We are starting our Business!!!

My dear friend Traci gave me a little saying once that read " Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.Live the life you've imagined"
This saying was a big inspiration when we were trying to decide whether to move to San Diego and work at an Audi Dealership or Endure one more year here and start the carpet cleaning business of our dreams.
We are going ALL in and it is very real now! We are nervous and excited for this new adventure. For now we will keep our "other jobs" until this is fully up and running and pulling enough income otherwise.
We got our business license today Carpet CPR. Carpet, upholstry, tile and grout.
And we found a perfect phone # that was available also 435-679-8CPR!

We are sooo excited. Please pray for the success of our business and refer us to everyone if you live near us. And know that we will treat you right when it comes to cleaning your carpets too.
YAY!

Communication

Goal update:
I am trying to lose weight still and I am doing better. not perfect, but better about what I eat. I haven't had soda for over a month and I have cut down sugar significantly, and eat a lot of salad. Yum. I have started my couch to 5k training. I am only on week 2 of 10, but it feels good to be at least trying and on my way.
I haven't found a way to learn to read music yet that works for me.
I go scared of going back to school right now....maybe later.

Thoughts:
Today I was reading my scriptures and I found a particular scripture interesting. It is Jarom 1:4.
"And as many as are not stiffnecked and have faith, have communion with the Holy Spirit, which maketh manifest unto the children of men, according to their faith."
This is where my title of this post of communication comes in. We all probably know how important communication is. Whether we do it or not is a different story.
Communicating our love with people is the most important. Communicating with Heavenly Father is essential, and communicating with those we love is a privilege....what? a privilege? yeah death teaches you to not take communication for granted with loved ones. Let me explain.
So when reading this scripture I thought : we are all entitled to having communion with the Holy Spirit....then there is that part that requires work on our part:"ACCORDING TO OUR FAITH". I hope to really focus on this and make it manifest to me. To more fully recognize the spirit speaking to me, because I know God hears me. I have to believe that he talks to me and answers my plea's. But secretly I want to hone in on this ability so that I can gain back the Privilege of communicating with my sister. This scriptures makes me feel that all I need to do this is have faith! Easier said than done, but worth the effort for sure!

Hope this makes sense and helps someone else today too :)

2012

I don't like to be Cliche and make new years goals, but I have had the feeling lately that I want to feel accomplished in something instead of feeling like I fail miserably at everything. I realized that I now have the knowledge that if you simple ask and have a righteous desire, God will help you! So I have some ideas. I am not committing to them fully yet but I will share them and see what my readers think.
1. I want to learn to read music notes and play the piano. Some of you know my mom taught piano lessons for 10 years including to me for a few. How is it then that I don't know how to read music? Probably because my teacher was my Mom. She would "show" me how to play a piece of music then I would memorize it, not really read the music!
I feel like sitting down at a piano and playing some pretty music would soothe my soul and I could feel proud of myself.
So my idea for a -plan of action is to go over to my moms house and practice for an hour a day? I was thinking after the kids are in bed but my dad watches tv at night so I wouldn't be able to do that maybe? hmmmm

2. I want to see about taking online courses to become an x-ray tech. I wanted to do this 10 years ago but got lured away by something that seemed easier and more appealing ( esthetician school) That turned out to be a money drain and haven't used it once since graduating! blech don't get me started. Anyways, ever since I broke most of the bones in my body I have been interested in being the one to take pictures of those broken bones and knowing how the broken person feels and being able to be more compassionate and not making the broken person be in more pain just for the sake of an x-ray! I may have to wait until we move to St. George to go to school , but I will check into doing it online also.

I guess I always have smaller life goals that I remind myself of weekly. Like growing spiritually, being more patient, being a better parent etc... but I have self esteem issues that make me feel like I am not good at anything I do so maybe having a plan of action will help this time??

oh and kind of 3rd. I want to lose some weight so no one can think I am pregnant again!!! And so I can keep up with my kids and feel better physically. Not sure exactly how I am going to do this. I could walk around town until it snows and gets colder. I can cut sugar out of my diet...as long as I can find something to replace my habits with that is healthier.

I will try to update when I am not being so afraid of commitment and therefore failing.... :)

knock knock...

is anybody there? probably not, but I will post anyways, since it has been 2 months!
I just can't handle how slow the internet at my moms house is, but hey it is free for us so I guess I can't complain...but I do. :)
Tim and I are still working at Ruby's Inn. It is so slow it is such a bore! But it gives me some free time to read some books and Ensign articles I have been meaning to catch up on. Nothing exciting ever really happens there. You occasionally get a grumpy person, and I tell them how it is in the nicest way possible just to piss them off more. It's funny how cheap people are when they are rich, but anyways, nothing exciting.
We are loving the fact that it has been a mild winter so far and in fact a few nice days where we can actually go outside and enjoy the sun!
Our kids are doing well. Some days they still say they wish they lived in Montana, because they aren't happy with something. Usually a punishment or something isn't going the way they want. But they are adjusting. Carter loves school. Which is a 180 from last year, he hated school in MT.
I think once we have been in Utah for a few years it will start becoming home to them too.
We are on the right track to where we want to be in the future but still have a way to go. We still need to start a carpet cleaning buisness and sale our house in Montana!
I miss big city conveniences but am learning some important lessons about being more prepared and self sufficient.