Lysylife

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Will has moves...or so he thinks?

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

LABOR DAY WEEKEND

Here we come...AGAIN!

SKIM BOARDING

BOOGIE BOARDING

RELAXING

Just the simplicity of being in the hotel room as a family created lasting memories watching movies and popping popcorn into the evening hours and morning movies after breakfast each day!

PLAYING

GAMES

KOREAN BBQ...a favorite!

RENTING BEACH BIKES

We took a stroll along the beach from Huntington to Newport!

THE EXPERT ...

Will served his mission in Korea so this is his MOST FAVORITE thing to eat!

Ahhhhh....Southern California!

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

LEARN WORK PLAY

Saturday's are pretty routine but FUN in our home! We wake up and have a HOT BREAKFAST as a family and then we deep CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN. I wouldn't say we are the average family at work you see because we always hook Spencer's latest and greatest i-pod songs to the speakers throughout the house to which the saying goes "Whistle while you work" but we add...SING and DANCE while you work! This is a tradition the kids (I'm sure) will remember for years to come. We treat the kids to a Saturday Evening Dinner Out which is so enjoyable for all!

GOSH I LOVE MY FAMILY!

See video above!

Wakesurfing

With the help of Uncle Brandon...Isaac even got a try at it!

we LOVED it!

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

SUMMER TIME

Crazy Will

Me and my little Isaac.

He is so happy inside you can't help but feel and hear it on the outside! Such a Joy to be around!

Will's kids

Love this picture with Will and his youngest daugher

Sunday, August 29, 2010

The Dallin Challenge

Friday, August 27, 2010

Isaac -Preschool

Dallin 7th

Emmie 2nd

Leah 9th

Spencer 11th

There are so many things about SUMMER BREAK that is refreshing, one of which is not feeling so much like I'm on others' schedules. I just love that "more relaxed feeling" for a couple of months BUT... SCHOOL IS NOW IN SESSION...which means enforced scheduling back in session and in full accountability.

Over the years we have learned and added to our responsibilities in the home as we were/are ready. To someone outside looking in it may seem overwhelming but it runs as smooth as butter here and is quite rewarding to see my children do all the things they do and accomplish without MURMURING.

They wake up on their own and do their list of chores before school, engage in study time, set and accomplish goals for the week, and get along so well with each other (which feels me up with gratitude).

To my kiddo's...I just want to say that now that another school year is beginning, how blessed I feel to learn so much in being your mother and in growing together as a family because it really does brings me so much JOY!

Thrilled that Leah and I are in PIANO LESSONS, Emmie's headed back to VOICE LESSONS, Spencer and Dallin are headed back to GUITAR LESSONS and Leah is now on the TENNIS TEAM in her High School. Also, Isaac is now attending a preschool a few times a week for a couple of hours and he is LOVING IT! I would rather have him home with me every minute but am confident that this is a good choice for him as he is preparing to attend the Benjamin Franklin Charter School next year!

Thursday, August 19, 2010

OMG...so good!

Mmmmm...so GOOD!

Thought I would share these recipes because PASTA is our Thursday Night Theme and we just loved this.

Fruit Salad
1 sm. pkg. instant pistachio pudding mix

15 oz. can crushed pineapple (don't drain)

8 oz. Cool Whip

1-2 pkg. strawberries (sliced)

3 bananas, sliced

1 bunch grapes

1-2 cans mandarin oranges

blueberries to top

Pasta dish:

Mozzarella diced

cherry tomatoes sliced in half

fresh basil leaves

extra virgin olive oil

fresh cracked pepper and salt

cooked noodles of your choice

toss and enjoy!

Friday, August 6, 2010

Time for SWIM LESSONS

With all these pools here in Az swim lessons are a wise thing for little kids to learn swimming skills and AQUA KIDS FITNESS A LA CARTE is a wonderful place to learn.

ACTION...

I want this conversation ahead of me to be relaxed and strong so that the relationship I have becomes relaxed and strong...SLOW DOWN.

Courageously open honesty.

BEING in my truth and owning it

BEING ok with where people are on their path to learning
strong hands and loving hearts

Lift where you stand

Create harmony where chaos might otherwise prevail.

More important than speaking is listening.
-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

"IT SHALL BE DONE" attitude promotes being committed.

Look Up, think up.

Be receptive to all people who enter your life.

Be Impeccable With YOUR WORD
Don't take ANYTHING personally
Don't make Assumptions
Always DO YOUR BEST
-Don Miquel Ruiz

Have courage to ask questions instead of assuming.
-Ruiz

Help solve the problem rather than avoid or ignore it

Influence more than we are influenced!

