“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most space in your heart.” That quote from Winnie the Pooh is so true. In life it is those little things that are so meaningful to us and become our favorite memories. Growing up I remember our family dinners most. Every night we would all surround our huge […]
Happy New Year everyone! The start of a brand new year – it is so exciting! 2015!!! Don’t get me wrong, 2014 was a major year for my family that was full of big time milestones. We finished building our new house and our new houseboat, we moved into our new home, my daughter Ashley […]
Tonight I am taking my daughter and her friends to a One Direction concert (Don’t judge me 🙂 ). A year ago when their concert tour was announced, she literally begged me to take her and her friends to the concert. She made the typical promises of “it’s the last gift you ever have to […]
“Happiness is a choice”. That is the saying that my daughter has on a sign on the dashboard of her car that she looks at every time she gets in her car to go anywhere. When I asked her the other day if she had a favorite saying that was her motto of sorts in […]
Many of us grew up with a security blanket. It typically started as an actual blanket for most of us when we were small children, one we couldn’t go to bed without. Then as we grow older our parents and our home become our security blanket, the place we felt safe and secure. And then […]
“Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.” -Elizabeth Green How true that quote is! Today was another rough day for me…sick again…arghhhh….not fun. I woke up thinking if I jumped in the shower that it would somehow magically make me feel all better today…nice try, […]
I want to start this week by paying a special tribute to all of the great dad’s out there. Like the title said, any man can be a father, but it truly does take a special person to be a dad. I have learned that lesson firsthand in my own life with my children – […]
This week is going to be one of the biggest weeks of my life. And it will no doubt be a bittersweet week for our family. First, my 18 year old daughter Ashley is graduating from High School. Oh my goodness I am not ready to let that little girl go! My baby….my youngest….my mini […]
Do you ever look in the mirror and feel shocked to see a grown up staring back at you? Do you ever look in the mirror and realize that you can no longer pretend that you are still young, cool, and hip, and you are forced to face the fact that instead of being hip, […]
We did it! We actually spent our very first night in our new house. We are still surrounded by boxes and papers to unpack and put away, and there is still a punch list of “to be finished or fixed items”, but we have officially begun living in our new house. So I have to […]
I have thought a lot about changes lately as I just spent the last several days with my daughter and her high school friends on a trip to Las Vegas for her Senior Spring Break trip I had promised to take her on. The timing of the trip couldn’t have been worse as we are […]
Today I went to Utah State University in Logan, Utah to speak to the students at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. The students were lively and engaged and incredibly sweet. I love spending time with them because their energy and optimism is truly contagious. And I have to give huge props to USU […]
When we think of doing an act of service for someone we often think of it as having to be some major time consuming event that even the thought of doing stresses us out because we already feel that we have so much to handle on our plates that we can’t take on even one […]
Today was focused on two topics – breaking stereotypes of women in media and reducing our sugar intake to fight obesity. First was a luncheon with actress Geena Davis. Geena is an incredibly tall, beautiful woman, who is clearly incredibly intelligent. She founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, a charity that is […]
I came across an article written by a woman named Patricia Davis in which she had put together a list of advice of all the things she wanted to pass on to younger women. I think her advice is amazing and we should share her advice with every young woman we know, whether its a daughter, a sister, […]
Today I am in San Francisco for the TED Women 2013 Conference. I am here because several months ago I was blessed to meet Pat Mitchell at the home of a friend for dinner where we spent the evening getting to know one another. Pat is the CEO of The Paley Center for Media. She […]
Today was an exciting, whirlwind of a day. First I attended my board meeting for the Governor’s Economic Development Board that I serve on for the State of Utah, and then I ran over to attend the Women’s Tech Awards where I was humbled to receive their Impact Award at a large luncheon. Next I […]
No matter what ups and downs we have experienced in our lives, there have always been a million blessings. Sometimes we forget to acknowledge or even recognize those blessings because there are so many other things to easily get distracted by. And when you have always had certain blessings in your life, it’s easy to take […]
As I sit here at the hospital tonight, following my daughters second ACL surgery that took place earlier today, I am trying to reflect on what lessons I have learned in my life today so I can share those thoughts with all of you. It’s funny how just sitting around in a hospital waiting room […]
There is huge power in the examples set by the people we surround ourselves with. Tonight I want to share a story of one of the great examples in my life. My daughter Ashley is 17 years old. For those of you who have followed my blog for a time, you are aware that last […]
Today felt more like a hydrant day then a dog day! Building our dream home is quickly starting to feel like more of a nightmare lately. I won’t bore everyone with the details of all the problems that have happened over this last week other than to say that there comes a point that all […]
I came across this reminder of just how blessed each of us are and I was grateful to have this reminder. Life is amazing and beautiful and I feel incredibly blessed for all the good in my life. I have to give a special shout out to my amazing daughter Ashley today as it is […]
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