There was a gorgeous fog all day that just surfaced the hills with sunlight shinning through. Gorgeous. When Jachen got home from work, I popped dinner into the oven, then we drove up behind our house to the beautiful sight you have just seen. I am so happy we did because the nice fog was still there and the sun was in perfect position. Also, we met some calf and cow friends which I was excited about. They were all very excited about getting their picture taken. I had a hard time stopping myself from taking a thousand photos, but luckily {or unlucky} we had food in the oven so we had limited time. Don't we have a beautiful backyard?
Let me tell you about two of my regrets. One~that I didn't learn from my father how to cook amazing food like he does and watch him more to learn his magic. Two~that I did't start till recently photographing his meals. My parents are both great cooks, but my father is quite the genius at it. These are only a few of his MANY MANY delicious meals. He is a creative experimenter and I don't think he has a limit as to what he can make. Many times he uses Cooking Light or other recipes, but a lot of the times he make it up. He is a MASTER at meat. Master. There is usually some sort of meat and vegetable in every meal. It will have you salivating. We have family dinners a lot and he usually has to feed for like 10-15 people and still...amazing. Even nights it was just him, my mom and I, he would make such a delicious simple meal. He almost spends too much time making dinner, but he enjoys it! I am not a bad cook, but I don't have the range I wish I had. Here I had this master of fine foods cooking my meals and I hardly ever helped or learned. As I am learning now in my own home and married, I hope I find that I have some of my parents cooking skills in my blood....my siblings all have it in them so I am sure I do too! If you come over for a meal at my parents house you are sure in for a treat! Oh and almost every part of almost every meal is gluten free...my mom can't eat gluten.
Here is my second installment of movies I look forward to seeing. A pretty long list, but you will enjoy them too. You can find the first list of movies HERE if you missed it.
Which of these are looking good to you?
About time they do a story on the man who is Elmo. So great.
I love a Katherine Heigl movie.
Oh this one looks very good. Have we seen Matt Damon as a dad before?
This looks like a stunning movie, but I have no idea really what will happen with it! Although that is exciting too.
This looks great, but is it really going to be a serious movie? Does Jackie Chan do serious? Sure looks like it in the trailer.
This movie looks extremely good, but very sad.
OH my gosh, the three of these guys together? Yes, please.
HAH, what is this? So funny, sure love that Sean Astin.
I don't typically love horse movies {well besides Man from Snowy River}, but this one looks beautiful.
YES. What a great looking teenagerish chickflickish movie. It takes me back to when they used to make good movies like this...you know like She's the Man, What a Girl Wants, Princess Diaries..etc
I have shown you this one before, but I wanted to remind you {and me} to see this.
I didn't like the Valentines Movie like this one, too many stories going on...BUT I think I will be watching this one just because. And because so many actors I love are in this. Do people REALLY care about New Years Eve this much?
This looks different. Sounds like it has a great message...the country/rock song on the trailer makes it a little hokey though.
Oh my, funny. I sure love that Tim Blake Nelson actor.
Okay, I have been spending ALLLL day on a very tedious project. I had to start a new blog{this one} because my blogger/picasa ran out of photo space on my first blog. If you don't know what that means let me tell you. When you upload a photo to your blog it saves it in your Google picasa. Your picasa I guess has a limit and I reached that. My only option was to start a new blog{this one} and so I had to sign up for a new gmail address too so my picasa was linked to a new photo album. A fresh start. So I know this. So today I went to see if I could clean up and delete photos out of this new album to keep the number down. AND I found out that ANY upload is saved...meaning if you upload a photo and then realize its the wrong one or something and delete it it still saves it. So it still brings up the count. I had a ton of duplicates and photos I never ended up posting. I have been spending the day figuring out which are the doubles and ones I didn't use. Also, when I have a post of series of photos nowadays I combine them to save room...so today I have been going back to old posts when I didn't combine them and now combining them. I have been able to delete over 500 pictures off of my picasa! This may sound silly, BUT I wont let google picasa win!
The above picture is a screen shot of the picture lineup. So go in and see what yours looks like. It may be a scary sight...it was for me. Now more then ever I will be more cautious of my uploading. This may be all jibber jabber to you, but this jibber jabber sure has been taking me a long time!
How have I never posted about Confetti System? If you hadn't already seen this amazing company...well here you go! {Well, I guess in a recent post about loving gold I posted some.} I absolutely love this stuff. I could eat it up! Not only are the colors a dream, but that texture! Sold. If I could fill my house with Confetti System pinata's, garlands and wall pieces I would be a happy citizen. What do you think? Are you a fan?
