The Bishop news...

TOP AND 2nd ROW (PICS): My kids; Brock, Jentry and Britnee (with boyfriend, Jordan)

3rd and 4th ROW (PICS): What I've been working on this past week. Flip flop flowers and crocheted hats and MORE flowers. I am also almost done with my nephew Ty's blue/black knitted hat and will show a pic of that later this week (when done).

Hi ALL! Last week was CRAZY busy! Jentry got a JOB! YAY for her! She will be working at Lagoon and she went to orientation this past week and got her RED Lagoon shirt, work badge, and parking pass. PLUS...she gets a coupon EACH month to get 10 people in to Lagoon for $10...which is a BIG YAY cuz Lagoon is charging $43.95 per person for entrance into Lagoon this year. WOW!! I can't believe how much they charge! It's OUTRAGEOUS!! I am SO proud of Jentry and she is REALLY excited! She will be doing the games and doesn't know which game yet...she will know by the end of the week. She will do a GREAT job because she is outgoing, sweet, smily, cheerful and GREAT with kids!! So a BIG shout out to my baby for getting a JOB! YAY GIRL!!! Now, if Brock would just get one, then we'd ALL be happy! Brock has been in the dentist chair twice this past week. He has about $4000 of work needing to be done on his teeth. He had an emergency root canal done and was in A LOT of pain. POOR KID!! His dad is helping pay for the dental procedures he needs and Brock's mouth will be done by June, if he stays on the track the dentist prescribed for him. The dentist says he has very soft enamel and that he will need a prescribed toothpaste and mouth rinse for the rest of his life. He will do that! After sitting in a chair and whincing every time the pain was too much to bear, he'll do whatever the dentist recommends from here on out! It's gonna be a LONG road, but I'm glad that he's finally getting them taken care of. Britnee is still working hard and I talked to her last night and she wants me to come visit this weekend or next and I promised I would make it a priority to get up there and spend some time with her. I MISS HER!!!! We are only an hour and 1/2 away from each other, but it might as well be 400 miles because I don't have a reliable car that can get me up there to visit her or my mom. TERRIBLE!!! I am hoping to find a cheap car that runs okay soon. Be on the LOOKOUT, anyone! That's the kids (this past week) in a nutshell. LOVE EM!!

I reached my MT goals last week and I'm hoping for the same or better this coming week! I got 300+ lines, 4 days outta the week, and this week I'm shooting for OVER 300 lines for 5 days this week. My fitness goals have come to a screeching halt when I tried to use my recumbant bike and found out that the power plug was NOT the one for my bike and it didn't work. I was looking forward to that exercise...and I looked up how much it would cost for another power plug for the bicycle...and it's $79. I will end up using some of my pay to get that plug cuz that exercise doesn't hurt my back and I can easily do 20 min. 3 x's a day on the bike and can't do that on any other exercise equipment. I wish we could find the RIGHT power source plug for it, cuz it's here in this house somewhere...we just can't find it. UGH! I have been doing MUCH better with my Coke drinking and I'm only drinking a can a day (12 oz) instead of 64 oz. per day. I will soon be able to drop it completely and then I hope the weight starts dropping. SPRING is upon us! I can feel it in the air!! I LOVE SPRING!! The PRETTY flowers and the beautiful SUNRISES etc... Spring is GREAT!!!

I went to the doctor last Tuesday and I told him my depression was still VERY bad and that I was SO tired ALL the time and he changed a couple of my medications and today (6 days into treatment), I am feeling A LOT better. I was UP today at 8:30 a.m. and I haven't been up at that time for months...or even years! I feel SO alive and HAPPY! I have hit my knees a lot over my depression and life circumstances and with the help of my doctor of 11 years and better yet, my Heavenly Father, I think my life is "on track" and that I am on the road to a BETTER life! I need to be well for my kids and I've been "in the dark" for too darn long! It's time to LIVE life and get up and make LIFE happen! I can't do it by always being tired and depressed and I'm glad that things are looking UP! I hope it's not a temporary fix. I am "IN THE GAME." YAY for me!!!

Last week's FHE was on the Ensign article called: "God Reveals Truth To His Prophets And To Us" on page 8 of the March 2011 Ensign and then I wrote up 15 questions about the lesson and put it in the kid's journals and that was their journal assignment for this week. It was a GREAT lesson and good time spent as a family! We are still trying to get through the BOM before Brock turns 18 in August. We are still in 1 Nephi and on Chapter 13. We try to read Tues, Wed, Thurs, and Sunday. We read 2 of the 4 days last week. We will do better this week!! We are reading a chapter a night, so we should be on Chapter 17 or better by next Monday. I am gonna try to get 2 chapters in on some of the nights this week. Wish me luck on that one. :)

Scripture for the week (from last week's FHE) is: Doctrine and Covenants 8:2-3 - "I will tell you in your mind and in your heart, by the Holy Ghost, which shall come upon you and which shall dwell in your heart. "Now, behold, this is the spirit of revelation."

