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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
I'm not obsessed...i was just curious!
I'm happy with this result...although, i'm not sure I'm as calming as Esme, but maybe someday I can be.
Take the Quiz and Share Your Results!
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Quotes of the day
I was sent an email with this talk in it. I liked the following quotes:
"A mother has far greater influence on her children that anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every act, every response, her attitude, even her appearance and manner of dress affect the lives of her children and the whole family.
It is while the child is in the home that he gains from his mother the attitudes, hopes and beliefs that will determine the kind of life he will live and the contribution he will make to society."
"Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley said in her book, Small and Simple Things: “There is something about spirituality that is central to the life of a woman. Not the kind of spirituality that only takes you to church on Sunday. I am talking about the kind of spirituality that makes you behave like a child of God.”
And here are a little less serious quotes I found at this link: http://www.ldsmag.com/laughs/080929laughs.html
Saying It Like It Is
After a moving, spiritual lesson in Relief Society, a couple of sisters bore beautiful, sincere testimonies. At five minutes before the hour, a silence had fallen, so we all heard very clearly as a senior sister "whispered" to her neighbor: "Everybody wants to go home." It was to the sound of muffled laughter that we listened to the last testimony, sang the closing song and closed the meeting with prayer.
Name and location withheld to protect the guilty.
Selective Listening
A young mother put her preschooler in front of the television to watch " The First Vision " video while she did some chores. A while later, the little boy came to his mother and asked, "Did you know that Joseph Smith saw Heavenly Father and Jesus?" The mother replied, "Yes. And do you know what they told him?" The little boy said: "They told him he didn't have to go to church anymore!" Jana McGettigan West Valley City , Utah
"A mother has far greater influence on her children that anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every act, every response, her attitude, even her appearance and manner of dress affect the lives of her children and the whole family.
It is while the child is in the home that he gains from his mother the attitudes, hopes and beliefs that will determine the kind of life he will live and the contribution he will make to society."
"Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley said in her book, Small and Simple Things: “There is something about spirituality that is central to the life of a woman. Not the kind of spirituality that only takes you to church on Sunday. I am talking about the kind of spirituality that makes you behave like a child of God.”
And here are a little less serious quotes I found at this link: http://www.ldsmag.com/laughs/080929laughs.html
Saying It Like It Is
After a moving, spiritual lesson in Relief Society, a couple of sisters bore beautiful, sincere testimonies. At five minutes before the hour, a silence had fallen, so we all heard very clearly as a senior sister "whispered" to her neighbor: "Everybody wants to go home." It was to the sound of muffled laughter that we listened to the last testimony, sang the closing song and closed the meeting with prayer.
Name and location withheld to protect the guilty.
Selective Listening
A young mother put her preschooler in front of the television to watch " The First Vision " video while she did some chores. A while later, the little boy came to his mother and asked, "Did you know that Joseph Smith saw Heavenly Father and Jesus?" The mother replied, "Yes. And do you know what they told him?" The little boy said: "They told him he didn't have to go to church anymore!" Jana McGettigan West Valley City , Utah
Friday, September 26, 2008
Update
Well Doc says everything is looking good although, I'm supposedly not gaining enough weight but it's too late to do anything about it....I'm not complaining! The baby is looking healthy though and we're just playing the waiting game. I'm dialated to a 1-2 and I'm running to go potty ALOT because her head is down low and rests right on my bladder!. She has a strong kick and her hiccups now feel like a punch from the inside that doesn't go away. It's so much fun though and I'm glad that I can be at home resting. I've just finished reading the Twighlight series. I liked it them. No. i'm not obsessed with Vampires and all that but I think that they were entertaining enough. I really liked how it ended too. Well, if any one would like to come visit me, I'm very lonely at nightime because my husbandd isn't really home a lot. He's "home" but he's not home because he sits at his desk and studies until bedtime. SO, I get to hang around all night alone! YAY! (hence, I read twighlight series in two weeks which is fast for me) So if anyone wants to come on up to Ogden, Then you're invited to!
