We have some wonderful friends who want us to house sit for them! We are so excited. They'll be snow-birds and head south for the winter and we'll hold down the fort.
During the next few weeks we'll help with renovations in the basement so that we can have a kitchen down there. The summer months we are going to stay living in the apartment and help our friends with yardwork and cooking.
The wife is in a wheelchair with the use of an arm, shoulders and up. She used to be a gym teacher and now is an incredible painter! Oh, right now I just love the painting she is in the middle of. She has an ocean scene that is developing beautifully.
The husband is such a handyman. He loves to mountain bike, and do outdoorsy things. He also makes lye soap that looks really nice and earthy.
They have a backyard where the kids run and play and find the most creative things to do!
We're just a LITTLE excited. did I make that little big enough? Chuckle.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Photo shoot for DanceCore with photographers Brian & Kristy
Kristy, Brian, and Mary are all teaching at the DanceCore Studio
rolling down the hill
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Paul Cardall | Living for Eden: Gracie's Theme from the Celebrate Life Concert
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Presidet Gordon B. Hinkley said it this way: "You can be a leader. You must be a leader...in those causes for which the Church stands...The adversary of all truth would put into your heart a reluctance to make an effort. Cast that fear aside and be valiant in the cause of truth and righteousness" (Church News, September 21, 1996, 3 as cited by Dew).
When life throws you lemons, or possibly a rock, you thank Heavenly Father you're alive.
When I got back from walking this morning I found our passenger window broken in the van. We think a rock from Ammon road kicked back and shattered it.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Cute!
Bug just said a prayer with the words "I'm thankful for the spirit in my heart..."
So precious!
So precious!
God wants a Powerful People
These passages from Sheri Dew's book "God wants a Powerful People" filled me with peace as I was reading it yesterday. So, I'm sharing my peace! :)
"If your faith is wobbly, if you're not sure the Lord will come to your aid, experiment. Put Him to the test. A great place to start is the scriptures, for as Jacob wrote: "We search the prophets, and we have many revelations...and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken" (Jacob 4:6).
"It is not not possible to sin enought to be happy. It isn't possible to buy enought to be happy, or to entertain or indulge or pamper ouselves enought t be happy. It is not possible to hide enough or run far enough away from trials and troubles to be happy. Happiness and joy come only when we are living up to who we are. King
benjami understood this and taught it clearly when he admonished us to "consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For...they are blessed in all things,...and if htey hold out faithful to the end...they may dwell with God in a state of neverending happiness" (Mosiah 2:41).
"Satan likely bristles at this principle, for happines is something the ultimate narcissist will never experience. I have never met anyone who was happier because he was immoral, or because he was addicted to something, or because he was dishonest and compromised his integrity. The Lord has blessed us with covenants that keep us on the straight and narrow path because this "road less traveled" is actually the easier road. It is so much easier to be righteous than to sin, so much easier to deal with a clear conscience that one ravaged by guilt, so much easier to feel peace of mind and heart when we are living up to who we are rather than coping with the emotional and spiritual ravages of regret, knowing we have lived beneath our divine nature.
"The happiest people I know are those who repent regularly and obey. And a major reason fr their happiness is that they have increased confidence in approaching and petitioning the Lord and increased access to His power."
"If your faith is wobbly, if you're not sure the Lord will come to your aid, experiment. Put Him to the test. A great place to start is the scriptures, for as Jacob wrote: "We search the prophets, and we have many revelations...and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken" (Jacob 4:6).
"It is not not possible to sin enought to be happy. It isn't possible to buy enought to be happy, or to entertain or indulge or pamper ouselves enought t be happy. It is not possible to hide enough or run far enough away from trials and troubles to be happy. Happiness and joy come only when we are living up to who we are. King
benjami understood this and taught it clearly when he admonished us to "consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For...they are blessed in all things,...and if htey hold out faithful to the end...they may dwell with God in a state of neverending happiness" (Mosiah 2:41).
