Scrappin' Fool

I am totally smitten with digital scrapbooking. It has been my goal to try and scrapbook at least
2008's pictures this year. I have done several layouts so far, at least October through December, So I am just displaying a few of what I have done so far.

Anyway this was our trip to Disney land this past fall. I thought the layouts turned out pretty good. Thanks to google image search I was provided the many great images. I see a couple of things I want to change already. Anyway, Enjoy!

Livin' it up and Loving it!

Corny title, I know. It just popped in my head so I though that I would use it. I was just thinking this week that kids are so great to observe. They truely just love life. They are happy, for the most part and enjoy all of the little things in life. For example: T and I went Walmart the other day to pick up a couple of things and there was this old rusted out truck in the parking lot and Tyler said, "Look at that Fancy car mom". I mean really who would call an old rusted out truck fancy. We also went down to the temple this week end and the kids were saying all the way down there. "Oh we just love the temple!" I am so glad they do love it because it is a wonderful place. Lastly, if I don't get upset about things -- they generally don't either. Also if I just spend a few minutes playing with them, they are the happiest kids ever.

As for our week it started out great! Justin had the day off on Monday and we got a call from some friends to go find the snow. We were all up for the adventure so we packed up and took off right away. It was great fun. We headed up to Walker's Pass and enjoyed a good couple of hours sledding down the hill. It was snowing the whole time. Meanwhile in town we were getting the rain that I had hoped for. All is great!

The rest of the week was same oh, same oh! I had time to do a little scrapbooking, and watch some shows with my hubby in the evening. We are kind of addicted to American Idol right now. We made some pretty good predictions with who gets to stay so far.

Any way Stake Conference was last night and it was so good. Great testimonies of conversion and coming back to the church. I mainly got out of the meeting that I really need to work on having more love and kindness in our home. We have a fair amount of it, but contention rises a little more often than I would like. Today we will see what we will learn from our General Authorities. I'm excited.

Better Late Than Not At All...

Happy Valentines to you all!

This is a day late but we were thinking about all of our friends and family and we do want you all to know how much we appreciate you. We have been trying to teach our kids that Valentine's should be a daily holiday because we should always express our love to those that we care about and love. Anyway, thank you all for all you do for us, especially for your kind comments and taking the time to see how we are doing in our lives.

Recent pictures...just because (Geo Cache)

25 + 1 Random Facts about me...

I assume that I was tagged with this on facebook, but I haven't quite got into the facebook thing yet. So here is me...
1. I was born outside the United States in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
2. I was naturalized into the United States at age 11 (that's when I got my social security card).
3. I have never been anywhere east of Colorado.
4. I can speak Japanese, but not as well as I could when I came home from mission.
5. I love to help out at the kids school and in the class room.
6. I collected Star Wars figures as a child and still have them.
7. I love to cook and bake.
8. I would love to go to a culinary arts school, but don't want to become a chef.
9. I love to read, but reading doesn't love me (I always fall asleep).
10. I absolutely love my calling as a nursery leader -- it is the best calling by far!
11. I miss having young kids, but love watching my kids grow.
12. I would love to fix every problem in the world, but know it is impossible.
13. I have a hard time watching the news, but would like to be more informed about what is going on in the world.
14. I have two great boys that keep me on my toes -- they have way more energy than I do.
15. My husband is a kind, thoughtful, and wonderful person!
16. I love to sing in the shower -- but don't very often anymore!
17. Country Music is my music of choice but I like to listen to a variety of genre, except Rap, and Hard Rock. I don't care for them at all.
18. I like to play games, but the rest of my family doesn't.
19. My full name is Sharline but as you know most people call me Shar.
20. I was a tom boy growing up. I didn't really care much for the girly stuff.
21. I broke my arm when I was 5 falling out of a peach tree.
22. I am not afraid of heights, which drives my husband crazy.
23. Family is the most important thing to me and I miss my family in Utah very much.
24. I put in my own sprinkling system, but had a lot of quirks to figure out from it in the years after I did it. I think it finally works good.
25. Some people call me Handy, but I just call my self self-reliant.
26. This is a bonus because I just thought of it. I love hiking, camping, and the outdoors.

Here are the pics!

Well here are the pictures of what we did to our kitchen. I spent the first part of the week touching up, sanding, and painting the ceiling. I also got a little ambitious and decided to stain the cabinets in our kitchen. They look so much better with a fresh coat on them. It really opened up the kitchen taking down the up high cabinets. The new cabinets are so nice. They fit a lot of stuff in them. I feel like a finally have a little more space for food storage, which is nice. You all will have to let me know what you think.

Same oh, same oh!

This past couple of weeks I have been struggling with what to post on my blog. Not too much is going on here at the Turner household but I will just hit on a few highlights:

1. We went to the temple last weekend and after ate at a French Restaurant and had Pumpkin Ravioli. We thought we would experiment. It was actually really good and better than both Justin and I thought it would be.

2. Justin went mountain biking with his brother in Gorman, CA.

3. I started doing some Genealogy work and am really liking it, but have no clue what I am doing yet. Guess I will learn as I go.

4. I have done an awesome job in exercising everyday but Sunday for the past month, applause...applause...

5. My mom had her 67th birthday so I called and wished her a happy one!

6. Mackay has been taking and Intervention class after school Tuesdays through Thursday but he calls it Interference. It probably is interfering with his life right now.

7. Mackay got a letter from his friends in Utah and said "Sweet" when he got it, he had only been asking if he got a letter every day for forever. (Thanks Kathryn!!!)

8. We bought some new kitchen cabinets with some Christmas money that we got and I did my first attempt at staining furniture. It wasn't too bad, but time consuming. We also took down the cabinets above our kitchen counter top. Boy did it open up the room!

9. Tyler has been making up his own crafts lately. I feel bad because I do put him off at times. He wants to do a craft every day, and some times I just don't feel like going through the trouble of making one.

10. Justin and the boys went out to check out some more geo cache sites while I stayed home and got some work around the home done.

Well that is our life for the last little while!