Something I never thought I would do!

See this 100 ft cliff. Yea it is very tall. Especially to me. If you know me you know that I am deathly. Really deathly afraid of heights. I have had many embarassing moments due to my fear of heights. Well you'll never guess what I did. Nope never.

Good things I have photos to prove it!

This is me crying and holding on for dear life. James was AMAZING.

I would never have ever been able to do it without him.

Still holding on for dear life!

Not the best view or all that atractive but I don't care. I have proof that I did it!

At this point I was told to look down. Nope I didn't look once. I was afraid I would pass out!

This picture was before we started the hike. All smiles not sweaty or full of fear.

At the start of the hike I was like ok self you can do the hike. Yes your out of shape but you can do the hike to the top and then hike back down again. Not in my wildest dreams did I think I would rappel. The hike up was a tough hike going up and I knew it would be even harder coming down. So the option of hiking down and making someone else hike down with me was not a fun option and rappeling was not a fun option. I will admit I cried out loud and even more inside. I whined inside mostly but some how I did it. My team was amazing and helpful. Some how I did it. I have been so proud of myself. I have been on a high. I have thought a lot of limitations I put on myself. I know I am still deathly afraid of heights but maybe... just maybe I will try and be more adventureous try to live a little more out of my box.

A shout out to Travis. You inspired me.

Fantasy Birthday

I haven't posted to my blog in a long time. But I'm back to share my Fantasy Birthday.

I call it my fantasy birthday because Neil used his winnings from fantasy football to pay for my birthday get away or it for sure would not have happened. But the most important reason is because it was truly a girls fantasy. I am so lucky. I don't mean to brag but I truly have the most loving and thoughtful husband.

We left on a Thursday night and it was deluxe all the way. Neil packed the car up with my favorite snacks and we drove to Las Vegas. . We arrive in Las Vegas and checked in to our hotel The Bellagio. It is a five star hotel. Very fancy. It was during the Chinese New Year so it was all decked out in Oriental decor. They have an indoor garden that is beautiful and it changes each holiday. Our room looked over the fountains and we had a beautiful view of the Eiffel Tower at the Paris hotel. Just beautiful.

He said he had a special date planned and wouldn't tell me anything about it except to dress up. He gave me money to buy new clothes before we left which was so fun. I don't usually buy myself a lot of clothes there is always needs the kids have or just no extra money so this was a nice treat. Neil says get ready and then I will come pick you up. A real date. So he rings the door bell. Can you believe our hotel room had a door bell. It made me jump when it rang. I come to the door to greet my handsome date and he has a dozen roses. I know auhhhhhhhhhh!

We get in a cab and drive to the Venetian hotel and I find out my special date. Phantom of the Opera. I have been to The Phantom twice before in Chicago and Salt Lake. But this was something so much better. Oh WOW!!! The Phantom theater was built just for the show and it was truly something else. The special effects and costumes were unbelievable. It was so AMAZING!!!! We had regular tickets but lucky us someone came up to us and moved us up to 3rd row seats middle. Great view. Neil loved the special effects and the smile on my face which was there the whole night but not so much some of the music. He was so cute and said "don't they talk at all?" What a good sport.

The weekend continued I got to stay three nights. The next day we slept in went to a movie and to our favorite restaurant The Cantina in the Venetian it is amazing mexican food and it's along the canal. It is one of our favorite places. We then went to a really fun adventure. It's called Mystery Adventures and basically it is a live Clue game. So fun.

There was Neil and I and 5 other couples from Texas, California and Florida. This is an elaborate game where you drive to different locations like a video store, a newspaper office and a doctors office. We looked in computers, surveillance tapes, lockers. At the end we found clues to a hidden room. We found the locket and solved the mystery. I guess not all groups solve the mystery so we were real good detectives. This would be a really fun activity to do with all your friends or family. They change the mystery every six months.
The next day Neil got me a massage. Deluxe and so fun to be pampered and then that night we went to a really fun dinner at the strangest restaurant it was not like anywhere I have ever been. It was at the Palazzo called Lavo. It's a Mediterranean restaurant and was very chic. The food was so good. It was fun to go somewhere so different. After dinner Neil surprised me with dancing. You read right we went dancing and had so much fun. We are even thinking of taking lessons. I know mid-life crisis. But really we had a blast dancing and laughing together. We weren't the best dancers but we didn't care.

Neil thanks so much for treating me so special and for giving me the best birthday ever. I sure am lucky and I love you so much.

When we got home the kids had cleaned the house and Sammy made a really nice dinner. The kids made me a video with music and pictures and they each had an interview where they talked and said really nice things. Tova (kinseys dog) was interviewed. Aaron did a funny voice and talked as if he was Tova. It was the funniest thing ever we laughed so hard. Thanks kids for being such great kids and Aaron for babysitting.

