How I Want to be Remembered

• I have a testimony of the gospel and lived it in the small quiet ways
• Dedicated to the gospel by serving a mission as a youth and with Daniel
•  Love her husband and children
• Understood what unconditional love was
• Known as a hard worker
• Love canning and emergency preparedness
• Love to work in the soil, plant and watch the garden mature
• Love the little moments watching Sophie and Molly as they grew

My Perfect Day

My perfect day would start after waking up from a good night sleep where Molly and Sophie slept through the night. 

Molly and Sophie would sleep in until 8 a.m.  I would make a smoothie for breakfast.  It would be the beginning of May.  After breakfast I would go out and work in the garden by myself and enjoy the cool air. 

After awhile Daniel would bring the girls out and they would be fed breakfast and dressed.  We would work in the yard for awhile and then go to J & J Garden Center to get plants.  We would stroll through the isles and enjoy a couple of hours there.

On the way home the girls would fall asleep so we could plant during their naps.  Daniel and I would enjoy a nice lunch on the back patio and discuss our dreams for the yard, house, etc.   After our lunch we would plant the flowers and vegetables and enjoy our time together while we dream of the harvest and how our little plants will grow to maturity. 

I would then take a nap while Daniel enjoyed a movie with the girls.  I would know everyone was happy and I could relax and sleep.  I would sleep for about an hour and then I would wake up and we would all go for a walk.

We would come home and enjoy dinner.  It would be made the day before so I didn’t have to cook, but would still be delicious. After dinner we would split up and bath the girls.  They would laugh and giggle and be so cute.  After baths Daniel and I would dress them in their pajamas and read stories to them.  We would read a Book of Mormon story and Sophie would respond and know who we were talking about.  I imagine her having a favorite that she would get excited whenever we read it. 

After we would tuck Sophie in and she would give us kisses on the cheeks like she has just started doing.  I do love those kisses. I would nurse and snuggle Molly before putting her to bed. 

After the day was over I would snuggle in our bed and look at pinterest or read with Daniel reading a book next to me. We would snuggle and fall asleep remembering the perfect day we had just had.

The Top Five Things I Will Miss

The five things I will miss about our little house on 493 E. 900 N. in Bountiful.

In no particular order here they are:

Moving the chicken coop I built
into pla

1.  My Chicken Coop

2.  My raised beds with the drip system

3.  Seeing the yard and house - Not being able to sit and look at the shed and yard we had worked so hard on.  It is hard when you move away because you just have the memories in your mind.  You can’t go see the progress and be there to reflect.

4. The Ward – I have worked to make friends and will miss having people in my same situation in life to spend time with. (I hope I make a great “best friend” in our new ward)

Raised beds with drip system

Saying Goodbye and Embracing a New Beginning

March 9, 2013

Well for most people today was just an ordinary Saturday, but for us it was another beginning.  It was the beginning of the rest of our lives living in Oak Hollow.  We went to sleep last night knowing it would be the last night in our sweet little home at 493 E. 900 N. in Bountiful.  The home we lived in when we got married.. The home we made many good memories in....  Some of my memories are...I remember how nervous Daniel was when we decided to build the shed, but we succeeded.  We also lovingly put in a garden with raised beds and a drip system.  I remember getting a saw and drill for Mothers Day and while Sophie at about 6 months old sat in the stroller I built our first chicken coop on the patio, with the help of Laurel who lived with us for a year before meeting an marrying Daniel.

I will remember canning and putting all of my stores on the shelves in the storage room that we custom ordered and assembled together to fit the alcove.  Oh how I loved and will miss those shelves.  My favorite part of canning is seeing the "fruits of my labors" lined up on the shelves and not an empty bottle left at the end of the season. Every year I want to can more than the year before.  

It is in that home that I not only became a wife, but a mother.  Sophie and Molly joined our family while we lived there.  I remember taking Sophie out when she was only about four months old to lay her on the grass to look up at our maple tree, while I worked to build the rock wall.  I was one of the first warm days of spring but she loved it and from then on we worked outside and Sophie just seemed to know the like her parents she belonged outside in the yard, near the garden.  

This last summer was a treasure.  Sophie does love the outdoors.  So much so that daily I would find that she has escaped out the dog door to play in the yard.  For the first couple of months I worried she would get hurt etc. being alone outside.  She was in her element.  She would go visit the chickens, smell and pick a few flowers, or sometimes follow Libby on her dog path in the back of the flower gardens.  She also loved playing in the water in our yard and sitting next to me in the lounge chairs under the maple tree.  Molly also took many naps on the lounge chair under that maple tree.  Such a calm baby and content to be with Sophie and I.  

I will remember the walks in the stroller around our neighborhood and to visit grandma and grandpas house.  So many discoveries and good chats with friends and neighbors. 

Our home in Bountiful was a stepping stone and will always have a special place to me.  We have now taken the next step in our lives as today we begin the journey to settle in at Oak Hollow and continue to make it our own.  I look forward as I see the snow melt and the yard emerge.  Many may call them projects to be done, I feel love and call them memories to make.

Thank you Mom and Dad for allowing us to make your home, our home.  We will carry on your legacy as we raise our family here and love our surroundings.

Our Week

February 6, 2013

Letter to Seelos' in Serbia - I hope your day yesterday went well after getting some sleep.  We went over to the house today for a little while.  Sophie kept saying Grandma and was looking for you.  I told her you went bye, bye and are missionaries for Jesus.  She of course said ya.. with an up sound at the end.  She was so cute.  We also put her rug in the green bedroom and so now she knows it is her new room.  She even played in there for a bit...  That was of course after she soaked Molly's head in toilet water.. arg.  I swear they were not alone for more than 2 minutes.   She would be Sophie is she didn't keep me on my toes.  I have learned though that she is very obedient if I give her a juice popsicle as a reward.  We also went to Walmart today.  She threw a huge fit because she didnt want to sit in the cart.  Yes, sprawled out on the isle floor crying like the world was ending.  I told her you have a choice,  you can cry or you can hold the cart and help mommy push it.  She loved the idea and the trip was much better.  She only got loose once when i took something off of a shelf in time for her to almost push the cart into cross traffic. lol..  I got there just in time.  Thankfully it was another mom and she thought it was cute.  arg..  I bought groceries of course and a couple pairs of jeans and a shirt for Sophie for Valentines next Thursday.