OuCh!
30 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
OUCH! I sure wish I had read the fine print. As time goes by I’m learning. Very slowly, but, learning is occurring.
Crafts
28 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
I think Darby is such a great artist. Here are a couple pictures she has drawn.
I made these flannel pillows for the girls. I made different hair styles and facial expressions for each pillow. There is a pocket in the back to keep all the pieces. The girls love them!
Happy Saturday
28 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
Happy Saturday everyone! Here are a couple pics from my hike this morning.
I took it a little slower today. I’m kinda scared after my fall last week.
It was nice to enjoy a morning to myself though! Now we’re getting ready to go to our neighbor’s baseball game.
High Expectations
17 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
I’ve always had high expectations for myself and everyone around me. I’m learning I need to ‘dial it down’ a few notches. My 30th birthday is still looming over my head. September is approaching and I’m realizing I will not have everything together by then. I had set expectations for myself. One expectation or goal I had shared with you all was to be the most fit I’ve ever been. I’ve decided that I need to chill out.
I feel like I have to be perfect by the time I’m 30. I have to have everything figured out. I have to get everything together. Why?!!! Maybe because…
I don’t know.
I kinda feel like after 30, it’s going to be down hill from there. After 30 my body will only get weaker? More frail? More sickness? Sheesh! My goodness! It’s 30…not 90!
I can still improve after 30. I still have a lot more to go. My new goal: to keep improving. Always. Life is a constant learning, constant striving to be better. The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. That’s what we were created for. That’s our daily, hourly, minutely goal.
Enjoy Him.
There is no end to this. No age at which we need to enjoy Him to our fullest. No point in our physical fitness at which we can do this to our fullest.
I’m kinda getting excited about aging now. I can look back at how much I have changed over my life and can see Christ working in me. I am confident that He’ll continue to work on me even after 30.
Philippians 1:6 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.
Happy Resurrection Day!
09 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
Here’s some pictures celebrating Christ’s resurrection.
Coloring eggs.
That marker did NOT wash off very easily. It took 2 days for it to fade. :-/
Liam was our Easter bunny this year and hid all the Easter eggs. 
Liam was really good at hiding the eggs.
After searching for Easter eggs we got ready for church. We stopped for doughnuts on the way to church. Yummy! After church we headed over to Nana and Grandpa’s house really fast. Nana and Grandpa had Easter baskets for everyone! Thank you Nana and Grandpa!!!
Then we went to my Aunt Linda and Uncle Jerry’s house to celebrate Easter with the rest of the family. They have a beautiful backyard!
This cactus only blooms for a day or two. So pretty!
My lil' monkeys.
Leavens Visit
08 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
Here are a few pictures I didn’t post from a few weeks ago. Auntie Speh and Uncle Troy came over for dinner and brought Ollie too!
Izzy LOVES Ollie!
Uncle Troy has a tiny backpack. He he
Cool Tools
04 Apr 2012 3 Comments
I just found a really cool website to practice reading ASL finger spelling. It spells a word for you and then you type in your answer.
This site signs phrases for you!
http://www.aslpro.com/cgi-bin/aslpro/phrases.cgi
So cool! You can speed it up or slow it down. This will help me greatly! 10 years ago there weren’t as many online tools as there are now.
Great ideas
04 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
I have lots of great ideas. Big ideas and dreams. Companies I want to start. Things I want to invent and market. A few times I’ve started planning and executing my ideas with big hopes in my mind. I never have enough time though. And then I loose interest.
When I was going to Hancock College I took several ASL (American Sign Language) classes. 3 classes at Hancock and then a conversational sign class at Cuesta College. I loved these classes and ate it up. I made a few deaf friends and hearing/signing friends. I was promised a job as an interpreter by my boss in the disabled department at Hancock. I had been taking notes for deaf students just so that I could be exposed to signing more. A couple of weeks before the new semester was going to start I talked to my boss again and then she said that she had given the job to another person with more experience. Later I found out she had given the job to her husband, whose hands were large and inaccurate. My signing friends were irritated that I didn’t get that job and so was I. After that I went and talked to the ASL instructor and asked if I could assist in helping her in the classes (I found out that she had been looking for someone). She had already given the job to someone else. After that I had no more classes available to me. No job opportunities and I was sick and tired of taking notes in the classes since most of the student I was helping were not deaf.
I gave up my dream to be an interpreter. I didn’t pursue it as much as a should have. My lack of confidence wasn’t a help either. I would get very anxious anytime I was around it. I was scared I wouldn’t understand and didn’t want to look stupid having to ask again and again, “What?, Wait, what?”
I haven’t been around any signing in several years. In the last few weeks I’ve served 2 tables with deaf people at them. I was so excited to watch them talk to each other. I signed a little to them. My name, are you finished, would you like more, thanks for coming, the food is almost ready. Little things like that. I got so excited about it.
I’ve decided I really want to start practicing again. I get excited about the ways God can use me if I am fluent in ASL.
I’m going to teach the kids as much as possible too. The deaf community is very small around here. Most deaf people move to the larger communities are so that they can function in that area easier. It’s difficult to ride a bus, go to the store, go to the movies, go to church…everything, if an area doesn’t cater to those needs. I would love to be able to interpret at our church (Grace Baptist Church in Santa Maria) and in time have a deaf/hard of hearing small group, Sunday school class and ministry opportunities for them. How awesome would that be?!!!
Yes, I dream big.
I need a whole lot of practice before then. In my weakness He is strong though! I pray that God will flourish my efforts for His glory.
I really hope I don’t loose interest in this. I hope that I don’t give up when I’m frustrated with my inabilities.
Exercise
30 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
If you’ve seen me in the last few weeks you probably know that I haven’t been doing the P90X. We stopped after the 2nd week. Too boring! Anyway, I’ve still been pushing myself to exercise 4-5 times per week. Here’s what I did today:
10 min cardio:
after that I lifted weights for 5 min followed by another 10 min of cardio:
Yesterday I did a ton of squats with my Biggest Loser DVD so I focused on my upper body today.
I would love for you to leave a comment with your favorite exercises! I need more ideas!
Have a great day!