I am so blessed and so lucky to have you all as my family. I love you all so much.

Our camera broke down as we got there so no digital pictures. We bought a throw away camera but I haven't gotten around to getting them developed. We sure are lucky now days with digital cameras. I'll add in photo's later if any turn out.

MOSAIC

This is a mosaic about me.

Amber thanks for the fun challenge.

First you go to www.flickr.com/search. In the search box you put your answers to the questions below. Once you have chosen your fave pic, copy and paste the URL to the mosaic maker format www.bighugelabs.com

1. What you want to be when you grow up. (Happy and living a peaceful, joyful life)
2. What you love most in life. (In this life and in the next life an eternal family)
3. First Name (Jeannie-I wish I really had three wishes)
4. Your Nickname (Momma Warner-given to me by The Crew-Aaron's friends)
5. Who is your celebrity crush (I am in love with Stephanie Meyers books)
6. One word to describe you (Fun! Neil helped me decide this. I do like to have fun and be fun)
7. Favorite Dessert (Angel Food cake with strawberries- this is always my B-Day cake)
8. Dream Vacation (Anywhere tropical)
9. Favorite Drink (Rasberry Lemonade)
10. Favorite Color (Peach in all shades)
11. Your School (Springville Red Devils)
12. Favorite Food (Anything Mexican)

Now It's your turn!

A Blue Day!

No today it's not raining outside. In fact the temperature is over a 100.

It's not a cloudy day. But for me it is a blue day.

Do you have those days? Not for any particular reason. Maybe lots of small reasons.

I started blogging back in March. I had thought about doing it for a few months before that.

It had been many really long months where I was at a low point. Maybe the lowest point of my life. I felt like I was in a hole and I couldn't find my way out.

I looked at life as something I was enduring. Something that seemed to always happen to me. I didn't look at the good things in my life enough. I was focusing on the things that were not going well the trials, the burdens of life.

Don't get me wrong I have many many good things about my life. I always have. I am actually quite lucky and I have a good life.

You see the problem was that I wasn't giving as much attention, as much notice to all the good things. All the many things I have to be grateful for. I was focusing on what wasn't right instead of what was right.

I have learned a lot over the past year or so. I have grown. I guess that's what this life is about. Learning, growing, stretching, trying, failing and trying again.

I am not where I want to be. Will I ever be? Not here, not in this life. But I keep trying and I will succeed and I will fail.

This blog is a stange thing for me. It is out of my comfort zone. Yet it has come to mean a lot to me in a strange way... that's hard to understand.

I was searching on the internet one day for a recipe, just browsing and I came across a blog. I didn't even know what a blog was. It was called Pioneer Woman. The blog is in my list of family/friends and places.

This lady was from the city and now living on a ranch. It fascinated me. I read her stories, I read her recipes and the thought came to me that this lady was making the most of her life. She was taking whatever circumstance she was in and she was making the most of it.

I knew I needed a new perspective. I needed to shift my life from poor me, to lucky me. That is now my journey, my goal.

Lucky Jeannie Warner!I am lucky. I am grateful. I am blessed. I am trying to live, to really live. I am trying new things. I am trying to look at the glass half full.

Do I always succeed. No! Today remember is a blue day. Probably PMS, being too busy or the stress of school starting and needing money for school clothes and registration and on and on. (The money stress never seems to be out of my life.)

This blog I look at often. I don't always post but I look for a few moments and I see the photo's the memories the joys that are my life. I see my trip to New York. The nice surprises my husband does for me. I see evidence that I have a life that is full of many blessings.

I am even taking or should I say allowing others to take photos of me. For years because of weight I would always take the picture. I was not in the picture. WHY? I feel sad about that because where is the evidence that I was there at the event? On the vacation?

I really never know who reads this blog and it doesn't matter. This is for me, to remind me I am blessed. A lot of you tell me you read it and you don't have a blog. Blogging is probably not for every one. It's strange to put your life out there. But for me it has been like therapy. I plan to print the blog each year. (Did you know you can do that? Pictures and all). I don't write a journal and I long ago gave up scrapbooking. (I am too far behind and too busy for now). This will be my journal my scrapbook.

I invite you to start a blog and if you do share it with me. I will add you as a friend.

Thanks for listening. My blue day is turning around.

Just for fun here are some photo's of me that were taken this week.

Wow Jeannie you are getting brave and you are living. (Does this sound like I am talking to myself?) I do that probably too much. But hey sometimes it helps :0)

Trying New Things!

I have been asked to teach a cooking class once a month at Maceys grocery store.

Maceys offers classes several nights a week in their Little Theater.

Tonight was my first night. If any of you want to come take a class it's free and you get to taste the food.

The classes are at the Maceys in Pleasant Grove.

I think tonight went ok. Hopefully I will get more comfortable and do a better job as I learn.