There Is Beauty All Around

This has been a great week!

It started out with a beautiful day last Saturday. The weather was perfect! We decided to do yard work that day because well.. you never know how long the beautiful weather will last here ;)

We were in the beautiful sun all day, and I was taking that opportunity to get some color into my skin cause well I'm really white. Later that day at about 3pm, I noticed, or at least thought I noticed that my leg had some pink on it. But then I moved it and realized, or at least thought I realized, that it actually wasn't pink so I can stay out in the Sun cause it's all fine. But then as we got ready to go to dinner and a movie that night... I realized that the left side of my body was redly sunburned and the right side... wasn't.

So that's what happens when you get really really really excited that you finally have real sunshine and then you abuse it. ;)

I like Care Bears and I am not Ashamed.

Then Sunday was just a good day like Sundays always are. Little baby Ellie seems to really love to kick during church; so hopefully she's getting just as much out of it as I am ;)

Speaking of Ellie; This is our week number 25, and I am more than halfway through my pregnancy! This is the week that sounds are really starting to make an impression on the baby brain. I just think that's so cool. I think babies are really cool. And cute. Especially when they're fat.

Yesterday, James, two of my sisters Rachel, and Emma, and I all went to the Temple for baptisms. We did 25 family names. It made me so incredibly happy to see that the Family History work I'm doing/ I've done, is getting to that point and that it's paying off in some ways. :D

And then we got ice cream cause well...

What's a sunny day without ice cream...

This isn't what we had, but it's beautiful enough
to want to have it today instead...

Ooh! I also started online school this week! I'm going to Penn Foster Online for Medical Billing and Coding! It has been really cool so far, and I am quite enjoying it. I have made like a bazillion note cards to study and there are so many more where those came from ;) It's actually quite exciting.

Aaaand... life has been really good and sunny and beautiful.

- Magic Bean Family

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.Jack LondonEach morning when I open my eyes I say to myself; I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.Groucho Marx