Trapeze Try-out

My tight-rope-walking circus rat is trying out to be a trapeze artist... much to my dismay

No rats were seriously injured in the making of this {accidental} video

Christmas is coming! Christmas is coming!

I'm usually the one to make sure I wait till after Thanksgiving to listen to Christmas music. Every Thanksgiving I would load my ipod (or bring cds back in the day) with Christmas music to Utah for Thanksgiving, so I was prepared for the ride home. 

But this year, I just can't do it. I want Christmas season to be here now!

A few weeks ago I was on pinterest and saw some Christmas wrapping paper with different Christmas carol lyrics on it. I think it was still the middle of October, but I was a dead man after that. There's no going back, I'm ready!

Then this morning I woke up to a few inches of snow outside my window.

Then I looked out to the parking lot to see a rascally squirrel shivering for warmth cuddled up to someone's car tire.   It reminded me of "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose;..." why I made that connection I will never know. But I collapsed under the pressure.

It's November 16 and I just started listening to Christmas music. And i'm totally okay with it.


What are your top 5 favorite Christmas songs?

It's the {Little Things}

Do you know what time it is?!?!?!?!!?>!?

9:10 11/12/13

Today is a good day. 

These are a few of my favorite things

In random order:

• 1.    The Arizona Diamondbacks
• 2.    The Gospel
• 3.    Memories
• 4.    Photos
• 5.    Recording memories: journaling, scrapbooks, pictures, videos, mementos, etc
• 6.    The Book of Mormon
• 7.    Psychology –
• 8.    ALL learning, education & knowledge
• 9.    Good books on rainy afternoons
• 10. My family
• 11. My extended family
• 12. Social media
• 13. Jewelry
• 14. Arizona rain storms
• 15. Clean sheets
• 16. Good friends
• 17. The smell and feel of the dishwasher right when it finishes running
• 18. The prophet
• 19. Sports rivalries
• 20. Technology
• 21. Laughing
• 22. Temples
• 23. Malcom Gladwell
• 24. Digital cameras
• 25. Rummikub
• 26. My testimony of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• 27. Stripes
• 28. Brain functioning
• 29. Arizona
• 30. The atonement
• 31. Pinterest
• 32.  Chocolate cinnamon bears
• 33. Family in general. Not just mine (see #10&11), but just the concept of family
• 34. Nature
• 35. Little kids