June 8, 2008 Sunday

Yesterday we went to Tacoma to Laura and Aric's house (Dan's sis and her husband) to replace the brakes on our car. Aric is an engineer and knows how to do that kind of stuff. Laura watched Lana for an hour and let me take a nap. glorious!
Dan and Aric wanted to watch a horse race that was on so I went to TJMax to get a father's day present for my Dad. I forgot how much I love that store! I could spend so much money there. I restrained myself. That is something I think I have gotten alot better at since I have gotten married. In order for me to buy something I have to really really want it or I don't buy it. It also takes me forever to decide and I usually decide I don't need it. Good for Dan. He has changed my ways
My weakness right now is things for our house. Now that I am home all the time I just want our house to look good. I wish I could have a shopping spree and just do a few things like....buy a small entertainment center to contain all of our movies and the stupid cords that come with having a sound system. I hate cords. I also really want to have our carpet cleaned. I have just recently become aware of how gross ANY carpet is....no matter how clean it "looks" Think about it!! We walk all over it everyday of our lives....eww
After we got back from Laura and Aric's I went running. That was workout # 7. I went 3 times last week and 4 times this week. I can see how if you are really in good shape you could actually enjoy running. I am definitely NOT there yet.
Sacrament meeting today was really good. The Elders in our ward spoke about member missionary work. I am not a very good example of that. I never say anything. It would probably help if I were more social. They said a quote from Gordon B Hinckley that I really liked. I can't find it to write down but it was something like....If you want to be happy forget yourself and go to work.
So, I have been thinking lately about things I can do to make our home a wonderful place for Lana to grow up in. I want it to be a place where she can learn the gospel, have fun and feel safe. I think that a really important part of what I can do (to work on for now) is to keep it clean and organized. I need to learn how to be more natually clean. Don't get me wrong....we aren't super messy. But I feel like everytime I turn around it needs to be cleaned again....and we don't even have kids that can make messes yet. I wan't to get everything organized so bad.
Anyway...this has gone on for way too long. now I am rambling.