"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, May 18, 2014

May 18, 2014

This is a little video I would like to entitle, "Too much love"  Madelyn loves Ephraim, a little too much.  And she tries really hard to keep him from crying so she can hold him longer :)  She'll make a great mom someday!

  Ephraim got both his bottom teeth, in 3 days!  Crazy, my 4 1/2 month old has teeth.  He was a trooper though.  The only thing he did differently was drool like crazy, like drool running down his hand and arm from his mouth and just dripping crazy and he woke up one extra time at night to nurse.  What a great kid!

Grace and Thaddeus spoiled me for mother's day with a whole table of goodies from them, all homemade, my favorite!  Two paper plate fans, a Lego M, two homemade cards and a tile coaster Grace made at school.  They also helped make me breakfast.  They also decorated our white board and helped dad make a Mother's Day Poster that stayed up until if fell down, a week later :)

 
Those two also know how to empty a dishwasher, and one morning they paused to make a cup family.  Grant, me, The kids, Grandma Call and her dog Barney :)  I'll let you guess who is who :)

 
Ephraim got the chance to be a baby model for a friend of mine.  She has a product line called, "Bundled" you can find it on facebook.  This is one of the pictures they took (he wasn't wearing one of her hats)