6 Days

Only 6 days away...just to let you know.

Spring Has Arrived At Our House

Spring has arrived at our house.  Today we have finally bought our flower pots that I have been wanting for a few years.  We decided that this year we would change things up and instead of doing hanging baskets we would do our pots.  Its so nice to have flowers around our house again it makes everything so bright and beautiful.  Oh and we bought a hummingbird feeder. 

Happy Spring!

March Madness

March Madness...yes I know it sometimes happens in March but very rare to be snowing in the middle of March.  The pictures are real don't worry, the mountains in back a obviously much higher then the ones in the front.  They almost seem placed there in back of the mountains but I promise they aren't.  They are beautiful though!!  Happy March!!

JAPAN

Japan is in TWO weeks!!!  Right now two weeks from now, a fortnight I will be either in Japan or on the flight almost to Japan.  I cannot believe that it is so close.  I have been freaking out slightly that I am going to forget something that is majorly important to my trip.  I know that I need to relax and just have a checklist or something but it's so incredibly hard to do that.  I did a trial run of packing and it went really well.  I actually had room in my suitcase!  Then that night feeling good about myself, my mom called and we discussed the trip.  Wow, did I miss a lot of things apparently.  I think that my suitcase will be extremely full and I'm not sure how I can get souvenirs into my bag but then again I haven't fully packed yet for the trip so who knows.  I might have to mail everything home!  It will be an event to always remember!!! 

TWO WEEKS!!!!

Framing Was No More

The decision has been decided.  While thinking a lot over the past few weeks/days, talking with Bill on many, many occasions our thoughts have finally merged into a decision.  As much as I would love to buy the framing business and start working for myself, it just isn't the best time in our life to jump.  We have so much debt that doing something like that might not be the best idea.  Another point of view is that I would much rather have Bill doing something that he loves right now then me.  Still yet another is that I would love to go back to school for business and then in the future with a better knowledge of business be able to jump and slightly know more then I do now. 

Another of our dreams is for Bill to own/drive a semi for a propane company and while he is doing that I would maybe work part time and we would build our dream house on our family property.  I think that is why I made my decision I would rather have that dream then the framing dream.  We have already drawn out the plans for our dream house so I would love to have that dream then anything else right now.

I don't know when all this will happen, all the changes, but sometime in my life it will and I know it!!  I just have to be patient and wait...or at least wait for the next dream to come up.

The Art of Framing

WOW!!!!

It is amazing all the things that I learned today about framing.  It is phenomenal the amount that I didn't know on how to make a frame.  I was so amazingly naive.  Who knew that it isn't all about cutting wood and nailing it together.  It is also makes a whole lot more sense for why it is so expensive.  A lot of hard work and numerous steps go into each and every frame.  I had such an amazingly fun, relaxing, informative day.  I learned the art of frame making and believe me I can honestly say that I am a beginner.  I helped frame someones art, I framed my own picture, I cut glass, I made a frame, and I learned so much from her.  I can almost honestly say that I want that business.  However it is so hard and frightening and I'm not sure if we can even get it.  I know that if it is something that God wants me to do, he will open the door and tell me do the to jump.  I have been waiting for this moment or one like it for quite some time but not sure where to go or look.  I don't know if this is it but I think this experience is going to help me step in the right direction.  I think through this and other experiences I want to become a photographer and be able to sell my pictures in any way that I can.  From here who knows what the next step will be but I'm excited for the possibilities.  I just need to remember what I got for Christmas on my bracelet -

"Dreams Become Reality One Choice At A Time."

My Life Recently

My life recently, you can call it chaotic.  Personal life as well as work life.  Things are ramping up as I have less then a month left before I leave for Japan.  Being the head of the service commission is great however my goodness there is so much that I need to think about.  I never quite realized how much work it really was.  I knew there were things that I never saw Debbie do and I now have such respect for her. 
Beings that I am going to be gone in less then a month I have to make sure that I get everything done.  Since things are so chaotic right now I had to actually break down and get a planner.  I usually get one but I really only use it about a month before I go back to my cell phone but my life is changing things are mvoing forward and I need to make sure I don't forget anything.  So the planner I got and the planner I am using.  This month is filling up fast with things to do.

As an example of just this weekend - I had to send myself an e-mail to print off at work, send multiple e-mails for the service commission, make up birthday/anniversary cards for the month, I have 3 grocery lists; one for me, one for church, and one for the baby shower this weekend (having to go to 4 different stores), I have to go out to Portland for a Ballet, then back to Astoria for a comedy show, then Sunday have a service commission meeting, and lastly hanging out at the frame shop in town for the day and learning the art of framing.

Yes, framing!  We having been going for the past few weeks getting some of my pictures framed and she drops a bomb on us.  We should buy the business.  I have no idea if it's what I want to do but it seems like this is dropping into my lap right now.  I'm going on Sunday to see if I really do like it and want to actually take it over.  It seems like such a wonderful, crazy, scary thought if I actually do it but if we do I would be able to frame my own pictures and then be able to sell them.  It will be an interesting day on Sunday.  It will hopefully help me make my decision.  I have been trying to pray about it to see if it is something that God wants me to do and hopefully sometime in the near future God will tell me what to do.  If you read this please pray for decisions to be made and for God's timing.