Friday, December 19, 2008

Happy Birthday Ryan


Ryan turned 8 years old this week. He almost always gets a boring cake decorated in Christmas colors because his mom has run out of steam to do anything else. This year I decided he deserved a little better (even if I had to stay up until 2 a.m. to finish it). He was pretty pleased with the results, as evidenced by the rare genuine smile on his face while getting his picture taken.

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A couple Christmas photos


This one is for my cousin, Kim, who has this exact same Santa picture at her house in Iowa, with the exact same number of cotton balls glued to it. :-) It's only Dec. 19th. We can still catch up!



Jared hesitantly agreed to be a shepherd when the Primary children sang for our ward Christmas party. Isn't he cute?!


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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Yes, Ruth, it's high time for an update...

...but here's why I haven't gotten around to one lately:

Oct. 31--Halloween
2 weeks later--Dallin's birthday
2 weeks later--Adam's birthday & Thanksgiving
3 weeks later--Ryan's birthday
4 days later--our anniversary
3 days later--Christmas
1 week later--New Year's
3 days later--Ryan's baptism
1 week later--my birthday

And that doesn't include Christmas parties and choir concerts and pack meetings and presidency meetings and shopping and visiting teaching and laundry and cleaning and decorating and baking and dishes and grocery shopping and, sigh, all the rest. Oh, I realize that many of these big family events at this time of the year are mostly my own doing, but it's a little late to change any of them. :-) (What was I thinking?!) So look for more blogging from me in January, maybe, when I can breathe again. I do have some things that have been on my mind to blog about, when I get around to it. Here's a teaser you can ponder until I get my thoughts written down: How do you lose yourself in service, without losing yourself?

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