Monday, February 10, 2014
A Grateful Heart
I didn't realize how hard it would be to leave my ward family. Moving as a youth, I was emotionally devastated every time we had to pack up and leave -- but as an adult ... I've been totally fine with this move! Up until now. I am grateful for my time here; I'm grateful for such a wonderful home and friends who love me and my family. We feel at such peace with our move -- but it still is hard. Very bittersweet.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Movin On Up ..
When setting out to purchase a new place we had an idea of what we wanted. 5-6 bedrooms -- finished basement -- finished yard -- fenced ..... we looked into a lot of awesome properties -- but nothing felt like it was ours. We probably were at about property #9 or so and Bryan brought us to a new development. We did NOT want a new development! We saw these homes online -- didn't really know when we'd have the cash flow to finish the basement, and really wanted it move in ready. BUT -- we went inside anyway. As we were walking into the home (not the one pictured) I just had this gut excited feeling that THIS WAS IT! There are two spec homes being built on Regal View Dr -- We went into the second one and I liked it even better. It was exciting -- scary -- and new. This is not what we signed up for in our minds, but feel so excited and at peace with the decision. Our new neighborhood in Saratoga Springs is right next to LDS Church farmlands -- so it really feels like it is in the middle of nothing. It is not extremely close to any shopping plazas or restaurants. It is smack dab in the middle of the neighborhood, another perk for us. It is open, beautiful, new ... ours! We are so so excited and are praying that everything goes through without any major hitches.
We took the kids there last night for Family Home Evening -- and it was so wonderful to be able to dream and get excited about OUR HOUSE. We picked bedrooms, wandered up and down the stairs ... looked in cupboards ...
We close on our home on Valentines day, and hope that our house will be ready to move in that weekend!
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Monday, January 20, 2014
Nature Vs. Nurture ...
How many times have you heard "it runs in the family"? I have always understood that phrase to be hereditary in nature ... but besides hair and eye color -- and perhaps basic bone structure -- I wonder how much that is actually true. I wonder if much of who we are is based upon HOW we were raised/trained and not necessarily how our DNA is structured.
For example -- my dad told us the story the other night that growing up he thought he was destined to get dentures at a very young age. His mom got them by the time she was thirty -- and it was because she had "bad teeth". To my young dad -- why take care of your teeth if in the end, you will loose them anyway. Now, good news is -- my dad has all (or most at least) of his original adult teeth -- but the perception of what his future COULD be ... very well COULD have come true because of his mindset.
Going along with the teeth thing ... Joe "doesn't have GOOD teeth" ... I don't know if that was ever told to him, or if that was part of how he was raised, or the fact that he has had a (ahem) cavity or two has justified this. Several years ago Joe was getting root canal after root canal. Crown after crown. He even has an implant. Since, he has made it a point to take care of his teeth -- and has had NO NEW PROBLEMS! All of his dental work in the last 5-7 years has been because of problems that he has had with his teeth in the past. Poor kid barely got any sleep last night because an old root canal has gone bad ... Old problems. His mindset has changed ....
Switching gears -- I have "Fautin Hips" .... sure -- we inherit body composition from our relatives. But it shouldn't define who we are. We shouldn't be satisfied with being overweight simply because it "runs in the family." ... heck -- I have a few cousins who should have "the Fautin hips" ... but are very very slender. The "Fautin hips" shouldn't justify the 60+ lbs that I need to loose .... I know of people that have made it quite the point to stay in shape and eat right because they were told that would be big and there wasn't anything they could do about it. It ran in the family. If the day comes that someone says something like that to my little Elsie ... let's just say the mama claws will be coming out.
The point of all this rambling -- besides to document Joe's poor tooth -- is that we have to be careful of the words we speak to others. Even if our DNA is stacked against us -- we all struggle with math -- we all have two left feet -- we are all "big girls" -- it is up to us to define who we are. And don't be the person who breaks someone else down .... remember how your words effect those you love most.
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Monday, January 6, 2014
01/06 - Already Noticing a Difference
I read on a news post today that January 6th is said to be most depressing day of the year -- I'm guessing this is only because of those people who make New Years resolutions and can't keep up with them by 6 days into the year.
Luckily for me, I didn't make any "New Years Resolutions" .... my quest for a happier, healthier, fuller life started about the week before !! :)
Here are the goals our family has set to achieve in 2014. Some are hard. Some are a stretch. Some are common sense. All we need to work on!!
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Friday, January 3, 2014
A Web Slinger in your Face
I have felt the urge over the last few weeks to start documenting my thoughts and little life again, so after a good fourteen months of inactivity -- here are the Bouchers again!
One tiny thing I have always loved is little tiny naked baby bums. There is nothing better than bathing your newborn for the first time and getting them dried off and ready for their diaper and squooshing their little naked bum through the towel. The best part is -- those naked bare bums are still so cute at 1 and 4 years old! Jace and Elsie were taking a bath and as I put a towel over Elsie and grabbed her by the bum I started making up my own version of "I like big butts" song ....
I like naked buts and I cannot lie ......
Of course, I sang the entire verse and of course, my little four year old picked up on it right away! He kept running in and showing me his (untoweled) naked butt and just laughing! Joe, realizing this was going to be a future problem, changed the song to ...
I like Spidy butts and I cannot lie ... and you get a web slinger in your face ...
I would like to say that three days later, Jace still requests the naked "butt song".
Here's for another funny Jace story. We have been refinishing our house to sell and it's practically all ready to go. There is one bathroom that has a toilet paper holder and one that doesn't, so my sweet BOY has dubbed these two bathrooms the "pee" bathroom and the "poop" bathroom, (since he doesn't need paper for the one ... function ... ... he even gets angry at Joe for going pee in the "wrong bathroom" ... oh gosh!
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