Journal Writing and Blogging

I am an occasional journal writer. I have a few different journals- one that is an events sort of one, where I write down what is going on in my life or things the girls are doing. I have another one where I am writing down things I am learning as a parent, impressions that come to me on how to be a better one, advice/support I want to give to my children if/when they become parents themselves. The last is a book of funny stories that happen in our family. I want to be able to pick up this book when I am old and just laugh and laugh about the funny things that we have done or said.

When I haven't journaled in awhile I feel this need/compulsion to try and catch up on everything that has happened since the last time I wrote. I have this same feeling in regards to my blogging efforts. It has been awhile since I last blogged and I feel like I should catch you up on EVERYTHING that has happened but....lucky for you I am not going to do this.I am just going to write what I want to write and disregard my concern of the large time gap on my blog.

The first thing I want to write about is our new house. We live in a small town outside of Logan, UT. I have never lived in a place like this. The mail isn't delivered to our house so we go and pick it up from the post office. Not only do we need to pick up our mail at the post office but if we want to know any town news we need to check the bulletin there to find out. Also, this past week we were outside in our front yard and a herd of cows came down the road. That was a first for me. I now "go to town" when I want to go to the store. I can see the Milky Way at night. Our neighbors are generous, sharing the harvest from their gardens with us. The wind howls through our windows sometimes (I kind of like it). The church we go to is within walking distance (but we still drive- usually because we are not ready early enough to walk). One of my favorite things about this town is it sits at the foot of a mountain. I love the mountain and seeing it in different settings. It looks different in the bright sunshine than when it is cloudy and stormy and clouds are hanging on it. When we first moved here, the mountain was so green but now I can see red and yellow creeping in. I wonder what the mountain will look like with snow all over it this winter.

This is a view of the mountain with clouds on it from our back deck. This is overlooking the neighbor's yard and the church we go to.

Here is a picture of our back yard shortly after we moved in. I love that the previous owners didn't do much with the yard because it is pretty much a green canvas for us to do what we want.

This is our other neighbor's backyard with a faint rainbow in the distance. This is a beautiful place and I find myself saying to Jed or Kaley or my next door neighbor- "Oh look at the sky (insert mountain, clouds, lightning, stars, sunset, sunrise). Isn't it so beautiful!"