Monday, September 22, 2008
"Commandments "
My 5-year-old nephew came home from Primary one Sunday and was telling his 4-year-old sister, "Bethany we've got to obey the commandments," His mom overheard the conversation and said, "Stephen, what are the commandments?" He turned to his mom, then burst into tears and said, "I don't know. They won't tell us!"
Rebecca Monson Lehi, Utah
Well, I came across this cute little story on the Meridian Magazine website: list@list.ldsmag.com
and it got me thinking. I am the primary president in my ward and I wonder how many times I've left some of the kids feeling this way after one of my sharing times! Sometimes I don't realize that I haven't really explained myself very well or I've assumed that kids understand something I say and they really don't. I even do this when I'm talking to my husband or friends. How can I be upset at people for not doing something I asked when they didn't understand what to do in the first place!? Just a thought.
My 5-year-old nephew came home from Primary one Sunday and was telling his 4-year-old sister, "Bethany we've got to obey the commandments," His mom overheard the conversation and said, "Stephen, what are the commandments?" He turned to his mom, then burst into tears and said, "I don't know. They won't tell us!"
Rebecca Monson Lehi, Utah
Well, I came across this cute little story on the Meridian Magazine website: list@list.ldsmag.com
and it got me thinking. I am the primary president in my ward and I wonder how many times I've left some of the kids feeling this way after one of my sharing times! Sometimes I don't realize that I haven't really explained myself very well or I've assumed that kids understand something I say and they really don't. I even do this when I'm talking to my husband or friends. How can I be upset at people for not doing something I asked when they didn't understand what to do in the first place!? Just a thought.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
High School
Apparently I've been tagged..here goes....
High School: EAST HIGH!
1. Did you date someone from your high school: Yes actually and I'm not quite sure why. What qualifies as dating? If kissing flings count then I dated way too many!
2. What kind of car did you drive? : I don't have a pic, but my first car was a buick :) with a tape player in it and an LDS sticker on the back that came with the car. I wish I'd taken it off and wanted to but it just felt wrong for some reason. After that died, I drove a Mazda 929 which died shortly after I bought it. It was a "good deal" YEah RIght!
3. What is your most embarassing moment in high school? I think my most emabarassing moment would be that I came to school with only one armpit shaved (some how I forgot the other side!?) and some boys thought it was really gross and were laughing behind my back :( RUDE!!!!! I avoided those boys from that day on.
4. Were you a party animal? No, definately not. In a room full of people, my friends would lead the way. I would much rather go home and watch a movie and talk. I know I'm boring. I actually never really went to any parties. Surprisingly.
5. Were you considered a flirt? Ummm depends on who you ask. I say no, but most dissagree. I think I flirted with guys I didn't want, and then the ones I did want....I couldn't even breathe around. DUMB!!!! I'm so GLAD I'm over that stage. What a WASTE!
6. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?: Yes, I was in Jr. Choir, Acapella, and Ensemble. I never really knew I liked singing, but tried out cause every one else did and made all three choirs. Who knew? It was fun, but I never did much with it all.
7. Were you a nerd? : No, I'm actually not very "scholastic" at all. But I guess I was kind of a goodie goodie. I hated breaking rules and I really was afraid of hall sweeps and stuff like that. hehe.
8. Were you on any varsity teams? : umm...sports? NO! I hate balls flying at my head. I hid under the bleachers at gym. I did hand stands and talked most of the time.
9. Did you get suspended/expelled? : No, like i said, I was really afraid to break any rules. I did slip a few excuse notes to some friends when I was the office aid, but I always felt REALLY guilty about it. I think I just did it cause boys were always the ones asking. DUH!!!! I did talk my way out of detention though ;)
10. Can you still sing the fight song? : What fight song? We have a fight song? WHo knew?
11. Who were your favorite teachers? : Anne Applegate and Mr. Christiansen are the only teachers names that I can remember. I was actually afraid of most of my teachers. Not for any particular reason, I was just really scared to talk to "authorities". I did love my freshman math teacher but I can't remember her name.
