HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAILYN

This beautiful girl turns 8 tomorrow and how proud of her I am! She is sweet and kind and funny and extremely dramatic. Kailyn, you have some wonderful qualities and I am so glad that you are a part of this family. Happy Birthday.

I didn't have a very good camara or take very good pictures when you were little so I'm still looking for some that I haven't scrap booked and can scan.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIGHTON

My baby turned 4. That is CRAZY!! What a joy he has been. I love my girls, but there is something so great about a boy. Something so different.

13 years. Holy cow! It's funny to me that it seems like only yesterday, and yet I feel like we've been together forever. Jim and I celebrate our 13th anniversary tomorrow. It has definately had it's ups and downs as all good marriages do, but it has been a great ride. I am not in a sappy mood at the moment, (and I'm pretty sure he'll never read this), but I hope that Jim knows how wonderful I think he is. So often I think about how blessed I am. I married a man who is patient with my flaws, who will cook so that we don't starve, and allows me to have "my time" whenever possible. He even helps pick up around the house and does his very best to make me happy. If I sit back and really think about it, I am spoiled. We have made it work and showed a lot of people that we were meant to be together. I am grateful for the triangle we formed with our Heavenly Father when we were sealed for time and all eternity. He is the center of our marriage and our home.

Thanks baby for a great 13 years!! I love you more today than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

So it's football season and because my husband is a Bears fan, so are my kids. They wear their jersy's for every game and love to sit and watch football with their dad.

The other day my 4 year old son blurts out, "mommy... Jesus wants us to play football." I have to say I was quite amused. I asked him why Jesus would want us to play football and he said something like, "I don't know, I think it's good excersise."

Stop and watch the leaves fall

I absolutely love this time of year. Minus the fact that it comes around so quickly and it means that another year is almost at a close. Can anyone believe that we are almost finished with 2008 and moving into 2009. Where does the time go? Have you ever thought about it? Where did it go and why so fast? What are you doing with it? It's not the time of year to stop and smell the roses, but instead how about stopping to watch the leaves fall. We have become a gotta have it now society and it is sad to me that we have falling into the belief that everything has to run 24/7 in order to make more money. I wish we could do something to change the way the world views our "day of rest" and how valuable it is and should be to our society. I truly believe we would be a more blessed people is we could observe it the way it was inteded. Sorry for the soap box.

So I have to say that this weekend was a tad bit crappy. On the 14th, it was my dad's 5th month of being gone. To top it all off, it was stake conference (my dad was big into stake conference, being the stake president) and the mission prez and his wife spoke as well as singing called to serve (one of my dad's favorites). So needless to say, it was a bit emotional and I have decided that I will probably just never do well with stake conference.

How grateful I am for the plan of salvation, for the love of my Savior and the testimony I have of His will and plan. I was blessed to come to a family who loved the Gospel and taught their chidren to love it too. I hope to be the kind of parents that mine were and are. My mom's example of strength and faith is overwhelming. I'm not saying she doesn't get lonely, but she is striving to know the Lord's will and stay close to those things that give her comfort, prayer and scripture study. She is amazing to me. I miss my dad and long for him to call me "beepers" and tell me that everything will look brighter in the morning. (It's time for a phone call Jimmy!!)

So the pictures don't do it justice! This has been our project for the past year and more so this summer. It is so time for it to be done!!!! Jim has worked so hard and been so good to let the kids get in on the fun. The blue room is going to be Kailyn's and the pink one is Danaca's. The red room is the theatre room and the brown room withouth the beadboard is my scrapbook area. The other brown room with the beadboard is the family room. We are going to start moving stuff down this week. Sooo excited.

It's almost complete

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Life as I know it...

So two weeks ago our ward was split. It was a much needed split because we had too many people to keep track of. The following Sunday I was called into the Bishops office and he asked if I would accept being released from my current calling as a relief society teacher. I was incredibly reluctant to answer his loaded question. Let me back up for a second...

My dad has always teased and asked when I was going to be in the relief society presidency. Any time I called him to tell him I was asked to serve somewhere, he would immediatly go for relief society. I would tell him that he was crazy and not to wish that on me, I was fine doing what I was doing.

Well, sitting in the Bishops office he asked if I would accept a call as the first counsilor in the R.S. presidency over enrichment. As I accepted and told him I would "love" to, I sat thought about my dad. I told the Bishop that anyone who wanted me in a presidency was crazy. When I got home from my interview I wanted so bad to tell him about my new calling. I knew it wouldnt be the same, but to satisfy my need, I called my parents home phone. (As some of you know, we've asked mom not to change the message cuz it's dad's voice) When I heard the beep I proceeded to tell my dad all about it. Dumb, huh?!

So, needless to say my schedule just got shuved into overdrive and life as I knew it no longer exhists. I hope and pray that I can keep it all together. I was overwhelmed with the immediate love and concern that I have for the sisters in my ward, and a desire to help them in anyway I can.

Wish me luck!!

Where to begin...

Since my last post was talking about all the craziness, now I'm going to post pictures. While Jim's dad was visiting I was able to take a 3 generation picture. And the girls got a picture with their cousin Bailey.


These next pictures are from when my sister was here and we went up to m Uncle Kelly's house to play with the horses. The kids chased the chicken, picked and ate fresh raspberries and got to ride Felice.





When all our company went home I left town. I went to Syracuse to scrapbook for a weekend with my friend Kimberli. Once a year (Mother's day weekend) we get together and scrapbook all day and night. Well when my dad passed away in April Kimberli suggested we move the weekend to August. I was so grateful that she didn't expect me to go thru with it and didn't make me have to be the one to postpone it. It's been 4 months and I am still having a hard time scrapbooking pictures with him in them. Kimberli completed 4 beautiful layouts and I was able to get thru 9 mediocur ones.