"Satan likely bristles at this principle, for happines is something the ultimate narcissist will never experience. I have never met anyone who was happier because he was immoral, or because he was addicted to something, or because he was dishonest and compromised his integrity. The Lord has blessed us with covenants that keep us on the straight and narrow path because this "road less traveled" is actually the easier road. It is so much easier to be righteous than to sin, so much easier to deal with a clear conscience that one ravaged by guilt, so much easier to feel peace of mind and heart when we are living up to who we are rather than coping with the emotional and spiritual ravages of regret, knowing we have lived beneath our divine nature.
"The happiest people I know are those who repent regularly and obey. And a major reason fr their happiness is that they have increased confidence in approaching and petitioning the Lord and increased access to His power."
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
The Constitution is Divinely Guided
I was reading the Doctrine and Covenants this morning and both Bri and I were struck by how clear the Lord was about the Constitution.
D&C 98: 5-11
5 And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind, and is justifiable before me.
6 Therefore, I, the lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land;
7 And as pertaining to law of man, whatsoever is more or less than this, cometh of evil.
8 I, the Lord God, make you free, therefore ye are free indeed; and the law maketh you free.
9 Nevertheless, when the wicked rule the people mourn.
10 Wherefore, honest men and wise men should be sought for diligently, and good men and wise men ye should observe to uphold; otherwise whatsoever is less than these cometh of evil.
11 And I give unto you a commandment, that ye shall forsake all evil and cleave unto all good that ye shall live by every word which proceedeth forth out of the mouth of God.
Pray. Study the scriptures. Act on God's will.
I know this sounds like a simple antidote for the nation. It is and it isn't. Try it and you'll find out. Spread it and you'll find out.
:)
D&C 98: 5-11
5 And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind, and is justifiable before me.
6 Therefore, I, the lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land;
7 And as pertaining to law of man, whatsoever is more or less than this, cometh of evil.
8 I, the Lord God, make you free, therefore ye are free indeed; and the law maketh you free.
9 Nevertheless, when the wicked rule the people mourn.
10 Wherefore, honest men and wise men should be sought for diligently, and good men and wise men ye should observe to uphold; otherwise whatsoever is less than these cometh of evil.
11 And I give unto you a commandment, that ye shall forsake all evil and cleave unto all good that ye shall live by every word which proceedeth forth out of the mouth of God.
Pray. Study the scriptures. Act on God's will.
I know this sounds like a simple antidote for the nation. It is and it isn't. Try it and you'll find out. Spread it and you'll find out.
:)
Thursday, July 29, 2010
My friend's mother's farm.
This is her garden. Cool, huh!
Currants we are going to pick tomorrow
Nanking cherries we are going to pick tomorrow.
kidlets eating cherries.
Fairlight either jumped in the canal or fell in it. Here she's trying to get water out of her nose.
The kidlets are sharing the hose as they drink cold water. Far in the background (near the car) is my bucket garden.
Brian's softball game.
Dude had a blast with the balls (baseball, softball, kickball, soccer balls, and I think a volleyball). Bug read book after book with the sister on the left.
After the game we watched a cooking show and the kidlets sat on the shelf in the living room. :)
Birthday parties, water, and cake
This is at a birthday party for a boy in the ward. It was lots of fun as the kidlets learned about the slip and slide!
This is his watermelon birthday cake. They even flavored the cake with watermelon jello so that it tasted and looked like watermelon on the inside. Due to Soy we brought our own cupcakes and used their buttercream frosting for our cake.
This is bug's new swimsuit. It used to be the dress I made for her two years ago. I realized she didn't have a swimsuit that fit. The party was on Monday so I threw this together on Saturday. Don't be too impressed. The top was pretty much made already and that's the hardest part.
Chuckle. This is dude's swimsuit. He's taken two years to fill out this gift from Nana C.
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