How to Win Friends and Influence People -- Part 2.3

"Remember that a man's name is to him the swetest and most important sound in the English language."(p. 103)

Learn people's names, remember people's names, use people's names.

How to Win Friends and Influence People -- Part 2.2

Smile.

How to Win Friends and Influence People - where am I?

It's been a very long time since I started reviewing this book here (and here and here).

Officially, I just did the first three chapters, so I'm officially onto "Part 2 -- Six Ways to Make People Like You".

Chapter 1 -- "Become genuinely interested in other people." Learn to like people, learn from them, remember them and value them. That's it.

MaLM - How to live in St. George

Make a List Monday --How to live in St. George

Matt surprised me on Christmas with another President's Day/Valentine's Day trip to St. George. Last year I was great with child when we took the same trip. This year the baby came with us again, but outside my tummy. It was wonderful. We hiked a bit, drove a bit, looked at the Parade of Homes a bit and relaxed a lot. Here's what I learned about living in St. George.

1. Enjoy the rare snow; it'll be scorching hot again soon.



2. If you can't afford a red rock view, at least get a city one.

3. Enjoy the local attractions (these are lava tubes and Petrified Sand dunes in Snow Canyon)




4. Get yourself a fountain to at least cool off your nerves.




5. Or if you can afford it, by all means get an awesome pool.








6. Welcome the light inside
(a basement stairwell)

(master shower)

7. And speaking of showering, you should do it outside under a waterfall.


8. Build something unexpected into your home
(entry ceiling shot)

(kitchen pass through to a hidden pantry -- loved this!)




9 . If you are me, you can only live there a few days at a time, try the Seven Wives Inn (Bed and Breakfast). We've been there twice now and loved it both times. The rooms were nice with a fun history and the breakfasts were delicious!



There was a 15,000 square foot home we toured. The only picture I included on this post was the last pool picture. Stay tuned for a more comprehensive look soon.

Dreaming of Spring

I'm daydreaming of spring today, flowers, pergolas, playing outside, warm feet. Oh, spring, please come soon!

This is Why You're Fat

This is why you're fat

Junk food pizza

Deep Fried Peanut Butter-Covered Brownie Wrapped In Cookie Dough

Via Gypsy Feet

Valentine's Day

On Valentine's Day, Matt and I were long gone in sunny St. George. So we celebrated with out kids on Friday morning.

Growing up my mom always made Valentine's Day special with a little treat at dinner time waiting on our plates. It was the only day she set the table for dinner herself, and the only day we offered and offered to help! We always had a little heart full of Valentine's candy and a little gift, a magazine or a cute pen or something like that.

I have always continued that tradition with my own family. Only we do it for breakfast because Matt and I often go out Valentine's night. I'm in charge of the candy and gift and Matt makes and writes the Valentines. We always make our own family Valentines. And though I now make mine out of "scrapbook" paper, construction paper Valentines will always be the real thing to me.

This year I decided to just get a dollar item for each of the kids. But then I had an ill-fated trip to the BYU bookstore. I found some books I just had to get, Gallop and Swing by Rufus Butler Seder. Have you seen them? They are scanimation picture books, if that means anything to you. In other words, the pictures move as you open the pages. You really ought to check them out. They went to the boys, so then I had to get some for our girls, too. Everyone was happy.

We had pink heart pancakes with strawberries and whipped cream, juice and bacon. It was delicious and so fun. As soon as we learn how to download pictures from our new camera, I'll post some.

Hope you had a great Valentine's Day, too!