Now that I only have 1 job, things I'd like to do with my time!

SPEND TIME WITH MY SWEET HUSBAND, THE KIDS AND, THE GRANDKIDS!

Scrapbooking. !

So my sweet mother in law, offered me a bunch of scrapbooking stuff from a basket my brother in law won from simply scrapping and stamping up, when we looked through this stuff there must have been close to $500 or more worth of stuff, but my mother in law was clueless what to do with the stuff so I showed her my scrapbooking pages online, I had forgotten how much fun it was, so I have set a goal to get busy again, wish me luck!

My adventures with cultured foods!

Recently I have been experiencing a lot of aches and pains that when searching for a cause came to the conclusion that I was either suffering from Fibermyalgia or Rheumatoid Arthritis, both of which are autoimmune disorders. I was at the store one day and saw an article in a magazine at the checkout stand talking about the the benefits of Cultured foods and the boast they give to the immune system, since I don't have health insurance I thought I'd give it a try, unfortunately finding the items in the store was very expensive, because they are not processed and therefore have a relatively short shelf life compare to things that have been homogenized or heat processed. So I went to work and got information and recipes online and started making my own, the good news is while I am eating both these items everyday preferably at each meal, I have felt great with few or no symptoms, but when I stop eating these items the symptoms return! It has been very educational for me and I have come to realize many benefits that Culturing raw vegatables have, one big one is the taste and how gentle the Cultured foods are on my stomach!

Cultured Milk, much like yogurt or butter milk in taste, but full of good bacteria and lactose free! I use it like milk on granola or in a smoothie with fruit and sweetened with Stevia. If purchased at the Store it is called Kefir and costs $3.76 and up per quart, with a start I make my own for about the same price as regular milk!

Homemade Kimchi and Cultured veggies, the live cultures are found naturally in cabbage and cucumbers, Kimchi bought in the store is about $5.46 a pint, made myself I can get about 2 quarts or more for that price.

An Incredible Weekend!

We had such a wonderful weekend! It started out with us traveling down to the Timpanogos Temple and on Friday morning meeting family and friends to be Sealed for time and all Eternity, as you can see we woke up to a blizzard and all was white as we arrived!

Afterwards as we came out the skies had cleared somewhat and we were treated by my Mom and Dad to the Olive Garden for Lunch before we traveled down to Vegas.

The trip to Vegas was great, no real weather problems as was anticipated and we arrived at My Big Son's and The Wife's house at about 6:30 Vegas time, Luke and Logan were there to help us babysit while Big Son and his Wife when on a date! It was lots of fun and the boys stayed up pretty late.

We woke up the next morning and got ready for Cynthia's Baby shower, which was amazing Big Son's Wife did an incredible job,

after cleaning up and resting Big Son, Obpa and I went to see Timmy's Play "The Wizard of Oz", he was the Tin man and I think he found a real talent as he was great in his role!

Sunday was spent watching the boys, cuz they were still recovering from being sick while mom and dad went to Stake Conference, Obpa was sick too, so we had lots of fun spending time with them, then afterwards the rest of the day was spent visiting with family before leaving for home! I would like to thank My Big Son and his Wife for their hospitality, not only is Big Son a great dad, he is a wonderful husband and I am so proud of him, and his wife, well a mother could not ask for a more perfect wife for her son, she is amazing! Thanks everyone for making our special Weekend unforgettable!

So I look like a geek!

I got my new Glasses/bifocals on Saturday, but was so sick with a head cold, I couldn't bring myself to take a picture to post, finally I felt okay enough yesterday to do so, however still not feeling as well as I hope to be and looking as good as I hope to look in these glasses, you can't really tell in the picture, but the frames are a purple color, I love them so far, didn't realize everything I was missing out on by not being able to see, especially with as bad of astigmatism that I have!

You know you're getting old when.......

You walk out the door, slip on the ice and break your leg!

If you don't dye your hair everywhere you go they ask you if you want the senior discount!

or you go to the eye doctor and he says you need bifocals or even perhaps trifocals!

I haven't even worn my glasses for about 10 years and for the hair, well I guess I am vain, cuz I prefer the positive attention I get from dying it (even if I can't afford to have it highlighted, which is my favorite), opposed to the comments I get about being 60 or something! As for the fall on the ice, I guess I don't have Osteoporosis yet, because alls that got bruised was my ego and the palm of my hand as in the picture above, oh yeah my knee does hurt and swelled a bit, but after a good nights sleep, still no visible bruise and the swelling is gone!

Christmas 2010