Father's Day

This is my dad! He is riding a tractor with my nephew. Well I know its a day late but I really wanted to do this post about this amazing man. He is a man who has taught me so much; hard work, service, to be kind, he also taught me how to swear. Just kidding my mom taught me that. hehehe!! I'm proud to be his daughter and I won't change it for the world.


Driving: I do remember riding with him. Yes going for a drive he hardly ever made me get out to get the gate or to help even if I wanted too.  I drove with him in the truck to check cows (he would always point out the babies to me), We drove to the quarry to get rocks for a rode, we drove to the college so he could check his emails. It was always fun because I got to spend time with my dad.

Naps: Naps where also awesome. Dad would come in from the farm and put on a horse training video and fall asleep. I was so little like 3-5 yrs old and I would crawl up on the couch next to him and have a nap. I'm sure it wasn't comfortable but it was the best thing in the world spending time with dad.

I love my dad and how all he wants is for all of his kids to be happy and together. He's always there to share words of knowledge and wisdom. I'm very grateful to call him Father. Happy Father's Day!!

~ Victoria

CHEAT DAY!!!!

Okay so every Wednesday and Sunday are cheat days!!!! Yes I pig out a little too much. Seriously after 2 bags of chips and some chocolate (trust me there was much more) I knew I was well over my limit!!!! I will say I mowed the rest of the yard. I wanted to burn some leaves but it was just too wet. Also while raking the leaves I found 3 baby snakes! EWWW! One for sure was a baby cooperhead, one was just a regular black snake and not sure what the other one was maybe a rat snake but I killed two of them and let one live so he can warn the other snakes! LOL Jokes. Well it was a fun but a crazy day.
Love
~Victoria

A Good Day

Okay after a good day at work. It really was a great day. Really very little drama and we got so much stuff done at work. Then I came home and mowed the front yard. This isn't easy because its all up hill and I own a push mower. I still like doing it because I normal lose like 2 lbs when I add this exercise to my route. Well that was all done it was time for dinner. Tonight was a diet Coke and Hardee's Chicken tenders. Seriously they are the freshest and the best. LOVE THEM!!!!!! Truly it was so good. Now it's time for a little FHE and then get ready for bed. It's been a really good day and I think the difference is that it started with a prayer. Praying sets the day off to a good start and allows you to listen to the spirit. Now this day wasn't a day without any problems but it was one of the best day I've had in weeks. I hope all is well and you are having a wonderful day.

~ Victoria

Get Lesdy!

Okay what does it mean to get Lesdy?? Well it means to get lesson ready! This last week after and inspiring 5th Sunday message from your bishop about early to bed and early to rise and about scripture study. I decided i needed to be more Lesdy. This is totally my word not from the bishop. This last week I've been reading all the lessons for the classes on Sunday I can say that it has made a difference in my thoughts and questions that I would want to ask during class! So are you Lesdy????

Celebrate

I love to Celebrate! Now I know I'm not the most fun person. I tend to be very serious and take things to heart. Whoever I love creating fun. Holidays where always special to me growing up special breakfast, giving gifts getting to do things out of the ordinary was always fun for me. Last year I didn't celebrate much because I was working and really didn't feel like it. This year I'm going to try to do something during each Holiday!! This year I asked off for the Fourth of July! I know we are going to end up at endless BBQ's and that we WILL be shooting off fireworks. We lived in Australia you have to be a certified technician to shoot them off. Today I made some cute little bows to wear some are for family members and one is for me. I really do enjoy being creative and although there is a lot that I still need to learn I can only get better at it.

~Victoria

Healthy for What?

Hello everyone,

As I sit here at almost midnight my mind is spinning with a lot of thoughts. What is on my mind??? Well my current diet and life choices. Are they really what's best for me? Are they making me happy? Is this going to get me to where I want to be? Currently I'm trying to do a low carb. I only eat 20 - 25 carbs a day. So far working because I really don't workout much but I have been losing on average about 1lb a day. Which is great I haven't be able to stick to a diet like I've stuck to this one in such a long time. My overall goal is to reduce my stress and gain better health in hopes to get pregnant. Doesn't my goal seem unrealistic???

 So far I've worked out that my job can be stressful, I'm a Customer Service Manager at my local Wal-Mart. I don't think my job is hard but it can mentally stressful. Again I love my job it can be very fun and very rewarding at time but it can be stressful. I would like to move up in the company maybe to Zone Manager or Support Manager of another area because I feel like it would be a better challenge plus the hours are set and right now mine are all over the place from closing and leaving at 10 pm and having to be there are 6:30 am (yes I've done it several times).

I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of things. Like first things with my husband because he's never lived in America so he's trying all these things and I'm not there.(Pulling his first calf comes to mind) Also that things aren't being done because I'm not here to make a decision or because assistants is needed and no one else is available. (Trying to get the office/closet done so we can fully move in.)This makes it harder to live in my house and harder for me to relax. Can you see snow ball just rolling down the hill as I talk about my problems escalating? Its getting bigger. LOL I'm not done yet.

Getting Pregnant is at the bottom of the hill. Now before we go on I would like for everyone to please stop telling me to relax and forget about it. I did that for several years after a 6 years of trying, okay minus the year apart, 5 years that you would go okay there has to be something wrong with me. Well I think I have hypothyroidism which means my thyroid is working too slow which is one reason why this low carb diet is working so well. Now I've had blood test and NOTHING has came back to tell me that I have this but after MUCH research and talking to other who have it I figured to try living according to this condition. What harm could it really do if I reduce my sugar intake??? Back to getting pregnant and why my work may be in vain but I guess I will never know if I don't try. I grew up and made a plan to be a mom. I didn't worry about a career or what I wanted to do with my life because that's all I wanted to be was a mom. Now I have accepted the fact that children are an eternal blessing from Heavenly Father and that if I don't get to be a mom in this life that I will get to be one in the next but it still hurts and it still is a struggle. I've gotten better than I have in the past I go to church on Mothers day and when they have classes on Motherhood. (Those are so hard) I still have issues going to baby showers but I'm working though that.

Relining my goals. This is the point that I wanted to get to. After all that I realize that YES!!!!! My goals are unrealistic because my ultimate goal is something that I can't control. My newest goal which I am going to place everywhere in my house is to gain health for a longer, happier life with my husband. After all he's cute and the one I count on the most.

 ~ Victoria xx

He's Here

After suffering for 15 long months My Husband finally arrived. He has been here for 2 months now and we have been enjoying our time together. While some fun in planned in the future right now we are more focused on him getting a job and getting more of the house that we purchased finished. We had a VERY bad root problem last week but I will save that for a different post. We hope all is well in your homes and that you are enjoying time with the ones you love it truly is such a precious thing to have time with each other.