A Kindred Spirit!

Since Sheldon and I have been married I have wanted and longed for a close girlfriend. Sheldon has had his friends through video games, frisbee, and school and I had lost contact with a lot of my friends from school. Simply because the lot of them live in Utah County and rarely make the trip out to Salt Lake and vice versa. Since I had stopped going to school I had been left with a void not only from the joy of dancing everyday but also the people I associated with. I missed them and miss them very much still. Even though I keep in touch from time to time with some of them I was still in need of a close friend. I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who knows our needs and fulfills them when we need it the most. For the very first part of our marriage I had become very depressed because I felt sorry for myself and was very selfish for a long time. I feel bad now when I look back at what I had put Sheldon through. I am so blessed that I married a man who loves me unconditionally. I grew tiresome of throwing pity parties for myself and evaluated myself and my attitude towards life. I felt inside of me my spirit change and I felt internally happy and enthusiastic about life again. Danny and Elizabeth Drysdale are our neighbors who live in Heavenly Blue. They were married in October of last year and only four days after they were married they got in a car accident, leaving Elizabeth in the hospital. She had several injuries but one of the worst was a broken pelvis. She was on bed rest and home bound for several months while she went to physical therapy to learn to walk again. Her healing process took time and we did not see them for several months even though they were in the ward. I did not know them at all and I wanted to so I signed up to bring them dinner around February. When I took the food over to the house I immediately felt that we could become great friends with them. Time passed and Elizabeth was still recovering and we did not have any contact. I asked her in May if she would be willing to be one of my backstage helpers for our spring concert. She did so joyfully, I appreciated her willingness to help me out. After that we set up a double date with the four of us and that is what started it all. That night I discovered that Elizabeth and I have a lot in common and share a lot of the same interests. It had been such a long time since I had had that kind of a friendship with someone. I was so excited to have a new friend. When I found out that she loves Anne of Green Gables just as much as I do I dubbed us kindred spirits! For that is what we are. It has been a great blessing to me to get to know Elizabeth and I have enjoyed our friendship and look forward to watching it grow and flourish!

Baby, You're a Firework!

I love everything about the 4th of July! I love the BBQ's, Fireworks, Patriotic Songs, and Patriotic Fashions. One of Sheldon's family traditions was to attend the Eaglewood fireworks. Since last years 4th of July, Sheldon's family conditions have drastically changed. Sheldon, myself, Granny Great and Shellie are the only ones left here in Utah. All other family members have moved away. So that makes for eventful family parties the four of us! I felt sad as the 4th approached us and I realized we did not have family here to celebrate like we used too. The hardest part for me is I only experienced the Pearson ways for a very short time and it has left me missing family terribly! Sheldon's mom is the queen of parties but she had not thrown a party since St. Patrick's day. To us that is like an eternity! So I asked her if we could have a 4th of July BBQ, I told her I would be happy to help with the food and she said Absolutely!

We invited Danny and Elizabeth (our new found friends who live in heavenly blue) and my brother Zach and a his date Jessica to join us for the festivities and that increased our numbers. The Eaglewood fireworks are so much fun, Sheldon and I tease with one another because the quality of the Eaglewood fireworks to those of West Fest is too painful to bear! We get a good laugh out of that one. The fireworks are held on the Eaglewood golf course and after they are done we have to fight the crowd of people and walk back to the house. One of Sheldon's favorite things to do it to throw pop- its at patrons as they walk by. He is like a 6 ft tall 5 year old and it makes me laugh. Danny and Zach got in on it and they laughed and giggled all the way back to the house. Although, I think it is funny now I am completely terrified that one of these days he is going to throw them at the wrong person and then get the crap kicked out of him! Until then I will just pray that it doesn't happen!

It was a load of fun and it was great to be with everyone, it was a small taste from the past and that made me happy!

Happy 4th of July! I am grateful to live in this beautiful country. We are very blessed to enjoy the freedoms we do and it is something I take for granted way too often, the 4th of July is a good reminder to me that I am proud to be an American!

To Bake or Not to Bake that is the Question!

Anyone that knows me can say that I am very picky when it comes to desserts. My dessert of choice would definitely be my mother's homemade sugar cookies. No one has ever made a sugar cookie that has even compared with hers. Our ward was hosting a bake sale for the youth and I decided to sign up to make Mom's legendary sugar cookies. I got the recipe from my mom and got to work.

I do not have any space in my kitchen to roll dough so I had to use my glass kitchen table. It proved to be very difficult, the dough stuck like crazy to the table so I ended up using A LOT OF FLOUR.

A lot of flour= harder than desired cookies. They looked delicious but I was rather disappointed in the turn out of their taste. I am afraid that I will need many more years of practice to master the art of the sugar cookie. My mom is an amazing woman and example to me. I am grateful for her influence in my life especially her most delicious sugar cookies!