A Change is GOOD!

Recently, as many of you know, the area in which I reside at Nic and Dave's was finished. I've never posted pictures of the finished product because... well... I don't know, but here they are (Kind of). I also moved stuff around and my bedroom is now in a different room, which has been a GREAT change for me and much needed. I can actually sleep at night without feeling tortured.
This picture is walking into my bedroom, now... keep in mind that I am still decorating and so it looks a little bare. This is a picture of my most recent purchase. I have wanted a record player for a really long time and on black friday I broke down and bought one. I needed something to be excited about. Then i went to the DI and sorted through all their records- it wasn't the best selection, but I found some do-able stuff- mostly soundtracks to old musicals I grew up watching, so that's fun.
Isn't she beauty. I seriously love this thing. I need to purchase some recent records now.

Here is my amazing closet. It was so nice to be able to move into this thing and I am in heaven.

My dresser and you can kind of see my bed in the mirror. I was going to give this dresser back to my mom but I decided I still wanted it and it still gave me enough room to roll out my yoga mat, so that's all that matters.

And here is my new bathroom. Isn't it cute? I wish you could see it cause it is really a cute bathroom. The light fixture is amazing. I love it. I still need to find some stuff to hang on the walls, I'll wait til after Christmas since I still have a bunch of shopping to do for the holiday, but it is so nice to have this thing done. I need a big clock to hang over the toilet because I just have sitting on the back of the toilet and I hate having stuff there, but I have to be able to see the time so I'm not late in the morning.

The other room I did not post a picture of because it's kind of still unorganized. It is going to be my exercise room/art room. I can actually put my easel in the artist cove thing in that room. The people who originally had this house intended that room to be an artist studio room, and now I can actually put my stuff in there- which is exciting. Plus... you know how much I need my exercise stuff too. It just works out well. I'll post a picture of that room when I finish it. It's just hard to do when I'm not home that much, but it'll happen.

HAPPY

Today, at work, they are painting, or doing something with paint- I know this... because I CAN SMELL IT. And the man standing in front of me has a benjamin Moore shirt on and he is rolling "stuff" on the wall with a paint roller thingy- so I'm thinkin' it's paint somethin'! When I first came around the corner and smelt it I said "OHHHH... this is going to be a FABULOUS day... Benjamin Moore... MAKE. ME. HAPPY!" LOL! I figure I'll either get a massive headache, or a really big high. I'm bankin' on the second.

He's There

So... last night I had a meeting with my Bishop. I was kind of struggling last night, I don't know why because I have come so far in the last week, but I guess I stepped on piece of that chandelier, and it hurt. I go in and meet with him and it was good. It was really good. I cried of course and said "Uhg! I don't know what my problem is tonight. I've been doing so good. I think I'm just scared." He looked at me funny but didn't ask me to elaborate. I said "I'm scared he'll leave me. I feel like I'm in that dark tunnel and he's walking with me, sometimes carrying me, but I'm scared he'll leave me." I love my Bishop. I have a lot of respect for him and have really come to feel the Lords love for me through him. I have learned just how inspired he is and it's been great. He gave me really great advice as usual and told me to keep my chin up and don't stop moving forward in the dark tunnel. As I was getting ready to leave he thanked me. He said "Tahnee, thank you." I was like... what the crap is he thanking ME for? I thanked him for everything he has done to help me cause he has really saved me. He was an instrument in the Lords hand when I was drowning and he reached down and pulled me out of the water. He said again, "NO... thank you. People like you make this job worth doing." OH. MY. HECK! That one statement hit me to the very core. I laughed of course and said "Thanks." He said, " NO! I'm serious, you do." I shook his hand and left. When I walked out the church doors, I lost it. I sobbed because that one simple little statement from my Bishop made me feel like I am worth it. I just sat in my car and sobbed and thanked Heavenly Father for him saying that and feeling like that. You know... it's interesting how you see the Lord's fingerprints all over your life. Yesterday morning I had a text message from a really good friend that I love that I haven't seen or talked to in a really long time but another friend told them that I needed a phone call and so they texted me. MADE. MY. DAY. Anyway... I think he might be trying to show me that he isn't going to leave me like everyone else. And I need that.

Christmas Tree Hunt

Every year for Christmas my family goes Christmas Tree hunting. This year my uncle Chip came down over the weekend to go but Rustin and Sarah wanted to go on Monday, so I took the day off and went along cause I LOVE TREE HUNTING!!!!
Here we are getting ready to leave... I got to ride with Rustin and Sarah and the kids- always an adventure. Rustin really makes me laugh and this is something I need these days. Although... I think I saw my life flash before my eyes when we got up the canyon and hit the snow because he thought it would add to the adventure to try to do some donuts in the truck.

