Funny Quotes

I wanted to share something that Lilly said earlier today while we were at the store.

We were in the produce section and trying to meandor around the stands of fruits and veggies; when an older lady with long frizzy grey hair with white streaks down the sides of her hair along her ears walked by. Lilly took a look at her and then pointed in that lady's direction while saying, " Look Mom, that lady is from Narnia." :) Wow, I just hope that that lady did not hear that because if I heard someone call me that I would feel horrible.

Then again, with some of the people that are wandering around these days you never known if maybe they really could be Narnians.

Static Electricity

It was nice to see her having so much fun. She started rolling all around the tramp and then it looked like she just glowed around her head with her hair flying every which way.

They all had to show off their cool moves and wanted to be in the picture.

Joseph looks kind of funny in this one. Playing on the trampoline is such a great activity. Joseph, Hyrum and Nathan are my nephews. It is nice that they are good friends with my kids.

Katie's Birthday

It was my sister's birthday yesterday, and knowing that she was going to have a little birthday party with some ladies in her ward I decided that I would make a cake for her. I had MM fondant left over from last month when I made the super bowl cake and I did not want to waste the extra. So I looked up some different cakes on line and decided on coping this cute purse idea that I found. There was a video showing how these other people put it together and it looked so simple.

I made the cake and froze it for a little bit. I cut the cake to shape and frosted the inside to stick it together. I kneaded the fondant and colored it (which really didn't end up the right shade I was looking for but oh well). I frosted the outside of the cake and then made the indentation marks for the sides, cut out the fondant pieces and try my best to put them on correctly. It ended up being pretty difficult at this point because I cut into the fondant a little to far and so as I was trying to pick it up it would fall apart. By the end I was getting a little tired to it didn't have a very pretty finished look.

So I got her some cute very girly shoes and a purse cake to go with. Hope you enjoyed it Katie. Happy Birthday.

We went to Red Robin with her friends and had a great time. She couldn't get away without the restaurant staff singing to her. They made her wear balloon ears as they sang. One other good thing is that she got a coupon online for a free meal and the ice cream for it being her birthday.

Mr. Creative

Cameron is a pretty artistic little boy. He has always been concerned with coloring inside the line and giving things his own funny twist to go along with an interesting story.

A Birthday Dinner

Tonight was our stake relief society birthday dinner and I am glad I went. First of all because I wasn't interested in making dinner tonight and because I really needed to get out of the house. Lilly has been sick and we had to cancel our other plans due to it.

It was a good dinner and thanks to having my sister in the stake, when I got there late I still had some where to sit. Next was a musical number by the 13th ward primary and one by the young woman's leaders in my ward, which were both very good. After the songs we listened to a talk by, I believe her name was Bonnie Jensen. She was a wonderful speaker. She spoke to us on a very hard time she had in her life and the things she learned from it.

I have a certain respect for those that have gone through hard struggles in their lives. I feel that with such trial they must be something amazing. They must be very strong poeple. I guess I should feel this way about most people since I'm sure there isn't anyone that hasn't had some really difficult trial in their life.

I have also felt that since I have not had an extremely difficult trial, that, maybe I am not as strong as those who have( Not that I want an extremely difficult trial, knock on wood). The talk that Bonnie gave was really inspiring to me and I loved this poem that she recited to us, it does not have a named author:

Today upon a bus I saw a lovely maid with golden hair
I envied her, she looked so pretty and I wished I were as fair

Then she rose to leave and I saw her hobble down the isle
She had one foot and wore a crutch but as she passed a smile

Oh God forgive me when I whine, I have two feet, the world
is mine

And then I stopped to buy some sweets, the lad who sold
them was so kind
It's nice to talk with folks like you. You see he said, I'm
blind

Oh God forgive me when I whine, I have two eyes, the world is mine

Then I walked on down the street and saw a child with eyes of blue
He stood and watched the others play it seemed he knew not what to do
I said, "Why don't you join the others dear?"
He stared straight ahead without a word and then I knew he couldn't hear

Oh God forgive me when I whine, I have two ears, the world is mine

With feet to take me where I'd go, with eyes to watch the sunset's glow, with ears to hear what I should know

Oh God forgive me when I whine, I'm blessed indeed, the world is mine.

Oh how I wish that I would not whine so much. I wish I could look upon another and have love for them instead of judgments of how I compare to them. I wish those thoughts would not even enter my mind.

I have been blessed so much. I have a wonderful family with beautiful healthy children. I have a husband who is working very hard for us and has been able to allow me to stay home to raise my children. We have all of our needs taken care of. So why, why do I have to whine so much, why am I not more happy. I have not chosen to be more happy. I have not chosen to allow the day to day things that stress and way me down to slide off and see things for the wonderful blessings they are. I have no right to complain.

So my goal this next week( I'll start with a week and then hopefully turn it into another week then a month and so on) is to be more happy. I also want to make sure that I laugh more than the average 15 times a day.

Heavenly father has given us so much. Jesus gave us his life and I can give them my heart and my service. I can't express how greatful I am for the things that I have. What I am most greatful for is that I know He loves me. I know that he cares and wants me to do my best. I know that He knows when I struggle. I know that His ways are higher than my ways. I know that I can trust in him.

Job searching

We have officially decided that I have got to find a job. There is just no getting around it. I have to go look for a job along with the other like 72% of people in our area.

So last week I went out a couple of times, droping off resumes at every dentist office I drove by. I ran out of copies of my resume so I went to my mothers house, who thankfully had resume paper I could print it on. I had all the kids with me so I wanted to get them home and Miah needed her nap.

We left pretty quickly so there was enough time for me to drop off a couple more resumes. The first office I stopped at was a place off of Meridian rode and Victory. I was nice in there and it just so happened that the dentist was hanging out at the front desk. After he finished talking to someone I handed him my resume and asked if they were hiring. He then preceded to ask me questions about my resume. After being in the office for a couple minutes and trying to look professional in front of the dentist, I heard kids running through the doors behind me. Hoping that they weren't mine I slowly turned around and saw that they inevitably were my kids and Lilly just had to yell the minute she opened the door, "I HAVE TO GO POTTY". Cameron was right behind her and ran straight to the toy area.

Wow, I was feeling really professional at that point.