Raspberry, Chocolate Chip and Mom: July 2009

Friday, July 31, 2009

A long time coming.

Today is the last day of daycare for Miss Emma. I've decided to keep her home for August. She will hang out with her brother, me, then her Dad for a few days. Daycare has taken its toll on me through Brax and then Emma. I hope, for all our sakes, that it is finished.

She is now registered for first grade. Incredible.

I so miss that little face, but the time to move on has come.

Hallelujah.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

blessings and gratitude

today I am very grateful for our neighbor and elders quorum president bob and his lovely wife Angie. tonight he came over at 10:30 p.m. after what was a very long day at work and fixed our a/c.

it was sooo hot and we are extremely grateful to be sleeping in cool air again.

concern for the one.

Found this on the BYU CTL Web site today. Thought it was lovely.

“The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and adds to the complex beauty of the symphony. All of Heavenly Father’s children are different in some degree, yet each has his own beautiful sound that adds depth and richness to the whole.”

Joseph B. Wirthlin, “Concern for the One,” Ensign, May 2008.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Phone Photos

Least you think all I do is run youth programs...here are some photos from June and July.

More later...

With Cousins

Funny Faces

Tooth Free Grin

Temple Open House

Sunburn

Asleep... Finally

July 4th

Bright and Blurry Mom.

My friend Chelle (who works with me and still likes me :)

Favorite Quotes

“I will go forward. I will smile at the rage of the tempest, and ride fearlessly and triumphantly across the boisterous ocean of circumstance… and the ‘testimony of Jesus’ will light a lamp that will guide my vision through the portals of immortality.”

-Eliza R. Snow

Integrity is not naiveté. What is naive is to suppose that we are not accountable to God.
Elder D. Todd Christofferson

“If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.”
Elder Neil A. Maxwell

“When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.”
Billy Collins

"...as human beings, our work isn’t measured by taking the sum of our good deeds and the sum of our bad deeds and seeing how things even out, the only thing you need to think about is: Are you trying to improve, are you trying to do better? And if you are, then you’re a saint."
(Mitt Romney)

Different can be good.

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale of all.”
(Hans Christian Andersen)

"When you are involved in the work of the Lord, the obstacles before you are never as great as the power behind you."

"People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating and building, others could destroy overnight. Create and build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the world the best you have anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
~Mother Teresa

"There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
~Washington Irving

You can tell a man's character by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
~unknown

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted
~Aesop

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore make any progress
~Anwaar Sadat

Babylon does not give exit permits gladly
~Neal A. Maxwell

Dear Lord, I need your arm around my shoulder, and your hand over my mouth.

A More Determined Discipleship.

"Make no mistake about it, brothers and sisters, in the months and years ahead, events are likely to require each member to decide whether or not he will follow the First Presidency. Members will find it more difficult to halt longer between two opinions.

President Marion G. Romney said, many years ago, that he had 'never hesitated to follow the counsel of the Authorities of the Church even though it crossed my social, professional or political life.' "This is hard doctrine, but it is particularly vital doctrine in a society which is becoming more wicked. In short, brothers and sisters, not being ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ includes not being ashamed of the prophets of Jesus Christ. . . . Your discipleship may see the time when such religious convictions are discounted. . . . This new irreligious imperialism seeks to disallow certain opinions simply because those opinions grow out of religious convictions.

"Resistance to abortion will be seen as primitive. Concern over the institution of the family will be viewed as untrendy and unenlightened....Before the ultimate victory of the forces of righteousness, some skirmishes will be lost. Even in these, however, let us leave a record so that the choices are clear, letting others do as they will in the face of prophetic counsel.

Neal A. Maxwell, "A More Determined Discipleship,"

Ensign, Feb 1979, 69–73

Friday, July 31, 2009

A long time coming.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

blessings and gratitude

concern for the one.

Monday, July 20, 2009

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