finding "home"

Playing cards, and target practice

I made muffins for our presidency meeting and when I turned around, Danny had eaten the tops off of most of them.


Have you ever felt like you were not quite whole? I have felt like that for a long time, like something was missing. Last night I went to our wards overnight relief society retreat. It is an event not to be missed. It is held in the beautiful aspen filled mountains of Heber in a big cabin owned by a relative of someone in our ward. The theme this year was Nurturing yourself-taking time to fill the well. It was just what I needed. We stayed up till wee hours of the morning talking, and playing games. This morning we awoke early and a few of us went on a long walk. That is when I realized what I was missing. I belong in the mountains! It felt like I had come home, but to a completely peaceful home. I've net yet decided if I'm destined to live on the beach, or in the mountains, but both places make me feel so happy. My dream is to move to a cabin in the mountains and home school my kids. The only problem is finding a job that Ryan can do up in the mountains. It may just have to wait 'till we strike it rich, and can retire early. Will that ever happen? Anyway, it was so nice to get away for a night, and just relax with the gals. The boys did great while I was gone. Joey slept better than if I were home. I just may have to do that more often. After the devotional about "finding your passion". I decided that I need to do more, I need to have more hobbies, and develop new talents. I thought of many fun thing Ryan and I could start doing together. When I shared them with him after I got home most of them were crossed off the list. He doesn't want to buy a motorcycle so that we can go on rides together (he thinks they are too dangerous), he doesn't want to take a ballroom dance class (I could have guessed that though), He doesn't want to host a mystery dinner to do more with friends (he thinks it would be way too cheesy), He doesn't want to start running together (his form of exercise must include a soccer, basketball, baseball, or golf ball) but he did jump at the idea to go target practie. I have wanted to become more comfortable with a hand gun, so we went to practice . He usually leaves one of his hand guns for me when he goes out of town for the night, but I have never felt like I could use it if I needed to besides waving it around pretending like I knew what I was doing. It was fun to go and learn how to load, unload,shoot it,and just get comfortable with it. After I got a side stance down, I could even hit the target a lot more than before. It was a lot of fun, and I hope to get better at it.
Some good quotes that we talked about today;
"In all of living have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed not just endured"-President Gordon B. Hinckley
" Sisters, find some time for yourself to cultivate your gifts and interests. Pick one or two things that you would like to learn or do that will enrich your life, and make time for them. Water cannot be drawn from an empty well, and if you are not setting aside a little time for what replenishes you, you will have less and less to give to others." -Elder M. Russel Ballard
HEY IT COMES STRAIT FROM A PROPHET AND APOSTLE, IT MUST BE IMPORTANT!