food, crochet, merriment
Such a lovely thing–a birthday. Honestly, I love coming to anyone’s birthday because we always have fun just the same. We just love being together. There’s always great food, lovely conversation, throwing footballs, opening presents, eating cake and sooo much laughter.
See for yourself.
Some people like to multitask. You know…doing several things at once.
In this case, Rhen likes to do his stretching while watching General Conference.
What he didn’t realize, until a few minutes in, was that he had a little shadow coming along for the ride. Every move he made… she followed, with sweet five-year-old precision.
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” they say. And seriously, if you’re going to mimic someone you may as well do it with exercise–right?
I’m sure, in the end it will help a lot…
especially after all that French toast.
Heh, heh.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!
The whole darn family under one roof and alllllll at the same time.
This is what a full, happy, heart-full-of-love looks like.
Beyond this…there are no words.
Every year, on the 4th of July, we wake up at the crack of dawn.
And every year, on the 4th of July when we wake up at the crack of dawn…
I, without fail, think to myself…
“what on EARTH are we doing?!! And…
…why on EARTH are we doing it?!”
But also, without fail, as we drive down to the park and start to see all the familiar things…
the balloons…
the foooooood…
the people…
the sleepy people,
the fascinated people…
the happy-to-be-here people…
the loving people…
I am once again reminded why it is that we do this…
all of this. It’s because we will take…
all the opportunities that we can to pull all these sweet, dear people together…
to remind each of us of everything there is to be grateful for…
so that we never, ever forget.
Happy 4th of July my friends.
