Mal is my Pal

I love this pal of mine.  She is truly one of the best people on this earth.  I love our visits.  Today we met for lunch.  We were going to celebrate Kathy's birth but she wasn't feeling well and had to postpone.  Mal and I went anyway and our visit was perfect.  I love Mal's insight on things.  We talk about everything and actually share our testimonies with each other in a way.  I sat there a few times with tears in my eyes feeling so blessed to have such a wonderful friend.  I admire my friend so much.  Mal is so kind to everyone and is one of the best mom's I know.  Her focus is her family.  Because her focus is her family she has a very good one.  I love everyone of Mal's kids and her cute hubby.  They are just such a great example of how families should be.  It's been such a pleasure growing up with such a wonderful friend.  I ♥ Mal!

Celebrating Green Day...

I love Holidays and silly traditions like wearing green or getting pinched. I love playing with me friends and being silly.  I love making green dinner for my family.  

Today the Fun Bunch met at the Greenery at Rainbow Gardens to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. I think it was the perfect place me meet on this day.☺  I know nothing about this Holiday except that involves the Irish and Green and Kisses and Rainbows.  I don't know why those mean anything at all but it's fun.  I have always enjoyed this silly little Holiday.

 Kathy wasn't able to make it today and so she sent the "sunshine" face in her place.  We all brought something to share with each other.  I know a few of the gals think that's dumb but I think it's fun.  It's fun seeing what everyone comes up with.  I laughed when I saw what Jodi brought because if I could have found the colored licorice our gifts would have been the same.  The store I went to didn't have all the colors so instead of licorice I bought skittles to go with the gold I had.  Cheers to Friendship!

Rainbow Gardens is a great place for photo opportunities.  Everywhere you look there is something that could be used for a photo and we usually use a few. Rainbow Garden has some neat things but I think they are over priced.  My theory is price things so more of it sales and make your profit off many instead of pricing it high and making a profit off a few.  They must do okay since they have been in business for a long time.

This last week my motto has been Don't Worry Be Happy and today there was a cute display of Bee's and cute sayings!  This months visiting teaching message is about Patience and I have been working on patience this month.  I've been trying not to worry and to just be happy....even when the internet isn't working, or my child waits until the last day to do a big project for school or the jello in the cute mold melts completely after setting it in hot water and turning my back on it and getting distracted.  Most things don't matter and worrying and being impatient doesn't change the out come. So Don't Worry Be Happy and Be Patient Every Single Day!

We all had our green on and our silly on.  That is the reason I named this group the Fun Bunch.  We enjoy being silly and immature and making memories.

Robin brought Bubble Guns for us all and we almost forgot to use them.  They were cute and fun.  You're never too old for Bubbles right?  My grands are going to love these...I think they all need them for Easter.  A nice guy that was walking by volunteered to take our picture.  People are just nice like that when you let them be.  I watched him as he continued to click the button and smile as he watched us silly gals over half a hundred (a phrase my brother says) enjoy our bubble guns.  It was a fun afternoon.

I stopped at the store on the way home to get the rest of the things I needed for our Green Dinner.  I really only needed salad stuff but ended up getting rolls and doughnuts too. Oh I bought shamrock cookies too but didn't use them since we had doughnuts.  They will be for tomorrow.  I was thinking about making the break but when they had green rolls I just bought them.  I made shepherds pie.  I even picked up a very cute rainbow jello but ruined it when I was melting around the edges so it would come out of the round mold.  I forgot about it and was doing other things.  By the time I remembered it was melted and a yucky color.  My family enjoyed teasing me about it.  I was frustrated because I remember doing that a time before...you think I would learn. The rainbow jello would have been a nice addition but instead we will be eating brown jello tomorrow. ☺

After dinner Larry was asked to help in giving a Priesthood Blessing and I was told I could also come over to Cheer my friend up.   I'm thankful for the Priesthood and it's power.  I'm thankful for a good hubby and wonderful sons that are worthy to have it.  The Priesthood is such a Blessing in this Life.

We enjoyed Sadie Baby while Braxton and Kelsi did a little shopping.  She is getting bigger and is such a cutie!

Fun Day with Fun Friends and Family!

FHE

For Family Home Evening we took the kids to dinner since they didn't go out while we were in Hawaii.  Life is busy when you have so many responsibilities and distractions.  We went to Tepanyaki's and invited Trichelle and TJ and their kids since we were watching the kids anyway (they paid for their meals) They were eager to go since Trichelle hasn't been cooking much lately because of her condition. (expecting baby)  It was so much fun having Zaden there while the guy cooked everything.  Zaden was the fun one to watch and listen to.  It was a nice night out with our cute kids!

