When I was growing up I always hated daylight savings, I always wondered why we even had it.
That was until I had kids...

I appreciate it now, after living in Montana and having children. It wasn't anything like I liked how I could make them go to bed early because the clock changed, it has to do with the busses.

It is now mid october and we live in the mountains where there aren't any street lights. It is very very dark in the morning. All three of my children go to school now and ride the bus, our bus stop is at the end of our driveway. Yesterday the school bus drove right passed our house and down the roads to the next stop, which is only about a quarter of a block away. The bad part is my children had to run to catch the bus that missed them, because it was dark.

What if something happened? They could have missed it again and not made it in time for the bus doors closing and gotten caught in the bus tires. I know it's morbid and unlikely but still, things happen.

Because of what happened yesterday I am looking forward to daylight savings time this year, it will be ALOT lighter in the morning, the school bus will be able to see my children and they won't get run over by the bus, lol.

Here is another review from bzzagent.com.

This time I was privileged to try Smart Food's new popcorn and popped chips.

My family and I tried the brown sugar and cinnamon popcorn....we LOVE IT!
I'm telling you, this stuff is amazing. The entire bag was gone in no time. We have always put brown sugar and cinnamon on toast, so we were excited to try this popcorn. It wasn't too sweet with brown sugar and it had just the right amount of cinnamon. We give this one two thumbs up.

The other SmartFood products we tried was the Italian Herb popped chips and the Garlic Tomato Basil. As a family we have mixed reviews about these two. The Garlic Tomato basil was a little overpowering for us and my children didn't like it. I personally did like it, but I wouldn't always choose this one.
The Italian herb was great, loved the flavor and loved the portion size.

I love being a bzzagent!

I am apart of a company that sends me free products to try and write reviews about them. This particular campaign was for the new Glade Expressions products. Here's my review....

They're awesome. So I got the first diffuser for free and I wasn't too sure about the fragrance I chose because it wasn't something I would normally like,. I chose pineapple and mangosteen. I actually really like it and suggest people try it. I have since bought another diffuser for my bedroom on the same scent because I loved it so much.

I give this product two thumbs up.

*the company is called bzzagent

I love Montana fall mornings. It's just cold enough to wear sweats, but nice to to open to the door (after you've been running around all morning making lunches, trying to get the kids dressed for school and out the door) and let the crisp fresh fall air into the house.

We live on top of mountain at about 4000 feet elevation, so the mornings up here are amazing. Watching the sun rise over the distant mountain, you wonder how anyone could not fall in love with such a beautiful place. Gods creation is magnificent.
I feel do much better this morning than yesterday, nothing beats Gods grace.

Hope everyone has a great morning and a wonderful day where people go out of their way to bless you.

Sometimes you wished you had never gotten out of bed. For me, today was one of those days. Seems like I will never live my past down. Seems like I forever will be the person think I am/was. It sucks that I have let people who don't really know me and their opinion of me get to me and under my skin. It seemed like the world was against me today and I almost broke. Well I did let a few tears fall but tomorrow is another day and His grace comes with the morning. Praise God and his faithfulness.

Once I got my head straight and got some homework done, this seemed to ease up a bit. I feel a little more accomplished, feels like I have direction. Boy am I looking forward to the morning, a new dawn a new day... Isn't that how the song goes?

So here I am ending the day with grocery shopping and watching my oldest boy play football.
Thank you Lord for my children, for they keep me young and drive me crazy but I wouldn't trade them for anything. Thank You for all the blessings in my life, even when I don't seem to be thankful. I am.

I always have a great time with my bestie. She really has such a great heart. Tonight she came over and we created a poster and postcards for a benefit that she is putting on. One of her coworkers husband was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer, without having any symptoms. He only found out about the cancer because he had to have a physical for his insurance. Even now after months of treatment he doesn't have symptoms, incredible. So my best friend being the awesome person she is, is putting on a silent auction and brunch benefit for the couple. He in fact lost his job because the company he worked for had to file bankruptcy. Tragic.

Anyway, we had such a great time creating a beautiful work of art if you ask me. She helped me make dinner for our families. I just love her.

So I finally got my computer up and running and my blog background up, which I have been trying to do for a couple of months. 

But I am so excited to finally be doing this, I've got so much to talk about.  My farm is coming along, my chicken are finally laying eggs, yum!

I will be posting pictures of my beautiful chickens.  I love chicken, by the way. Love love love them.  I could watch them for hours, especially when they run, funniest thing God ever created. 

I'll be back with more posts, pictures and updates.