and wrote about them and our small adventures. The new year is definitely going to bring a lot of change to many people especially with all that's going on in the world. I really want to focus on the positive and just be happy and chill no matter what the world brings and where life takes us. So happy new year to you! And to all that continue to hop on here every now and then...thank you for reading. Good vibes only this year y'all! xo

Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021!

13 days into the new year and I'm now saying goodbye to 2020 and hello to 2021. Unfortunately this will be another pandemic year. Not too much has happened since the new year began except for zoom school resuming again. I still get my days mixed up but somehow still find a way to balance on how to deal with life and kids each day. One day at a time right? On thing that gets me through it all is my faith in God and not taking the little things for granted. I know I have learned a lot this past year. For example, not being afraid of the unknown. Not sheltering myself from the outside world. Having a husband who is a city driver for UPS helped me become fearless and somewhat jaded in ways where I was not thinking too much about Covid. I know it's still here and every time we'd go out we are careful and extremely cautious of our surroundings as to who we associate with within six feet. But to be honest, 2020 wasn't so bad to our family. We learned to face the pandemic and found ways to serve one another. Even when the kids started zoom school. 

Welcome To The 2020s!

Happy New Year everyone! So much has happened within the past ten years, and as much as I love and cherish those memories I am ready for a new decade with my grown children so that I can create more moments! 2019 brought both challenges and joy but without the guide of our loving Savior Jesus Christ wouldn't be able to make it to the end of the year alive! I know there will be more hurdles to jump, but I know that with hope and faith we can overcome anything! So happy for a new year, a new decade! Cheers to the 20's and all that it will bring!  

Happy 2019!

2018 has come and gone, and now it's 2019! I'd like to think that throughout the past years I always did my best to be a kind, gentle, and loving person to all mankind, and for the most part I feel as if I did. I can always do better though, and I am totally thrilled to be starting out a new year with my family. I'd like to focus on the good things, and stay positive no matter what trials come our way. The past is the past, and to be honest no matter how many times we reflect on it it's good to just let bygones be bygones. Reflecting on the beautiful is what matters, but moving on from all the goodness that was done in past years is good too because that just motivates us to become a much, much better person!

Remembering 2017 & A Happy New Year To You!

Remembering 2017 with so many photos, and snippets! This year was filled with so much joy as I witnessed my last child and only son Noah be baptized and confirmed, began cub scouts & has almost received his wolf rank! He loves scouts! My youngest daughter Chelsea is now in young women & went to girls camp for the first time this past summer as well as attending three different temples after turning 12. She has a love for drama & is casted in The Wizard of Oz musical in February! She's worn out from all the late practices, but is excited to be a part of her first musical! 

A New Year, The Same Me, But Better.

Resolutions in my opinion are overrated and so instead of writing down the things I'd like to change I've decided to go on living each day as I've been, but better. Pressing forward through all the challenges that face us. 2016 was no different from any other year I've had, but one thing I do have to say is that when it comes to relocating to a new area a lot can change. 

And So Goes 2015.

Since I didn't want to take a random photo of a few happy strangers that I met at the store I decided to make a collage of my family, and to show that no matter how harsh this world can be, and how tough things can get for us there is always room for happiness, hugs, and joyful moments to cherish for a lifetime. 

On the day before Christmas eve I was buying some last minute items for Christmas dinner at Walmart (don't judge.) I went early in the morning which was nice because there were no lines. Thing is I had exactly 20 items, and the only lines that were available were those registers. I decided to get in line when all of a sudden stood  three people behind me carrying only one item. I let them go ahead of me. You should have seen the look on their faces. Their faces were so shocking, and in that moment I felt both happy and sad. Happy because even though they looked shocked, they seemed to be uplifted, and sad because it makes me wonder how often have they had a kind gesture given to them. 

When the other line next to me opened up I saw a little old man probably around 70 years old standing in line waiting as more people rushed in front of him. The last person I allowed go ahead of me was being rung up so I mumbled under my breath, "what the heck." I offered if he would like to go in my line since he only had a couple of items. He said no thank you, and luckily the lady in front of him only had a few times. It was then when I overheard him telling the cashier how kind I was to offer him to go in front as well as the people I let go ahead of me. They both mentioned how no one rarely does that anymore, and the cashier in particular who works there emphasized how they need more kind customers like that woman (me.) It made me feel good inside knowing that they acknowledged my kindness, and even though one of the customers I allowed to go ahead of me didn't say thank you (i still think he was in major shock that I let him in before me) it didn't bother me in the least. I'm sure eventually someday he'll remember what this kind lady (me) did for him at one point, and hopefully he'll somehow pay it forward. 

I'm sure there are plenty of good folk out there doing random acts of kindness, and if you are one of them please don't stop. I can't even begin to describe the feeling I get when I do something nice for someone, and when they see that the looks on their faces are priceless. Shocking and priceless, and I know that it is uplifting to them. It was such a joy to have seen the smiles on those three strangers regardless of their overwhelming reaction. 

My hope for the new year is for the world to be more kinder and gentler. It's up to us to make that change, and to strive to do better. It is my hope that as a family we can do all things that keep us in good spirits, and always putting the Lord first. To always have that unique light shining upon us so that others can stop, and ask, "what is it that makes you so different", or "why is it that even in the hardest of times you always look at your life in a positive manner." Those are the things I want people to ask so I can let them know that because of the faith I have in God is how I get through his thing called life. 

I love my family, and in between the smiles you see in all the photos I post there is also heartache, and pain. Don't be fooled because we are in no way a perfect family We are striving for it, but because of God I know that we as a family can get through anything in this crazy, but beautiful world. 

May y'all reflect on the goodness that the Lord has blessed you with this past year, and strive to be a more kind and gentler people, and that 2016 will be a solid year for you! 

Thank you for visiting this small patch of my life in this vast internet world where I love to write, and wishing y'all a happy New Year! 

XXXOOO