blog is fully updated

for any regular readers of my blog (do i have any? hi mum!!!) you've probably noticed the massive amount of backblogging i had to get through from our samoa trip - well, i am pleased to announce that i am finally finished! hooray! please enjoy...

and now i am going to reward myself... by editing photos from the wedding i did a few days before we left. sigh. 

wedding anniversary & blogiversary!

it's been 8 years today since doug and i knelt together in the temple and promised to love each other, hold each other and uplift each other - for time and all eternity. i'm not going to lie... it hasn't always been easy, there's been rough days - but more good ones. i remember one of the young women asking me once how i knew it was time to marry him and my response was - "when there was more things about him i liked than i didn't like." i certainly wouldn't be where i am in my life without him - and i know that i made the right choice. knowing that he loves me and our babies means more to me than i could ever explain and i know that he's the one i want to spend my eternities with.

after all - "the greatest gift a father can give his children is to love their mother."

today also brings my 500th post on my little blog that probably no one reads, but what matters is that i made a goal to keep it going and i have! it's kind of like my journal and i love to look back at what i was doing, where i was, who i was with and how life was at the time. i've had two kids since i started - along with so many other things happening. but here it is! 500 of them. hope you've enjoyed - and prepare yourselves for the next 500. i am not a quitter, so you'll have to put up with me for a long time yet!

200!!!

i cannot believe i have actually managed it. 200 posts and i'm still going. i figured when i started this blog that i'd probably write for a while and get sick of it, but i seem to still be doing well

 i'm still also pretty sure that no one other than my mum reads this blog on a regular basis... but i am so proud that i've managed it!! so happy 200 to me!! :)

happy hundy

far outttt. one hundred posts.
i didn't think i even had the dedication to go half that long.
yet here i am
at post

one hundred

with nothing to say except....

go me!

me...?

i've been toying with the idea of blogging for some time now... thought it might be a good way to share ideas, memories, fun times etc with people i love, and of course the randoms that happen to stumble onto my ramblings...
so here goes...
yesterday at church - a lady approached me about singing at a relief society thing. this is fine no worries, but she started the conversation off by asking me, "who are you?" i worked out pretty quickly that she was asking me who my parents are (as in - where did i come from); this is a pretty normal thing when one is a mormon, everyone knows everyone, very small world... but for a second i thought - wow - i could answer this with anything.
so here's some of who i am-
i'm jade
jade ellen kendall (formerly goodlet)
i'm doug's wife
i'm neil and barbara's daughter
i'm jared, aaron and isaac's little sister
i'm donna, katja, renee and niques' sis-in-law
i'm steve and oli's daughter-in-law
i'm roy, gwen, joe and phyl's grandaughter
i'm laura, jared, grace, ben and emma's aunt
i'm jen, pippa, dom, chelsea, chelsea and lisa's friend

i'm someone that works in a funeral home and couldn't be less somber
i'm someone that hates capital letters and

really can't be bothered with them
i'm someone that's lazy - yet full of energy
i'm someone that can't imagine life without music or books

i'm the only girl, the unexpected
i'm best friends with my mother -eep
i'm the girl that believes op-shops are better than myer, david jones and

every other designer boutique put together
i'm the one that stays awake at night worrying
about things that don't even matter
i'm the girl that wakes up with music in my dreams
i'm the one that loves too easily and gets her heart broken
i'm the girl that is obsessed with stars
i'm the one that would rather watch those stars than the latest blockbuster,
listen to classical than pop,
eat fruit than lollies,

i'm odd, yet disturbingly normal
i'm different...
but i'm me

and i'm okay with that