More Holiness Give Me: Appreciation for husband Sunday the 28th

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Appreciation for husband Sunday the 28th

Every year, we have the best little community dinner and talent show for the 24th of July (Pioneer day). I always get the kids, who are still willing, to dress up and decorate their bikes. We love it! I think they look so adorable, especially the boys who happily wear mustaches and even choose the style of mustache they want. I use my eyeliner pencil and have been blessed not to EVER get an eye infection from drawing on their faces.

(Sadly, Nathan, in not so many words, informed me this will be his last year in this get up. Cry.)

I usually have a toddler to push in a stroller for the parade. I know it is crazy but all these little "extras" take energy and I get tired. Misc. activities on Sat, helping kids decorate bikes, getting pioneer clothes out of storage, dressing them up, getting their mustaches on, bikes loaded in car, dealing with little kids at the huge community dinner, going through dinner line, getting drinks...etc.... oh... and also walking our youngest in the parade. All my physical and mental energy is getting used to the max every day with the wonderful/hard task of doing the best I can with 6 children.

So when Corey volunteered to walk the toddler in the parade I was ecstatic!!!! Normally it is my job. But I was so happy so I could wait at the end of the parade and get my pictures. (I am also the ward historian) (aka: scrapbooker- yes it is a real church calling, who knew, right?)

Yea, Corey!!!!

Bo had such a good time decorating his bike. The tape got a little out of control.

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Jennifer said...: Susan, I doubt you even remember me, since it was just one year of early morning seminary and high school that we shared before I moved to Utah (I was in the Marston Lake II ward). My 20th reunion made me think a lot about where I started high school and the people I knew then, and a few facebook clicks later -- voila! So I hope it doesn't creep you out. I really wanted to comment and let you know I love the testimony you are sharing here. I can tell, just from a quick glimpse, how much you love the Savior. Your children must be very lucky indeed. Take care.
Jenni Kohler
www.mywordseed.blogspot.com; July 25, 2010 at 11:08 PM

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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 a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the 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

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time. The women of God know this. --Neal A. Maxwell

I know it is long but it is life altering!

C.S. Lewis- Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning...It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals who we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption, and our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are course; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fotune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." Margaret D. Naduald

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Nelson Mandela-

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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Appreciation for husband Sunday the 28th

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Hello, my old friend.

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