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 grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenck's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirl under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and 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

Monday, August 31, 2009

Isaiah

Sunday night I took pictures of my friends baby boy. He is such a little dolly! I just love his smile! It's very infectious!

Friday, August 28, 2009

Bedtime News!

Alyssa has slept through the night for 3 nights in a row! Yay! We are hoping to get her doing this consistently before we put her in with her sisters. She has also learned to stand up in her crib. What a big girl!

The bunk beds are finished! Anthony made the little railing up on the top bunk and the girls and I painted it. Now we don't have to worry about Ashlynn falling out! Great job Honey!

Good night Hailey
Good night Ashlynn

Meet & Greet


Today we got the chance to take Ashlynn to her school to meet her teacher and see her class room. What a cute class! I can't believe how grown up my little girl is. This is what she got to wear. Her new school clothes! Boy was she excited! She's so excited to start school on Monday!

My Daddy


Last night we decided to have bacon, eggs and toast for dinner. When I mixed up the eggs and poured them into the pan I sloshed some down the side and onto the burner. A couple of seconds later my nose flared and I thought,

'Oh, that's awful! But what does that smell like?'

Then I realized.

Boiling brains.

How do I know?

My Dad.

I have the most interesting father in the world! After the deer hunt people all over St. George would give my Dad the hide from their deer. And he would strip it of all it's fur, purchase cow brains from the grocery store, boil them in water, blend them up in the blender and then soak the hide in the pureed brains and water for days. Then he would take it out, work it and stretch it and smoke it over a fire, creating the softest tanned leather you'd ever feel. Softer than some of the softest suede purses you'd find in a store.

I can honestly say that life with my father was never and never will be boring.

I remember spankings that never hurt.

Pretending to be asleep in his bed cause just maybe if I was, he wouldn't move me and I'd get to spend the night between Dad and Mom.

Hunting for arrow heads.

Digging for clay, bringing it home and making clay pots.

Going to Mountain Man Rendezvous and spending the night in tepees.

Hearing his morning salute every morning.

Asking to go to the store and if he'll buy me a candy bar, I'll pike him up one too.

Going on Daddy Daughter dates to see The Little Mermaid and Man of the House (with Jonathan Taylor Thomas aka JTT)

I know that neither of these movies interested my Dad but he took me anyways. Because he wanted to do something I would enjoy.

Now days I know that he is always there if I need someone to talk to, some one to go to dinner with, someone to swing with my daughter in the hammock while she sings all of the songs she knows...over and over and over.... and she only knows like five.

I love this man.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

New Jammies!


All of you may know that my husband is Mr. Fix-it.

His recent fix?

My sewing machine... so yesterday we headed to the fabric store and picked up the necessary items needed to try it out.

I decided that jammies sounded easy, and we let the girls pick out which fabric they wanted.

Can I just tell you that after at least ten year of sewing nothing harder than a baby blanket or patching up an old pair of Anthony's jeans, I had to call my poor Mother at least a dozen times!

But I figured it out, and the girls are asleep in them right now!

They look pretty good if I do say so my self... just don't look to close!

I guess tomorrow I need to sew Alyssa's together.