music that is making me happy!!!

i discovered this artis thru the ilike application on facebook awhile ago and she has become one of my favorite artists. her name is debra arlyn and i just found out today while looking for lyrics to one of her songs that she is from portland of all the places maybe this is why i like her so much. my favorite song is called let it go. it is really uplifting. and it kind of fits my mood right now. here are the lyrics and a link to her myspace where you can here some of her music. i noticed that she has got a lot of concerts coming up around oregon so those who live there you should try and get to one i think that you would really like her.

Let It GoWritten
by: Debra Arlyn

The change in the weather
Is affecting me deeper, this yearI
t's another reminder that time is passing by
Am I doing the right things?
Pursuing the right dreams?
I'll go for a drive
As I take in the scenery, look up at changing leaves
It's then I decide

Chorus:Let it go, out the window
Just let it flow, out of my mind
Because I'll never know, exactly what's in store
So the best thing for sure is
Let it go

There's a price that you pay
For deciding not to take the common way
I've always liked being different, but this is the difference
I never liked to fail
But they're people I meet who are so much like me
They end up just fine
So I fill up my chest with another deep breath
And close my eyes

Bridge:The hardest thing for me to take is,
When things don't move at my pace
And the uncertainty of just where I'll be
A couple of years from today
But I'm tired of the racing in my mind
So I'll leave it all behind

checking in again

hey there

i have been so busy lately. i haven't quite figured out how i got myself so busy this year. but i seem to have some meeting or something going on everyday. i'm trying to get costumes together. kay is going to be a fraggle, red fraggle that is. it should be a fairly simple costume to get together. i don't know what hy is going to do he had said something about being archie from the comic book so that one should be really easy too. jeh is the one that is going to be harded to do he wants to be data from star trek. i don't know why he chose him but that is what he is doing so now i need to make the costume.

i haven't started on my week in a life album yet because this week is just too busy i'm hoping for next week. i was planing to do it digital but phill is home this week and he is on the computer that maybe the real reason no i'm just really busy.

need to take hy to the doctor today he is having some kind of a crazy rash all over his body so we need to figure out what could be the cause of that. i started a new quilt. and i love the colors. maybe i will be pictures of it and post them tomorrow. i have started a chirstmas project that i really need to get finished and maybe i'll try to get the halloween decorations out today and get them up. then i can start thinking more of christmas decorating.

well that is about all for now.

friday pictures

7:00am- wake up (get to sleep in on fridays, no seminary)
8:00-phill and kids to school and work have a breakfast of champions, cold pizza 8:30- clean house and get sidetracked by the kittens (two weeks old) so cute!!!
this is me cleaning move it all to another room until it is all put away where it belongs

1:30- kids home from school (early release on fridays)
2:00- go to pick up jeh from practice and realize that he isn't done for a half hour
2:10- go and check the mail. package from my mom. love ya thanks

2:30- pick up jeh, go to town for some shopping
3:00- first the fabric store which we got yelled at for taking pictures. don't know what the big deal was there. didn't find any fabric for the quilt i'm making but found super cute hippo fabric that is going to make great pj bottoms
4:00- over to the dollar store and meet up with phill. only stays for the dollar store then goes home.
4:30- last stop wal-mart we didnt' even attempt to take the camera in this time didn't want a repeat of being yelled at. got shoes for the boys and found some material here.

5:30- back home unpack stuff eat yucky mcdonald's food

hang out for the rest of the night.

12:00- go to bed

thursday pictures and schedule

6:30-wake up
7:30-hy to seminary he is late this morning which is not good he is the president.
7:35- back home iron a shirt for phill, sew a few of jeh's badges on he has scouts today, wake up jeh and kay 8:00- everyone gone for the day take the dogs out notice all the frost on the ground first frost this year but is wasn't a bad frost
8:30- bath and start feeling yucky

9:30- out of tub and decided to go back to bed. stayed there until about 3:00 that afternoon. while there i watch catch and release, private pactice, did some reading and slept alot. felt alot better when i got up.
4:30- realize i did no dished or anything today and dedide to order pizza for dinner and leave dishes for tomorrow.
6:00 watch survivor, then the office, then earl, then grey's antomy while watching tv i decide to start a christmas wall hanging.

7:30- phill finally makes it home from work.

1:00am- both phill and i do our wii fit age
1:30- go to bed too late again.

wednesday pictures and schedule

feel way better today. was just a down day yesterday. i hate feeling yucky. any way here are wednesday pictures
6:30- wake up remember that i forgot to hang up phill's shirt the night before so put it in front of the fan works great
7:00- hy and kay to school and seminary, home and iron shirt, start making bread.

8:00- phill and jeh off for the day, upload pictures update blog.

10:00- bake bread

11:00- make lunches for kids

11:30- take luches to kids and a loaf of bread to phill's parents end up staying and talking all afternoon.