Bobble Head

I picked Ivy up from school and she handed me this paper she had drawn.  How cute is that?  I ♥ GD (grandma Dawn) Grandma Dawn is Awesome...Bobble Head...wobble ~ wobble! I think for a 9 year old that is pretty good!  It sure made this gramma smile! ☺

Nosy Meme

         

•  Average hours of sleep:  8 (to bed about 10 and up at 6)
• Last thing I googled: Count Your Blessings Images
• One place that makes me happy: Being in the Temple
•  How many blankets I sleep under: just one comforter
•  What are you wearing right now: my night gown and robe
•  Last book you read: The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
•  Favorite fictional character: Mickey Mouse and All Disney Princesses
•  Last movie I watched in the cinema: McFarland USA
• Dream vacation: I think I've been on my dream vacation...Hawaii with low Humidity, lots of Whales and wonderful company.
•  Dream wedding: Having each of my kids wed in the Temple of our Lord.
•  Dream pet: I don't want any more pets.  We've had horses, and dogs and even a cow.
•  Dream job: I have my dream job....being a mom and gramma!  Nothing is better!
• How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? 28....that's how old I think my "spirit" is.
• Which is worse, failing or never trying? Never trying.  Failing means you tried and teaches you things you wouldn't have learned otherwise.
• If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do? I think we just get caught up in the ways we were taught and the things we have done.  We let life control us much of the time instead of taking control of life.  I think we do that because we are afraid and get comfortable where we are and what we know.  It's hard to take chances because we fear we might lose what we have...good or not.  We're kind of creatures of habit!

Questions came from HERE

Every Good Thing Comes to an End

We did a lot of whale watching this week.  Every day we looked out our window and could spot these wonderful creatures as they moved through the water.  It seemed that every day new swim lessons were being taught.  One morning there were lots of tails being seen and used for swimming and not just the last part to enter back into the ocean.  Another day I saw lots of fins.  One day it was as if the whales were standing on their heads and the tails were coming out and going back down. Each day we saw whales breach and blow their spouts.  It was truly my favorite thing.  I love seeing the whales.  The binoculars Larry bought last year were awesome and made everything better and so close.  Larry would laugh as I'd say "oh my gosh...oh my gosh".  I think he enjoyed watching me watch the whales.

It was the perfect time of year to go. The whales were marvelous and the temperatures were perfect.  There wasn't any humidity this time and so my hair wasn't a fuzzy mess ever.  I think this is the first time ever that we haven't experienced humidity in Hawaii and it was fabulous.

Larry and I took Roger and Carla to the airport.  They were leaving about the same time as they arrived and so were we.  (them around 2 and us 9)  We had the extra time this side of the trip.  We didn't choose to ride the bus though...since we still had the rental car.  We did decide to wander the little strip mall they have and to also go to a show.  Cinderella was just released and the theater was close and so we went to it.  I loved the show and I know Larry enjoyed it too.  It was a great way to spend a few hours. I love the quote: "Have Courage and Be Kind.  Where there is Kindness there is Goodness and where there is Goodness there is Magic."

I'm not crazy about the late flight but will admit it wasn't bad.  I took a Tylenol pm and I guess it helped me sleep better than I thought because before I realized it the pilot was announcing our landing.
I love vacationing with Larry.  I'm glad he likes going and works hard so we can.  I'm glad our kids are responsible and don't mind us leaving them once in awhile.  I'm so thankful for each of my kids and grands. I think of them often while I am away and things are quiet and still.  They are my favorites!

I love the Hawaiian Motto...."Hang Loose".  No matter what happens in life we have a choice.  We can let things bother us and make us sad and pull us down or we can look for the bright side of those same things and hang loose. Worrying and stressing about things doesn't do any good and won't change anything except ourselves.  We all have things come are way that aren't pleasant and wonderful but while those things come we are still surrounded by so much good....so many blessings.  It's okay to focus on the blessing and be happy even when things aren't completely wonderful.

Hang Loose and have a wonderful, marvelous, fantastic day!

Food 4 Thought Friday

Food 4 Thought Friday!

A little feast without the calories!!

Feel free to play along for some yummy fun!  My friend, Jodi will post new things Thursday night. JOIN IN!!!
Her link is  HERE

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MY ANSWERS

Breakfast ~ Post a photo of what you see in front of you at this moment....(if you're starring at a computer screen, then post something in the room.)

I am answering this a day late but answering as if it were Friday.  This is what I saw in front of me a lot this week. I was in Kauai in Princeville at the Shearwater Resort.  I stood on the balcony of our condo for long periods of times because there were whales out there and they were having swimming lessons.  Each day we saw something new.  Tail fins one day, side fins another, breaching, back, spouts.....it was just so exciting!

Lunch ~ What is something you must get done today?  What is something you would like to get done today?  I need to get packed because it is time to check out of paradise.  I would prefer having another day to watch whales and have the guys try again to go fishing.  They scheduled a fishing excursion on Tues and it got cancelled and so they set it for Thurs and it also was cancelled. I felt bad for Larry and Roger.

Dinner ~ Name something that disappointed you this week.  Name something that made you happy or excited.  Something happened to my hip or maybe even a muscle by my hip and leg the day we left for Hawaii.  It really hurt and was hard to lift the first few days.  It even hurt to sleep and I was unable to move easily so that was really disappointing.  It lasted a few days off and on but didn't really stop me from enjoying anything we did.  The most exciting thing for me this week was watching the whales.  I love that so much.  Zip-lining was also very exciting and this whole entire week was full of HAPPY!

Midnight Snack ~ List five to ten of your "go to" meals that you serve most frequently.  Spaghetti, Chicken Roll Ups, Roast and potatoes, Taco's, Breakfast Burrito's for dinner, Grilled Chicken, Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup, Shepherds Pie, Pepperoni Sandwiches, Lasagna.

Recipe of the Week ~ (instead of your recipe for life what is it for just this week?)  Don't Worry....Be Happy!  This week my internet on my phone wasn't working and I worked really hard at not letting it get to me.  I would get frustrated and then remind myself to not worry...but be happy.  (being frustrated wasn't going to change anything but my happiness right then) ☺