"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

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Quinn turned 7 today!







Christmas in Indy, Part 2

Ok...part 2 of our Indy trip....Christmas Eve we visited the Indianapolis Museum of Art. This is our favorite exhibit.


That evening we had a live nativity with all the cousins. Here's a photo of the shepherds. :)
The day after Christmas we enjoyed a trip to the world's largest Children's Museum. We got to go "sledding" down a two story slide....


have a snowball fight....brush Rudolph....




play in a snow castle.....
and play with other cool toys....
see a play in the Lilly Theater and meet Mr. Pumpkinhead after.....

see a show about the planets in the planetarium, dig for dinosaur bones.....

and, of course, ride the famous carosel!!!!
We had a lot of fun!!! We love the Indy Children's Museum.

Here's the promised picture with Cheryl and her baby, Lilian.
So, now there's also a Part 3....sledding on real snow! :)

Thursday, February 18, 2010

13 years of published medical studies were FABRICATED?!

Ok.....so, I still haven't gotten to "Part 2" of Christmas.....and it may never happen with the way my life is going...NONSTOP. But, I just happened to come across this news today http://www.theday.com/article/20100115/NWS01/100119833/1047....I suppose it shouldn't surprise me....but, somehow it did and I felt to ask "who can you trust?" I am grateful for modern science/technology. I have been very blessed by it. However, I'm feeling pretty strongly these days that modern medicines/pills must be questioned. I know there are a lot of medicines out there that are helpful, but I also feel that too many are only there to make money....and after reading this article, to make money at the expense of the patient! Crazy. Sad. Even makes me feel a little sick. Here's to the Word of Wisdom!....we will, of course, have our physical trials and challenges, but we have comfort in knowing what the Lord expects us to do to maintain our health.

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