I started the morning off different than any other morning. I made Jachen fresh yummy scrambled eggs before work{I usually prepare him bread and yogurt. He isn't much of a breakfast eater but I force him} and then I had the luck of taking a bit of my cereal with THE WORST expired milk I have ever experienced. Instead of the usual sour experience...it tasted like vomit. Little did I know my morning would continue to be unexpected.
While Skyping with my sister Natalie this morning at 8am we started talking about the "I'm a Mormon" videos and discussing the growth and influence of the videos. {There are a lot of misconceptions of Mormons and a lot of people who only know untrue facts about us Mormons and so these videos help show that Mormons are everyday people who have a belief in God and Christ and we try daily to follow Their teachings.} We were both on the website looking up "I'm a Mormon" profiles and I noticed there were many more videos than last time I looked. After our Skype was over I began to watch the ones I hadn't seen yet. That was at 9am and at sometime after 12:30, I finished the last one. I only stopped twice to use the bathroom. I watched and listened to real people who live fulfilling lives talk about their endeavor to love, be happy, to keep their priorities, to do each day what brings them joy and survive life's challenges. I have been needing some big time inspiration and motivation and there it was. It is amazing where inspiration and motivation can come from. Watched experience after experience of true happiness and how to get there. {not that I didn't know how to already, a good reminder and is such a different experience when you watch it happen in others}
As I have shared in a few previous posts I have been feeling very not myself and in a funk lately. A feeling that I just have not figured out how to get out of. I don't know exactly what it was about watching these people tell their stories that has made me excited, pumped and ready to press forward and be motivated to be happy now. Not tomorrow, not someday, but now. One lady said "life isn't fair and when it's not fair to us that's when we complain about it, but life doesn't have to be fair because there is so much more that God has offered us. And that's why bad things can happen. This is not forever, this is not the end. This is not the final product." So many more sweet words went straight to my heart and has made me realize the little struggle I am going through now can be overcome. I want to be someone who when given a struggle will conquer it everytime. Although I do not decide to be unhappy or choose to have an unhappy or hard day...I can decide to be happy and I can decide how to adjust my life to be what I want it to be. I do have that choice.
I have also {re}learned that I can be passionate and do what I love and enjoy. I know what I want my future to be like and I am determined to find out how to get there and get then be there. I love how just about everyone in these videos recognized the joy they could have in their daily work persuits. They could incorporate their passions, their beliefs and their core into what they do. I am so excited for the future, but not only that I am excited for each day. For the present. I sometimes find myself thinking too much about the future and not enough on what is happening now and who I am now. This was the inspirational kick I needed and confirmation that if I just tweak this and that about my life right now that I can be what I want now and not just someday.
So many other little things I learned or was reminded of. Although I am strong, I sometimes feel weak and lost. Luckily, I have found new and strong motivation...to let insignificant things not matter. To see the real picture. To find the positive even if I don't think any exist. To let little things bring me just as much joy as big things. To continue to live passionately. I don't know if I explained how I wanted to what I am feeling or if I did it in a way that makes sense on what I am really thinking, but I hope you can get something out of it. I wanted to share this little special moment and hope you can find a little special moment in it.
Today is good. I even put on makeup today and threw on a necklace. Yes today, vomit milk and all is a great day.
Enjoy some of my favorites. It will be a great part of your day.
I tried posting more videos, but there was some video posting malfunction.
Watch the rest, HERE.
You could also read my dad's profile, here
sister Alicia's, here
brother in law James', here
and sister Stephanie's, here
more family will be up soon and I hope to too.
Wouldn't these dresses by Orla Kiely be perfect in mine/your Fall wardrobe?
Too bad they are hundreds and hundreds of dollars, I can dream. I love them.
25 September 2011
How is your weekend going? In Switzerland it is almost our bedtime on the last night of the weekend. Oh how it goes so fast. This weekend's highlights were waking up at 430am to get ready to make our 2 hour drive{well technically we carpooled} to the Bern LDS Temple, found cans of Root Beer! at a store, goofed off with my husband, skyped at my friends baby shower and blogged. Also, Friday night Jachen and I watched the new Jane Eyre movie. I highly recommend it as long as you know it's not like the other period pieces which are a bit more lighthearted. This one is a little raw and dark. But a beautiful love story filmed very beautifully and done very well. That pretty much sums up our weekend. Oh, and I saw cows crossing a bridge over the autobahn{freeway}, that was a funny sight.
Last night I was able to sit via Skype in the room of my BFF Kerianne's baby shower. Too bad I couldn't fly in for the occasion, but happy Skype saved the day. It was so great to see many faces that I haven't seen for many months. It was also great to see my family there too. My niece Clara kept coming up to see me, I sure love her. She is such a sweetie, she kept "feeding" me M&M's at the party. This made me miss being at home, but also made me feel a part of it. I am grateful for that.
