Two quotes from Ashtyn at dinner tonight:
"Mom, did you know I'm a child of God?"
and,
"I think I need a bra." (She just turned 3, not 13!)
We love that she is really starting to express herself verbally, in ways other than screaming or crying. She sings all day. Mostly songs that she makes up herself about things that are going on around her, or whatever she is doing at the moment. She is fun and we love her.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Story Corps
Here is a link to an amazing idea and website.
http://www.storycorps.net/
Click on "Listen," and just enjoy. This is such a great idea. I heard about it on NPR. I think we need to get (the older people especially) in our lives to start telling us stories whenever we can get them to. It would be fun for them, and a wonderful experience for us. I listened to a couple of them today, and then told myself, "I'm gonna listen to everyone of these!"
Hope you enjoy. Tell me which one is your favorite.
I really like Taylor and Bessie Rogers.
http://www.storycorps.net/
Click on "Listen," and just enjoy. This is such a great idea. I heard about it on NPR. I think we need to get (the older people especially) in our lives to start telling us stories whenever we can get them to. It would be fun for them, and a wonderful experience for us. I listened to a couple of them today, and then told myself, "I'm gonna listen to everyone of these!"
Hope you enjoy. Tell me which one is your favorite.
I really like Taylor and Bessie Rogers.
Sunday, March 19, 2006
The church is still true!!
Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley
"Let us not live a life . . . that would bring regret. . . . It is not going to matter very much how much money you made, what kind of a house you lived in, what kind of a car you drove, the size of your bank account—any of those things. What is going to matter is that dear woman who has walked with you side by side as your companion through all of the years of life and those children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and their faithfulness and their looking to you . . . with respect and love and deference and kindness. . . .
"The only things you will take with you, when all is said and done, are your family relationships. . . . God bless us to be good fathers, . . . good parents, and good husbands to our good wives" (meeting, Pleasant Grove, Utah, Jan. 18, 2003).
It is hard for me to keep this focus. I guess it is easy to get cought up with the house, the car, the bank account. The blah, the blah, the blah blah blah... Those things can easily totally consume your time and thought. It needs to be the other way around. I look at people I admire, and they have the right focus. The things of this world are just that, of THIS world. The things that really matter, that are eternal, are their focus. That is what I want to be like. I want to keep this a focus all the time. Often I catch myself thinking, "well, once we get the (blank) done, or once we get thru this week, then I can focus on what I really want to do." The thing is, there always seems to be something else to deter me away. There's always something else that comes up.
So how do I (we) do it, when we will keep getting the bill for the house, the car takes gas, work takes me away from my family, and the list goes on?
How do I keep this as my focus? Write it on my forehead? Put sticky notes all over my car, my house, and my work area?
"Let us not live a life . . . that would bring regret. . . . It is not going to matter very much how much money you made, what kind of a house you lived in, what kind of a car you drove, the size of your bank account—any of those things. What is going to matter is that dear woman who has walked with you side by side as your companion through all of the years of life and those children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and their faithfulness and their looking to you . . . with respect and love and deference and kindness. . . .
"The only things you will take with you, when all is said and done, are your family relationships. . . . God bless us to be good fathers, . . . good parents, and good husbands to our good wives" (meeting, Pleasant Grove, Utah, Jan. 18, 2003).
It is hard for me to keep this focus. I guess it is easy to get cought up with the house, the car, the bank account. The blah, the blah, the blah blah blah... Those things can easily totally consume your time and thought. It needs to be the other way around. I look at people I admire, and they have the right focus. The things of this world are just that, of THIS world. The things that really matter, that are eternal, are their focus. That is what I want to be like. I want to keep this a focus all the time. Often I catch myself thinking, "well, once we get the (blank) done, or once we get thru this week, then I can focus on what I really want to do." The thing is, there always seems to be something else to deter me away. There's always something else that comes up.
So how do I (we) do it, when we will keep getting the bill for the house, the car takes gas, work takes me away from my family, and the list goes on?
How do I keep this as my focus? Write it on my forehead? Put sticky notes all over my car, my house, and my work area?
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Thanks for the Princess Party!!
Hey Amy just a BIG shout out for the princess party.....Thank you so much for having one. Ashtyn love love loved it. That is all she talked about for days. She loves being a princess and having anything to do with princesses. She had a ball and we just want to say thanks!!! Hailey bop had a good time too. Just look at her all jeweled up! WE will have to do this again. Here are some of the pictures I took. They sure turned out cute!!!
Our first dinner!
This is some pictures from our first dinner at our new house. We just bought Papa Murphy's and grabbed a blanket and our fam and just hung out at our new house long enough to have some din-din. It was great. We sure are excited for our first house!
Saturday, March 04, 2006
more new house....
Jill and the girls and I went over to the new house again tonight. i had to get some info on the furnace, and do some measuring to check into some stuff we may want to do. since we were there, we dediced to have a little picnick for dinner. we took a blanket, some pizza, and had a great time eating our food on our dinning room floor. it was fun. Ashtyn said, "this is a fun little picnick." we are very excited. we still can't believe it is OURS. once this weekend is over, and i have some time off, i'm sure we will be over there more. we will take some pics then and get them up here.
yipee!
yipee!
Thursday, March 02, 2006
YIPEE!!!
Samuel A. and Jill F. = Home owners!!
we got the keys today. got to go in and actually really take a look at our new home. we are so excited. a place of our own!!
we'll keep you posted on the work we do, and try to post some pic's too. we want to do some before, during, and after shots. we have big plans, but we are sure the $$ will end before our dreams do.
fun fun.
we got the keys today. got to go in and actually really take a look at our new home. we are so excited. a place of our own!!
we'll keep you posted on the work we do, and try to post some pic's too. we want to do some before, during, and after shots. we have big plans, but we are sure the $$ will end before our dreams do.
fun fun.
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