12. Where did you sit during lunch?: Well, either in Kathy Van orden's office, or just outside of it.
13. School Mascot? Leopards
14. Did you go to homecoming and with who?: I can vaguely remember going to senior homecoming with Richard Schilling, and I'm not sure who asked me to the others. I have the worst memory when it comes to things that weren't important :)
15. If you could go back and do it again, would you? I don't think so. BUT if I could, I wouldn't waste so much time trying to "be" someone I wasn't. The silliest things mattered to me then so I would hope that I could change a few things. I definately did things I regret though. I would have treated the people I love a lot better than I did.
16. What do you remember most about graduation?: At the ceremony, Brooke wouldn't talk to me most of the time because she was standing next to a boy that she had a crush on. And I remember thinking. Is this over YET!!!????? OH, the day of graduation, before the ceremony, eliza, brooke, rebekah and I went swimming (layed out) at the tennis club and pretty much fried my skin to the color of a lobster and could barely stand to wear my graduation dress because my skin hurt SOOOO bad. The graduation party was pretty fun though. I won a gift certificate that I used this summer- four years later!!!!
17. Where did you go senior skip day?: Did we even have an official day to skip? hmmm. I was pretty anal about my attendance, but every once in awhile, I would actually skip and I usually was with Eliza or Rebekah...we usually had food on our minds and Eliza's house or Wendy's was our destination. I hated sluffing though. It usually wasn't worth it and I spent most of the time feeling guilty cause I was breaking a rule and I was scared that we would get caught. OH!!! My FAVORITE sluffing experience is when I went to einstiens with Eliza in her new car. Some how she accidently parked over a cement ridge and high centered her car. we were stuck and two cops pulled up to help us. We could've gotten in big trouble for sluffing, but the cops just helped us get her car off of the ridge thingy. Kind of crazy.
18. Were you in any clubs? : I don't think so...oh, wait. I was in the "fashion club!" hehe, we basically met once and took a picture for the year book. That was all we did.
19. Have you gained weight since then?: No I don't really think so..Actually, I think I lost weight. I just ran into someone (an adult) who hadn't seen me since highschool and he said he didn't recognize me, and that I'd "lost my baby fat in my face". I didn't even know i had baby fat!!!! ouch! so i guess I have lost wieght, but who's counting?
20. Who was your prom date?: Well, Jr. prom Sophomore year was Kimball Sanders, Prom was Wilson Ashton. Junior year Jr.prom Jake Bowman and prom was Preston Langeland. Senior year jr. prom was john evans and prom was stephen poulsen. I'm surprised I actually remembered all of those!!!! WOO HOO yay for me. :)
21. Are you planning on going to your 10 year reunion?: Undecided. I'm afraid it will just remind me of high school days and feeling inferior to everyone, but who knows. I guess what I need to decide is why WOULD I go to my reunion. I have a few years to figure it out.
22. Looking back, what advice would you give yourself?: Treat the people you love better. Don't think of yourself so much and don't base your worth on what people think about you. I would definately take more time to make decisions about what I do and say and I would be more careful to show people respect. SMILE more!!!!!
Tag some people: I tag, Angela, Mary, Elise, Anna, Jesse Nelson, Kimberly, Kalynne
High School: EAST HIGH!
1. Did you date someone from your high school: Yes actually and I'm not quite sure why. What qualifies as dating? If kissing flings count then I dated way too many!
2. What kind of car did you drive? : I don't have a pic, but my first car was a buick :) with a tape player in it and an LDS sticker on the back that came with the car. I wish I'd taken it off and wanted to but it just felt wrong for some reason. After that died, I drove a Mazda 929 which died shortly after I bought it. It was a "good deal" YEah RIght!
3. What is your most embarassing moment in high school? I think my most emabarassing moment would be that I came to school with only one armpit shaved (some how I forgot the other side!?) and some boys thought it was really gross and were laughing behind my back :( RUDE!!!!! I avoided those boys from that day on.
4. Were you a party animal? No, definately not. In a room full of people, my friends would lead the way. I would much rather go home and watch a movie and talk. I know I'm boring. I actually never really went to any parties. Surprisingly.
5. Were you considered a flirt? Ummm depends on who you ask. I say no, but most dissagree. I think I flirted with guys I didn't want, and then the ones I did want....I couldn't even breathe around. DUMB!!!! I'm so GLAD I'm over that stage. What a WASTE!
6. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?: Yes, I was in Jr. Choir, Acapella, and Ensemble. I never really knew I liked singing, but tried out cause every one else did and made all three choirs. Who knew? It was fun, but I never did much with it all.
7. Were you a nerd? : No, I'm actually not very "scholastic" at all. But I guess I was kind of a goodie goodie. I hated breaking rules and I really was afraid of hall sweeps and stuff like that. hehe.
8. Were you on any varsity teams? : umm...sports? NO! I hate balls flying at my head. I hid under the bleachers at gym. I did hand stands and talked most of the time.
9. Did you get suspended/expelled? : No, like i said, I was really afraid to break any rules. I did slip a few excuse notes to some friends when I was the office aid, but I always felt REALLY guilty about it. I think I just did it cause boys were always the ones asking. DUH!!!! I did talk my way out of detention though ;)
10. Can you still sing the fight song? : What fight song? We have a fight song? WHo knew?
11. Who were your favorite teachers? : Anne Applegate and Mr. Christiansen are the only teachers names that I can remember. I was actually afraid of most of my teachers. Not for any particular reason, I was just really scared to talk to "authorities". I did love my freshman math teacher but I can't remember her name.
12. Where did you sit during lunch?: Well, either in Kathy Van orden's office, or just outside of it.
13. School Mascot? Leopards
14. Did you go to homecoming and with who?: I can vaguely remember going to senior homecoming with Richard Schilling, and I'm not sure who asked me to the others. I have the worst memory when it comes to things that weren't important :)
15. If you could go back and do it again, would you? I don't think so. BUT if I could, I wouldn't waste so much time trying to "be" someone I wasn't. The silliest things mattered to me then so I would hope that I could change a few things. I definately did things I regret though. I would have treated the people I love a lot better than I did.
16. What do you remember most about graduation?: At the ceremony, Brooke wouldn't talk to me most of the time because she was standing next to a boy that she had a crush on. And I remember thinking. Is this over YET!!!????? OH, the day of graduation, before the ceremony, eliza, brooke, rebekah and I went swimming (layed out) at the tennis club and pretty much fried my skin to the color of a lobster and could barely stand to wear my graduation dress because my skin hurt SOOOO bad. The graduation party was pretty fun though. I won a gift certificate that I used this summer- four years later!!!!
17. Where did you go senior skip day?: Did we even have an official day to skip? hmmm. I was pretty anal about my attendance, but every once in awhile, I would actually skip and I usually was with Eliza or Rebekah...we usually had food on our minds and Eliza's house or Wendy's was our destination. I hated sluffing though. It usually wasn't worth it and I spent most of the time feeling guilty cause I was breaking a rule and I was scared that we would get caught. OH!!! My FAVORITE sluffing experience is when I went to einstiens with Eliza in her new car. Some how she accidently parked over a cement ridge and high centered her car. we were stuck and two cops pulled up to help us. We could've gotten in big trouble for sluffing, but the cops just helped us get her car off of the ridge thingy. Kind of crazy.
18. Were you in any clubs? : I don't think so...oh, wait. I was in the "fashion club!" hehe, we basically met once and took a picture for the year book. That was all we did.
19. Have you gained weight since then?: No I don't really think so..Actually, I think I lost weight. I just ran into someone (an adult) who hadn't seen me since highschool and he said he didn't recognize me, and that I'd "lost my baby fat in my face". I didn't even know i had baby fat!!!! ouch! so i guess I have lost wieght, but who's counting?
20. Who was your prom date?: Well, Jr. prom Sophomore year was Kimball Sanders, Prom was Wilson Ashton. Junior year Jr.prom Jake Bowman and prom was Preston Langeland. Senior year jr. prom was john evans and prom was stephen poulsen. I'm surprised I actually remembered all of those!!!! WOO HOO yay for me. :)
21. Are you planning on going to your 10 year reunion?: Undecided. I'm afraid it will just remind me of high school days and feeling inferior to everyone, but who knows. I guess what I need to decide is why WOULD I go to my reunion. I have a few years to figure it out.
