Vera Wang move over!

I never know what we're going to get when Lucy gets dressed. I've taken the philosophy that she can dress herself (mainly cuz she wont have it any other way) if we dont have to be in public. Wait, I take that back...she did wear her tinkerbell dress to the grocery store today. Well anyway...she takes great pride in her outfits.
This particular one is her swim suit with a t-shirt, a pair of cotton tights with her flip flops. She was so excited about this one! She usually goes through about 5 of these types of outfits a day. SO much laundry, but I get a kick out of seeing what she comes up with.
When I was getting Lucy ready for bed, she was distraught because she said she had left some stuff at the park. It was already dark so I took Kai with me for protection...I looked around in the dark and could see scattered peices of clothing. I found EVERY peice of this outfit at the park except the swim suit. She was so relieved to get her clothes back. We had a nice little talk about not taking clothes off except at home...I cant tell you how many peices of her clothes I find in my car, the yard, the park. It is awesome....it is what makes Lucy. She dances to the beat of her own drum without a doubt. I LOVE Lucy!

Smile in your liver...

After a meeting at work today I decided to take a little drive up the canyon. I have recently fallen in love with the mountains. It all started when I started really noticing them on my way to work everyday. Everytime it would snow, I would look up from the office and see these amazing white giants with blue skies behind them. It was something that fasinated me.

On with my drive...It was about dusk so the mountains were big, beautiful, and glowing. I put on my tunes and started heading up the canyon. I had the uncontrollable urge to drive fast, sing at the top of my lungs with my sun roof down, and take in the awesome views of my new favorite thing to look at and be in the middle of.

I started on my jaunt but immediatly I got stuck behind an old fart in his Lexus with his 20 somthing year old "lady friend" on a leisurly joy ride. I got a little impatient...dont they know this toe-up from the flo-up mom driving my *mini-mini van needed to get my ride on? FINALLY i passed them and I was FREE.

I began zipping up the canyon and just loving the view. The snow up there was still so awesome. You would think that I would have enough of snow by now, but for some reason it really hit the spot today. I found a trail to a peak that I want to hike when it gets warmer. It is "storm mountain" and is right next to my favorite peak...Twin peak (not the one in a.f.).

I kept driving...not thinking about anything but just enjoying. I started to relax and tried to be present to experience every sense that was happening. The view, the air, my music. I felt like I could just keep driving forever and would be so content.

That is when I felt the most amazing thing I haven't felt in a long time...happiness! True and pure and clear happiness. It was unbelievable. I actually started laughing to myself, not because anything was funny but because it felt so amazing. It was in my liver all the way into my heart and then up to my mind.

There is a part in Eat Pray Love when this old cute medicine man tells Elizabeth, "To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clear away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver." He goes on to say that when you smile from your liver then you really believe your happiness because it is all the way through you. Anyone can put on a happy face, but to smile from your liver, that is when you know you're truely at peace and happy. I was totally smiling in my liver.

At the time all this happy happy joy love feeling was happening, the thing I kept thinking is "why are you so happy? Where did this come from?" I can take a few stabs in the dark on that one, which is for me to know and to hold on to. It was just simply amazing.

I think I'll be taking lunch breaks like that more often :)

*The reference about the mini-mini van needs to be clarified. I call it that, but it actually is NOT a mini van. Just wanted to make that clear :)

Banana Pancakes

I'm so in need of some "easy" days. They are just around the corner, I can feel it! I have been listening to my music today and Banana Pancakes by Jack Johnson came on. I have heard this song MILLIONS of times but today I just wanted to sit and relax and listen to this mello song about just chillin in bed, getting cozy on a rainy day.

What sounds better than waking up slow on a rainy day, staying in bed, ignoring the phone and the alarm, making banana pancakes and just chillin like its the weekend. OH gosh...I need to snap out of it and get into reality. But wow, for a minute I took a little trip into Jack Johnsons "no worries-ville". And it was a great little trip!

MY favorite things...

I am SUCH a "favorite things" person! When I saw Heidi's fav things, I had to do it! I love reading other peoples faves too.

Its always funny to look back at your old fave things lists to see how retarded you were in the past.

So here goes... My favorite things!

1. My Blue Bike...oh i love it so much! I dont know why really...its not like i ever ride it :) But I sure do love it!

2. Chile Verde Burrito at Guadalahonkys

3. COKE fountain drink, glass bottle or in the can...NOT in any kind of plastic bottle! Its like a fine wine when accompanied with the Chile Verde Burrito!

4. Dove body glow subtle self tanner lotion. UTAH WINTERS SUCK! The only way to keep some color!

5. Suave Cocoa and Shea Butter body wash...smells SO good. (You can get it as low as .97 at
walmart!!)

6. My intelligel bed...I have yet to find anything that would compare...UNBELIEVEABLE!

7. Black and white or sepia pics of my kids. One of my most favorite things to take and make and look at. A friend of mine from work actually asked me if I would come and take her kids pics rather than going to Kiddie Kandids when she saw the pics at my desk of my kids! I was honored! Hopefully I dont screw it up :)

8. Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. A great true story of how a sweet broken down girl was able to turn her hurt, shame, guilt and self loathing into peace, self love and ultimatly found the person under all of that mess that she was looking for. An older wiser and Oak Tree version of HER.

8. Movie Theatre popcorn WITH extra butter in the middle AND on top with a large Coke. OH MY GOSH...one of my guiltiest of pleasures.

9. My Sanuk shoes. So Cute yet so comfy. I saw these things at the outdoor retail show and just had to have them.

10. Latin Ballroom Dancing...watching and dancing. Oh i love it!!! If only Michael Walker would get his little tushy back into Utah so I could have a dance parter.

11. Peach Pleasure Jamba with Soy protien boost. Not to mention it has the least amount of calories because it is all fruit and SUPER delicious.

12. Ab ripper X from P90X. I swear it is the BEST ab work out I've ever done. I have been pretty religious...no six pack yet. Could it be the buttered popcorn? Anyway, highly recommended. I hate it, but I LOVE it!

(I just noticed that more than half of my list is food...oh gosh!)