Be involved; be informed. Try to be understanding and tolerant and to appreciate diversity. Make meaningful contributions to society through service and involvement.

Do not follow wrong paths or bend to accommodate or accept what is not right...

I will CREATE.

Finding...strength beyond my own.

Focus...on being productive instead of busy.

Learn of me, and listen to my words; walk in the meekness of my Spirit, and you shall have peace in me.
-D&C 19:23
(favorite of mine)

Inspiring Words

A WISE MAN will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understaning shall attain unto wise counsels.
-proverbs 1:5

Owners are people who "OWN" their level of energy, and take complete and total responsibility for it.

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.

Our commitment must be total.

When we learn to totally focus on achieving something with a firm commitment, taking away all distractions, we succeed.

The faith and trust of an innocent, committed person can change the realities of this world.

The things that look too difficult for us to master are in reality opportunities for growth.

Happy people are a bigger help to others than worried people.

Only he who does something helps others to live.

Your path is as equal as mine in that there is value in our own paths.

I LOVE PEACE...IT'S BALANCE!

Even a bad man serves as a good example...of what NOT to do.
The best teacher generally strives to point out what the student is doing right at least as frequently as what she or he is doing wrong.

When you discover your own desire, you're not going to wait for other people to find solutions to your problems.

To learn is to change!

The ultimate responsiblity for your getting good instruction lies not with your teacher but with you.

Winning graciously and losing with equal grace are the marks of a master.

Humor not only lightens your load, it also broadens your perspective.

Consistency of practice is the mark of the master.

The stronger you are the more you can give of yourself. The more you give of yourself, the stronger you can be.

Listening carefully to others, you understand them better.

A man never stands taller than when he is upon his knees.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

you need not sing all the verses of your song at the same time
-Pres. James E. Faust

A mother's heart is a child's schoolroom.

Walked not on the borrowed light of others, but faced the morning unafraid and invincible...

When you eliminate your worry about money, you directly solve all your money problems forever!

Living in the moment is the way to happiness.

What you do may not seem important, but it is very important that you do it.
-Mahatma Gandhi

When your wants are emptied, all great rewards come to you.

Every individual get out of life what he or she is willing to give.

As soon as you do not absolutely need it, you will have it.

When you identify the source of your worry, you uncover the offending addiction.

an active body grows
an active mind evolves
an active life prospers

Every person who comes into your life is potentially an important contact.

Freely ye have received, freely give.
-St. Matthew

The Temple is the catalyst whereby the self is revealed to the self.
-Truman G. Madsen

Humility and meekness are the balm of Gilead. Kindness and empathy are healing ointments. Sincere prayer and meditation sooth the worried soul.

Create-Give-Share-Love

When you transform your whole dream, magic just happens in your life. What you need comes to you easily because spirit moves freely through you.
-Ruiz

If you take action just for the sake of doing it, without expecting a reward, you will find that you enjoy every action you do.
-Ruiz

If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life.
-Ruiz

We have to be what we are, so we don't have to present a false image. If you love me the way I am, "Okay, take me." If you don't love me the way I am, "Okay, bye-bye."
-Ruiz

Your love will not change anybody. If others change, it's because they want to change, not because you change them.
-Ruiz

You can be in the middle of hell and still experience inner peace and happiness.
-Ruiz

You are never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you.
-Ruiz

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
-Ruiz

You don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.
-Ruiz

If others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements they have in their own minds.
-Ruiz

True happiness comes only by making others happy.
-David O. McKay

If I'm created in the IMAGE of my CREATOR then I will create. I will not react. I will create.
-Steve Chandler

Happiness is growth.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage
-ANAIS NIN

When you learn to face your fear, you will come to respect yourself! (and you will be irresistible)
-Steve Chandler

The joy of motherhood comes in moments.

Remember, every day is a gift and we don’t know how many we get to open.
-Hilary Weeks

Happiness is our heritage.

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission- that's ownership, thats owning your own spirit.
-Steve Chandler

Todays test is tomorrows testimony.
-President Palmer

You control your life by controlling your reactions to life.
So practice!

You can't just think it; you gotta feel it!

Passion is created when you follow your JOY.

I INVITE MY CHILDREN TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH BEING ORDINARY. IT’S A VERY NICE PLACE TO BE. I’M NOT MORE THAN OR LESS THAN- I’M JUST ME. IT’S A WONDERFUL THING TO BE WHAT I AM ANYWAY.
-BYRON KATIE

Enthusiasm for Learning...Make life an adventure. Don't say, "Well here's another day." Say, "Here's a new day. What have I that I can put into it?"
-Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Learn...to conquer fear so you can overcome trials and temptations.

