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.  :)

A friend gave us an old mixer with a blender, so we're trying out the power of the motor with cookie dough...

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.

The sun is moving away...

The other day we were walking into Winco as the sun was setting.  Someone said (I think it was a kid-let) that the sun was moving away from us.

"We are moving away from the sun.  In the morning we will return to it."

I know that doesn't seem as profound in print.  Yet, it struck both Brian and I how true that is in all senses of our own relationship with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

They are always there for us.

We choose to leave their presence by transgressing Their laws.  Sometimes we go back halfway and expect them to be there.  They can't, or they wouldn't be Gods.  We must go back all the way.

Occasionally we get ourselves into bad predicaments by our choices and expect them to bail us out.  They have never been opposed to leading me out...but only on choice occasions have they bailed me out (such as when I drowned; apparently they wanted me alive...and I'm very grateful).

"VERILY, thus saith the Lord: It shall come to pass that every soul who forsaketh his sins and cometh unto me, and calleth on my name, and obeyeth my voice, and keepeth my comandments, shall see my face and know that I am;" D&C 93:1

Doctrine & Covenants 90:18

Set in order your houses; keep slotfulness and uncleanness far from you.

That's my goal today.

Peace, be still.

I feel hollow and sorrowful as I read the Revolutionary Mothers by Carol Berkin.  War has never seemed glorious to me; but the actual descriptions of the moral dissintigration, the destitute people, the ravaged farms & destroyed property, the cruelty of good men and women, the gore, and the mortality is so sickening.  Neighbor against neighbor, haunted men, lonely and starving women and children...

I have perceived in our nation the conservative, God fearing population (both Jew and Gentile), stirring like buzzing bees.  I believe they buzz due to the high amount of Liberal news egging them on and making them feel like they are not important and not heard.  

It occurs to me that many prominent speakers are trying to get the conservative base to rise up in revolution.  Why?  History shows that they would do this in order to suppress the the revolutionaries shortly after the uprising and bring vast amounts of power to the leaders of the country due to an "emergency".  The leaders of this confused nation have already begun to strip us of our rights and force on us "luxuries" as a bribe to get our allegiance.

Personally, I do not wish to be enslaved by Socialism, Marxism, Communism, or Tyranny.  

Yet, we are good people who want freedom for our families, freedom to worship, and freedom to begin with nothing and build wealth.  

We must use God's power to wage this war.  This land is consecrated by God and for God for the fulfillment of His promises.  His church was re-established on this continent for the beautification, prosperity, and edification of all of His children.  He does not loose His wars for He has legions of angels and all the powers of science and heaven at His fingertips.

I am at peace. 

Oh, Lord my God,

When I in awesome wonder consider all the worlds Thy hands have made,

I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy pow'r throughout the universe displayed.

Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee,

How great thou art!

How great thou art!

Then sings my soul, my Savior God to thee,

How great thou art!

How great thou art!