"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes...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 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 there, and that I really lived."

~Marjorie Hinckley



"Our lives are frittered away by detail; simplify, simplify." Henry David Thoreau



"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." Lin Yutang

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Chet is 12 years old today!

What a day! We began our day with our traditional birthday pancake breakfast...Chet is 12 today! What a great smile he has...even at 6am! :)
After eating breakfast, the day continued with cleaning the kitchen, folding 7 loads of laundry, homeschooling with Savannah, tending to Kylie who is sick with the swine flu, picking up Quinn early from school after the nurse called to say he had a low grade fever (although he seemed pretty perky when I picked him up and no fever at home), enduring one full hour of therapy with Brooke and her physical therapist, baking a birthday cake, and overseeing all else that goes on in a household on any given day....I decided to be spontaneous and request that we go out to dinner to celebrate Chet's 12th birthday!...what a relief not to have to make dinner! Thanks, handsome for taking us out! :) (Kylie remained at home...and we brought dinner in to her.)
Here we are all tired out after a long day...ready to enjoy "the cake" and some presents....don't you just love the Christmas wrapping paper...hey, it was either that or pink.

Chet was very happy to receive his very own BB gun. Wow...he's growing up so fast! Next year he'll be an official teenager!!! We sure do love you, Chet!



1 comment:

Maggie said...

Happy Birthday, Chet! Wow, Dorothy, what a busy and full day! I think just reading about it made me tired. Hope Kylie feels better soon!

Just a reminder....YOU ARE AWESOME!!!