HALLOWEEN 2009

Halloween was really fun this year. We started with carving pumkins, then moved on to making pizza before dressing and going out.

Hannah had great fun with her friends.

Hannah dressed as the Great Pumkin

Kendrey, Brooklyn, Hannah, Emily and Janna all went tick-or treating throughout the neighborhood and gathered enough candy to last til Christmas. At eight o'clock Delanie joined us and I drove the girls over to house that gives away the giant candy bars! The night ended at Janna's home trading candy.

Lizzy dressed as a doll and really enjoyed her friends too. She took off and did whatever Jr. High girls do.

We think Chris had great fun but we never saw him. Once again he hung out with the youth at the bishop's home watching scary movies and drinking hot chocolate.

I Have Incredible Sisters

I have seven incredible sisters that are amoung my greatest treasures in life. Yet so often as I hurry through my busy life, I forget how amazing they are. I think wonderful things about these ordinary girls who grew up together. We had nothing more than the mundane life of pulling endless rows of weeds and boring household jobs after school, mixed with baby diapers and tending one other. We went to school and church with each other, grew up and left for college and lives of our own and somehow turned out to have implausible talents and impeccable character.

I don't think I comprehended as a innocent young child how lining up for the sister's photo would have such deep meaning for me in my later years. I look at our sweet faces below and realized that we were meant to be next to each other.

Conference Thoughts and Notes

Love
Love your wayward children and the tentacles of God's love will eventually reach out and touch them
Past
Reviewing the lessons of the past help us face the future
Virtue
Virtuous trait should not be forgotten
Patience
Patience and perseverance are part of our progression
Service
What did you do for someone today?
Book of Mormon
"Are the words of Christ and they teach men to do good"
Charity
We are stewards, we are accountable--be diligent
Spiritual Hearts
Do not be casual about the seemingly simple things of the gospel
Repentance
Easiness and willingness to hear the word of God comes from repentance and keeping the commandments