I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

FRIENDS, Pals & Acquaintances
I have a lot of "people I know", but true friends that love you for you, that celebrate who you are, that don't want to change you, that love you no matter what....
those are rare and so special!

You want to surround yourself with people that are right for you! That don't want to change you, or make you into something you're not....they just want to love, support you, be there for you...and just love who you are!
Same thing goes for a "special someone" in your life...you want the right one. That makes you the best you...that makes you feel wonderful and adored. That celebrates you...and helps cheer you on to be the best you, you can be!
Sometimes we work hard to be friends with people who aren't right for us. People who don't have good intentions for us, or aren't people that will be right for us. God knows what we need in our life, and sometimes he will bring in the most amazing people to love you the right way!
If you don't have someone like that in your life right now, know that I believe in you, and I would celebrate all the wonderous things that make you who you are!
And you can always say a little prayer for God to guide a precious friend into your life!
huge love....from your friend that wouldn't change a thing about you! ~ Sierra

A B C.. it's easy as..1 2 3

I read something great about keeping our words....
have you ever had a party, and like 13 people said they'd come and then 6 show up? I have, and I wished that if people said they would do something, they would....or at least tell the person as soon as you know that you can't!
I know there have been things in my life that I said I'd do, then when it came down to it, I didn't want to, or it wasn't "convenient" (i had something better to do), but I did what I said I would do anyway. We want to be people of our words...if you say it, mean it. Let your yes, be yes, and your no be no.
I need to tell myself this all the time, I am a people pleaser, and it makes it hard for me to say no to people, but I am working on, only say yes to what I know I will be able to do!

It's as easy as that, 1 2 3! ha ha
happy Sunday before Christmas...I'm off to do some last minute present shopping...I still need to get my little angels something for their stockings! enjoy the hot chocolate and christmas music, Sierra

Remember, God Knows All...

God knows all our problems, and why he allowed them in our life....to help us grow!
So no matter, what someone you love has done, what choices you've made that feel bad, what a boyfriend or girlfriend has done to you, how you've been hurt, how your family has treated you...

God knew it would happen, and he knew that in those hard times...is when you'd really grow and learn the things you need to be amazing in life!

Never give up....you can never justify giving up!
And you can't always listen to what people tell you, a friend, co-worker, parent, they base their advice on personal experiences and emotions instead of God's truth and his grace. Third, you and I are tempted to give up when we focus more on our loss and the negatives than on the hope we have that God has put inside out hearts. And that's when when we end up feeling hopeless and discouraged.
But remember that whatever, we allow to take over our thoughts...especially if it's negative will rule our life! So please, get rid of all sad and discouraging thoughts - whatever they are...right now, and cling on to whatever good thoughts you have...make good thoughts!

And know that God, knows the outcome..what will happen, he knows what's right around in your future! So if you are worried about a relationship, your career, your life.....God knows what is ahead, and what might be better than what you are so worried about!

My heart has been troubled all day, but these words have comforted my heart and if you are hurting today, I hope that these will help you today...
huge, huge love, Sierra

there is light in the darkest hour...

every single one of us has been depressed, sad, hurt, hopeless...
whether you are sad over a relationship, the lack of a relationship, no job, not the job you want, no money, huge bills, you're frustrated with your life, your family...

You should not be happy!

This probably sounds weird coming from me...who seems eternally happy...so happy, that some people have accused me of being fake! They couldn't figure out how someone could be happy all the time!
And the truth is, I'm not happy all the time. Happiness is based on some thing or event, that MAKES you FEEL happy. (It makes me happy when someone hugs me or says something nice to me....those are my personal examples....)...but JOY is really what I have. Joy is what's in your heart no matter what is going on around you...
I have been through some less than wonderful things in my life, but I have been joyful during these...I've been able to smile, laugh, and be joyfully "happy" during these times...

Not a lot of people have joy in their hearts...and happiness is too wishy-washy to depend on...
If someone doesn't make us happy, we're sad, if nothing exciting or hopeful happens, we're sad...if someone hurts our feelings, we're sad...but JOY is something that we experience in our hearts...that isn't dependent on outside circumstances...

