A LITTLE HELP!!!!!

Okay for anybody out there who does read my blogs, I need some help. It is Mark's birthday this month and I want to do something special for him to let him now how much I love him. However we are going to Florida in less than 3 months and don't have a ton of extra money to throw around as we still have lots to save.
Anybody have any good ideas for a fun date, or gift I could give Mark that lets him know how much I care for him but does not go over a budget of $30.
I would really appreciate the help.Oh and Mark never reads my blog so don't worry about him finding out.

this is a picture of the cutey you will help make happy. Know who wouldn't want to see that smile again, because he got the best birthday gift or surprise for really cheap.

TO BORING!!!!

Oh my goodness this week has been so boring. I have worked the past four shifts at work all by myself except for 3 hours. I feel bad for Maria my part time, because I don't think I shut up for the whole 3 hours I worked with her. As well work has been so slow, this has to be the slowest week we have ever had. My poor hubby also got an ear full the other night. He is so sweet though, I could tell he was exhausted and just wanted to fall asleep, but I could not help my talking.
Even with how boring my week has been, it is deffinately better than last week's craziness. Actually besides work being dreadfully boring things have been going really well this week.
I ran 4 miles last night and have never felt better. I still can't believe how different I feel with just one month of working out and eating healthy.
Benefits
I get so much more sleep at night, thus feeling less tired throughout the day.
I have lossed 10 pounds and can no longer fit into my fat pants.
I can run 4 miles and not feel tired and sore only have more energy and want to run another 4 tonight maybe even 5.
Feel better about myself and are making so many better decisions in my whole life. I find myself hardly ever wasting time. I spend no more than 20 minutes a day on the Internet checking e-mails and blogs. The rest of my time is spent working, studying, exercising, eating healthy, reading, pre-paring for talks and the Adult sunday school lesson ( so nervous doing it this sunday for the first time in my life) walking my dogs and spending quality time with my hubby.
Look at me I am so bored I have rambled on for two more paragraphs.
We'll I should go pay some invoices, probably should not even be bloging at work, but can't help it so BORED!!!!

FROM GOOD TO BAD!!!!

So the other week I had one of the best weeks of my life, as some of you might have read on my Blog. We'll this week proved to be not as successful.
So many things happened in my family that were scary, sad and stressful.

My Brother and Sister in Law 3 months ago had a beautiful little baby girl, she has been such a fun baby for them, last week though she was coming down with a flu and not feeling all that great, all of a sudden Kendra goes from bad to worse. She was getting so sick, she could hardly breath on her own. They had to call an Ambulance and rush her to emergency. She was on Oxygen for 4 days and they ran a ton of tests on her. She finally got better and is at home with her family. It was a very scary first day though when we heard the news. I have never prayed so hard for my little niece to be okay and to stay her on this earth with her beautiful family. My savior was deffinately listening to my prayers and the prayers of the rest of our family to protect her and watch over her.

So finally all of that craziness went away and then the next sad thing happens in our family.
My wonderful sister has wanted nothing more in her life than to have her own children. I think from the time she was probably 9 that is what she dreamed about being, an amazing mother to lots of her children. When she got married, her and her hubby started trying and it was not happening. They ran some tests and Dr's told them it would likely not happen. So they started Fostering children to adopt. Finally after some research they were able to fix there problem, only to have another problem preventing them from carrying babies. This week my sister was going in for a minor 1/2 hr surgery. At the end there was maybe some hope that if things went well they could possibly have there own children. But of course not ,Not only did they find out they can for sure never have there own, they also can not do a Seraget. I love my savior more than anything, but sometimes I don't understand why he is taking this dream away from my Sister. I know there is a reason for everything, but this one just baffles me.

Then I have another wonderful sister how had some horrable person, hurt her feelings, just saying awful things about her, and if you know my sister Terra, you would know that there is not an awful thought or feeling you can have towards her. I believe it is someone who is just jealous of this amazing, wonderful women.

Then I have a brother who was sued for a vehicle he sold to some crazy lady, this court case has been going on for about a year or maybe longer. This whole time they were told she won't win and don't stress about it, we'll what happens she wins and they have to pay her a lot of money.

