Sunshine and painting

It has been sunny for over a week straight! Shocking, I know! I even laid out on Tuesday afternoon in my swimsuit! This valley is extremely beautiful when the sun shines. Well Ariadne and I did a project together that she had been wanting to do ever since I started painting. She wanted us to paint a picture of the mountains that covered two canvases, one for her and one for me. We actually had a lot of fun doing it too. Oh and last Sunday (almost two weeks ago) I stayed for the CES fireside and met a bunch of french singles. And a really cute returned missionary haha who served in Provo and speaks perfect English. (One of these days people are gonna find out I'm writing about them and I'm gonna be really embarrassed haha!) Anyways, last Thursday I went to institute in French and that was an adventure. I understood a lot of it so that was good, but afterward I went with some people to this guy Dave's house and we had 13 of us playing Uno with one deck of cards= INSANITY! So much fun though! And I'm going again tonight so who knows what will go on. But anywho that's about it for now. Gotta go get my girls. Peace out! (when I say that to my youngest she blows kisses, not sure why she associates the two, but it's cute =D)

Wild Montana Sky

It was sunny today!! That right there is enough reason to smile. I miss the sunshine whenever the clouds are too thick to see it. I love the nights that come after a sunny day as well. I babysat this morning then Juliana and I went to Lausanne to window shop and then I babysat again for a different family. But it was sunny=LOVE! When I was babysitting I watch Spirit (the cartoon about the horses). That movie always reminds me of my niece Savannah because when she was at our house for a week or so that was the only thing she watched. We watched it at least twice a day! And I got soooo sick of it but I hadn't seen it in a while and decided to watch it. Therefore I now want to move back to Colorado, deeper into the foothills of maybe even Montana and have a ranch. What can I say? I am my father's daughter for sure when it comes to this stuff.

So with my painting. I now want to paint EVERYthing! But of course I really have no talent. I think more than anything I want to paint what I dream about. I've had the most beautiful dreams and I hate that I can't convey them to anyone. And I have so many ideas in my head that I want to paint but have no idea how to do it. It's rather frustrating! But watching Spirit I just love the scenery that has been created in it. It is absolutely amazing to me!! It just takes me to places I've dreamed about and stirs this deep yearning in my soul. I don't know how to explain it and I'm sure I sound like a crazy person. Anyways I'm just so thankful for this beautiful day and night. I don't want to shut my shutters but I know that when I'm asleep at 7 and the sun starts shining in my window (it's supposed to be sunny tomorrow too) that I'll wish I had closed them haha. Good night!

Inspiration

Enrique and I are fine, just a dumb fight that he got over, no worries. But I am not a teacher in Relief Society so that is pretty exciting I suppose. But our lesson this past Sunday was on President Uchtdorf's talk "Happiness, Your Heritage" and the teacher showed us this video that I loved! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhLlnq5yY7k Anyways it inspired me to do things that I've been wanting to do for a while. I want to take piano lessons so I can play the songs in my head and play the bass cleft and not just the treble cleft. But it also inspired me to try painting. I've never painted in my life really except for maybe in elementary art class. So yesterday I went to Migros and bought a canvas, some paint and paintbrushes. I was sooooo excited to start but I waited until this afternoon to do it. I put my headphones in and away I went. I had a ton of ideas in my head and didn't really know how to get them on there. But I just put my brush to the canvas and just had fun with it. It's not a beautfy, it's very simple but I like it. It proves to me that I can do things I want, and it doesn't matter what other people think. I had fun and I'm excited to do other ones. I'll let you know what I find out about piano lessons =D. Go create!