"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

Sunday, November 30, 2008

An Eventful Week

This has been quite the eventful week!

Monday: I got my hair cut. Not just trimmed as you all know me to do, but layered and even thinned a little, although you can't tell the thinning part :) You can't tell very well with my hair curly, I'll have to take a pic when I straighten it one of these days!



Tuesday: Grace got her haircut. Her first one! We kept some of her hair to put in her scrapbook. Now she doesn't look like such a scrounge with 2 layers of hair, 3 inches difference!

Before:


After:




Wednesday: Grant and I were both home all day, together (until he had to go to work in the evening) and we re-arranged Grace's room. Grant and I are almost NEVER home together, he almost always is at work or school!! Here is a before and after. As you can see, the before is very cluttered and crowded, and the after, ahh, you can breathe!
Before:
After:



Thursday: Thanksgiving with 27 people, 15 of them children, no pics.
Friday: We got our bed!! These pictures are from box to bed, pretty cool to watch it inflate itself!


Saturday: We slept on our bed for the first time (long story, why we didn't get to until last night) and slept very well! We'll see how these next nights go!

Sunday: Grace stays home from church with Dad and I actually learned something(!) in Sacrament meeting about Gratitude.

3 comments:

Scott and Stacia said...

Graces hair looks so cute. I think she looks older. I have never heard of one of those beds before. I hope you like it and that you get lots of good sleep!!

Anonymous said...

Someday we might get a new bed . . . (sigh) so you have to keep us updated on whether or not you like it!!! Congratulations!

Joy said...

Your hair looks great! After going short, I don't know if I'll ever go back. And the first haircut for kids is always a little traumatic, but Grace looks adorable! I hope you enjoy the bed!