Attitude

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, then education, than money, than
circumstances, then failures, then successes, then what others people think or say or do. It is more important than apperance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church....... a HOME. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and this is our attitude.... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you..... we are in charge of our ATTITUDES.."

By Charles Swindoll

My New Years Resolutions!!

So Ranee Tagged me the other day to post on our blog our new years resolutions so here they are..

Julia's 2008 Goals

-Lose Weight (ok I know everyone says it but this year I am really going to try as my lovely husband for Christmas got me some personal training sessions at our gym yeppie. I am totally excited and at the very same time totally completely scared to death.. I give you an update on how it goes.)

-Read my scriptures daily

-Have daily family prayers

-Potty Train Brody (again I'll give you an update on how this goes)

-Get Riley ready to go to school

-Eat Healthier

-plant a garden

-Get a 72hr kit

- Save money

- Have fun as a family

So there you go whoever reads this think about what you would like to accomplish this year. Thanks Ranee I needed the push to do this. Have a great year everybody.

Pictures of Chirstmas..

merry christmas all.. these are some pictures of the kids with there gifts from santa.. we had a wonderful day together....

Christmas!!

OK so no pictures yet but they are coming. We had a really great day.. The kids had a hard time sleeping last night and it was so cute because Riley goes mom I love Brody so much can I sleep in his bed with him tonight. SO they ended up in bed together but hey it helped them go to sleep faster. I don't understand it either. This year I am ready to have over it has been a very busy one for us. We just got home on the 18th of December from our 3rd trip back to Arizona. This time it was for more bad news on December 7th Robert and I were out on our weekly date and doing some Christmas shopping when we got a phone call from his mother letting us know that Roberts father had passed away. So we went over to be there for her and to help with the funeral and with some things she needed done. I really hope next year is a lot less eventful.

So anyway last night we started our little Christmas celebration with talking about the birth of Jesus Christ and the story in Luke 2 then we gave the kids there Christmas jammies and got them all into them then piled everyone into the car including Uncle Ethan (who decided last minute to come back to Texas with us. It has been a lot of fun having him here.) to go around and look at the lights. The kids where so excited its been a lot of fun to see how much more excited Brody at just 2 gets then Riley at that age we were the ones trying to get her excited and this year she is the one getting everyone excited. She is growing up so fast. This morning Santa had come and dropped off toys for everyone. We had fun looking and playing with them and then we were going to have German pancakes that my friend Ranee even put the recipe on her blog for me but I got out numbered and so we ended up making cinnamon rolls and hot cocoa it was good ill just have to try the pancakes another day maybe new years.

I am very grateful for my family it is so fun to have children that help me remember how great it is to have that excited wonderful giving feeling.
I hope everyone had a wonderful day with your friends and family.