Feel Good Monday!

 I woke up this morning feeling so good.  Back to my normal self!  After feeling so heavy for the past week or so it felt amazing to wake up happy this morning.  I exercised and listened to my Come Follow Me Podcasts to start my day off right.

I made Cinnamon bread yesterday and the kids ate it for breakfast this morning with yogurt.





School went as well as possible...getting back into the grind after a good weekend is always a little difficult.

The boys playing with Lego's during their "break".




We gave Bryce his birthday gift a day early.  He got a kindle with a ton of books on it.  We are hoping that it will jump start his passion for reading.  We are willing to try anything!





Caitlyn and William put on a puppet show with William's Alphabet puppets that he made in preschool.  I was so tired that I fell asleep on the couch during their performance, ha ha.  They had fun though.







Jon took Bryce out for his birthday dinner a day early.  It just worked out better that way for us.  They went out to B.J.'s.  The kids and I ate breakfast burritos and then we played outside.  The weather was perfect!  We also went on a walk around the neighborhood.  Every time the weather is perfect like this and I feel the peace of living out here...I am overwhelmed with gratitude that this is where I live.  I love it here.















Tomorrow is our 14th wedding anniversary!  I can't believe it's been 14 years!  14 years, 5 kids (and 2 miscarriages), 5 houses in one city (ha ha), 5 wards, 2 stakes, the death of my Mom, countless trips to Utah, a trip to Canada and back, lots of church callings, sick days, healthy days, lots of meals, lots of birthday parties, lots of late nights, lots of tears, lots of laughter, lots of friends have come and gone, lots of trips to Disneyland, Sea World, and Knotsberry Farm, Temple Trips, and on and on and on.  We have been blessed!

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