3:30- jeh has football pictures quickly run his equipment to him

4:00- back home and do some dishes with kay's help

4:30- run to post office and to the store for something for dinner with hy and kay


5:00- stop and pick up jeh's equipment from football field race him home (he is on his bike) get home and start dinner decided on perogies
7:00- young men/young women combined activity we played fugitive. super fun game

here i am all dresses up so that i could hide outside in the dark better.
kay playing on the tire swing after the game.
9:00- home for the night watch tv (bones & biggest loser) and cross stich while phill plays on computer

11:00- asleep on the couch again

12:30- up to bed

out sick

not feeling well today will put both today and yesterdays pics on tomorrow

tuesday pictures

7:05am- wake up late (maybe something to do with going to bed late) but look at the sunrise this morning

7:25- rush hy to seminary get home and make lunches make sure all the rest are up

8:00- take kay and jeh to school
8:30- bath and read

9:45- get dressed and ready for day

10:00- pick up house

11:00- computer time (update blog, edit pictures) waiting for tracy to drop off her kids11:50- tracy and kids show up kids play

1:00pm- make lunch and cookies eat!!
1:30- kids do some bowling help of the wii4:00- my kids get home from school plus another extra to watch for a few hours


5:30- start dinner (pork chops, rice a roni, and mixed veggies)

6:20- phill home

6:30- eating dinner

7:00-10:00- watch tv (biggest loser) cross stitch
10:00- tj brings chase over so i can babysit him on wednesday
sometime after that i fall asleep on the couch watching the f word (it's not a bad word it's food according to chief ramsey)
12:45- phill wakes me up and says that it is time to move to the bedroom 15 min earlier than last night (progress)

let's try this again

So i really have been neglecting this blog. i have just been in a serious funk lately. idon't know why but i just feel blue and can't seem to drag myself out of it. so in hopes of getting out of the dark place i am in i have decided to do Ali Edwards challenge (read more about it here)
to start i took a picture of my calendar for the month you can see that we are really busy around here and i think that things get added everyday.

6:30am- alarm goes off hit snooze and then out of bed. find hy up and dressed already.

7:00an- wake up everyone else in the house.

7:20- get hy to seminary. way too early

8:00am- phill, kay and jeh off to school and work now i get the computer have some raisin bread toast for breakfast.

9:30am- let chicken out clean leaves out of water dish

10:00- relax time in the tub and read a new book(shadow thieves)

11:15- clean, dressed and ready to do something how about walk the dogs.

12:00pm- home from walk have lunch (vanilla/blueberry tango yogurt) check email

12:30- pick up house and do dishes (with my dishwasher)

forgot to take pictures of the rest of my day but here is how it went.

1:00-3:30- played dr. mario on the wii, tested my wii fitness age (38)

3:30- store for milk and eggs see jeh on the way and have to deal with a problem at football practice.

4:30- start dinner

6:30- finally eat dinner and then make cookies with jeh

7:00pm- watch heros and chuck on tv

9:00- all the kids are in bed, watch some more tv (nothing good) do some cross stich while phill plays WOW on the computer.

1:00am- go to bed and complain that it is way too late and i'm going to bed earlier tomorrow.

it's been awhile!!!

hey all sorry that i have been gone for so long but we got some virus on our computer and had to send it away. it was a real pain in the butt. anyway i am back now so i should be keeping on track.

as you have noticed it is september already which means back to school, dance, football, volleyball and this year we get to add early morning seminary. i think that my life just gets busier every year. the kids are all excited about going back to school. jeh was so excited this morning that he wanted to leave almost an hour early, but kay thought that she only needed to leave 10 mins early to make the mile walk to school. anyway i got them going at the right times and they should all have a good day.

i'm trying to think of some of the things that we did in august but i'm coming up blank i think that the month just went by way too fast and we didn't get much time for anything. one thing that we did was seperate the boys room into two sections. now it is almost like they have a room of their own. hopefully this will help with the fighting at night. hy and kay both got new beds. queen size beds acutally so i have room for people to come and visit. we also got new furniture for the living room and appliances for the kitchen. one of which is a dish washer we haven't put it to use yet but i'm going to work on that problem today. hopefully.

inspiring reads

just thought i would share some of my blogs that i read daily, well when phill's not home. these ones are my fave today enjoy looking at them

simpe mom - she is talking about how to be disorganized and unproductive. really great this is the begining of a six part seris

zen habits - great site to read through. he always has great ideas to make your life more zen

house on hill road - love this site. she is so creative

my life - karren russels blog. i love her photos. and the way that she talks about her family. she reminds me that we are all pretty much in the same baot when it comes to family dealings. no one is perfect but we are all trying

my time, my creations - great card ideas she makes it look so easy

simply me - donna downey's blog. i love her i think that if we lived close by we would be friends.

Corn maze and photoshop actions

last night for young womens we went to a corn maze. it was a lot of fun. i took the camera and took some pictures, but it is kind of hard with our camera right now i think that it needs a new battery so the screen is all distorted so it is hard to tell if the picture looks good or not. so today i went online and found some actions for photoshop and i played around with the pictures. they were all free so the aren't the best actions but it gave me an idea of some of the things that i can do.
this is rosemary i used a couple of different actions with her picture.
kay lost in the corn. i was on the tower so i could see where they were at. they were with us but then they turned a different way so we ducked down low and started to run so they got lost because we had the cheat sheet.
jane looks like she is ticked off. maybe because i'm taking their picture. the corn was still low in some areas. i just opened up this weekend.

this is the picture straight out of camera. the next two are with some of the actions.
i think that this one is my favorite but i think that i got this affect by accident.
this one was hibass sharpening and soft focus i think that i is still a little dark. i really need to take a photography class.
this was just the hibass sharpening. no linda wasn't kissing the pole on purpose i think that she turned her head at the last min and now it is just funny

kay running through the corn again. i tried to put the soft focus on it but the picture was blurry to begin with i think because she was moving. anyway that was our yesterday and i think that i will try to figure out more of these actions. i looked to see how much it would cost to get more better actions and they are a ton of money. i guess that i am going to need to start saving more.