This last weekend we went to pick up the kids from St.George. We stopped by Snow Canyon and took some pictures. The neighbors had some baby yorkies, and Goats that we went to see. I am going to take Hannah down there in her white baptism dress and take more pictures for her invites!

Last week was my lesson on "Creating a spiritual Environment in the Home" I started out by saying that I always thought in life I would sit in my tower comb my long hair and wait for my prince/knight to fight the dragons of the world and come save me. We would then ride off into the sunset. I said how sometimes he may fall of his horse and we may trip on those glass slippers (Cinderella syndrome I made up...) That we can't wait for someone else to slay our dragons. We must do it ourselves. For our learning. For us to keep the spirit with us always. Women are not allowed on the front lines of the U.S war, but we are on the front lines of a spiritual war, where we can't raise the flag of surrender. We are protecting our homes. I then had some great quotes from President Thomas S. Monson on "Heavenly Homes." It's an awesome, blunt article. I said we will have many types of homes. The one they are in with their siblings, roommates, newlywed, with children and so on. What we do on the outside reflects what the spirit feels like on the inside. Just like we need a temple recommend because our actions can bring the spirit, our home needs to feel like a place of refuge. We then talked about cleanliness, learning, good smells and so on that makes a house nice. You can't forget laughter, and love. I told them that when they are moms, sometimes all we have to do to let the spirit leave is turn the tv on, the computer on and filfth can filter in. I talked about the harms of pornography. I had just gone to a fireside on it, the people there were very blunt and are directors of SALIFELINE. I'm sure you have seen it, it was on in between conference last October. My friends ward does stake dates and invited us to one. That happened to be it. It said that it isn't unheard of of 6 year olds being addicted. Crazy. I told them how they will be fighting for things that we don't know even exist right now. I then did the Wizard of Oz handout and wanted to show the video of a girl that lets darkness into her home. People come in and put dark handprints on white furniture. I saw it in seminary. I then that morning woke up with an idea. I made a Wizard of Oz path of life. What we do outside reflects the home, so we are Dorothy. Glenda is parents guiding, leaders, and good examples telling us which path to follow. The ruby red slippers is the spirit, trying to lead us back "home" , Like the scarecrow, We need a healthy brain so we must be careful of bad movies, music, tv, and computer use. We need compassion like the Tin Man wanted. We need to watch out for gossip, envy, jealousy. We then need courage like the Lion in order to go down the path. The wizard is the knowledge of the gospel. The wicked Witch is satan and he sends his fiery darts of monkeys at us. The lesson turned out good, in this day and age you have to be open, honest, and not to set them up for failure. I told them we are giving them the armor to protect them and their future families. I told of the story of pearl harbor, how a man by the name of McDonald heard on the radio of a bunch of planes coming in. He told the private in charge, and the Private said it was probably just their own u.s planes and not to worry about it. He asked him again but once again was told "Don't worry about it." We all know what happened next. Japan planes destroyed Pearl Harbor. We are having warnings about the dangers in society, we say don't worry about it. It's only a little bad... and before we know it one day we are going to wake up and ask How did we get bombed?!

We can have fairytales. In fact most of us growing up has them and expectations of someone rescuing us right? Well I found this site and had to laugh. It's called "After the fairytale, when real life begins" Just because we have bumps in the road doesn't mean that we can't find the joy in the reality of life. Let's play a game. You tell me what each princess is going through and find the positive from it. I will start:

Prince Phillip is married to a depressed sleeping beauty. She has slept life away and missed out. ~ Up Side-When she gets her diaper changed, she won't remember it~

Looks like Jafar became a terrorist and has tried to bomb Jasmin out of her home.

Upside- She is ready to fight for what is rightfully hers! you Go Girl~ This one is Sad. Rapunzel found out she has cancer.

Upside- She can meet friends in the hospital. She doesn't have to be held captive in a high tower. This captivity can come with friends that are disguised as doctors, nurses, and others going through the same thing. She isn't alone, and she can beat it. She can also make ten wigs out of her old hair!

Red Riding Hood- She has gone insane. After seeing her grandma being eaten alive she can't find her right mind. She freaks out whenever men tell her she has beautiful big eyes. She has become an emotional eater. She is ready for the wolf to prowl on her.

