Celebrating the BIG 3-0!

Happy Birthday Brent!

Brent is turning 30 today. I have known for a long time that I wanted to do something special for his 30th birthday. After a lot of thought and several fabulous ideas, I came to the conclusion that it would be impossible to pull off any big surprise for his birthday since he would be the one paying for it. So the beginning of this year I told him to do a little research and figure out something he wanted to do for his birthday this year. I think only a few hours passed before he came back to me with all of the information ready to book a cruise. Honestly, I was a little shocked that it wasn't Disneyland, but very grateful...and excited. So we booked this vacation months ago.

Given the state of our lives the past couple of months I have not thought much about our vacation. Last week Brent informed me that it was only 1 week away. I honestly had no idea it was so soon. Now it is only 4 days away and I can not wait. I am so excited to get away from our house for a week. I am so excited to not have to cook a meal. I am so excited to not have to do laundry. I am so excited that I don't have to wake up each morning and rush to get my house clean enough to show. (Please sell while we are gone)

The thing that I am the most excited about is spending serious relax time with Brent. I have to say that I think we both deserve it. Thank you Brent for choosing such an awesome Birthday present, and for paying for it. This was an easy birthday for me. I just have to pack my bags and come along for the ride.

It is going to be a wonderful week.

Happy Birthday Brent. I Love You!

Faith

I have to preface this post by saying that I took this from a letter I just wrote my sister. I have been wanting to update my blog, but of course am too busy. So I did a little copy and paste action to save myself some time.

My life has been a bit overwhelming lately. I have been completely wrapped up in getting my house ready to sell. It has made me a bit crazy. I am not doing so hot at my responsibilities as a wife and mother. In fact I keep thinking about a conference talk by Elder Pearson http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-1032-13,00.html about faith and fear and how they can not coexist and I feel like my actions are contradicting my beliefs. With all of my heart I believe that the Lord knows how to sell a house and if I rely on Him it will happen when it is supposed to. I am, on the other hand, completely consumed with making every possible effort to make my house appealing so that whoever walks into my home will want it because it is so amazingly clean and organized and decorated. After a couple of very humbling experiences, I realize that exercising the faith that I have means that I need to move forward with my life as normally as possible. I can not neglect my responsibilities as a mom and a wife just because someone may call at any moment to see the house. I have to be the best mom I can be. I have to love and appreciate and spend time with my kids and husband and trust that the right family will come along at the right time and want to buy the house because of its qualities, not because it is the cleanest, most organized house they have ever seen. So today I have been focused a little more on that. I let the boys play with all of our tiny Lego's this morning. They were spilled all over the floor, but I didn’t care. I just played with them, while doing a little bit here and there on the house. I really don’t want my boys to look back at this time of their lives as the time that mom was really mean. I don’t want this transition to even faze them. They deserve a happy/sane mom. And so I am trying to ignore the fact that there is toothpaste splatter on the bathroom mirror, and crumbs all over the kitchen floor, and my windows still need to be washed. Today I am happy because I am relaxed and loving my kids. Now if I can just figure out what to make for dinner.

House for Sale

http://www.irwinrealty.com/98399520

As most of you know we are moving. Brent's parents are moving to Salt Lake City in July and we are so blessed to have the opportunity to buy their home. We are so excited and can't wait to move to a bigger home with a bigger yard! The challenge we face now is selling our house. From what we have heard the real estate market in Twin Falls (and everywhere else) is really slow. So we are exercising a lot of faith that the Lord will help us sell this house.



I thought I would post this information so that if by any chance you, or anyone you know is moving to Twin Falls and looking to buy a house, I know of a great one that is available.