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Come What May and Love It

Thank you so much Stephanie R. for posting this on your blog! It really helped me today as well. Between this video and Taylor Pierces talk she wrote about--"let the cheerios spill"-- I know that i will make it through this hard time with LOVE AND LAUGHTER!!

Men and Labor...

What do you think will happen? Will he make it the full 8 hours?



That's right MEN! YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE PAIN!!!!

mY Uncle Rocky emailed me this...from one of the talks

D. Todd Christofferson…Something to Think About

Quote from message delivered Sunday afternoon, October 4, 2009:

“The societies in which many of us live have for more than a generation failed to foster moral discipline. They’ve taught that truth is relative. And, that everyone decides for himself or herself what is right. Concepts such as sin and wrong have been condemned as value judgements. As the Lord describes it, ‘Every man walketh in his own way and after the image of his own god.’ As a consequence, self-discipline has eroded, and societies are left to try to maintain order and civility by compulsion. The lack of internal control by individuals breeds external control by governments. One columnist observed, ‘that gentlemanly behavior, for example, once protected women from coarse behavior. Today we expect sexual harassment laws to restrain coarse behavior.’ Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions, and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defence for a civilized society. Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized we’ve become.

In most of the world, we’ve experiencing an extended and devastating economic recession. It was brought on by multiple causes, but, one of the major causes was wide-spread dishonest and unethical conduct, particularly in the U.S. housing and financial markets. Reactions have focused on enacting more and stronger regulation. Perhaps that may dis way some from unprincipled conduct, but others will simply get more creative in their circumvention. There could never be enough rules, so finely crafted, as to anticipate and cover every situation. And, even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone. In the memorable phrase of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, ‘We would not accept the yoke of Christ, so now we must tremble at the yoke of Caesar.’ In the end it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes, as well as symptoms, of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good, until sin is denounced as sin, and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.”

MOm you can stop BUGGINg Me now !

For a little while anyway!

I did a little photo shoot with Tej outside and i got this cute tutu at the D.I.

Then I brought Brielle out cause everyone has been begging for pics of both girls.

All was going well for a minute...
And then this happened. You can see the look on Teja's face. She was getting squooshed.


Just the girls in the tub together. Teja finally likes the water and taking baths!

Teja is eating in a high chair now. She is way to wiggly to sit in the pink chair
that Brielle did until she started eating finger food.
she loves it and she loves food!! I will have to get a video of her when we are eating...
she screams (shrieks) at us until we give her something. It is pretty funny and annoying.

Some neighbor girls...acutally being nice to Brielle for a moment!

Emma had a candy necklace and was sharing with Brielle! it was so cute.