We get up Spring City canyon and start out adventure searching for "The Tree". We pass by this rock formation thingy and Rustin says "And...... that's Tahnee's next house."

My Dad (aka. Grandpa of the Year) pulled the kids in his ice fishing sled, which my Dad believes is just as good as a regular sled, and uses it as such (like last year when we took it actual sledding and about killed the kids because he waxed up the bottom first- cause he didn't think it'd go fast enough- he took GOOD care of that. We had to pry them out from underneath the truck)... Dad gives us such good memories.

This is the part where Rustin says to his 3 year old "Hey Bubba.. look how strong Dad is" and then proceeds to grab a DEAD tree (knowing Bubba doesn't know the difference) and yanks it out of the ground (I could have done that! And I should have. Dang! Let's face it... Bubba could have done it).

Cute Sariah... She did get a little tired of the (and I qoute) "back and forth, back and forth" trying to find a tree.

Now... we get to this river thingy. And we need to cross. So...

My Dad helps the kids across...

Rustin helps Bubba...

Don't worry... he didn't fall in... that's coming...

Okay... So I decide to go across. I don't have anyone to help me, so I start to go across. OF COURSE... I am the one that has to find the faulty piece of ice and FALL THROUGH!!! I was like.... REALLY?!?!?! It hurt so bad. I couldn't get up at first. My Dad was on the other side calling to Rustin and he was behind me but I managed to get up but my leg hurt so bad. Picture this... I am in pain... trying to stand up and Rustin is behind me saying "Are you okay, Tahn. Tahn... are you okay?" And I am thinking ' Man my leg hurts, but get up and get out your camera... this is blog material!' So I stand up, turn around and look at Rustin and say "Yeah." Then pull out my camera phone and take a picture...

Rustin says... "Are you.... Are you really taking a picture?" Then he shakes his head and goes back to help Sarah.

LOL... See.. I try to think of others and share in the laughter of the experience. I do have a pretty good bruise on my leg. I took pictures at that moment but you can't see the injury very well. BUt here is one of my leg when we got home. It's hard to see... but it hurts- trust me. And it's a good battle wound.

Rustin helping Sarah make is SUCCESSFULLY acrosss. GEEZ! Where was my help? LOL- JK.

My rides for the kids.

The kids loved playing on the hillsides. It was quite the victory when they made it to the top. They'd cheer for themselves. I'd cheer for them too! I helped Sariah and Bubba build snow caves and mini snow men while we waited for the tree to be cut but it was making my hand so cold to carry it back to the truck so we talked her into letting us leave the snow man in the forest. She wanted Sarah to help her build another mini one when we got back to the truck. Here is Sarah putting it in the tree so it can stay in the forest. Sariah was bawling because she thought the snowman was ugly. LOL!!! Kids!

Here's the snowman.

Earlier... before we left, I made this tasty treat... Smores on a Stick. It was a HIT!

Oh my heck... this was so funny. Rustin and Dad were in the back room playing dress up or something cause they come out so proud of themselves and say... "Hey, look at Rustin." and he is looks so "puffed up". He kept posing for us. I wish I had a picture of this cause it was HIL-ARIOUS!!!! How intimidating does he look in this get up. They were getting ready to go hunting.

Here's Bubba riding my Mom's excercise bike. This is the only way he can ride it cause he's so little. LOL... he's sitting on the front of it. I was dying with laughter watching him peddle away.

It was a fun day and I was glad I took the time off to go. I have an amazing family and I'm very lucky to have them!!!!

As it turns out Rustin and Sarah got a tree that was kind of brittle. As they were bringing it down the mountain he kept losing branches- WEIRD. We get back to the truck and one side was about barren and Sarah said this statement that was so amazing. She said "Just because it's broken doesn't mean we shouldn't love it!" I love Sarah. It made me think of myself these days. I'm kind of broken, but they still love me.

Funny Email

Yesterday I got this hilarious email. I was requesting something at work for my desk, a paper rolodex thingy and the guy I asked sent me this email back:

Unfortunately we don’t carry anything like that. You may have
to go through Staples or somebody.
I can offer this though. He
will hold the book and flip pages as you see fit. He does require periodic
feeding and bathroom breaks.

Needless to say... I died laughing... This was my reply to him:

HA HA HA… That is funny! As long as he can jump himself off my desk (without
committing suicide- that’s a mess I refuse to clean up) and take his bathroom
breaks alone… I’m good!