Quirks!

You know how you can see peoples parents in the way people act. Like we inherit triats, little quirks, or beliefs.. Granted as we age we develope our own idenity, but it's amazing alot of our idenity is formed by those things, in one way or the other. Well I've thought about this before and have a hard time seeing my parents in me.. I think I'm alot like my Gram but it's because she drilled it into me I believe lol. All she's ever really wanted was for her family to be happy and for her to be a good person and I feel the same way most of the time! I'm still growing.. Anyways so last night I reminded myself of my parents. Last night was Laurens birthday and at the last minute we decided to try to have a game night.. I flipped! One Im kind of a planner, which I don't know when the heck I developed that.. But I'm not one of those that put things down on a calender way in advance or anything but when I hang out I like to have a plan, cause I feel like if your just sittin around trying to think of what to do it ends up not being very enjoyable. But the thing that reminded me of my parents was needing my house to be real clean. Every time my parents had guest they would always make us clean, people were not aloud in our house if there was one thing slightly out of place. They weren't messey when others weren't around nor were they exptremely clean.. It's alot like the way I live, you probably wouldn't want to eat off my floors or anything, but I don't like going to bed with dishes in the sink or things lying around in the living room. Now my room is a different story it is almost always destroyed but that is my personal quarters. So last night I flipped cause I have been trying to unpack more and organize things and put things I don't need now in a box to go to the attick, so there was boxes and tubs in the living room where I was organizing. Ok so it took all of 5 minutes to put them away but I just didn't like the idea of people coming over while I had a mess. I have no idea why it bothers me or why it should even be a big deal. I don't care what people think, but in a way it is my way of expressing myself. Like my house is my art, if that makes any sense. Take girls for example, when they are going out just to dinner lots of them make sure they look absolutely perfect, while me on the other hand my hair is always a mess and I wear what ever is clean, cause I figure I am who I am no matter what I wear. So I guess that is their way of expressing themselves and it makes them feel good. So I guess my need to have a clean house when others come over makes me feel good about myself! It's something I do take pride in... I do like that I've discovered something in my character that reminds me of my parents, they are pretty cool and great people..

My House!

This is my house that I bought a few months ago. I bought it thinking it was okay but wasn't in love with it. But as the months have gone on I really consider this place home now and I love it. The following 4 pics are of the back and front of the house.. Please ignore the jungle going on in the front flower bed, it is currently under construction...


The next pics are of my Front rooms.. The living room, dinning room, and kitchen. In the pics that were taken at night it's kind of hard to make out the wall color but it is green and umm like a butterscotchie color. Which was the surprise I came home to, when my aunts came over to paint one day when I was at work. Oh how I love them!

LIVING ROOM

DINING ROOM AND KITCHEN

HALL AND ONE OF THE SPARE ROOMS... Note there isn't anything in the spare room yet and it's not painted...

Spare and Master Bath....

So that is most of my house. I didn't take pics of the other spare room nor mine... They are also under construction.. But I will post pics once they are put back together again!

What I remember of my week!

A few great things this week! I had a day off Thursday and went swimming pretty much all day with Dacus and Caitlin.. It was fun to be around them, all 3 of us hasn't spent time together in a real long time. It's real funny how things change over time. We used to spend every free moment together it seemed. But even so I still enjoy them very much.

Tonight I went to the temple and did an endowment session. There were 4 people there taking out there endowments and one couple got sealed after the session. The spirit was extremely strong and beautiful. I just love the temple, even though I don't completely comprehend everything about it there is just a sense of peace and satisfaction that is felt when Im there and when I leave. I always feel more alive afterwards and have a renewed perspective on whats really important.
So this summer I've been so stinking excited about my little garden, it was doing so well but because of the weather lately it is dieing... But there were 5 tomatoes on the vine so I picked them and took them inside and put them in my window seal so they could continue to turn. One of them did turn red and it was so delish.. I had my first tomato sandwich of the summer, which are my fave. So this evening when I got home I looked over at the window seal to check on them and they were gone.. There is only 2 things that could of happened one someone broke into my house and only took my tomato's or 2 Butter's had a nice snack while I was gone to work... I think I'm gonna go with Butters. It was so funny but I was disappointed but I guess it is my fault kind of cause I have been feeding him raw veggies lately after doing some internet research on what's healthy for dogs.. So I guess giving Butters raw carrots gave him the wrong impression lol. Well at least someone enjoyed them...