"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

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Brenden Graduates with his Master's from MCG!!! May 2010







SAHS Prom April 2010
















EPCOT and Magic Kingdom









NASA Lift off


Gingerbread House

A very special thank you to my mom, who helped us keep our gingerbread house tradition going this year! :) Doesn't it look so inviting? I put a night light bulb up through the bottom in the corner and made a "fireplace" in front of it using cardboard and tissue paper. I love how it casts its light on the tree inside. We put a "fence" around the house, made it "snow" and had a snowman in the front yard near the light post.

And, of course, had Santa heading down the chimney to deliver presents. I had so much fun putting this together with the kids. Thanks, Mom, for making the gingerbread. Love you!




Saturday, July 17, 2010

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Kylie plays at Disney World

For springbreak this year, we went to see Kylie play with the South Aiken High School band at Disney World. We enjoyed seeing and listening to them play. They did a great job!
And, after their performance, we enjoyed going to EPCOT and Magic Kingdom, too! (We also got to see the NASA shuttle lift off, too! It was a very fun trip!...more to come on all that.)

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