Allive! She is alive!!

Hello all :)

Lots to blog about but only 7 minutes to do it. Let's see....

~moved 300ish miles south for a new job.
~love new job.
~interpreting community and deaf community have been amazing thus far :)
~my husband has been amazing through so many trials and he never complains about my venting in relation to the job mentioned above (helping establish a new job and rules has been hard).
~the kids seem to like it down here, I love them for being such great sports.
~pics next time, I swear ;)

Running

I miss wanting to run. I love running, really I do. The last year, or so, I really have no desire to workout at all. I want the running bug to bite me again, I almost signed up for two races just to force myself to get out the door but I don't want it to be just another chore. Anyone have any tried and true tricks to get you going again? At this point a 5K would be so great for me but I just don't wanna.

I'm hoping the warmer weather will help, we will see.

Whoops!

So I didn't finish off my January goal and I seemed to have lost February and March too, hehe. Sorry about that!!

I have much to discuss but am too lazy tonight :)

I passed my certification!! I'm now an official novice interpreter in Utah. Woot!
I will be taking the educational interpreter test next week!
I started a 90 day workout challenge and then gave up on said challenge.
We started a new points system for the boys, they love it and we love it.
L went from blonde to red to orange/pink to brown.
M is determined to be taller than me by the time he reaches his 11th birthday (August 12th) he has like 8 inches to go, think he'll make it? ;)
LittleMan has become quite the LittleGentleman, he loves to open doors for us and close them, carry anything in my hands, etc etc.

Ok, enough of a summary for now, hopefully I'm back again soon and not 3 months later :)

5 things day 12

Yeah, I missed a few days, oops.

1. I'm so grateful for do overs.
2. So grateful for televised and online courses so I can spend more time at home healing with my family.
3. professionals helping us when we aren't sure what we are doing.
4. electronic devices helping us get through 3 hours worth of appointments with 2 active boys.
5. sleep

Life is crazy busy and it's just going to get more so, I still have the goal of posting daily but it's not the top priority and I'm not going to feel guilty for missing a few days :)

5 things day 8

I will be adding photos to posts as I come across ones that suit my fancy, just so you don't think it will be totally boring from now on, hehe.

1. Productive cleaning days, still a long way to go before I'm happy with the state of the house, but it's looking so much better :)
2. Cheap hair dye, though I think L isn't so happy with the new color, hehe.
3. Freedom, we are sure lucky to live where we live.
4. Laptops, mine wants to die, but I backed up all the documents and photos from mine. I'm just happy to have one that works most of the time.
5. The gospel, I don't talk about my religion a lot on my blog but I'm very grateful for it.

Thanks for stopping by, I'm sure grateful to my readers too :)

5 things day 7

Today I'm going to post some goals for the year, I'm grateful to have the ability to make these goals and for the support of my husband and family and friends in achieving these goals.

1. Acceptance, accept me for who I am, love me for being me.
2. I am going to enter the lottery for the St. George marathon, it's time for another big tough goal.
3. I am going to run the Utah Valley half or full marathon, haven't which yet decided.
4. I am going to certify as an interpreter of American Sign Language.
5. I will graduate from UVU with a Bachelors degree in Deaf Studies.

This year is so going to rock!

5 things day 6

Hi friends :)

1. I'm grateful for friends that help me out in a pinch, Natalie and Nathan saved the day!
2. A nice warm bed.
3. My cats, they are annoying at times (Miss Snake barfed again!) but I love them.
4. Work and a brain that works, today just rocked!
5. Inspirational quotes I can get easily through Twitter....for example....

WomenOfHistory Inspirational Quotes

A woman is like a tea bag: you cannot tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. -Nancy Reagan

Good stuff :)

5 things day 5

You thought I forgot, didn't you? You silly readers ;)

1. My husband
2. Determination
3. Team work
4. Togetherness
5. Endurance

5 things day 4 :)

Hello again :)

I'm sure having fun with this, hehe.

1. Bedtime
2. Fast food, too much of which we have eaten this month, boo.
3. Professors that link you to free online copies of the reading materials required for the course.
4. Brown walls just the right shade :)
5. Sleep, didn't realize how much I loved it until it decided I didn't need it.

5 things day 3

1. Repentance
2. Knitting
3. Forgiveness
4. Cell Phones
5. Blimpies close by! yay :)

I've really enjoyed thinking up five things I'm grateful for, for the last three days. I just feel so much more peace and calmness now.

5 things day 2

Today has been long and tiring! But of course I'm grateful for stuff :)

1. Printers at school so I don't have to figure out how to fix mine at home.
2. A local library, I borrowed 4 books :) (which probably wasn't a good idea since school starts in two days)
3. My friendly co-worker that gave me her extra Dr. Pepper when I was feeling run-down at lunch.
4. A fun topic at work and a fun job where I can act stuff out :)
5. Love.

five things challenge

I decided that in order to start the year off right, I needed to think of things I've been blessed with. Today I was reading on Ravelry (only the best knitting/crochet website ever!) tonight and someone said that for the month of January she always posts five interesting things she has done or wants to do, every day. I'm going to post five things I'm grateful for and/or interesting things I want to try, every day in January. I missed yesterday but that's ok.

