HEY.....WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?

I HAVE SEVERAL FRIENDS MY AGE AND AS I LISTEN TO THEIR STORIES......I WOULD NOT TRADE THEM FOR MINE.  THIS ONE FRIEND MOANS ABOUT GETTING OLD AND FEELS SHE HAS OUTLOIVED HER FEET.......AND HER TEETH AND KNEES AND HAS HAD HER HIP REPLACED.....SHE HAS DIABETES, IS HALF BLIND .....CAN'T HEAR AND TAKES 20 MEDS THAT MAKE HER DIZZY, WINDED AND HAS POOR CIRCULTAION IN HER HANDS AND FEET.....CAN'T REMEMBER IF SHE IS 74 OR 84.....BUT THANK GOODNESS SHE STILL HAS HER DRIVERS LICENSE!!!!!..... NOW THAT IS LIVING IN THE NOW"!  I DON'T MAKE FUN OF HER BECAUSE I AM NOT FAR BEHIND......BUT I NEVER LET HER DRIVE ME TO BRIDGE.....
       It is nice to be home as I have plants to water, laundry to be done and bills to be paid!!!!  Spent the morning with Shirley and Patty called about coffee in the morning......and so my week starts getting pretty busy.  Bought a cute birdbath for the back yard and a few more plants to get out tomorrow,,,,,LIFE IS GOOD!
     

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY........

 

First,   Happy Memorial Day.......had a great weekend with much to celebrate........went to my 12th grandchild graduation.......everything from high school to college to one MBA.  kENNEDY CHRISTENSON graduated Friday night from Vernal high school.  A very big day for this family.  We went to the good friends of the family for dinner afterwards.  His grandpa Peterson even drove down for it!   We all pitched in to help with the food for the big party held in the school all night afterwards......home at midnight.  Sunday the wards seniors each gave a talk and we never expected Ken to do it.....but he did and had everyone in tears.......we all went to his Seminary Graduation that night.....go....go.....go!  The picture is in the Labrums back yard....Porsha on the end, Alex, Lindsay, Sher, Dar, Ken, Braydon and me.

Sherrie drove me home today .......Darren and the two boys were off to Lake Powell for the week .......on Darren's house boat and Sher and Alex holding down the office and farm.

All the Panniers were in Island Park celebrating and who knows what the COOK'S were up to.

With what my life has dealt me I could either get bitter or .....better.  It's just that simple.  You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down.  The CHOICE does not belong to fate......it BELONGS to you!

GREAT JOURNEYS......

 

GREAT JOURNEYS BEGIN WITH A SINGLE STEP OF POSITIVE ATTITUDE.......

 

To be of service to others through your inner gifts, your intuition, your courage, your talents and your creativity is possible for all those who are willing to respond to the needs of others........Not only the many in need around the world.......but the guy across the street......Toward this end, you must see yourself as healed, having completed the unfinished business of your past.....while you may visit your wounds every now and then, you can no longer emotionally or mentally reside in that contaminated psychic field continually processing wounds that are decades old.....Your focus has to be in the present moment.  This is where your power is.....and being in the present is what your health requires........Like they keep telling you.......don't give others that have hurt you space in your head!!!!  I work on this a lot!

OK.....now to catch up a little in May!  Went to Vernal for a few days over Mother's Day for Braydon's Home Coming......Went to Jon Cook's funeral with the Christensons........Shirley came down with Bell's Paulsey.......Lunch with Patty and Ruth for my late birthday.......Garage Sales with Gay......Met Sherrie and Braydon for lunch at Costco's after their trip to Spokane for the weekend........Pam and Tiff and Aaron spent last weekend in Minnesota with Nicci and Bill.....I am excited about Braydon going to Ghanna Africa on a humanitarian service project......working at an orphanage.........with his favorite person Gabby!

We have had several nice days but still getting rain and wind and here we are in the middle of May.......trying to turn my life to a more positive page........two Cava Cava pills a day........