100 things about me

Okay, so I already did this, but the wind is so bad that it shut down the power, which shut down the computer. I am frustrated about it, but will do it again. I hope it is as insightful as the last one was. I had just finished adding pics to the entry....

Diana's friends have been doing this on their blogs and she thought that I should do one to, so here goes;
1. I love being part of my childhood family. They have helped to make me who I am..
2. I love being a mother to my children, Devin, Kyler and Mckenna. They have challenged my mind and my shortcomings.
3. I love that Matt can be so serious, but that he can play and have fun with the kids.
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I am not doing this again! The first and second list were awesome, but I know that I can not repeat it again, without losing the reason for doing it so, after having to do this 5 times, this is where I got, this is where it will stop. Sorry, but if the power keeps going off, I guess, I am not meant to do this. Or, I have not learned the art of patience, because I am done!!!

A View from Kennecot Copper

This is a view of the snow peaks while we were driving to Keith and Lynette's house. I thought that the transition from beautiful white on the peaks to the muck from the inversion was interesting.

New Years Eve Fun!

This past weekend we went to Salt Lake to visit Fred, Victor and Keith's family. We were going to visit Diana too, but ran out of time, we left very early New Years day.. so that Matt could recoup from driving before he went back to work early the next day. That was really a bummer!

We spent time with Grandpa Fred while Ice skating with all the K. Brower family and Victor, Mckenna always requests everytime we go to Salt Lake to Ice Skate but we never done it so we thought we would do it this time. We also went out to dinner with everyone and this nasty pizza place. Fred to me is not looking so healthy. Keith thinks that he might now make it another year. He is very jaundiced and it was really a shock the first time we saw him. I am amazed at all that he does for not feeling so well. It is sad to think that he is always in such pain, he is such a caring person.


Matt had such a hard time skating, I was actually surprised that he was going to skate in the first place, but he did learn to move pretty fast and that was great. The reason that he was having a hard time was that he is so bowlegged and skates don't give much ankle or leg support, it was really ruff on him. Poor Guy.

New Years eve was really fun.... Jeff, Debbie and their family came over to Keith's and stayed for 6 hours! That is a feat for Jeff, he really hates being around people for a long time or for a few minutes for that matter. Mckenna had a fun time with Jessica, the boys (alex, kyler and tyler,) had fun playing xbox together and Terra and Devin had fun talking about whatever teenagers talk about. Matt, Keith and Jeff talked about their childhood, that was very insightful.

We (should say the kids,Keith and Matt,) played a lot of games during the New Year weekend. They played xbox, risk (tons of Risk,) and more xbox. I got to read for awhile, I am still reading Anna Karinina, it is a good story.

We toasted the New Year in with sparkling apple cider in Arby's wine glass. But these glasses were not like the ones we had growing up, these were white pines, with snow scenes unlike the red berries and green holly of our childhood glasses. But it was fun to have the Arby glass tradition carried on.

THE YEAR OF YOU!

On Diana's blog is a link to a really sweet girl name Jill, who I feel is very good at making you think about things that you might not think of other wise, or your just too lazy to spend time on...
From a question that she posted on her blog, I decided to touch on a few of my thoughts that she has planted in my brain!

Jill commented on being afraid of Success as much as Failure. I totally understand this feeling, I watch how successful Matt is, I decided that I want to live up to the potential that he is exampling for me and I run with it for a few weeks, I start feeling really great about myself and then BAM, I stop because I don't want to make it to the next level. WHAT IS THAT ALL ABOUT?

Matt is so involved with having to live in the "pedestal group," you know, those people that you think are so much better than you? We tend to do that with people of title, example: President Hinckley (well, he is actually very approachable to me,) Governor Huntsman, President Bush, Michael Jordan, Oprah, people who you think have made it big. That sometimes I don't think that I am good enough to be around him when he is in that environment. I mean who am I to be talking to Governor Huntsman, Senator Hatch? I am just little nobody Sandi Brower.... But then I get this- WHAT THE HECK? from Matt.... - you are incredible with people. So, I think, no, you are Sandra Lynn Field Brower! I think that he says that because I am more social than he is. But really he is right, why am I so afraid of those people whom I think have made it- I mean what have they made it to?

A little touch on resolutions:
We don't do resolutions in our family. Our family does a goal making list 2 times a year, once at the beginning of the summer and then during the school year. We missed this school year and so we are doing this tonight. I have already written my list of "Sandi's New Lease On Life list!" about a week before the end of the year, because I got that feeling that I had "just endured" through the year.
How many of you do resolutions?

My friend Andrea gave the above quote (in picture,) to me as a Christmas present. I love this quote, so I actually picked it out and then she ordered it. I also got a few vinyl quotes for the boys rooms "Don't let the fear of Striking out, keep you from playing the game." It is a quote from the Cinderella Story starring Hillary Duff, but it is a great motivation quote that I wanted the boys to have it in their baseball inspired rooms.
I also got a vinyl made of Yoda's quote; "Do or Do not, there is no try." That one is for me, the eternally challenged non doer. The Yoda quote is going into the hallway near my room with pictures of the things that I actually have done, and loved in my life. I am still looking for the picture frame that is big enough for all those pictures- yeah whatever, maybe 2 pictures will work....

So with all the quotes above and the tile Andrea gave me this is what I am feeling right now;
I think that if we just go through life enduring, we miss out on our eternal potential and then we have gypped ourselves out of what we are put here on earth for! So I guess what we are taught in primary is true always, I am a Children of God, great blessing are in store, if i just learn to do His will... of living to our true potential, we will be even more blessed and happier!

I am going to figure out what my new challenge of the year will be, and then blog on it more later. And then I am going to make sure that this is my year! Can I do it, yes, I can (thanks, bob the builder :>)

May we all do something that makes life more challenging, then we will have grown at least a little in this New Year.

Let's make this THE YEAR OF YOU!