God has put joy in my heart...and I have to remember to ask him for more joy sometimes. People ask me, "how are you so happy?"....And I am not the type to blast people with "religious talk", but I do consider myself to have a relationship with God, and to be a follower of Jesus. If you don't agree with me, that's totally fine....if you do, that's awesome...I just wanted the share the reason that I have joy in my life.

Here's one thing that I heard yesterday, that was so great to let sink into my heart.

Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you 

have the most joyfully day!!! huge love from my heart to yours,Sierra <3

Have I done any good in the world today?, have i helped anyone in need?..

People will forget what you said, forget what you did.... but they will always remember, how you made them FEEL!

Today, and everyday..try to make someonefeel special, loved, beautiful, or even amazing. Each day is too precious to let it slip by just living in our own selfish little world.

More people should smile, hold doors open for people, say thank you and please...and tell people to have a "great day!"...

Everyone could use a hug, a pat on the back, a better handshake...even a wave hello!

Let's be on a mission to make people"feel" better, by just a few, free things we can take the time to do today!

To all the GUYS!

NOTE: if you are a guy, and happen to be reading this...please, make a point to tell that special girl in your life, everyday, that she is the most beautiful girl in the world! Every woman was designed to feel beautiful...soft hair, delicate hands, gentle features...and eyes that show you they love you...you'll never know the gift you give their heart by telling them they are beautiful...it's like setting a caged butterfly free...to soar and fly and it makes their heart feel huge!!!

Leave it to God...

I've had something happen that made me so upset, I was crying, I felt like throwing up....I could've either thought about the "bad" stuff all day and let it rule and run my day...right into the ground. But instead I thought, "God knows the outcome....I am going to trust in Him, and hand all my worried over to Him", "my problems are going to be there, weather I think about them or not...so I might as well enjoy each little moment...and cast all my cares on God...that's what he's there for....

And when you do this, your heart will be free to enjoy simple pleasures in life...like moonrises and sunsets...seeing a balloon flying through air...smelling beautiful flowers...the list goes on..and on....
today i will look for beauty!!!

let's go be beauty hunters....and trouble-forgetters...and in the process, you just might discover the solution to your problem....
typed with love.....Sierra

Stop Worrying!!!

All, the face in this picture tells me, is: "i don't know about this!?!"....
If I could tell you all the times in my life when I have thought that..."oh no! I don't know about this!?!"...
Like waves crashing on the beach....these kinds of thoughts have crashed into my mind...
how's this going to work?
how am I going to have money for this?
how will this ever work out?
and on and on....

The beauty is...if it were up to me....not a whole lot would happen...if I look at my past...I would be quick to know that....I can't rely on just me...whenever I have taken my eyes off of myself...
and looked to God for my help and guidance...man, doors open up and things take place that I never even imagined!

Sometimes worry...is the worst thing you can do...but you can surrender your cares on someone that cares for you more than you'll ever know!

Remember...
you are more talented than you think, more beautiful than you know, and more loved than you can imagine....Sierra

QUOTE OF THE DAY: Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Positive Thinking..

As I drove I was thinking about something that I read this morning....
People don't really pay attention to what they think about...
Anyone can just let the random thoughts come into their mind...and dwell on them...but it takes real care and work to think on things that will actually help and benefit you...
You have to work hard to think the right things...positivity and good thoughts are harder to think than the random negative, depressing thoughts...those can pour in by the thousands.
But I promise that if you work hard to think the right things...to only allow the beautiful "flower" thoughts into the garden of your mind...and you take care to not let those "negative weed-like" thoughts come in a choke out the beautiful flower thoughts...

May you think on things that are good and wonderful and uplifting...and anything else that comes into your mind....well, it's gonna have to get the boot!!!

Quote of the day: So celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

FEAR...

