"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

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

I've been tagged


Here are 10 questions to answer about you and your sweetheart:

1. Where did you first meet your sweet heart?
At the local Young Single Adult Branch. I had to speak in Sacrament Mtg. the week after I got home from my mission, or I probably wouldn't have gone at all!

2. What do you remember about him/her the most?
I had already spoken to him on the phone and thought he was a little goofy, but when I saw him on Sunday, whoah, he was hot (still is) and he spoke to me in Portuguese and he had a yellow and green tie on.

3. Who asked who out first?
He asked me, after a few failed attempts we finally went out.

4. What did you do on your first date?
We drove up to an outdoor theater called Starlight Mountain Theater, I don't remember what we saw though.

5. What was your favorite thing to do together when you were dating?
See eachother, we were far away for a long time, when we were together we liked to watch movies or play games.

6. When was your first kiss with your sweetheart?
October 29, 2005, on my front porch after a Halloween dance.

7. When did you first realize you loved him/her?
When the thought of marrying him actually stuck, I thought, oh, I'm going to actually marry this guy!

8 Who said it (I love you) first?
He did.

9. How did s/he propose?
He asked me my goal with this relationship and forced me to say I wouldn't mind marrying him, then the day before Thanksgiving, the 23rd of November 2005 he drove me out to Lake Lowell Dam and proposed.

10. What are two things you remember most about your wedding?
1. Holding hands over the alter 2. That night, not having to say goodbye!
I tag Mary Duncan and Heidi Luke.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Poor Grace, fun project

Last Sunday we were all taking a nap. Grace woke up and Grant went to get her and let me keep sleeping/lazily lay in bed. As they were going down the stairs Grant lost his footing and fell and they both went sliding down the stairs separately. He was holding Grace on his hip so when he fell he crushed her right foot pretty good! We took her to one of the local clinics that is open on Sunday and got x-rays and nothing was broken, thankfully! But, she just barely started walking on it again on Thursday and still walks on her heal/side of her foot. I had forgotten what it was like to have a crawler, and it wasn't fun! I had to carry her everywhere! This is why you don't get pregnant until your child is walking :) I tried to take a picture of her bruised foot but no matter how I take it, her foot looks fine so no pics!

For all of you Portuguese speakers out there. Go to this website: www.theideadoor.com and email Liz about helping her translate some of her stuff into Portuguese. It is really easy stuff, nothing really complicated. I've started to do some of it but I figure if we all pitch in and then email our friends back in Portugal or Brazil they can have cute stuff like we always have. And, anyone else who speaks any language other than English or Spanish. She takes the primay themes and makes cute little papers, posters activities and other stuff to go with them. Be forewarned though, she doesn't spell check on her website, it drives me nuts but she has cute stuff so I can forgive her :) And, you should go check it out anyway. She has a gospel ABC book under printables you can print out and laminate, so cute with scripture references and everything so it is good for older kids as well. We made a half-size version for Grace and put in pictures of Grant and I, her Grandparents, the prophet, the day we got married and other more personal pictures. Anyway, it is a nice project!