When we comprehend what we are commited to we comprehend ourselves and know how to approach others.

By having a sustained interest in other people, you create a new life for yourself.

Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of Him.
-Emerson

Warning...Watch out for thoughts that appear to justify or explain this unhappiness but in reality cause it.

The way is clear only when the mind is clear.

How do I know I can handle this…because I am!

SMILE

The moment I understood the will of my Heavenly Father, I felt a determination to go at all hazards, believing that He would support me by His almighty power, and endow me with every qualification that I needed;…I felt that the cause of truth, the Gospel of Christ, outweighed every other consideration.
-Heber C. Kimball

There is no peace in the world until you find peace within yourself in this moment
-Byron Katie

Feeling…mah-vel-ous

The universe gives us precisely - and only - what we are vibrating.

A hero...is a human inspiration who comes along and wakes us out of the story of us.

Be the change you wish to see in others.
-Gandi

How you do anything is how you do everything.

The more you give, the more you get back.

Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself and ecstasy.
-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Train... the body and you simultaneously train the mind.

If people were really connected to who they were, they wouldn’t need anything.

It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you’re really living your life, every delicious moment, you are not thinking in terms of whether it will “turn out”.
Because you are living in the present moment.

Good Time...You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you.

Most folks are as Happy as they make up their minds to be.

If you are the problem, you are the solution!

The first sign that a person is committed is that he asked for help.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Perfection... is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.
-A new earth

Before...you were the thoughts, emotions, and reactions; now you are the awareness.

When you’re genuinely humble, there’s no way that criticism can hurt you; it can only help you.

Focus…If you focus on solutions, you get solutions. If you communicate with patience, you get patience.

Listening…occurs when you and/or the person have a sense of complete and total understanding without judgment of blame about the content of the conversation.
-Stephen McGhee

“Above all, the most important preparation is of yourself. Prepare so as to have the influence of the Holy Ghost”
-Boyd K. Paker

When we comprehend the character of God, we comprehend ourselves and know how to approach him.

One does not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.
-Ezra Taft Benson

My First object is to find out the character of the only wise and true God, and what kind of a being he is…
-Joseph Smith

When we understand the character of God, and know how to come to Him, He begins to unfold the heavens to us, and to tell us all about it. When we are ready to come to Him, He is ready to come to us.
-Joseph Smith

If you are not sure you want to pay the price of exaltation, you do not understand the magnitude of the reward.

Do justly

Walk humbly
Judge righteously
D&C 11:12

Our hardships help us to have more tender hearts.

Addiction…violated your values and ignored responsibilities to pursue an overpowering desire.

When you are in joy with life you cannot vibrate negatively and you cannot attract negatively, only positively.

I ought not to be discouraged but hang on, excercise faith, and keep up good courage and I should come out on the top of the heap at last.

You tell the story that I am this, or I am that, and you fall in love with your story. What do I have to do with it? I am here for your perception, as if I had a choice.

It's not your job to love me__ it's mine.

Mainly, just lighten up. Be natural. Get off your case for not being perfect. Pat yourself on the back for effort. Give yourself credit for wanting to take control of your life.

Favorite Books

These books are not only good in my opinion...but GREAT because they have blessed me to rise to a higher level of performance!

*Book of Mormon
I never stop reading this book, when I complete the last page I start over. I started color coding this book with a stop light color coding system and it speaks volumes to me even more so.
RED- Stop doing
YELLOW- Slow down and listen
GREEN- GO and DO
BLUE- BLESSINGS
~I have found that green is usually followed by blue~
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*Loving What Is
*I Need Your Love: Is that true?
-Byron Katie

Do you want to find complete peace in every circumstance you're in... you'll find it in any of Byron Katie’s books. In my opinion "Loving What Is" is a great start. She is one person I would love to meet, just to be in her presence and feel of her love.

*HANDS-OFF MANAGER
*The Story of You
-Steve Chandler

I love Steve's books because they have given me added courage to look within and rise to a level of "doing" and not just wishing. The Hands-Off Manager book I applied to Parenting and it changed everything as my role of Mother with my children, what a thrill it is to be a STAY AT HOME MOM with this new incite! I truly believe I have the BEST JOB AVAILABLE to women. I had the privilege of going out to lunch with Steve to express my gratitude for his work, it was amazing! Thanks Steve for continuing to share your knowledge with us through great books!