Upside- She doesn't have to take any of her goodies to her grandma's to share. She can eat and be merry all on her own!

Poor Belle is married to an beastly alcoholic. In order to feel better for herself she tries to have the sense of control that she can stop his addiction. She wants to feel beautiful again.

Upside- She can sleep the stress away and wake up to a new face that never frowns!

Snow White- my personal favorite~ She is a housewife with seven children of her own, and a lazy prince charming who doesn't help out much!

Upside- Her kids will one day grow up and become her best friends, until then... good luck Snow White!

Cinderella- first her husband left her for her stepmother. She took him back, but then after two months of being back together, he died in a horse accident just like her father.

Upside- Looks like a lot of other men her step mother's age are interested in her! She can have a father or a husband again! Her pick. The choice is up to her! Maybe then she can quit her job as a cleaning lady.

Thanks to the pictures from here:

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/06/when_the_fairy_tale_ends_real.php

MArch 8, 2002

I remember it like it was only yesterday. I had my friend Kim over to help with my nails the night before. I talked to Trent while he drove up from St.George on the phone. I woke up around 4 and scrapbooked a whole scrapbook for the reception. I got my hair done with my sisters and mom at ten. I had my mom pluck my eyebrows because I was too chicken back then lol. I rode with mom and dad to the temple, they helped me carry my dress in for me. That's when I saw him. I saw my future husband standing waiting for me. I hadn't seen him for a month and I missed him. It was snowy that morning, and we were getting married at one. The bridesroom was busy from all the 9o'clock weddings. The brides were frozen. I got dressed and felt like I did when I had my endowments taken out. I felt beautiful. Clean. Worthy. I went to the waiting room and saw Trent. I liked the way he smiled at me. We went to the celestial room and talked. We said how we need to try to go to the temple every month. We went to the sealing room and I saw all my friends and family that could be there. I remember being sealed. There are some other experiences that I felt in the temple that are too sacred and personal to talk about on here. I do remember saying "yeah" instead of "yes." I was too happy to even talk right. We went outside and man was it cold, but I was too happy to let it bother me. We took pictures with everyone, ice was falling off the temple, the buildings still had the olympic posters up. My mom stayed with us for a while to watch the pictures. Then we went to the Joseph Smith building at took more while we thawed out. I could barley step up the temple stairs and had to hold my dress way up so I didn't fall. We drove to Ligories in Trent's truck. I should've stayed in my gown and maybe we would've gotten it for free, but I had to change at the temple. We ate pizza on the way to the reception. We went to Ivy Lanes and took more pictures and had a wonderful reception, I enjoyed seeing all my family and friends once more. We danced, had the cake- which I eyed him to be nice, my neighbor was watching and said the way you eat the cake is the way your marriage will be and if Trent smashes it in my face he was gong to have to yell at him. So Trent was nice, and so was I. Later we went outside to find the Truck covered in the coe's famous wrappings for the truck. We could barley see as we went to the gas station to clean it off. I had wanted to stay local for our wedding night but trent demanded we stayed at the cabin in bear lake. Needless to say, our lights went out and we were almost killed by a truck in sardine canyon. Luckily we made it. My parents wanted to make sure I made it ok, so I told them I would call collect and when they heard my new name that meant Iwas ok, if I used my maiden that meant to accept the call. After that we shut off from the world for a week. Snowmobiling was fun, but trent accidentally threw a snowball at my eye and I started to cry and then laugh. Emotions were raw. We drove to layton to open presents and then back to st.george. I remember thinking "How fun to think in ten years we will have our family and it will be so sweet, and I will be martha stewart with a great house and garden and our family will love each other so much. My dreams are here" and how in a blink life happens, and how much faster the next 9 years are going to be. I decided I am going to soak in every moment I have, the bad and the good, because that is what makes me who I am. I love you Trent.