Fear and being afraid are a huge part of Halloween...and a lot of people live with fear in their lives everyday...
afraid of being alone
of confronting people
afraid of going after your dreams
of being who you really are
standing up for what you believe
of going after things in your life
telling people how you feel
...so many other things...

fear is what makes you want to run away...
but we should..."do it afraid"...
if you're knees are shaking...plams are sweating....stomach feels all shakey...
do it with all those things....
I heard once, fear is F-false E-evidence A-appearing R-real....
don't let fear steal your confidence away...
be bold, be strong, be brave....and you will be so proud and amazed at yourself for standing up to your fear....
everytime I have I have been amazed at myself....
 it just takes you taking hold of your thoughts and saying....no, I can do this...don't let the "feeling" of fear stop you, and don't let fear steal away the victory in your life...
be bold, brave...and find out the wonders of your bold confidence...
David defeated Goliath...because he had faith...and belief...not fear!

Sending you brave thoughts and lots of love....Sierra <3

QUOTE OF THE DAY:  "If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. "

As i Sit and Ponder...

I once went through something i thought was "the end of the world", something i always rememebered in the back of my mind, always drug out into disagreements and held onto so i'd never forget my self worth.


...don't keep dragging your past into your future...
past failures
past heartbreaks
past dissappointments...
your future is too bright to be darkened with the shadows of the past.

I love this.."strain towards what is ahead, forgetting the past"...

too many people drag this big pile of past hurts, past failures, past bad-thinking...and it never lets the beauty of newness and hope really take flight!
Who cares if you've failed at something 200 times...don't tell yourself you're a failure....you're just getting one step closer...

I've made a lot of failed attempts at things...careers, relationships, and so on...
but to be successful, at anything..never let those failures stop you from pressing on towards success in your future...

And sometimes...you may not get what you want...and it could make you angry......or just maybe there's a good reason that I don't know about yet...as to why, i didn't get it...


"Those who sow (work) in tears..shall reap (take in, receive) in joy!"...this was like the biggest hug to my spirit...

We get these thoughts that try to discourage us...break our spirit...steal our joy....

and we MUST...must....be diligent and courageous in our thinking...not letting these pains and hurts of life...try to stop us...and kidnap our joy...

it never fails...as soon as you start working hard for something..going after your dream...trying to quit a bad habit...repairing an emotional wound....
it seems as if a sign that says "please attack me...make this harder than it is"...comes on...and next thing you know your doubting your ability and your strength...


leave your past in your past....and run boldy to your future...it's waiting for you, as fresh as can be...every morning!!! this was typed with love...SiErRa <3

quote of the day: "Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out"

Shoot For The Stars, You Never Know Where You'll End Up!

HEY EVERYONE!!!!

So today was probably one of the BEST day's of my life! I have finally found what i love to do after 15years of searching, I LOVE Art, particularly make-up now. I decided to venture out of my shell and do something spontaneous and FUN with my make-up today. So i did! after finishing the "Art work" i decided to take it a step further and go out in public with it... dun, Dun, DUN!!!... Lo' and behold, i had 6 people came up to me saying how much they LOVED my makeup and my free spirit and bubbly personality! i felt so happy inside! 
Thats not even the BEST PART! i had 3 PEOPLE ASK ME TO DO THEIR MAKE-UP for an upcoming special event!!!!! AAAAaaahhhhh! i am soooo excited i did this! I have taken my first step to becoming a MaKe-Up ArTiSt!!!!


Here is the outcome!! hope you like it :D

My Little Andrea *MWAH*  Rock on girl!

"Life is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."

Smiles Make The World Go Round!

“There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all” 

Stay Tuned For Our Feature Presentation!

 So i have gotten quite a few requests about what our house looks like, the community and so forth. I truly truly apologize that my pictures aren't very good quality, my amazing kodak camera is dead and andrea just so "Magically" lost the charger for it. So, I will take pictures of my house tomorrow and a little bit of the community we live in. So Stay tuned, and prepare to be Amazed!!! lol ok not really, but i do LOVE my bedroom!

Have a Supercalafragalisticexpialidocious DAY!!!!!

"Life is not measured by the number of breathes we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.."

Trials Make The Heart Grow Stronger.... Or Unbearable..