At the end of this awful week I can do nothing but feel helpless and cry. I have been so blessed to have such an amazing family, we have been there for each other through thick and thin. All of us brothers and sisters have gone through some really hard times but we rallied together and helped each other. This week I felt completely helpless being as far away from my Family as I am. All of my Brothers and Sisters went through such a hard time this week, and here I am in Lloydminster, where things could not be better and life is going great, and they are all suffering and going through some of the hardest times in there life. I know prayer is the strongest tool I have to use right now, but I just feel that it is not enough and I need to do more to be there for them.

If any of my sibling read this Blog, please know I love you so much and have been fasting and praying for all of you. Know that this is only a trial you are going through to make you stronger, and closer to your Savior. Rely on his strength and pray to him for your own strength. This goes for anybody who is going through a hard trial right now. Like I said at the end of one of my blogs before with God all things are possible.

Love Kalinda

MY POUCHES!!!

So I love my two dogs more than anything. They make me so happy, and fill that void of not having children. They keep me happy, busy, active. I never thought an animal could make me feel so good. My favorite thing is in the morning when Mark leaves for work I usually have another whole hour of sleep, because there is more room in the bed you would think the pouches would sproull all out, but no not my Lily and Molly. Especially Lily she comes and snuggles right into my arms as close as she can get. Molly always snuggles into my side. It makes my hour of sleep less comfy, but at the same time makes it the hardest thing to get up in the morning and leave those adorable puppies.

My other favorite thing is we have this toy that is meant for a cat, it is a fish that is on a string and the string is hooked to a pole. Whenever we pull it out our dogs go nuts, they will chase that thing for hours if we would let them. They are so tired and panting like crazy but will not stop playing. Once we are done and put the toy away they try everything in there power to get it down and play with it some more.

I don't think I could ask for two more adorable friends, and am so glad I did not have the will power to say no to buying Lily when we bought her. Even though she way way to much money. She was so worth it.

ONE OF THE BEST WEEKS OF MY LIFE!!!!

So this week has been amazing. I thought it was going to be crazy and stressful, but it turns out it has been one of the best weeks of my life. I wrote my Mid-Term on Sunday, I felt I did decent, not amazing though. I got my mark back the other day and I got 80%. I was so thrilled as the class average was 68%. Then Monday I got my braces and everything went really well. My mouth is a little sore, but because I can hardly eat anything I have lost like 5 pounds in one week. I have also been so good at keeping up with my goals. I have been reading everyday. I finished the Pearl of Great Price the other day and am now in the 5th chapter of Genesis. I have run almost everynight these past two weeks. My body feels so amazing. I have so much more energy, strength, and I can fit into pants I have not fit into in like 2 years. Okay then to top of my amazing week, yesterday Mark, myself and some friend of ours went into Edmonton. I had to write my Mock Nacor, I could not believe how many year two students did not take advantage of this mock test. There was 4 people there in total, two who had failed the real Nacor and myself and one other year two student. Anyways the test is set up the same way as my real Nacor in June, and you have to get a 63% to pass, well I got 86%. I was so thrilled. Then after my test us and the Harkers went and did some Snowboarding, it was my first time and I loved it, I fell a lot and am pretty soar today but it was so worth it. What an amazing week, and all I have to say to end my Blog today is that with God all things are possible.


I also thought I would post some pictures from Christmas so enjoy

RESOLUTIONS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT!!

So this year I have decided to make a lot of resolutions, but I don't know if you can say they are resolutions, I would say they are more or less improvements on my imperfect life, to try and perfect it better, and draw closer to my savior myself and my husband. So hear goes the big long list.
1. Read from the Old Testament, a chapter a day. This is a goal that our Branch Presidency has challanged us to do.
2. Mark and myself made a goal to finish the Book of Mormon before the end of this year, we started in December and have been pretty good, so I hope to continue with this one.
3. Graduate from school and pass my NACOR.
4. I love this next goal, because I think it is probably the most common goal that people make every year, I also wonder how many times it is not fulfilled, but for goal number 4 this year of course like so many others will try to do this year is to get in better shape. Our another way of putting it is loose weight. I don't think I am going to put an amount buy it this year, I think all I am going to say, is to get myself to a point that I feel so healhty, and happy and good about my self, that if I wanted to go for an hour long run I would not have to take a month to work up to it, I can just go and do it. If Mark and I want to go for a 50KM bike ride we can, and I will have the energy to do it. I just want to be healthy and feel healthy, I don't even care about being super skinny, just healthy and strong and to feel good about myself.

