a pina colada: Merry Christmas!

12.24.2009

Merry Christmas!

pics by Liz Lemon Swindle

I hope you all have a magical and merry Christmas!

May we all feel peace, gratitude, hope, and love this season.

And may we all feel the love of the Savior.

Here is a great clip to help us all remember what this wonderful season is all about.

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TraciDecember 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Beautiful pictures and a wonderful reminder of the reason for the season. Merry Christmas!
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{a few of my favorite things}

*Fishing with my man (although we don't get to do much anymore). *Seeing my daughter's excitment when she gets to see the princesses at Disneyland. *Oldies but Goodies: anything with Cary Grant, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Audrey Hepburn. Love them! *Italian and Thai food. *Sunday dinners at my parents; eating my mom's excellent food and laughing with my siblings at the dinner table.* Lunch with the Tuttle ladies. *Learning about and getting new makeup and face and hair products ( I'm a junky). *Summer evenings in Utah. *Hiking in the mountains with my husband and kids.
*Relaxing in a hamock, on a beach, any beach! *Going to new yummy restaurants. *A relaxing trip to the spa. *Decorating (oh! how i wish i could do more of it). *Magazines, especially architectural and decorating ones. *Hawaii, especially the North Shore. *Working in Young Womens. *Having a new born to cuddle with. *Playing and snuggling with my beautiful children. *A good trip to Target.
*Much loved and needed road trips with my friends. *Catching up with my friends on our girls night out. *A nice day of shopping including lunch at Nordstrom Cafe. *Watching 24 with the other 3 die-hard fans. *Dark Chocolate, well, pretty much any chocolate. *Traveling anywhere and everywhere. *Curling up with a good book. *Checking off things on my "TO DO" list. *Cherry Limeade. Dr. Peper. Water with a lemon. And of course, a pina colada. *Chillin' with a book, under the sun, next to a pool.
*Snuggling with my honey. *Hearing my children belly laugh. *Gerbera Daisies. *Yummy, I mean yummy salads. *Going to Mexico or Hawaii with my parents and siblings. *Buttercream Frosting. *Cozy hot coco on a cold, snowy day.

{Thoughts}

“A good friend is a

connection to life-

a tie to the past,

a road to the future,

the key to sanity in

a totally insane

world.”

-lois wyse

“It is as we serve, as we take time to express
interest and concern in someone other than
ourselves, that we are more likely to gain a
glimpse of who we really are and what we can
ultimately become.”
-Gordon B. Hinckley

“Another fresh new year is here...
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
This bright new year is given me

To live each day with zest . . ..
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!”

~William Arthur Ward

"Whoever is happy
will make others happy too. "
~ Anne Frank

"There is nothing like staying at
home for real comfort."
-Jane Austen

"The glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time you fall."
-Chinese Proverb

"In spite of illness, in spite even of
the archenemy of sorrow, one can
remain alive long past the usual
date of disintegration if one is
unafraid of change, insatiable in
intellectual curiosity,interested in
big things, and happy in small ways."
-Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance

"It isn't the great big pleasures that
count the most; it's making a great
deal out of the little ones."
-Jean Webster

"Any adult who spends fifteen
minutes with a child outdoors
finds himself drawn back to
his own childhood, like Alice
falling down the rabbit hole."
-Sharron MacLatchie

"Once you realize that thought is
cause and life experiences is the
effect, then you realize that the
greatest way to change your life
is to change your thinking."
-Marianne Williamson

12.24.2009

Merry Christmas!

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