Listography: List 90

List 90: Who/ What I hope to remembered as

Kind of a deep list topic today!!

1. Kind.
2. Generous
3. Friendly
4. Faithful
5. Good.
6. A Latter Day Saint who lives what she believes.
7. Loving.
8. Happily Married.

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List 87: Things I love about my son:


Alden:
1. His creativity
2. How comfortable he is with himself.
3. His handsome blue eyes and blonde hair
4. How he helps take care of Oliver.
5. How whenever I am wearing my housecoat he loves to snuggle with me in it.
6. His tender heart.
7. To hear his testimony about the gospel growing.
8. His random knowledge about things (just like his dad)
9. His love of math.
10. His goofy antics.


Eli
1. His sense of Humor!!!
2. His voice. I wish you could all hear it!
3. His handsome blue eyes and blonde hair
4. How me makes up words... like motorbikle... or bazanga.... etc
5. How much energy the child has!
6. How he can NOT put his underwear on the right way... EVER.
7. His ability to get people to do what he wants and they never even notice.... (well I have a love-hate relationship with THAT one!)
8. His fake laugh that he thinks is hilarious.
9. His curiosity about life.
10. His absolute silliness.


Oliver
1. His laugh.
2. How he looks at me with SUCH love and adoration.
3. His handsome blue eyes and blonde hair
4. How he does a slow motion double blink now when he notices he is the center of attention.
5. His sweet little hands.
6. How he laughs SO hard when I growl at him.
7. How his face lights up when he sees me.
8. His tickley spots on his legs.
9. How much his face lights up when he sees his siblings.
10. How hard he laughs when on the trampoline.

List 88: Things to do this Fall:
1. Can some food. (Check).
2. Go on a sans kids trip.
3. Enjoy a fire.
4. Buy a cute sweater? :)
5. Get the kids rooms decorated.
6. Get ready for another baby.

Listography 85 & 86

List 85: If I could I would

1. Pay off all our debt today
2. Travel. Lots.
3. Buy land and start designing my dream home
4. Learn to speak French
5. Get a community center built in Raymond.
6. Buy a whole lot of new books for the library.
7. Wave a wand and have our basement fixed TODAY.
8. Take my mom on a trip somewhere fun.
9. Be better.
10.

List 86: The Best Snacks:

1. Chocolate
2. Fresh Nectarines
3. Fresh peaches
4. Goat cheese, crackers & cranberries
5. Strawberry bread
6. Chocolate Chip cookies
7. Muffins. Like these or these
8. Fresh peas or carrots from the garden

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list 83: favourite flavours of ice cream

1. Chocolate. REally of any sort!
2. Strawberry
3. Raspberry
4. French Vanilla

yum!

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List 81: 25 Things I love about summer:

1. Sunshine. Lots and lots of sunshine.
2. Fresh fruit and veggies

3. Vacations
4. Family time
5. Birds and Flowers


6. Gold Hours of light

7. Jumbo Mr. Freezes
8. Kids playing outside

9. Garage and Rummage Sales
10. Flip flops and no socks
11. Sleeping in (sometimes)
12. BBQ'd food

13. Visits with family

14. Having friends over
15. Slip and Slides and all kinds of water fun

16. Naps on the couch in the day
17. Spending time in the mountains

18. Warm weather
19. Blue skies
20. Farmer's Markets
21. Slurpees and Snowbobs
22. Reunions
23.Smores

24. Beautiful Sunsets

25. Smell of freshly cut grass

Listography: List 79 & 80

list 80: the best part about getting older
1. Becoming more comfortable with myself
2. The kids that have joined our family
3. Growing older with Regan and our marriage getting better and better.
4. Learning and growing.


list 79: 34 things about me

1. I wanted to be a ballerina when I was a kid. So much that when I went to sleep I would try to be a ballet position so that if someone pulled my covers off quickly I would look like a ballerina.
2. I have a headache most days. (sadly just like my friend Heather)
3. I have a bad back. It hurts me a lot.
4. I want to be more organized but I have trouble actually BEING organized.
5. I am terrible at calling people back.
6. I am forgetful about lots of things but if it matters a LOT I won't forget it.
7. I have size 12 feet.
8. I am not a morning person and I am not really a night owl. I think of myself as more of a noon person :)
9. I am tired pretty much all the time.
10. I love sugar way to much.
11. I like meeting new people but I often feel like people forget about me easily. I am a fairly forgettable person.
12. I don't like people peppering me with questions. It kind of drives me crazy.
13. I have a hard time getting out of a bad mood when I am in one.
14. I want too many things and I hate that about myself and still I am the same.
15. I wish I was motivated to exercise.
16. I am pregnant with my 5th child and yes it was a surprise.
17. I often feel like my mother is too busy to spend time with me and I hope that I do not make my kids feel that way ever.
18. I want to go on a trip badly.
19. I would love to hold more dinner parties.
20. I love magazines a lot. Lately especially food ones and decorating ones.
21. I dream about my dream house almost every day and plan what things there should be in it.
22. I wish I was a good gardener but then I never actually put forth the effort to be good at it.
23. I am a terrible budgeter and wish I was better at it.
24. I can not sleep without a fan going in my room.
25. My hair on my neck lately drives me crazy. So since getting a short hair cut I am not really a fan of it.
26. I get discouraged easily some days.
27. I love grocery shopping.
28. I love eating out at restaurants but I also love cooking good food at home.
29. I've always wanted to write a book.
30. I think I am pretty good at seeing others needs and doing something for them but lately I have not been doing anything for anyone and that makes me feel unhappy.
31. I wish I was thinner.
32. I used to struggle with an eating disorder and I have to be careful about the way I think about my weight.
33. I love clipping my kids nails.
34. I worry way to much about what others think about me but I have gotten way better the older I have gotten.

