"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

Showing posts with label Easter Sunday April 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter Sunday April 2010. Show all posts

Monday, May 24, 2010

On Easter Sunday, Brenden and I had some very special news to share with the kids, so we decided to tell them in an unusual way :)

We hid plastic Easter eggs in the back yard. Most were filled with candy, but there was one egg for each child with their name on it. After all the eggs had been found, we had the kids come in the family room and open their egg that had their name on it. In each of their "name" eggs, there was a small piece of paper with a word on it. Their task was to put all the words together to form a sentence. At first they struggled....

And, looked to us for clues....And, then, together they discovered the message....


And they were surprised and excited!!!!! :)

The message was.....

"Will you help us name number 8?"
Yep! We are expecting a new baby! Official due date is November 12th, which means I may have this baby around Halloween....maybe even on Brenden's birthday! We will find out if it is a boy or a girl probably sometime the end of June. Brenden thinks it's a boy.....time will tell :)

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