Ten misses and loves!

Joseph and I were running errands yesterday and we began talking about the things we missed from our life when we lived in Utah.  Here are our top then things we miss about Utah!

 1.  Being close to our families and children.
 2.  Being close to our friends.
 3.  Our chickens (homesteading in general).
 4.  Our fire pit in our back yard.
 5.  Cooking food in our fire pit in our back yard.
 6.  Cold and delicious tap water!  Texas tap water is not good. 
 7.  Tandoori Oven! (The best Indian restaurant is in Logan.)
 8.  Beautiful mountains and canyons.
 9.  Seeing big game wildlife (deer, moose, and wild turkeys).
10. Dairy/Farm country.

We also thought about what we love about our life in Texas; here are our top ten things we love about Texas!

 1.  Workings for ourselves!
 2.  Sky-scapes.  What Texas lacks in mountains, it makes up for with beautiful huge clouds!
 3.  Killer thunderstorms.
 4.  Rusty Taco!  Can't go wrong with two dollar fresh tacos.
 5.  Long growing seasons.
 6.  The cheese wall at Central Market! 
 7.  The wide variety of shopping available!
 8.  Squirrels and rabbits running around everywhere.
 9.  No cracking skin here!  Humidity can be a good thing.
10. How proud everyone is about being Christian.  Sorry Utah, you've got nothing on Texas in this regard.

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Selfie of the Week!

It's time to post those self portraits!

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Standing on the Edge

Have you ever felt anxious but you don't know where the feeling is coming from?  I'm not talking about worry or the negative kind of anxious; I'm talking about feeling excited, like you're standing on the edge of something great!  I'm feeling excited and anxious; I'm ready to jump in and begin!

   

Have you ever felt this way?

What happened after you stepped off the edge towards your excitement?

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High/Low

It's time for High/Low of the week!

Low:  Brakes!  We drove to Sunnyvale Saturday to visit a client and we noticed our car was making an interesting sound.  On the way home we took the car to a brake shop to have it checked out.  Turned out we needed four new rotors and brake pads!  I hate unexpected expenses!

High:  We received a lot of fun material for Eidolon House projects this week!  It's exciting to see concepts that we dream up come to life.

A is for Adams!

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Etsy Must Have!

I absolutely love beautiful pictures! 

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With fun photo apps for cell phones these days, there are a smathering of pictures on Facebook and Instagram these days.  But there is a difference between heavily filtered photos and good photography.  

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Elle Moss Photography from Ann Harbor Michigan on Etsy sells the most beautiful prints and home decor; her photography is amazing.  She's been featured in several magazines, books, and blogs.  Click HERE to check out her shop; she has amazing nature, sill life, and portrait prints to choose from! 

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Chapter Ten: Happiness is. . .

I was looking around my little house tonight and started listing in my head all the things about it that made me happy.  I was sitting in my rocking chair near my husband as he worked, I looked down and around me were all three of my pets, laying beside each other at my feet.  I couldn't help but smile, and I thought happiness is this. . . being happy with what I have right now at this very moment.

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Selfie of the Week!

It's selfie of the week time!

I'm not sure if this little activity is actually building confidence.  Today I was dreading it and thinking, it's not a good picture day.  I was going to wait until later in the week before taking another self portrait, but then I thought, that defeats my whole purpose of doing this.  We should love ourselves even when we're feeling a bit off, or have a bad attitude.  

Hello, my name is Jill.

I'd love to see your selfies!

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