1. Three beautiful, healthy children.
2. A house to live in.
3. A car to drive.
4. A job that I enjoy.
5. Friends that support me whether they agree with my decisions or not. :)

2010 out with a bang

I was going to do a year in review, but honestly I can't remember much of the year, getting old I guess ;). We did get to go to NY for 3 weeks, fantastic! We are all a year older. Um...we are taller? ok, so the kids are, hehe.

I have to say that I have sure learned a lot about myself this year, I now know that I am a whole lot stronger than I ever thought I could be. I have made some bad decisions but I know that I can move on and be a better person for it. And I have also made some great decisions.

My resolutions for 2011? Well, I don't know, I think I'd like to start running again, maybe another marathon or at least a half. I will graduate from college, finally. I will have a high schooler, gulp. And I vow to act and not react.

Love you all, here's to a wonderful new year and a woohoo we made it through the old year.

Missing part of me

A lot has happened recently and this fits pretty well.

Happy Thanksgiving

Tonight I am grateful for a happy family. We have had some challenges this year and I'm happy to say that it's bringing us closer together as a family and we will end the year even stronger for making it through.

I'm also grateful (I think) for the new game the boys taught their dad today. It's called "Stab" they pretend to stab each other, so I hear "stab" "stab" giggle giggle "stab" run run run laugh laugh "stab" over and over today, they are burning that extra energy and having fun doing it.

And a photo for fun :)

Yeah, M made me a skirt, aren't you jealous? ;)

Inspiration

I want to be this Grandma, just starting now as a mom instead :)

ps, I'm throwing this out there so I have to follow through. I'm ready to start running again and tomorrow is the day.

What a difference a few hours makes.

So today I interpreted for the first time in front of an audience, an audience of my peers no less. Anyway, I have many excuses that pop up when thinking about how I didn't do as well as I had hoped, after thinking about it for a few hours, my perspective has changed. I had a migraine, yet I was able to do a pretty good job. The person I interpreted for is not a native signer and it was a tough topic, I still did a pretty good job. The presenter also played a movie that I have never seen and it was DARK so I couldn't really see what was being signed, but you know what!? I still did a pretty good job!

Overall, I'm satisfied, I've learned that I have great support in my profession, at least overall. My team today was top notch, plus we had the awesome back up of the interpreter coordinator for the conference today.

Good day, good experience, good times. Awesome field, awesome students and faculty at UVU, awesome migraine medication that makes it so I can function at least somewhat :).

Go Deaf Studies!

Interpreter blahs

I'm not a fashionista in any stretch of the imagination, but I did find one way to get over the blahs of boring black and brown that many interpreters wear. See, pretty plain and blah after awhile.
With my hidden secret, haha. I've seen many interpreters with fabulous shoes, jewelery, scarves, different things like that to spice up the black and brown or other dark colors in their wardrobes. Me...I love me some crazy socks, they make me happy.


ps, that's L's room in the background, though sadly it's much cleaner than mine at the moment :)

It's about time...

that I post pics from New York. Up first, our flight out left at midnight, poor kids were exhausted before we even got going.

L had to sit across the isle from us, but she got her own TV so it was tolerable.

The boys were zoned, pretty normal for them when it comes to TV ha.
At about 2 am, LittleMan finally fell asleep. If you'll notice in the above photo, he is not right next to me, but that is my arm reaching across M to try and keep his little head from bobbing up and down as he falls asleep. Poor kid.
And possibly my favorite pic from the trip...

He slept almost our entire 4 hour layover just like that. I gathered up jackets and blankies to make him more comfortable, at least to my view since he didn't seem to care :). He has no real recollection of the layover, hehe. So that first night he got maybe 6 hours of sleep, M got maybe 2 hours, L got about 1.5 hours and I was awake for about 38 hours. Good times :)

Perspective

I have been dealing with allergies, colds, a random fever, for the last few weeks. Laying there in bed I have had time to think about life in general. One thing I've come to realize, is that my perspective on life has changed in the last 18 months or so.

I think we all should go through changes in perspective, but we need to be aware that we are changing, we are looking at things differently. Do we want to keep that view or keep changing it? I haven't been content with things in a long time. I am normally a very optimistic person but I haven't been happy. That is something I need to change, not anyone around me.

So I'm changing my perspective again, I'm going to look at the world in my positive way. I have a loving husband that supports me more than I ever could have imagined. I have a teenage daughter *gasp* that is also changing her perspective on life and I'm liking the change. It's awesome seeing her come into her own, though scary thinking she'll actually be on her own sooner than I can fathom. I have two sons, both with such hugely different personalities, M is always on the move, he's so creative and always looking for something to make. LittleMan is such a softy, still has his stuffed animal babies, but is getting more daring and crazy like his brother.

I'm going to graduate in the spring, I'll be certified as an interpreter -my dream job- soon, I'm already working part-time. I have many wonderful, supportive friends surrounding me. My extended family is eclectic and always here for me too. Awesome.

Life is good, I'm a happy woman and a very lucky one too.