List 78: Things I Love About Canada

1. Freedom

2. The beauty!




3. How great Canadians are!

4. Prairies


5. The mountains


6. The ocean

List 73: The Best Things About Being Married

1. Being married to my best friend who gives me support in all areas of my life: emotionally, spiritually, financially, etc

2. I can talk to him and that it doesn't go anywhere else.

3. That he sees the best in me.

4. Having 4 kids together.

5. That he'll bring me home a chocolate bar or some treat from the store cause he loves me.

6. That dating is long over and not having other room mates! I think Single life was way harder!

7. That we are comfortable with each other.

8. Traveling together.

9. Private conversations and inside jokes.

10. How much he loves me and helps me to be a better person.

List 73: Best Pinterest Finds this month

Best Pinterest Finds this month:

Raspberry Vanilla Lemonade. YUM!

How to make a Gif

Frame + Instragrams

Baby shortall from men's t-shirts

Gonna paint a sign that says this for Lucy's room

This makes me want to plan a wedding.... badly. I just need someone to want me to do it :)

Chalk fun for kids

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List 72: I love it when people....

1. Send thank you's
2. Come over for dinner
3. Open the door for you
4. Invite us over
5. Comment on my blog :)
6. are kind

And last weeks

List 71: Things to do when it's raining outside

1. watch movies
2. bake stuff ie cookies, bread, buns, etc
3. scrapbook
4. make play tents for the kids
5. jump in the puddles.


And the week before that.....

List 70: Things I love about being a mom

1. hugs & kisses
2. that my kids are mine
3. that I get to be a parent with Regan
4. seeing the uniqueness of my kids
5. watching the joy my kids bring to my parents and inlaws
6. watching my kids learn
7. reading books with my kids
8. doing crafts and art with my kids
9. when they make me laugh
10. the special spirit in the room after giving birth when that new spirit has joined us on earth

List 69: Things to do this Spring

1. Plant a garden
2. Clean out the garage
3. Watch a lot of soccer games for all my kids
4. Take lots of walks outdoors
5. Have family pictures taken
6. Take lots of outdoor pictures of my kids

And since a post is better with a picture and I didn't get around to embracing the camera... here

Listography + Embrace the Camera

list 68: places I’ve lived



1. Vanderhoof, BC

2. Hill Spring, AB

3. Lethbridge, AB

4. Cole Harbor, NS

5. EAstern PAssage, NS

6. Calgary, AB

7. Lethbridge, AB

8. Raymond, AB

(In lots of those towns/ cities I lived in different houses! )

And I'm embracing the camera with Emily.




Oliver and me Sunday morning using a self timer and tripod in the nice little pocket of light that occurs every day at our house in Eli's room right around 10 am.

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list 67: 10 childrens' books I love

1. The big hungry Bear by Don & Audrey Wood

2. Sleepy Bears by Mem Fox

3. The Party by Barbara Reid

4. Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak

5. Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathmen

6. Anything by Dr Seuss

7. Who will tuck me in tonight by Carol Reth

8. The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

9. Mixed up Chameleon by Eric Carell

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list 66: projects to tackle

1. my fireplace grout (yep still haven't done it!)

2. Laundry room fix up

3. The backyard

4. decorating our bedroom

5. Decorating the kids rooms

6. 2011 taxes


And here's a little pic from our Sunday drive to Waterton

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list 63: things I’d like to do everyday

I read the wrong prompt last week (whoops) and so this is actually last week's list. And my friend Heather made a list that really sums up a day I'd like so mine is close to hers!

1. get 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep in my own bed

2. spend some time creating something - in the craft room or in the kitchen or gardening

3. read a book in quiet, totally uninterrupted

4. have a shower and do my scripture study & morning prayers before the kids are up

5. sleep in, take a nap or go to bed early (or all three hahahaha)

6. go for a walk

7. spend intentional quality time with each of my kids and my husband

8. get outside

9. stay on top of all the cleaning

10. go to bed without feeling guilty about something

11. have my hair and make-up done and be dressed in stylish clothes

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List 64: Quotes I love.

I have LOTS of quotes i love. Some posters I've made of some favorites: (you could download any of the ones I've made - they are 8x10 pictures.)

Some others not on posters:
"Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all. Their goal is to prepare a rising generation of children who will take the gospel of Jesus Christ into the entire world" - Julie B Beck

“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.” President Gordon B. Hinckley


"I'm not ashamed to say that... I want to be good. And I've found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that i knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency. I went before him and said: "I'm not neutral, and you can do with me what you want. If you need my vote, it's there. I don't care what you do with me, and you don't have to take anything from me because I give it to you - everything i own, all that I am.." and that makes the difference." - Boyd K Packer

And some posters I've found elsewhere on the net with quotes I LOVE:

oh man I could keep going.... but I'll stop here! :)