New Year Goal Updates!

How are we doing??? 

Debts: We are still working on them. It would help if Buzz would get the raise he was told he would get and if he would get the money from his wellness assessments that we did last year. We hope that will all be worked out this month and to get our taxes filed this month and a hopefully good return so that we can really hit the debts hard. As of now we are still only paying minimum payments. But we will get there.

Cleaning: Having a hard time with getting the house clean in the first place. I got sick for a good portion of the month, and started watching new kids, but I am finally better and we are getting into a routine with these new kiddos. We hope to be on top of this goal by the end of the month.

Spice up the married life…. I will spare you the details of this one. That’s for me and my husband NOT for you. We are still working on going on dates every week without the kids, but we do spend time together after they go to bed. We did have an amazing anniversary around the middle of the month.

Write in my Journal. I wrote in my journal every day this month, and it felt so good. I used to be so good and then phased out after having kids. We hope I can keep it up!

Have faith in the Lord. Still working on this one, we aren’t perfect but I can’t change overnight. I know the Lord is there for me and I need to trust him more!

It has been a good month. We are excited to see how we do in February!

Love,

TT

Life As We Know It

I realize that I haven’t updated this blog, with the happenings of my life. The last few months it has been all book reviews.  So here is a update. Life is going well, there are some things that we wish could happen that aren’t and others that we wish wouldn’t be happening.

Buzz still loves his job. He recently got a transfer/promotion… (though we are waiting for the pay raise, Human Resources have been SLOW) he is also the ward financial clerk in our ward. It makes for LONG Sundays but he loves his calling and he feels happy to do it.

TT still loves being a stay at home mom. She is keeping busy watching other kids. She has 2 part time and 2 full time kiddos. It has been an adjustment having fulltime kids besides her own, but we hope with the New Year and the new kids it will help us pay off our debts faster. She doesn’t have a lot of time to do crafts and sewing but hopefully once she gets into the swing of watching so many kids she can get back to that. She is currently teaching the 6 year olds in Primary and it comes with it own struggles. But she loves it.

Little Princess turned 4 in December. She loves all things girly and is a joy to us. She loves, My Little Pony, Princesses, Frozen and being mommies little helper. She is a joy and recently moved into CTR 4 this year in Church.

Little Prince is 18 months and is all boy. He is adorable and a joy. He LOVES Cars, Planes and Monsters University. He is super sweet and a big mommy’s boy. He recently entered Nursery in, the church, and if he could stay without people thinking he was sick, I think he will be great.

Life right now has it goods moments and it hard moments. I am starting to get a small glimpse of what it is like to struggle with infertility. *DISCLAIMER- I am not trying to compare myself to those who have truly suffered from infertility, but I kind of am getting the feeling of what those who do struggle with infertility go through* With Little Princess we chose to go off birth control and I was pregnant within two weeks, with Little Prince it took longer around 6 months , maybe 7. But I don’t remember it being this hard. This time we have been trying since around Little Prince’s first birthday. So June and it seems like every time I log onto Facebook or turn around someone is announcing their pregnancy or having a baby and its getting harder and harder. Every time I reach a certain time of month and I have that visitor I struggle for days. When certain people close to me announce their pregnancy I cry for hours afterwards. I am trying hard to put my faith in the Lord and his plan but that is hard, I am super happy with my two beautiful kids, but then I think that there is something missing. Its hard, I am torn, but I am strong so I will just “Let it Go!”

We aren’t making as much headway on our debts as we would like, but we can see the end in sight for one of them. We hope to have it paid off within a few months. I will let you know how that goes.

Life is good, God is good, and even with trials and tribulations with God’s help I will be able to overcome anything!

That’s my life right now. Its not perfect, but its good and we are super blessed.

Love,

TT

2014 Goals

 My goals this year are more family oriented, in some ways….. I am trying to better our family life and our situation.

1^st- get at least 2 of our debts paid off. This will be our hardest one. We will really have to focus on our finances and be strict on our finances. But we can do it.

