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Not everything holiday is a celebration.  Sometimes holidays can be tinged with sadness or anxiety.  Grief often resurfaces when loved ones are missing from our yearly traditions.  Perhaps we are far away from family and spending our holidays longing for the familiar.  All sorts of emotions can run high during holidays.  What we focus on … Continue reading Thanks Living →

De-stressing Your Life Will Change Your Life To understand the effects of stress, you need to understand how the body responds to stress.  Stress triggers functions in the body that are meant to help us protect and survive.  That is good, right?  When we trigger the “fight or flight” mode, it keeps us on guard … Continue reading Stop the Stress →

Fast and Easy Ways to Feel Better and Live Better Research shows that the trick to sticking to a nutrition and fitness plan—and seeing results— is finding the one small change that works for you.  Let’s look at some small tweaks that give big results. Salads before meals are a great way to increase the … Continue reading Up-level Your Health →

Water is essential to life. If we turn on our tap and no water comes out, I can assure you that at our house, we go into emergency mode.  Not long after we purchased our house nine years ago, our water did stop running.  We had to call a company that specializes in wells to … Continue reading The Deep Wells →

Family is like music, some high notes, some low notes, but always a beautiful song. We all have this perception that everyone (but us) has a perfect life.  We think everyone's marriage, finances, children, homes are problem free.  Here's the secret - it's never perfect for anyone.  On this facebook live I talk about marriage, … Continue reading Cultivating Family Life →

Y'all.  I found awesome summer lighting 50% off (thanks Big Lots)!  So, Brian made my back porch dreams come true!  It was a little more complicated than I hoped BUT he powered through the geometry (who knew you actually do need that stuff) and I love the final results.  Check it out!

We've been talking about cultivating an abundant life at our facebook page.  As we talk, I hope you've seen in your own live the calling to everyday life - a life of serving the people in your life and offering your gifts to the people closest to you.  Calling is not a thing or a … Continue reading Cultivating Opportunity →

Our trip to Utah was JUST AMAZING.  We hiked the canyons.  We saw the national parks.  We hiked the desert.  We glamped.  We attended a work retreat.  We hiked at Sundance.  I mean, it was pretty much epic. Seeing a moose or Robert Redford was the only thing that could have made this trip even … Continue reading Glamping in Moab, Hiking in Sundance →

What we cultivate in our hearts today, prepares our souls to grow in faith.  Faith is not legalism.  You can't earn it.  You can't "look" the part.  Faith is not misery.  Faith is knowing that you can't measure up and that you need the Savior. Let's dive deeper into what faith is and how to … Continue reading Cultivating Faith →

Zion National Park is unbelievably beautiful.  It's located near Springdale, Utah.  It's within driving distance of Las Vegas.  These pictures were taken on the Canyon Overlook Hike.  It's just a short hike but with huge breathtaking rewards!  It's a favorite hike for photographers and tourists.  The trail passes through shaded niches with ferns and trees, … Continue reading Zion National Park →