"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, July 8, 2012

Life

 Life goes by too quickly!  Grant and the two older kids slept outside in a tent!  The kiddos loved it!  We are going camping soon so they got a little practice :)
 Madelyn is 3 months old.  She weighed about 12 1/2 pounds, more now.  She LOVES sucking on her hands, I don't remember my other two having their hand in their mouth so much.  She is also starting to reach for things, getting pretty good really.  She likes to grab at her own toes and she even caught Grace's hair once!  (I've been warning Grace about this since Madelyn was born, I don't think she quite understood what I meant, now she does!)  She is trying to sit up as well, you can only guess how well that is going, FACE PLANT!
 A picture of us girls all pretty for church.  Grace and I did our hair the same and both had flowers in the back.
And I just love this picture so I threw it in.  I caught Madelyn just right, she wasn't laughing, it just looks like she is.  And I love Grace's face.
There is only one picture of Thaddeus, he has been in his own world lately, off doing and exploring on his own a lot.  Grace has passed off the 1st 9 articles of faith!  She is working on #10.  Her goal (I didn't start this, she came home from church one Sunday and told me she wanted to memorize them) is to have them all passed off before her Aunt Kamille gets home from her mission (may/june of 2013) I think she will make it.