How the weather affects our lives

I thought I better take a moment and just write a few things. It has definitely been winter here. Back in December I wasn't quite sure that it snowed in Utah anymore. We only had rain, and lots of it. So when it started to snow here I was so glad. I love the blanket of fresh new white stuff. However, it has not let up. We have had snow storm after snow storm here for about 4 weeks. Now I'm looking forward again to the rain.
I've somehow managed to keep myself busy. I wrote quite a bit last week for my class. A little embarrassing when parts of it were read aloud in critiquing class. Oh well that's what it's for. I certainly have a long way to go. But I am thoroughly enjoying it.
My little older friend who has been going with me, fell on the ice, and broke her arm. So I'm not sure if she'll continue. I've enjoyed getting to know her on our drive over. She and her husband are retired, and like me she longs to write. She has even finished a book on her ancestors from Sweden.
I went to a talk on Saturday with a couple of ladies from my neighborhood to listen to a lady named Sherri Dew. She's the President of Deseret Book and she was so wonderful. She was so funny and very inspirational. I felt blessed to have the opportunity to go. It was funny when we got there, they were frantically trying to remove snow from the parking lot. There were mounds and mounds of it everywhere.
I painted my kitchen, I like the color well enough, I think I'm going to paint the rest of my main living spaces with it. Anyway, that's really about the only exciting things I have to report on. Not much to watching paint dry. And what else is there to do when it's so cold and snowy outside.
Shopping, (bought new bra's, woohoo) cleaning, laundry, making dinner, a few crafts here and there, taking Conner to school, homework referring, writing for my class, yoga, and reading. That pretty much sums up the rest of my time.
I love this time, and cocooning inside. But I know spring is just around the corner and I can not wait to be outside in the yard.

Loving New Adventures

Just wanted to write a little about my 2 new adventures. Yoga-I just love it! The women that are in the class are all so very nice and supportive. I know I have a long way to go to be where some of them are at. However, I am keeping up pretty well. I had no idea how wonderful I would feel after doing the class, I am so relaxed and feel so good, I don't know if I could ever give it up.

The writing class on Thursday Night- oh my I hope I can do it. We have to write a 3 page something for one class, it can be anything, and a 6-page story for the critiquing class. I have so far, a whole paragraph. It's hard! I have ideas, but wow, I'm not sure I can write well enough. I know that I am going to learn a lot more than I know now. That's a really good thing.

Here's for coming out of our comfort zones and trying new and different things!!!!! Who knows we might really love something we didn't think we would. Or maybe we will be really good at something we had no idea we would even be able to do.

A Mid-Life Crisis or just being able to watch one.

Our Tuesday Mornings Breakfast group met in Denver to go to a dinner theatre and shop. Here we are all ready to go to the play "A Mid-Life Crisis". It was so much fun to get together. I miss you guys!!!
Here we are at the Dinner theatre- it was in Boulder and it was wonderful. Sara had seen it and thought that us girls would enjoy it. Christy joined us and she is the one taking the picture.
For the last few years we have had a Christmas gift exchange and we were all able to do that together at the hotel. It has become one of my favorite Christmas happenings. It's so much fun to see how clever everyone can be. We all stayed together in a hotel and had our gift exchange and stayed up and talked till about midnight or one can't remember, can any of you girls. Anyway it was so much fun- highlight note: getting ourselves to the hotel to get checked in and ready was highly adventurous, me and Cath kinda sorta knew how to get there, however, we did end up making a couple funny detours (my fault). Cath with her sticky notes and yahoo maps had us all lined out, and we got a little off track, pretty funny. But we got there and grateful Cathy always takes the time to make sure we actually do know where to go.
Here we all are posing for a picture with the gift Sheryl gave us, it's a trivet that folds up and is easy to store. She's taking the picture - but don't worry I'll make sure that we get her in her jammies for all to see. Cathy sat snuggled up in a comforter off the bed-can you see her off to the left.
Sheryl showing her treasures. This was so much fun and tomorrow we are all going shopping!

Out with the Old and In with the New

This little playhouse was in our back yard in Casper, it was built for Tanner when he was 4 years old by my brother Keith. We even moved the little house with us to Casper from Douglas when Tanner was 6. It will make a cute little playhouse for the two little girls who are now living in our old house.

Here is me and Conner in front of our old house in Casper, WY. Seems like forever ago that we were there, and we lived there for almost 20 years. It's funny how quickly we adapt to new surroundings

Here's a couple of picture's of our new house, it has a cute front porch, and we are at the furthest point in a cul-de-sac, I really like a lot both of those things. The yard is huge and kinda situated funny, it will be really interesting come spring, what we actually attempt to due with all of it. Tons of fencing is in our future.

The thing that Bryan loves the most about our new house is that it has tons of garage space. The door that is to the right runs the whole length of the house and he has made a spot in the back to put all of his tools and he can now park his 4-wheelers in the garage which makes him ever so happy. If Bryan goes missing from his office you generally can find him out in his garage.

New Years Resolutions

Here we are already into the new year, can hardly believe it. Last year sure was a year of change for the Livingston Family. Moving to Syracuse, Utah after living 20 plus years in Wyoming has certainly been interesting. I'm slowing but surely becoming more and more comfortable with my surroundings. I really did love my house in Casper, spent a lot of time and money making it exactly how I wanted it, and now here I am trying to hurry up and make all those things happen here. I realize I just need to slow down and relax, in due time all those things will happen. Besides it will give me something to do. My New Years resolution is going to be to play with my house and really catch up on those scrapbooks. I want to take a couple of community classes, I was so excited to find a couple about writing books for publication. Really want to do that, some of you know that it is my secret desire to write a book. I actually have wanted to do that since I was a teenager, never really knew how to get started. Also, I want to take a class on sign language, our new neighbors are both profoundly deaf. The other day Dan came to our door with a note to borrow vanilla. I just wish we could communicate, when he comes looking for his son Trent, who hangs out with Conner once in awhile, I never know how to tell him exactly where they are. However, we know exactly what he is after, for some reason, when he looks us in the eye and puts his hand even with his waist, we seem to know that he is referencing the height of his son, and wanting to know where Trent is. Then we attempt to hand spell people's names.