Sista Highlights!!

Holy Elephant Eye!

It's Sista Highlight Friday!

OUR FAVORITE DAY!

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{please use cheerleader voice}

MEET SHERI!!!

Hello Beautiful Sheri!!

What is your full name?  

Sheri Hoth

What is your Instagram user name? 

@shhoth

Where do you live? 

North Logan Utah

What is your favorite treat? 

oh so hard to choose.. But I'm going to have to say sweet chex mix

What is your favorite color? 

Purple

Tell us one of your unique talents? 

  My elbows are double jointed and I can make my arms look broken

{wha?  okay we need a picture of that!!}

What is your favorite quote?

"Prayer;

The most powerful weapon against trials.

The most effective medicine against sickness AND The most valuable gift to someone you love."

Tell us one person that inspires you and why? Sabrina Potter,  She has helped me understand and use the spiritual Gifts that my Heavenly Father has given me. She is a great example of pure love towards others and can always see the potential that they have rather than their faults and weaknesses.

Dear Sheri, THANK YOU for sharing yourself with us!  You are Beautiful INSIDE and OUT!

(She also has the most adorable family of Blondies you've ever seen!)
 

Meet "Just a Mom" Keirsten 
{side note:  when she emailed back about being highlighted today she said, "I'm just a Mom!" --- continue to read and tell us what YOU think?}

 Hello Keirsten!!!

Full name: 

Keirsten Schow Reinhold

Instagram User Name: 

@keirstenreinhold

Currently resides: 

Originally from Idaho Falls, Idaho, but have lived in Kaysville, Utah for almost 20 years. Am I a "local" yet? 

Treat: 

Dirty diet coke & swig sugar cookies (how typical) and caramel ANYTHING....and a good steak salad with melty gorgonzola cheese. I could go on...

Talent: 

I have freakishly photographic memory for totally unimportant details. For example, I can tell you what you wore 10 years ago on a Tuesday in May, or exactly what kind of granite a Parade of Homes house had 5 years ago, but I can't remember to take the garbage out on Thursday night. Ever. Which is crazy because I'm very observant, detail-oriented & kinda nosy. Really I joke that I should be a private investigator. Or a professional stalker. You'd think I could remember the garbage!! Good thing the spouse remembers all the important things.

Weird Fact: 

I have 11.2K Pinterest Pins. There should be a medal for this, right? 

Fave Quote: 

I'm a total quote freak. 

(How can I possibly choose one?)

Fave color: 

I love, love, love, all colors. I've had rooms in my homes that were various shades of orange, red, gold, blue & green. I will never have an all-white home. Although very beautiful too, it's just not me. 

I was a Secondary Ed Home EC major at Utah State when I had to change my major 3 semesters before graduation because I could NOT pass the sewing classes. I had to student-teach 7th graders how to thread a serger and I had to make a tailored blazer. Can you imagine??! (No biggie for some of you) It was horrible. So I got rid of the teaching part of my major and graduated in Family Life, a composite major. But I learned a lot in that area of study. I have always loved fashion, interior design, cooking, and managing a home. Nutrition, finance, family & childhood development were in there too. My major taught me everything I needed to know about being a SAHM (stay at home mom). .....Except the parts about the real challenges & joys that can be found in staying home to raise a family. That's the important stuff that I've learned on my knees.

[LOVE THAT...A LOT!!!]
 

I'm married to Rand Reinhold, who I met at Ricks College 23 years ago this month. He was a hunky football player from Salt Lake, pretty much my dream. We married the following summer (in typical Ricks College fashion), and have been blessed with 3 boys, Ashton-19, Hyatt-17, and Boston-9. Ashton is currently serving a mission in Charlotte, NC. (He will hit his Hump Day on September 18th.) 

This is also my husband's exact same mission. {Cooleo!!}Which is crazy, to say the least. I've never learned more about myself or my little family than I have during this year. Being a missionary family is like having this new type of glue that just instantly binds you to each other & other families who are in your shoes. It's been an amazing, horrible (can I say that?), happy, sad, challenging, rewarding, unbelievable experience. I am in awe of these young missionaries (Elders AND Sisters) who are literally flooding the earth with their examples of goodness and service. With willing & happy hearts & spirits, to boot! It has been a gift to witness! #hastenthework

{WE GET THIS...as WE are Missionary Families too!}
 

I'm also the lucky mom of a sweet boy with Down Syndrome and I truly do consider myself LUCKY. Hyatt is now 17 years old and a Senior in High School. I was 25years old when he was born; it was completely unexpected. That was the time in my life when I truly discovered the gift of "The Comforter". Never before had I felt the almost-tangible arms of strength & peace wrapped around me. The Spirit carried us through those first months of Hyatt's life with an almost EASINESS. That sounds crazy, but we were not sad! Scared, but NOT sad or angry. We were blessed with the knowledge that he was here with US for a reason. Those reasons have slowly been manifested to us through the years. He is a light to all who know him and wouldn't trade what I've learned about unconditional love, patience, forgiveness, purity, and joy for anything! 
Being a mom is my life! 

Also extremely thankful for a 3rd angel who came 8 years after Hyatt. Pretty much my best friend & sidekick. 

I'm so full of gratitude for the examples of strong mothers & women in my life. My own beautiful mom who raised 5 children in the Church by herself and who never wavered in her testimony even though her husband's testimony has never been strong. I cherish the friendships I have with my sisters & girlfriends as well, We NEED each other to survive this crazy life! I am constantly learning and growing through the example of strong, faithful women.  As strange as it may sound, I learn so much from my little circle of Instagram friends & Bloggers. {WOOT!} It truly is an amazing community of friendship & support. Not to mention talent, staggering beauty and unending resources for EVERYTHING. It makes me sad when I hear criticizing of women BY other women. It's OK to post a selfie, take a picture of a beautiful meal or creation you made, or talk about the accomplishments of your children! It's also OK to be real and admit when we don't have "it all together". Let's love each other anyway! Thanks for letting me learn from you too, Your Sister Circle! What a fab group of ladies.

Your Sister~

Keirsten❤️

Thanks for letting me ramble....

Keirsten, Your a STAR!
A STAR Mom, that's for Sure!
Thanks for blessing our lives with yours!
 

HOLY COW Ladies!
That was such a treat!
We can learn so much from others lives.

Can NOT wait for next week!!!
Have a super day!

Hugs times FIVE...............