       Today, My heart goes out to my daughter, Andrea. I was roaming the house looking for her Pacifier since it was time for her to go to bed, and she can never seem to function without that thing! haha

But as i was walking past her room about to search the house; i saw her kissing the pictures of her daddy hanging on her wall. 

~BACK IN TIME!!!!~ 

The reason she isn't kissing him instead of a picture of him is because he has been away and out of our home for 4 weeks now, doing some training in preparation to deploy to iraq this november and will be gone one more week from today. 

~BACK TO THE PRESENT~

So she has been VERY confused and sad as to WHY daddy left and why he isn't coming home, It just hurts my heart to see HER so hurt... I just wish she could understand, "daddy is away for work. He loves you, and can't wait to come home and see you again, it's not your fault he's gone, ect.."

But in one week she will be the happiest little girl in the world, but seeing this glimps of how she is when her favorite person in the world is gone... really makes me dread 12 months of him being away not only for myself (cause i will miss him sooooo much) but for my children, He is such a good father and they love him so much, they know daddy loves them they can feel it when he's here. 

Keep The girls in your prayers, that they may be comforted and helped to better understand the situation for when he's deployed. 

"When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost...Count your many blessings; money CANNOT buy, And you will be singing as the days go by"

About Me, and My Family!!!

Guten Tag! I am Sierra Sando, Currently living on an army military base in Ansbach, Germany (i have yet to see anything TOO wonderful about it but it is a beautiful country....LOTS of country!haha) My husband is, Of Course, in the military and this is his First (and Last) duty station, his contract is 4 years with the Army and we will spend all that time here in germany, and BOY we can't wait to get out. Yes, there are A LOT of great benefits but we dont find them worth it when our family is constantly seperated for months or a year at a time. Family is very important to me, there is nothing in this world that is greater because when all your friends, co-workers, ect... have left you and the world seems to be crumbling down on you, you will ALWAYS have family. So never neglect or take advantage of your family, because you never know when you will need them or they will need you.
I truly believe in living everyday as if it were your last, because ultimately it could be! Many people fear their husbands deploying to Iraq or Afghanistan, but really we are in just as much danger, think about it, drunk drivers, simple car accident, murder, wrong place wrong time incidents, drowning, fire's, attacked by something in the ocean, shot, ect... We are at a Contstant risk of death everyday and i hate to think i could die on a bad note with my husband, daughters or family and friends.
Learn from your mistakes and constantly strive to be better. I completely live by the motto "when life gets too hard to stand, Kneel and Pray" I've been a receiver of sooooo many blessing from my father in heaven by simply being the best i can be and doing what i know to be right.
Well it's time to meet My Family!!!! YAY!


 My Husband whom I Love with Alllllll My heart! He is my best friend, Soul mate, and soon to be Eternal Companion. He is my foundation and my rock in the good times and in the bad, He ALWAYS knows how to brighten my day, he makes me laugh sooo hard thats why i have ABS! haha*

Giovanni Jeffrey Sando- Born November 21st

This is him, goofing off with his Modeling face! haha. He is SUCH an amazing father!

                                                              
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I am a Mother of 3 BEAUTIFUL children that make my life so much brighter, though there are those days i'd like to just get away, haha.


Andrea Isabella Sando- Born January 14th, 2008

She is like my best friend. When i see her smiling face first thing in the morning, it always starts my day off right! she is a GREAT joy in my life, and i can't imagine it without her.

Summer Alexandria Sando- Born March 7th, 2009

Summer is the First born of my twin girls. She truly looks like ME, wanna see!? here ya go!

**the two pic's above are of me as a baby**

She truly is like the warmth of the sun in summer time, she has so many rays of happines to share!

And last but NOT least....

Allison Gabriella Sando- Born March 7th, 2009

Oh my little ally, (no she really is the smallest of all my children) She is my most smiliest child, and brings such joy into our home, if your ever in need of a happy, warm, loving smile, she is always ready to give one. 

HAVE A SUPER SMILEY DAY!!!

Quote of the day: "Fear not, (your name), Let earth and hell combine against you, 

For if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail!" -God