Quote for the week: "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." --Buddha

So, I will bid ya'll goodbye for this week and I'll be back next week or sooner with GOOD news! I HOPE!! TTFN! :) ONWARD....

This PAST week...a GOOD one!

Hello All! I LOVE this pic of the Sunflower REACHING for the sun! So NICE! What I'm trying to do...EVERY day! Find the positive, keep going, and maintain peace in the home! It has been a GREAT week for MT work cuz I have done 300+ lines 4 days this past week. A BANNER week for me! I am gonna do MORE this coming week! My goal is 300+ lines daily for 6 days! I CAN do it! My exercising kinda fell to the wayside, although I did get in ONE day of 3000 steps, which is something...I guess. It's gotta be A LOT better than that so I can lose this weight! A NEW dedication to that goal this week also. I have got my stationary bike going again and I am planning on working out on it when I first get up in the morning...starting at 15 min. EVERY morning and then working up to 20 min. 3 x's a day for 5 days a week. I have ALWAYS enjoyed bicycle exercise and step aerobics. I can't seem to find a step aerobics block (to step on) or good workout DVD for that type of exercise, so I'm going with the bicycling this week. I will also try to get in 1500-2000 steps a day (4 days a week) on my Nordictrack stepper. It's a GREAT low impact exercise and it helps my energy level and the pain in my joints feel SO much better after exercising on the stepper OR the bicycle. I'm GLAD they found the cord needed to get the bike going. YAY! I am taking a multivitamin daily called ALIVE and been taking these ONE a day for over a month now. I like em but they are pretty expensive and can only be found at GNC or Bountiful Health. After I am done with this bottle, I will go back to the One-A-Day Women's Energy Vitamins because they cost over $18 less and they work just as well, in my opinion. If anyone reads this can you PLZ tell me what vitamins or what I could be doing to get better energy during the day and better sleep at night. Any advice?? Any suggestions?? Please let me know. THANKS!!!!


I forgot to turn the clock forward last night so we missed church today. DARN! I was prepared and had all the books ready to go and even studied the Gospel Doctrine lesson and the Sunday School lesson too! It seems like when I'm prepared, something happens that I don't get there. Our car is on the FRITZ too! We can't even be driving it, so we woulda needed to walk too. By the time I got up at 9 am (which was actually 10 am), we had missed our FIRST class and if we woulda got up and got ready and walked there...we may have heard the LAST speaker in Sacrament and song and prayer. UGH! I am MAD at myself cuz I needed to remember that!!! It's HARD being the ONLY adult in the home right now...and all the things I need to keep up on sometimes seem undaunting! I MUST do better! I will listen to a talk CD tonight before falling asleep and then I've given Jentry the FHE lesson for tomorrow night...and we are watching a movie tomorrow night too, cuz The Celebrity Apprentice is on tonight and I wanted to see it. So, for missing our Sunday movie...we will have BOTH the movie and lesson tomorrow night! A GOOD night together...coming tomorow!


I found 2 NEAT websites last night...the first is http://www.ldsmusicnow.com/ and the other is http://www.steppingstones.com/. BOTH of these SPIRITUAL and UPLIFTING websites are for EVERY one! The first website has a place where you can download music for cheap (very good & uplifting gospel music) and it also has a place where you can designate how MANY chapters or verses of scriptures you wanna read EACH day and what book...and it'll post THAT reading assignment in your email inbox EACH day. Like I said I wanna read the BOM (2 Chapters daily) starting at the beginning of the book...so tomorrow I will get my FIRST reading of 1 Nephi 1-2 to read on Monday for my personal scripture studying. NEATO HUH??! TRY IT!! There are a lot of other features on it too...go check it out. The 2nd website is SO AWESOME and I got if from the http://www.yldsr.com/ (Mormon radio station) website. Toward the bottom of the page and it explains what you can do with the stepping stone website and the music now website. They have put in a kind of WHEEL OF FORTUNE of GREAT films for all ages and they ALL teach VALUES! You can choose to watch for a minimal fee OR buy at a minimal fee and you can read about what the movie is about and what it teaches and the age level that it's appropriate for! SO COOL! I can't even tell you how NEATO that http://www.steppingstones.com/ site is. I watched the Velveteen Rabbit for FREE last night and cried! JUST SO CUTE! I wish this gal woulda came up with this idea YEARS ago...for my children...but I NOW have this for my grandchildren when they start coming! Also, nieces and nephews and kids I babysit in the ward would benefit from these AWESOME movies too! There is also a FAMILY PLAN to watch the movies (unlimited viewing) for $8.95 a month. What a GREAT cost! It pays for itself with ONE movie!! If you decide to just wanna watch it to see if you'd like to buy it for your library, you can do that too...for $2.95. GREAT huh??! I am passing this website on to my little sister and brother. PLZ go check it out!!! They are NOT just LDS movies. They are movies with a message and as a parent, don't we all want our children watching movies that teach?? I know I do! That's that....:)


To end tonight I'd like to post a quote I like:

"I am only ONE; but still I am ONE.
I cannot do everything; but still I can do something.
I will not refuse to do the something I can!" ---Helen Keller

AND the scripture for tonight (going along with my Sunflower pic) is:

Doctrine and Covenants 86:7 -- The final reaping will occur only when the father determines that the world is "fully ripe." Meanwhile, brothers and sisters, the challenge is surviving spiritually in a deteriorating "wheat and tares" world.