2^nd Clean the entire house and then make a cleaning schedule and stick to it. This might take a while as I have started watching new kiddos and they are full time. So getting the house clean in the first place is hard.

3^rd Spice up the married life.!I won’t go into this too much, but let’s just say having kids has really put a damper on this…. We are still happily married we just need to spice it up a little. More dates, more us and more …..

4^th Write in my journal everyday!  I was so good before having Aurianna, I have slacked off a lot but we are going to get back on track this year.  

5^th Have more faith in the Lord and in myself. I struggle with wanting to know the answers to everything right now, and not thinking I can do things. I am going to change this part of me that doubts so much!

I have my work cut out for me, but I can do this!

Love,

TT

Goals 2013 , How did I do?

Well last year some of my goals I did wonderfully on and others not so well.

My first goal was to Read and Finish a Book each month, This one I ROCKED at. I read a ton this last year and I loved it. What a great goal.

My second goal Create a Menu each month and stick to it. We did ok on this one. Some months were better than others but still we tried. This year we plan on doing better.

Third Organize the house….. well it is a lot better than last year! But I missed the deadlines and there are definitely still more things that need to be done, but we are getting there.

Fourth Have a date with David each week….. we kind of stunk at this one. We spent time together and put the kids to bed early so we could snuggle on the couch after they went to bed, but we still weren’t so good on this one.

Fifth, attend the temple each month, we  didn’t do this one quite as well as I would have liked. We need to do better.

Sixth, Have more patience. I am still working on this one but we are doing better.

2014 should be better!

Love,

TT

December Books!

Wow I am behind on this one. In December I read 2 books. I read the 5^th Fablehaven book and it was the best one (and longest) by far. They tied up all the loose ends and this one even had a bit of romance in it. Kendra and Seth have to save the world and stop the demon prison from being opened. They literally travel all over the world and get help from unexpected people. It was a wonderful read.

The second book I read was Someday, Someday Maybe, by Lauren Graham. This one was ok. I LOVE Lauren Graham as an actress (I just finished watching all 7 seasons, of one of my favorite series with her in it, Gilmore Girls) This story was about a actress who was trying to make it big in New York, it talked about the struggles of trying to be “found” as well as trying to find yourself. It was good, but I definitely wouldn’t buy it.

Love,

TT

November Books!

 

In November I read two books, “My Story” By Elizabeth Smart and “Descendant” by Lesley Livingston. Both were wonderful. “My Story” is an amazing read and it was wonderful to see the hand of the Lord at such a trying time in her life. She saw so many miracle through her nine months of misery and endured it so well. I am not sure I could have been as brave or strong as her. I have even more respect for her and I recommend that book to everyone! 

Descendant was good, it is a sequel to a book a read a few months ago called “Starling” it captures your attention from the beginning. The only complaint I have is that it leaves you hanging for the next book. I can’t say much about it, cause I don’t want to give away the storyline, but it follows Mason and Fennry’s on their journey trying to save the world, each other and sorting out their feelings for each other. I have no clue when the next book comes out but I am patiently (or Impatiently) waiting for the next book to be released!

Love, 

Tt 

October Books!

  

I have been trying to read more lately. So in October I read three books, they were all from the same series, the Fablehaven Series. If you remember I wrote about them in September, so these books just continue on with Seth and Kendra and their adventures trying to overcome their enemies. The books kind of have all blended together. The second book they are looking for a artifact on Fablehaven’s property and have to overcome some pretty serious obstacles in the process. The 3^rd book, Kendra travels to a place in New Mexico to retrieve an artifact and find it has already been removed and safely on Fablehaven property, but because of a Dark Plague they have to retrieve it hope they can overcome the Dark Plague. Then the third book they travel to a Dragon Sanctuary and have to find the artifact there. They run into some unexpected trouble on that trip and turns out quite different than I thought. I took a break in November to read two other books, but started reading the last book in the series last night and am excited to see what happens. 

Love, 

TT