My Rant on "Body Type"

I need to rant for a minute. I'm so frustrated with the world and in particular guys views of women's weight. I've watched the past few weeks the ABC show called dating in the dark (yes I know its not high quality TV) and I seriously want to beat the guys who after they see a girl who is maybe a size 6 or 8 say "well she's pretty but she doesn't have the body type I like." Seriously? Seriously! That is small!! I wish I was back in those sizes but guess what even when I'm not I'm still a beautiful women and so is everyone else. Not everyone can be a size 0 or 2. Being tiny doesn't make you beautiful. If you aren't it doesn't even mean that you don't exercise and take care of your body. I know this is just a show but this idea is everywhere! I don't want my girls to ingest this thought I don't want to let these thoughts in either. Please world stop feeding this idea to us, our girls and the men and boys out there!!!

Summer Rain

When we first moved to Las Vegas 5 years ago the summer rain was a new experience for us. The way rain just literally dumps for a few minutes, everything floods and then its gone. Tuesday we had a great storm, the first one like it, this summer.

It was blowing so hard away from our house that we could stand on the back porch and not get wet. Alexis LOVED the rain! Ariana was completely freaked out by it.

The view from the front of our house looking at the road.

Happy, Fun, Wet Day : )

The Fuzzy Truth

Sunday I looked down during church and realised that in my rush to get ready I had only shaved half of my left leg. Opps! I spent the rest of church trying to sit on my leg to hide the fuzzies : )

GREEN!

I am so happy! I have grass in my backyard. Justin promised that I could get grass this year and has worked really hard to make this happen for me. He dug the sprinkler system (I tired to help one afternoon and let me say OWW! My hands hurt for a week!) He also laid the grass barrier, leveled the ground, raked the rocks out which I've decided our back yard is a gravel pit, helped shovel the fill dirt in etc. I love how it turned out. Isn't it a beautiful thing to see green in the desert?

I need to also add how grateful I am to Brandon Bair for helping so much with our yard. He has done an amazing job with our new stamped concrete, retaining wall, helping shovel in dirt and to top it off the sod company told us they'd drop the sod off today anytime between 5-10am. I have no idea when the sod actually arrived. I slept right through it. Brandon showed up at 5:45am and just started laying it himself. Justin and I finally woke up around 6:30 and he had already laid about half of it himself. Sneaky guy ; )

After it was all in Justin and I sat out on the patio and just looked at it. AWWW..... green, you are a lovely color.

The windows go up AND down!!

My sweet husband decided to try and play mechanic and fix my van's windows that have been stuck down since December and guess what: HE DID IT! I'm a little shocked that it went as easily as it did. (at least from my perspective) Thank you soooo much honey! I love having my windows go up AND down. : )

Spring Piano Recital

Thursday I had my piano students preform a spring recital. Both Ariana and Alexis decided that they wanted to learn songs to play for the recital. Ariana's song doesn't really sound like anything its just an exercise at the front of the piano book to help new students get use to the black keys but it was cute to see her excited to play. Alexis Actually did really well. The video, if it ever loads, is of her playing her favorite song from the recital, Merrily We Roll Along.

Preschoolers Honesty

Teaching preschoolers I've heard lots of funny things but I've also learned that they are amazingly honest in their observations. That being said I'm not feeling so great today when a five year old started laughing and saying that I have a mustache!