Moments

Missed a day yesterday, but both today and yesterday I'm grateful for enjoying moments. As I mentioned earlier this week it's started to snow, and it's late enough in the season that the snow is starting to stick on the mountains. The new snow makes what is usually and fantastic view while commuting a spectacular view. And has had me getting into work and getting home just a little happier.  

I got forwarded a video at work today that might begin to explain why:
https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_killingsworth_want_to_be_happier_stay_in_the_moment?language=en

It all reminds me of an old Dave Matthew's Band song - it's all about making the best of what's around :o)

Snow!

Today I'm grateful for that first snow of the year when everything is perfect and white and magical.

http://www.deervalley.com/OnTheMountain/Mountain

And for an appointment to get snow tires on Saturday :)

Spa Day

Today I'm grateful for pretty toe nails :o)

Okay just kidding. Actually, today I'm grateful for girls mornings and having everyone enjoy doing the same thing for an hour. Alex had a conference call on Saturday morning so I successfully distracted the girls in our bathroom for a "spa" morning (aka a fantastic excuse to hang out in robes). C asked for her toes painted and M walked on up and sat down too. It was a great morning of just hanging out as a crew.

But the toes are pretty great too.

Settling in

Today I'm grateful to be out of "temporary" housing and into someplace to call our own. For some reason getting the girl's names up on the walls this weekend was a huge win on this front...

That and of course the loons :o)

30 Days of Gratitude

Happy November everyone! I can not believe November marks 6 months for us as Utah residents. Time is flying buy.

This year to celebrate November I'm going to try something I attempted on Path last year - thirty days of gratitude. Instead of storing it all up for Thanksgiving I'm going to try a blog post a day to share something I'm grateful for. We'll see if I can make all Thirty :o)


Starting with an easy one - I'm SO grateful to have the chance to watch the girls grow. Last night we celebrated our FIFTH Halloween with Charlotte. Boggles my mind. To prove it really has been 5, enjoy 5 years of C in costume...

2011 - Puppy

2012 - Frog

2013 - Elephant

2014 - Monsters

2015 - Pirates

Happy Fall

I'm hoping to catch up on blogging this week, but in the meanwhile here's the gist:
* We're out of the rental (hurray!)
* We're fall from unpacked in the blue house, but both cars are in the garage and day to day stuff is all accessible
* Turns out a girl from C's class at school lives across the street and her family came over to say hi today - for the win!!!


Happy Fall :o)

Alex's birthday

Yesterday's picture was brought to you by Norm and Jean's camera. While we were up there for Alex's birthday a couple of weeks back we managed to get a few more of the gang dressed up for the party.

But despite the team effort that went into getting everyone polished for pictures...

...the actual posing didn't last long :o)