Monday Moments Of Me #120

Today is Memorial Day 2017!!!

I am Grateful for all servicemen and servicewoman who defend our freedom! Active, Veteran and fallen...Thank You So Much.

It is because of their service and of their families I was able to drive my friend to Colorado and back home to AZ all in 2 days this past week. I love my Freedom.

It was a whirlwind trip with very little stops and sleep but lots of laughing!
I am renewed with energy as seeing all the beautiful landscapes nature has to offer. Breathtaking.
This photo was taken with my cell phone while we stopped for literally 3 minutes in awe of the natural formation. This is Wilson Arch in Utah. More info on the arch here.

Monday Moments Of Me #119

Oh my Mixie girl!!! She is about 10 years old now and when I ask her if she wants to go for a ride her ears perk up and gives me the cutest head tilt and tail wag! I think that means yes!
Bonus for her if I pull into a Dairy Queen. . . she gets super excited because she knows what is coming. . .  a pup cup! She inhales the cup haha.
So funny and so adorable.
                        *This is a very rare treat for her as I know it is not the healthiest option*

Monday Moments Of Me #118

Do you remember last Monday when I shared about the great shopping day, called my mom over to the store I was at and I ended up finding an amazing little sign?!?

Well, I entered a giveaway while there at Kirklands and I won!!!!!! They called me last Monday afternoon and shared the great news!
I was so ecstatic! I won a $50 gift card to the store and a candle! Which smells divine!! Woohoo!!!
Seriously made my week. Thank You Kirklands for the gift. I love it.

Monday Moments Of Me #117

Have you ever been shopping and an item just about jumped into your arms and you felt an instant connection and knew you could NOT leave without it?
I know this may seem crazy, unreal and absurd but this happened to me on Saturday :)

I was at Kirkland Home and was seeing so many cute decor pieces that I just could not stand it. Ideas were running around like crazy in my head of what I could do with it all! I even saw a few items that my mom and I had talked about just hours before so I called her to come to the store and she loved the items and they just about jumped into her arms! This was a good shopping day and a great time with my mom!!

Well, it was near the check out when I saw it. It was a little sign and the words printed on the inlaid metal just SPOKE to me. I immediately picked it up, fought back the lump in my throat and held back the tears. This sign, right now in my life is how I feel. It gave me hope. It made me smile. It made me love. It made me grateful. I felt warm. I felt peaceful. I felt strong. I felt joy.

Whoa! Right? How is it possible to think and feel all of that in an instant from a little sign on the table that you happened to read while walking by? It is as if this little sign unexplainably knew everything in my heart and mind.

The only explanation I have for this it that is was meant to be!

Monday Moment Of Me #116

It is May 1, 2017!!! Where has this year been going?

As the news channels are threatening triple digit weather by the end of this week, I am thinking of ways to be more productive out in that heat!

When it is in the 100's here in AZ it is almost unbearable but. . . when you have a front yard and a back yard that needs, mowing, blowing and trimming the tortuous heat is unavoidable.

Managing the time needed to spend outdoors on these tasks is the key :)

So, welcoming to my family I present my new RYOBI battery powered weed eater/edger and blower I got at Home Depot!!!

I have gone green ya'll! Literally and figuratively. haha!

These are so easy to use, light weight and my favorite part? . . . I do not smell like fuel when done using them!!!

Here is to surviving yard work, in Arizona, in the SUMMER!!! :)