Paint

I love to paint.

It makes me feel a way I almost can't explain.

I go to a different place when I paint. A place where a see and feel color. Texture and movement. And everything has a feeling.

Through the brush, my pallet knife and my hands the things I feel come pouring out onto canvas and I'm creating an image of all that is inside of me. Of all that I feel.

Painting fills me with emotion, expression and experience. The experience of so many feelings through the process.

Joy

Fulfillment

Frustration

Discouragement

Contentment

Peace

Inspiration

Satisfaction

Disappointment

Euphoria

I guess the process of painting is a lot like life its self. It makes me feel even more alive.

I love to see the temple...

We haven't taken Mercedes to see the temple for a long time and lately every time I would sing"I love to see the temple" to her before bed, she would insist we go!

Taylor came up with the idea to base family night around it and so we went for an early familynight this evening to see the temple.

I was moved when taking this photo as I couldn't help thinking that someday these two will bedoing this on the way to her wedding.

Mercedes was loving it all, to say the least.

Here Mercedes had just received her first buoyancy lesson by accident when she dropped herrock into the fountain and was distraught when it sunk to the bottom, unlike her flower. Luckilydaddy fished it back out for her.

Here were a few treasures Mercedes picked up along the way.

Taylor's mom gave us an old Temple calendar that we used for our simple temple lesson for Mercedes.

The temple seems that much more significant when you bring your own child there. I love teh temple.

(Some pretty wildlife right off the temple grounds)

We went to the Library

I just had to announce that Mercedes and I checked out her first library books today! We live about 1 mile from the library and it's the perfect walk for a little exercise and some time out. Mercedes grabbed three of the first books she saw when I told her to go pick out three from the shelf. They were all Amelia Bedelia books, I've never read them actually but I've heard of them. I'm planning on sewing a cute "library book bag" and making "Library Day" a weekly thing. It's an awesome library with toys, a playground, the works. They have play groups every Thursday and I need to take advantage!

I didn't have any new photos so I threw on this one. Mercedes and I enjoying our traditional See's candy treat at the mall.

Anyway, hope you all have a good day!