Day 12

Day 12 - A picture of something you love.

I love seeing other people smile...it's amazing how much difference a smile can make in someone's face. I love seeing people happy and enjoying life--I strive to do whatever I can to help increase their happiness and smiles.

I love, love, love Gerber Daisies...they are absolutely my favorite and make me happy every time I see their bright colors.

Flowers for You

A little late in posting this...actually really late- the flowers have already died :(

But I wanted to let some very special people in my life know that I love them and am so grateful for them, their example and for the wonderful mothers that they are to me, my siblings, my nieces and nephews.

To: Mom, Sonia, Sallee, Libbey, and Becky

I hope that you had a wonderful Mother's Day, a flower for each of you! (sorry the last flower is hiding and didn't make it in the picture :D)

Flower Updates

Since I posted here about the beautiful red flowers I had seen in the corner of our deck even more have bloomed...

...this picture doesn't even do it justice for how beautiful it is.

And besides that plant blooming even more I looked around the rest of our deck and I realized that it is flourishing (?) with flowers, of every shape and color.

Besides them being quite beautiful flowers, can I say how pleased I am with my new camera and the quality of pictures it takes? I don't know a lot about taking pictures (I would love to learn more) but I am happy with the quality that I am getting.

Red Surprises

One day this week I was heading out of my room to go downstairs when I looked over to the corner of our "deck" and saw this, a beautiful plant with red flowers...

How blessed we are to have "surprises" like this from Heavenly Father. To have them brighten a day, I don't take enough time to appreciate the Earth's beauty, I need to do better at it. (*Even more flowers have bloomed since I took this picture a couple of days ago)

Power of Flower

In my morning class we were going to make cards for St. Patrick's Day (yeah that's the bonus of being a teacher you can make a holiday more than one day :D). I started my first class and realized that this wasn't going to work, even though I had slept 10 hours last night I didn't have the energy or the voice (I was losing it) to try and do a craft project. So I just let the kids go outside and play for 10 minutes.

I went to my 5 year old class, Wendy saw that I had my markers and asked if they would need theirs. I told her that we were going to do a craft project but that I didn't feel very well and I was losing my voice (she quickly told everyone else in the class--in Chinese) and that we were going to just go outside and play. They all went running out, at different times during the class each girl ran up and gave me a flower or leaf (the boys were too busy playing basketball :D).

It's true what they say, flowers have the power to heal---I've already started to feel better since this morning and my voice is coming back, yeah!

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Last night Sarah and I had the opportunity to go to the opening night of Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Orem SCERA Center. I had heard of this story before but I didn't know the story/music/play. Sarah's friend Cody was in it so mostly we were going to support him (for those that know the story he was Jimmy..main part!) but we ended up really enjoying it. The dancing was very well choreographied, the sets were beautiful and very well painted. I enjoyed my evening so much, sadly I had to leave right after so wasn't really able to congratulate Cody.

Before we went to the play we went out to dinner, we went to this super yummy place called Zupas, they do sandwiches, soups, and salads (and every meal comes with bread and a chocolate dipped strawberry!)

The pretty flowers that we bought for Cody (tulips are his favorite)

Their sign/poster for the show.

Sorry that a lot of these are blurry, we weren't "technically" supposed to be taking pictures so these are all taken without flash. (and if you can't tell Cody is the redhead that is in most of the pictures :D)

This is one of my favorite pictures..and it's so clear too!