I would have to say that these are the big goals for the year, then I decided to make a bunch of little goals to help accomplish the Big ones.
1. wake up every morning no latter than 7:00, read my one chapter from the Old Testament and then go for a run or walk outside or on our treadmill.
2. one of the bigger and harder ones I am going to set is to watch no more than 10 movies this whole year, that includes new or old. I am going to make myself a cute jar and everytime I go to a movie or watch one at home I pull out something , and once that jar is empty, no more movie watching for the year, I am hoping that I can make is so unimportant that by the end of the year there are still things in the jar.
3. Mark and I have no cable and we were thinking of putting it back on in February for the Olympics, but I have decided to change my mind, no cable and no TV for the whole year, less time watching TV equals more time to exercise, read, study and spend quality time with my hubby.
4. Go on at least one temple trip with my hubby every other month, or every month if possible.
5. Another goal Mark and I have is to get ourselves completely dept free this year, except for our Mortgage, we do not have a ton of debt, but we feel life would be easier, if we were to ever be blessed enough to have a family, if the only debt we had was a mortgage payment. We also hope to get our basement developed and put quit a bit of money away in savings.

Well I could probably go on and on with goals and commitments I could make to better myself this year but I think this is a good start. I am hoping writing them on my blog will motivate me more, I will see them lots as I come on my blog often as well I find if I tell others my goals the more likely I am to do them. So wish me luck and if you see me ask me how they are coming to help keep me motivated.

A NEW YEAR!!!

We'll it is the start of a New Year and I can not believe how much is happening in just this month.
I write my midterm on the 10th, I get braces on the 11th, I write my Mock NACOR on the 16th. So much is happening this year and I don't even know where to start. Study, workout, find a place for the Optician that is going to becoming and working for us in February. Oh yeah I don't think I have mentioned him yet. In February a gentlemen from Saudi Arabia that is an Optometrist is coming and working for me. He got his Optometrist license in Saudi Arabia and they do not recognize his schooling here in Canada, but he challenged the NACOR for being a Licensed Optician and he passed, so he is going to be living with us for probably about two weeks, while we find a place for him to live. AHHHHH so crazy, I guess I should probably start studying and stop making blog posts.

I BELIEVE I HAVE THE CUTEST NIECES ON THE PLANET!!!

So this weekend was full of fun family time in Airdrie and Calgary. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family. I am also lucky to have the cutest nieces on the planet. Are family is full of them. We have 3 boys and 11 girls. So when ever we get together all you see and hear our little girls, playing , fighting and being adorable. I thought I would post some pictures so you can all see how right I am.

CONFESSION TIME

Okay it is time for a confession. I love playing with my BLOG!! I think I change the background once a week. I have come up with an excuse though, it is a bad one, but one none the less. I am on my computer almost everyday studying for school and I like to go and open my blog because I can listen to my music. We'll once I get bored of studying and since we have no cable right now I get playing around with my BLOG. I love going and checking out the backgrounds and finding which one I like the best. So I am sorry if you get sick of my background changing all the time but it is just so much fun, definitely better then studying.

I love posting pics so as it is Christmas time I thought I would post one of Mine and Mark's first Christmas Together.

ONE MORE TRY

So I am going to try one more time to download the fun pictures Mark and I scanned into the computer the other day. I sure hope it works. We'll yay it finally worked. Know to have some fun posting pictures.


My Two Awesome Brothers

Loved Santa then and still love Santa now
Grade 2Graduation Day

Mark and myself on our Honeymoon in Cancun

And know it is not working, so enjoy these pic's for know and I will try to put some more on later.