Sunday was my lesson on "forgiving ourselves" I really wanted the girls to feel the spirit and know that they are loved. Why is it we can see the worth of others so easily, but it's so hard to see our own? I had a lot of positive affirmations on cute paper up on the board "you are more" "you are beautiful," "God allows U Turns," "just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are one" and so on. I started out by reading the definition of Cancer, which is evil, malignant, harmful and fast spreading. I then said that not forgiving ourselves will not kill us off and stop the pain. That this pain can be eternal if we let it. But there is a cure. I went onto talking about toxic shame and negative self talk. I handed them all out some ways to help the shame and talk in our head to turn it into something positive. I gave them a "positive Bin" to put things in when they are feeling down. On top was the 13th article of faith, and the front had a picture I bought at Deseret Book called "Forgiven." The box can be anything from poems to pictures. I then had each of the girls sit in one chair in the front and had everyone write something positive about her on a sticky note. The girls would come up and stick the note on her arm and whisper the positive all at the same time in her ear. The spirit there was strong, and I try to teach based on what would've helped me and hope that they can feel God's love the way I have so much. At the end I talked about Alma and how if he hadn't forgiven himself he wouldn't have been able to do the good in life that he did do. made heart shaped rice crispy treats with sprinkles and chocolate and wrote Alma 32:21 about his "Sweet" joy. I added the song "You are More" by tenth Avenue North in their bins.

It finally happened, Hannah lost her first tooth! We made a box for her to put it in!

For Valentines Day the kids made "Valentine Smores" for their grandma and grandpa and some cousins. They turned out pretty cute with the little heart marshmallows. I found the idea online.

Also on familyfun and from my sister, I decided to make candy Ipods for my kids and trent. Every year I heart attack them. this year they heart attacked the dog. This year Trent slaved over the stove to bring my favorite restaurant home. He made us all dress up and ate with candlelight, the kids loved it.

I noticed our hands look like we are in a high school portrait. lol


Trent helped me make the candy apples for the girls camp handout. It was our first attempt, but we came up with the idea t stick the apples in a paper cup so they don't get smeared in wax paper.

Ok, so I came up with a new idea for the Enchanted Handout. I love that the movie is full of spoofs of all the other Disney movies. Remember when the little guy is trying to get to her so he makes candy apples? She ends up throwing it at the biker dude and not eating it. Well I thought it would be cute to make candy apples with a hand out saying this:

The song is "How do I know"

How do I know HF loves me?
How do I know he really, really, truly loves me?

(all) He'll find his own way to tell you
With the little things he'll do
That's how you know
That's how you know
~Enchanted Giselle



We are so excited for you to come to camp & learn to live Happily Ever After!


Maybe that is cheesy poem but oh well eh. Then I have a big black basket we can carry the apples in

you're going to catch a cold

I am in love with this song "Jar of Hearts" Christina Perri,I think she has a beautiful face, and I love the raspy voice in this song.. Looks like someone like Mary from "So you think you can dance" choreographed it or something. I like it!
this choreography was awesome! Music is a little too hard for my taste, but the dance is Awesome to it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLtSfYX8tJk

Going Private

Ok I have a tracker on my blog and have had a few stalkers that come on here many times a day from places that I am already weirded out by. I wouldn't care if you said something, but since I don't know the 233 people that came here within the last 24 hours and I have pictures of my kids I decided I really am going private this time. I no longer have ANYONE's email address that want to stay on my blog. you can email me at dizzyvertigo@hotmail.com or leave a comment here. I'm putting it on private tomorrow. Thanks.

I have so many ideas for my young women lessons that as soon as I am done with my lesson I will post it on here for those who want lesson helps. The nice thing is we don't do the lessons exactly in order so if you are reading this, you may not have had to teach the lesson yet so you can copy my ideas!! COMING SOON...