GOOD ones huh?! I hope everyone of my family and friends has a GREAT week to come! I have an MT job interview on Tuesday morning, so cross your fingers, cuz it's an employee with benefits MT job and I REALLY need a BETTER paying MT job to get through these HARD times financially with my family. No washer, no vehicle, not much food, no insurance, if something bad were to happen (it would be BAD), and NO job for Jerry yet! I am gonna look on the BRIGHT SIDE too...though...We have each other, food enough to survive, electricity, warm and cold water, a roof over our head, and GREAT neighbors too! I am going to just DO what I can to improve MY life and NOT dwell on the negative as much! I believe that if you live RIGHT, Choose the BETTER part, and LOVE others and show our love by helping and serving one another...that GOOD things will happen in my little family! I KNOW IT!!!! I will NOT give up and I will DO MY BEST and live ONE DAY AT A TIME!! And the rest will take care of itself... :)

GOODBYE FOR NOW! I will get back on after interviewing on Tuesday afternoon and hopefully it will be GOOD news! If not, I DO have a GREAT part time job and I will take it (either way)with a CHEERFUL and GRATEFUL heart!

**GOD BLESS AND BE WITH THE PEOPLE IN JAPAN FOR THE HEARTACHE AND DEVASTATION THEY ARE FACING NOW! With the earthquakes, aftershocks, and the Tsunami...it has been a HARD time for JAPAN! GOD SPEED!**

A GREAT CD TALK TO START MY WEEK!!

Hello ALL! It's been a few days, but I wanted to write a few notes on a GREAT CD talk I heard this morning....called: "Trusting the Savior in a World that Doesn't" by: Christopher B. Munday. I was very inspired by it and thought I would jot down some of my FAVE points.

1. FOLLOW THE PROPHET and listen and obey his words (pic above).

2. HONOR OUR PARENTS and show your love to them DAILY.

3. COME UNTO CHRIST and FOLLOW HIM. He should be our BEST friend in a troubling world! He will NEVER forsake us and he will ALWAYS be there, when needed! Ask for his help and pray for him in troubling times! He is there...waiting!

Then there were a few little points...that he spoke on...like...

PRAYING EVERY DAY and READING THE SCRIPTURES and SEEKING OUT RIGHTEOUS GOALS! We should also get our lives in line with the gospel and follow what our gospel teaches! His brother-in-law, who had a disease, was an alcoholic for YEARS (drowning in his sorrows) and ONE day he asked to meet Brother Munday at the Church and when he came he was dressed in his Sunday BEST and asked Brother Munday to help him "get back in line with the church" and he confessed his sins to his brother-in-law and asked if he thought he was forgiven and Brother Munday told him he WAS and not soon after repenting...his 26-year-old brother in law passed away! He made it BACK into the arms of our Savior and wanted to make everything RIGHT in his life! What a GREAT thing!

I believe WE should repent of those things that we need too and try to be MORE Christ-like and loving to ALL! Let's do it NOW! COME UNTO CHRIST AND FOLLOW THE GOSPEL STRAIGHTWAY! It was a GREAT talk and I will have my family listen to it tonight for FHE and then have some little stories of ways to COME unto Christ and others that take us AWAY from Christ...and we will all take a story and read it and decide WHICH way it leads us...to or from Christ. My FHE is prepared for tonight! YAY! I LOVE the gospel and have a SURE testimony of its GOODNESS! I'm so GRATEFUL for the TRUE Church in this dispensation and I plan on attending the temple this week. I will probably attend a session on Thursday night. I LOVE the Temple and going there is a GREAT way to feel of Christ's love and spirit and to turn my eyes towards heaven and AWAY from the world...for a time! A GOOD THING!!! :)

I did get 300+ lines - 4 times last week. I am hoping to get another FULL time job working as an MT and I will interview with her either tomorrow or later this week. I will let everyone know how that goes when I know more. I haven't been exercising like I should and I will rededicate myself to doing MORE exercise this week and a get a GOOD line count too!

The kids are just waking up for another week in school, so I'm gonna get off and tell them BOTH how much I love them and to REMEMBER WHO THEY ARE! :)

EVERYONE have a GREAT Monday! DO YOUR BEST TODAY!! :)