22. Looking back, what advice would you give yourself?: Treat the people you love better. Don't think of yourself so much and don't base your worth on what people think about you. I would definately take more time to make decisions about what I do and say and I would be more careful to show people respect. SMILE more!!!!!
Tag some people: I tag, Angela, Mary, Elise, Anna, Jesse Nelson, Kimberly, Kalynne
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Good-Bye!!!
Well, today was the day I said good bye to my wonderful sister and friend Kimberly, along with her family. I have pics of course, but no way to get them on my blog just yet (they'll come!) She and her family are moving to Australia which to her is "home". It was bittersweet for all of us. I'm sooo excited that Kimberly has finally taken this leap into the unkown because she has wanted to for a very long time. I think it'll be an axciting adventure! But I'm selfish in my thought that I'd rather her stay here just to be with me. I'm glad that she's going though, like I said. It got me thinkng though...how much do we appreciate the people that mean so much to us? And, do they know how much we love them? What if tomorrow, some one you loved very dearly was suddenly gone and you didn't know if you would see them again or not? Would you have any regrets? The week before Kim and fam left, I drove the hour drive to Sandy very frequently. While driving there (and using almost a full tank of precious gas) I suddenly didn't care as much about the gas money, or the "long" drive. I knew that in a few days it wouldn't be as easy to see her and that I was lucky it was only one hour~! That's a lot easier than a 18 + hour flight!!! I hope that I can start to care more about the people I love and show them my love and support regardless of the sacrifice it takes to see them. I hope you ALL know that I love you!
On a different note. I'm 35 weeks along and counting. This baby is getting BIG! Sleep is a precious thing now. If it's not heartburn, then it's the heat that keeps me up. And just when I get comfortable, the baby will start moving (kicking hard) which means, she doesn't like that position and I have to move~! I love my husband, but I am very frustrated because he is asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow. His advise to help me sleep is "just sleep, it's not that hard!" If only he knew :) BUT I'm SO happy that I can have a baby. What a blessing this little baby will be in our life. Only 5 weeks left to go!
On a different note. I'm 35 weeks along and counting. This baby is getting BIG! Sleep is a precious thing now. If it's not heartburn, then it's the heat that keeps me up. And just when I get comfortable, the baby will start moving (kicking hard) which means, she doesn't like that position and I have to move~! I love my husband, but I am very frustrated because he is asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow. His advise to help me sleep is "just sleep, it's not that hard!" If only he knew :) BUT I'm SO happy that I can have a baby. What a blessing this little baby will be in our life. Only 5 weeks left to go!
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Perspectives
This is kind of a random post but I just feel like I should get a few things down on "paper" before I forget them. I just attended my married institute class that I have once a week. The topic was "eternal perspectives" and I really enjoyed the lesson. The teacher started the class by showing a video clip with three white shirted people and three black shirted people. Watch it here before you read on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX2BJC12uXQ . For those who don't want to watch it, then I'll explain it. They had balls and were going to pass them and we were supposed to watch the white shirted people and count how many times they passed the ball to eachother. I got really excited and was very attentive as I successfully counted the passes. There were 17 I was sure. Then the teacher asked if anyone noticed something odd during the video clip. I hadn't. He instructed us to watch again, without counting the passes. As I watched the WHOLE view of the clip, not jsut the white shirted passes, I noticed that in the middle of the clip a big hairy gorrilla walked across the video and even did a little dance in the middle of it, then walked off. I hadn't even noticed it the first time!!! You'd think that it'd be impossible to miss a BIG, HAIRY gorrilla!! But no, I missed it and felt kind of dumb afterward. The point: Sometimes, we get so caught up with one aspect of something and miss the whole picture, even if it's staring us in the face. It was a sweet reminder of how I can change my perspective in my marriage (and my whole life) to make things be a little bit more pleasant and let go of the little things that bother me. I have really tried this lately and things that would usually cause a stir have actually smoothed over quite nicely and I've learned more about what a wonderful husband I have. I'm grateful for this lesson and I hope that others can use the reminder as well. There is a reason and a season for everything and all we need to do is just have faith that Heavenly Father knows what's up!
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