"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley


"None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us."

--Sheri L. Dew

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Easter






Grace's First Easter! My sister had an easter egg hunt at her house and Grace even "found" a few eggs herself. We painted one for her as well, but the picture didn't turn out so well! We spent Sunday with Gran't parents, here are all of her cousins but one on that side. (no, I didn't make the dress)






Then, this Mon-Wed my sister, sister's kids, my mom and me all traveled to Utah to see my other sister over spring break, Grace got to take a bath with her cousin. She liked it because they have better bath toys than we do.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

More Grace

Okay, so we were taking pictures and video and it was cute, some of them are just great! (mostly because I'm her mommy :))
Grace was crawling in the cupboard, then got stuck! She was pretty mad!




Grace knows how to wave, but chooses not to most of the time, so we had to take a picture when she did! We have a video too, but it's too dark to see anything.
This one is just hilarious :) It looks like she doesn't know where to smile at!
And last, but not least, the famous monkey! I feel bad for any boy who tries to get her, he'll have to compete with that monkey! She drags it with her everywhere she goes.


This is Grace trying to click her tongue, then she tries to give you 5!

Monday, March 17, 2008

My masterpiece

Hello everyone, I finished my quilt a while back but many of you know I was making one so here are the pictures. I used my mom's old scrap material from all those dresses she made us girls over the years :) And, she had some old drapery samples so those are all the big squares. It is approximately 9' by 9' although one side is longer than the other, I don't know how that happened?

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Grace's favorite thing to do







This is Grace's favorite pastime, climbing the stairs. She does it all by herself! If we leave the gate open, she goes straight for the stairs!

Practice Post

I'm practicing posting video. Our computer doesn't have the right program to show these videos so I don't even know which this one is. Hopefully it's cute, should be, it's Grace! Okay, so it is Grace making the oh oh oh sound when you pat your hand over your mouth, she's better at it now :)

Friday, March 14, 2008



Here are some pictures of Grace eating licorice and helping mom in the kitchen.

Welcome

Well, we are finally getting out of the dark ages and creating a blog. I don't know how often we will update and post, but, oh well, we'll see!