Motherhood: An Eternal Partnership with God

So I loved this video and my Primary Pres is in it. The park that they are playing at is the one up the road from my house.

Camping

We went camping this weekend or really Sunday night and Monday night. We had a great time. It was the kind of camping everyone says is not really camping because we only went about 10 miles from our house to Utah lake and stayed in a nice campground with electric plug ins for the trailer and flush toilets; never the less we had a great time. We did all the camping things the kids got to sleep in a tent, we had camp fires and smores, and even played kick the can. We even rented canoes. that was the highlight of the trip for me. I got to sit in the canoe and have other people namely Ray and Kimber paddle me around. I was to scared to sit up like a big girl and paddle my self. Thanks everyone for coming I hope we have lots more fun trips this summer.

disney again again

Disney Again

Yes we all wore orange that day

Disney!!

Who does not love Disneyland? So I could not decide which pictures to post so Megan suggested that I just start posting some.
 We had a blast so over the next couple of days I will try and post more pictures like Amy says a picture is worth 1000 words.

building a cathedral

I am Building a Cathedral




I just read a great blog post.

It started with a story of a man who came upon three bricklayers busily working in the hot afternoon sun. “What are you doing?” he asked the first. The first worker replied, “I’m laying bricks.” “What are you doing?" he asked the second. The second worker replied "I'm passing time until a better job comes along."
"What are you doing?" he asked the third. The third worker replied “I’m Building a cathedral."

May be it is because our dad always taught us in parable. But the story resonated with me. As I get caught up in my daily life. I have found myself not seeing the big picture. Do I know that I am building a cathedral? We have been given the great responsibility of building the lords kingdom; our home into a temple; our families into eternal masterpieces. How lucky are we to live on the earth today.

I think often of my fathers famous words. We are creating memories.
That’s what he has always says. It is not about the money we make or the cool house we live in, but the life we live and the moments of joy we recognize.

I hope my children will say that about me when they are big. That it was not about the clean house or the fancy clothes but the time we had together as a family.

Hello Sun!!

So I had a dream the other week. It was just one of those dreams that I would have probably forgotten when I woke up. But there was a special visitor at the end. My Grandma Hanke was sitting at my kitchen table she looked me right in the eye and told me to tell my Grandpa that she was here and loved him.


I don't usually pay heed to my dreams but for some reason I thought it was a great time to go to Yuma and see my Grandpa Hanke. So we packed the kids in the car and drove for the 12 hours to Yuma. I am so glad we did the Sun was so worm and it was a much needed break from school and life as usual.

I will follow up with some more Pics latter.