Goals Completed

Goals # 1 & 2

Pretty self explanatory and obvious

Goal # 8

Read scriptures regularly

Lorin and I read the Book of Mormon together each night.  I love the scriptures.

Goal # 34 & 59

Find a clothes shop that has clothes I like that fit me = The Connection

Shop for new clothes

You may think this is an easy task, but it's not in some cases-mine.  I had been shopping in Idaho Falls by myself numerous times and didn't find anything I wanted.  I think part of the problem was that I shopped for too many items at once-dress & casual shoes, purse, skirts, dresses, dress pants Shirts....  I was just overwhelmed.  I had to rethink how to approach this one.  One day while in Rexburg with Lorin I told him about a shop that I had seen by Porter Park.  He took me in there and I found clothing with his help.  It was so much fun.

Goal & 42, 43, 44, & 69

DISNEYLAND !!!!!!! 

(thank you Joyce's family & Tish's family)

It was such a awesome time-you might say "magical".

Goals-go to Disneyland, ride the roller coaster, eat at Club 33, & Go on a vacation with Lorin.

The first days temperature was in the 80's. Fantastic, so much fun!!!  Each day got a little chillier with the last day being in the 60's.  Cooler, but still a lot of fun.

Here we are, a once in a lifetime experience, at Club 33 (Thanks Aaron for setting this up for us).  For a couple of hours we lived like the rich and famous.  Fun time!!

"SCREAMIN CALIFORNIA"

I love, love, love this ride. Who would know I enjoy speed that much?  I have to say there wasn't a ride I went on that I didn't enjoy though.  Ok, there is one that I didn't go on.  I don't like heights so much so the giant ferris wheel thing was out. 

Meganne and Nikole, with the help of thier family created a scavenger hunt for all of us to play during the 3 days we were there.  I loved it, but I kept getting distracted by what we were doing and forgot to look for/take pictures of the things on the list. I have to admit Lorin and I had to have help to know where to find some of the items. We spent 3 fast and furious days trying to get in as much fun as we could, and it was super fun.  Thanks everyone.  It was so hard to say goodby and have everyone go home thier seperate ways.  I wish the whole family could have been there together.

Last night before we went home.  Sad, but such good memories. 

Goal 46

Change Facebook picture

Before picture:

Picture now: (Such a beautiful beach) 

Goal # 16

Try 2 new receips a month for 6 months-not done yet, but here is a couple we tried.

Recipes for the month of February.

Hershey Kisses drop cookies

Lorin (the cook) getting the cookies on the rack.  I am not sure at all that we did this one correctly.  For one thing they stuck to the pan really bad. 

For the second reason-THEY TASTE HORRIBLE!!!  We agreed to throw this recipe in the garbage along with most of the cookies.  For some reason we kept eating them thinking that perhaps they would start tasting better, but NO!

Mini Cherry Pies.

OK.  This is how they look on the recipe card.  Very beautiful and appetizing aren't they?  Mmmmm 

This is how ours looked out of the oven.  There is a knack to shaping them correctly and we don't have it.  We had to make 2 bactches of the dough, because someone (me) made too much of the filling.  After rolling the dough the first time and not doing so well,...... 

This is how our 2nd batch ended up.  This recipe was really pretty good (especially with ice-cream), but not good enough to keep.

Goal # 63

Take my parents out to lunch

Having taken my mother to the doctor in Idaho Falls on the 2nd of March, Lorin and I asked if we could take them out to dinner.  Of course they didn't like that idea at all and asked if they could take us to dinner.  We made a compromise and took gas money and they let us buy dinner.  Yes!! Another goal done.  Of course that wasn't my main reason for taking them. 

We decided on IHOP

I called Allen on the phone and although he didn't have time to eat, he sat and visited for a while.  Thank you Allen. It meant so much to Grandma and Grandpa, and of course I always love seeing you.

Trying to decide what to eat.  It isn't always easy.

We got the order in to the waitress and had a fun time while we waited for the food. 

My wonderful parents enjoying the food.  Thank you Mom and Dad for the luncheon date.  Lorin and I had a wonderful time.  

Goal # 54, 55, & 85

Learn a new craft, make something with what I learned, make a present for someone.

I decided to learn how to do scrapbooking on the internet.  I looked around and found a program that was relatively easy and looked like they had a lot of options.  It was frustrating at first, because it took a while to get used to how it works.  It turns out it is a lot of fun.  I enjoy it a lot.

This is the first book I put together and sent for.  I was pleased with the results. 

When I and my siblings were trying to figure out what to get our parents for thier 70th wedding anniversary, Jeanette suggested a scrapbook put together on the computer.  Well, I thought, this will be no problem for me because I already did it once.  OMG!!!

There was a lot of work that went into this project, mostly getting the famly to get me thier pictures and other information so I could compile it. It did go together and turned out pretty good for an amature. It is something I will do again for sure, probably not for a present, but for fun.  Mom and Dad like the way it turned out and look at it very often, so it was well worth the effort.

Goal # 95

Go to Bar J Ranch with Lorin

So much fun!!!!  I love Bar J Ranch

Goal # 25 & 91

Find parents for cards that Dad gave me to do the temple work for. 

Finish scanning Moms family history.

I borrowed moms family history book and scanned all the information into the computer so I would have it.  It took a while, because I read some of the histories as I went.  It was a lot of fun to learn about my grandparents and the way life was back then.  Both of my grandpa's were dead when I was born, so I didn't get to know either of them.  She had Grandpa Jensen's life history and Grandma Jensen's also. 

About 8 or so months ago Dad gave me some temple cards that had the work done for them, but he wasn't sure if they belonged in our family.  I did research for them through all the names in our family and thier families in the right time frame, and couldn't connect them in any way.  I found thier parents. They were sealed to them and all the temple work had been done. 

More to come....