For girls camp this year it is on a stake level. The Theme is "Happily Ever After" and "Heavenly Father Loves Me." (Now they are incorporating what I think with the trials so I am way excited for it) Maybe not all young women's back in the day was like this, but I for one remember in young women's two things. First one, and only one I am going to talk about right now is: Get married in the Temple to you a man who will take care of you and all will be perfectly happily ever after. The goal was getting to the temple. However, I wish they had given me some ideas on not just getting there, but also how to strengthen marriage. I am so glad they put in the Young Women's Theme " TO Strengthen Home and FAMILY" I decided that just telling people to get married and all your troubles melt away only sets them up for being a failure. How about instead of getting married and that being my happily ever after ending, How about Get married in the temple and your story BEGINS.. Learn to live Happily Ever After in whatever comes your way. If you read my blog you already know my theory of "Cinderella Syndrome" where one day your prince charming may fall off his horse, or you may trip on those glass slippers. One day you may wake up and your husband has cancer, someone in your family dies, financial troubles, etc. Life is not perfect but we need to find joy during the ride. I like to look at Adam and Eve (Which I had to laugh cause at my Women's Conference for the stake, one bishop must be reading my blog since he said what I already have. jk) They went through hell but they had each other in the end The troubles they went through prepared them to lean on each other for their loss of two children. One physically, one spiritually. I would like to incorporate that Happily Ever After I think happens by choice, that we can set good goals with good examples. Even the Disney princess we could take a spin off of it and say they went through trials as well. Hopefully, Our real Happily Ever After is when on judgment we see our Savior by our side. Don't get me wrong, this is probably not sounding like I support this idea. I DO. If you know me you know I love WEDDINGS, GLITTER, and anything that SPARKLES. I am a big girly girl and worked at a reception center and LOVED it. I LOVE Marriage. I LOVE LOVE young women's and coming up with ideas. I just want to be realistic and not set others up for failure when they realize they are not perfect nor is their spouse. It's healthy to know that's life. The trials come for us to learn. We really do have a Father in Heaven who loves us. Ok so after all that talk, I came up with a poem for anyone who wants to use it. Our ward chose "Enchanted" But I figured for the handout anything that ties in happily ever after/ princess and Heavenly Father loves me into it to get them prepared for camp worked. I don't think it's going to work since we aren't snow white so now I need to come up with something else. So someone can use it hopefully, here you go:


MESSAGE- Ok, so I was thinking about the little camp handouts. You said that the theme was Heavenly Father Loves me right? We are also doing a "Happily Ever After- Princess" theme. So this may sound cheesy, but I rewrote the Magic Mirror poem to We could put the poem on something similar to these pictures or just use tinfoil instead of a real mirror. We could even just make our own mirror onto a scrapbook card or something easy. we could put ribbon that have the value colors around the mirror like you see around the candyland invite. Anyways this is just one of my ideas, let me know what you think and I will look for more.
The Poem:
Mirror, mirror on the wall,
who cherishes me most of all?

Behold it is thy Father of the highest majesty
You bear a royal birth; a daughter of a King
For your infinite worth he does see
Rags cannot hide your divinity
Alas there is nothing more fair than thee

For He sent his son to bleed red as the rose
to cleanse our sins black as they may be,
To return our countenance as white as snow
For thou doest have a Heavenly Father who loves thee.

here is the real poem
Magic Mirror on the wall,
whose the fairest one of all?
famed is thy beauty majesty
but behold a lovely maid I see
rags cannot hide her gentle grace
alas she is more fair than thee
lips red as the rose
hair black as ebony
skin white as snow
Snow White!

For the pictures type MIRROR Card on Google Images/ candyland invite on it as well. It will show you who it came from and more of their awesome ideas!

D- Date Night! I am so glad that we have finally found people to trade babysitting with. One night a month I watch two families kids and that way Trent and I get two nights of no kids. Last night we used my sister's movie tickets she bought us for Christmas to see "The Tourist." It reminded me of an old Cary Grant movie, minus the unasked for swearing. I always guess what's going to happen in movies. I think I have done this ever since I saw "The Sixth Sense" and now I enjoy debunking movies. I like it when they actually can debunk me! didn't happen this time, but ~ I am sure it drives Trent crazy listening to me talk the whole movie. It was so nice to get a break and be with Trent.

C-calmness
As I sit here and listen to the new Young Women cd on 13th article of faith I am enjoying the peace and calm that I feel as I hear the music which is just piano playing. I feel like when you walk into a cute antique store and they have relaxing piano music playing in the background. Well right now I am ignoring the back background of screaming children,.. and tuning into the warm calm of music as I make dinner.

B- Babies! I love babies!! I love the smell of a newborn baby. I love carrying a baby inside and feeling them kick. I love the excitement I get when I find out I am going to have one. I love seeing how small they are. I love their firsts. First laugh, First crawl, first walk. I will always love babies.