Grant, Christine, Grace, Thaddeus, Madelyn & Ephraim: November

"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, 2014

November

Ephraim is really into containers and their lids lately. It occupies him while I make dinner so I like it!

This was our last nice Saturday, we spent it raking up all the leaves, the weather has turned super cold!

I'm sad I'm not a food photographer, these cranberry/orange biscuits were a lot better than they look! Thanksgiving was very non-traditional. We had BBQ pork riblets and baked potatoes and only stuffing because I had a box I got for free :) Sometimes life just needs to be easy though!