"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

Monday, November 19, 2012

*GASP*

After Family Home Evening tonight we were enjoying some nice, warm, fresh from the oven cinnamon rolls dripping with yummy cream cheese frosting.  Then, gasp, Grace told me this, "Next time could you make them without the frosting, I don't like it."  Did you gasp too?  She had better watch herself, she might get kicked out of the family if she keeps talking like that!

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

We continue on updating our kitchen (still needs work).  We bought a remnant piece of vinyl from a friend in the flooring business and then he was nice enough to help us install it.  So, there is the old brown.  So dirty with this weird black stuff in some places that never cleaned up and I tried everything!  And here is the new! 
It is a big difference.  I keep thinking I'm in the wrong house.  It is clean!  (my favorite part!)  Now we have to put up bead board and the floor moulding and paint the ceiling :)

Monday, November 5, 2012

Firsts

This was Madelyn's first Halloween.  She went trick or treating with the kids, and fell asleep :)  People kept offering us candy for her, ummm, she is 7 months old, no thank-you!  Grace was a princess, Madelyn a candy corn and TD was a superhero, with a one of a kind cape! (courtesy of mom)
 Grace lost her FIRST tooth.  She told us it was loose on Halloween, or the day before and on Friday she complained while eating so I looked at it, she walked away and then turned around with her tooth in her hand, she had pulled it out.  Wow, she is getting old!