We should not underestimate or overlook the power of the Lord’s tender mercies. The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in which we do now and will yet live. When words cannot provide the solace we need or express the joy we feel, when it is simply futile to attempt to explain that which is unexplainable, when logic and reason cannot yield adequate understanding about the injustices and inequities of life, when mortal experience and evaluation are insufficient to produce a desired outcome, and when it seems that perhaps we are so totally alone, truly we are blessed by the tender mercies of the Lord and made mighty even unto the power of deliverance (see 1 Ne. 1:20).
-Elder David A. BednarOf the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Santa Clause

Both of these faces say it all.

Yet every day he plays with the toy Santa brought him. I don't think he really believes it is from Santa.
But some of us actually were nice......
.....and we got just what we asked for.
One more time at School just for good measure.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Snow Faces

Playing in the snow. Look at these happy faces.


After playing for awhile, I went outside and asked Gideon if he was cold? He told me, "no, the snow is cold, I happy!" What a cutie.


That face! I just can't resist that face!

If you look really close you may notice that Gideon has on pink and white boots and pink gloves. That is what happens when you have two older sisters. He couldn't have cared less.


Making snow flakes takes a lot of concentration. Just look at these faces.







Gideon didn't actually make any snow flakes. He just kept cutting the paper into little tinny pieces but he was happy as could be just to be included.

Enjoy The Snow!

Saturday, December 5, 2009

disapointing news again

Well we went to the doctors yesterday to check on the pregnancy and once again there is no heart beat. So we are going through the process of another miscarriage. I'm not as far along this time so the process should be a little easier and a little less eventful if my body will let go of the miscarriage. My body holds pretty tight to these pregnancies and doesn't let go easily, even when it should.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Gideon




I have been singing Christmas song this morning. I just got done singing the line "If you want to be happy in a million ways, for the holidays you can't beat home sweet home." When Gideon turned to me and said, "Na uha, Grandma's House!" Guess you know where we go for the holidays. :)

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

This Year Our Family is Thankful for.....

one of these coming to our family in June.


We can't wait!!!!!

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Halloween Week

We had a fun Halloween week. On Wednesday we went to Shiloh's parents house and had a family party. We had dinner and played all sorts of games but this is the only one we got a pictures of. Each team wrapped someone up in t.p. using as much paper as they could in the time allowed.
ShiAnne as a mummy.
Lizzy, Grandma and ShiAnne as mummies.

And then we found out it was just as much fun to play with all the t.p. that had been stripped off the mummies. This really was a big hit. (Please just ignore the water spots on the lens.)



Gideon was so cute when you would ask him if he was "super boy he woudl say, "No I big boy."

On Friday we got to got to the school twice to watch Halloween parades. Once in the morning to watch Lizzy aka "Speed Girl"
and then again in the after noon for ShiAnne. Dad got home early and got to come watch ShiAnne's aka "Sunshine Girl's" parade. Lucky girl!


While waiting for Lizzy's parade Gideon entertained himself with trowing this bean bag in the air and making me take pictures of him.

Then while waiting for ShiAnne's parade he found his friend Wesley (Gideon just thinks Wesley is great!) and shared his bean bags . These two had a lot of fun!
After the parade they had an impromptu dance party in ShiAnne's classroom as they played Halloween songs over the speaker. The kids were having a lot of fun.
Finally, Saturday it was actually Halloween. We had a Halloween party at our house and My parents, my sister Jocelyn and her kids. One again we didn't get a whole lot of pictures.
This is a picture is of the boys playing with the bean bags again. I actually made the bean bags to play a game at Shiloh's family's Halloween party. Who knew they would be so much fun?
The girls were making ghost luminaries that we used latter the night in our yard.
And of course we had to do the traditional contest of eating the doughnut of the string. No cheating and using your hands.

A ready competitor!
She is getting good at it. I think she came in second but look at that face.
Don't worry we also went trick of treating that night.
Hope you had a Happy Halloween!