should be a fun game to watch tomorrow though. i'll have to admit that living in a town with the highest concentration of BYU fans outside of Provo...i usually go red. it's about the most rebellious i get.
“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in number, wealth, and power as no other Nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God who made us.
“It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended power, to confess our … sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.” (John Wesley Hill, Abraham Lincoln, Man of God, 4th ed., New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, p. 391.)
WOW!!
random ingredients:
i ran a 1/2 marathon last week and did better than expected with my utter lack of training. i went all by myself but ended up seeing my awesome cousin christy there. she is a machine.
our back door neighbors the smithson's moved to california. as you can see...my kids have lost a huge chunk of neighborhood playmates in one fell swoop. (they have 7 kids - two sets of twins) we are not happy about it.
this was nora on our way to family pictures last week. nice.
the cutest little note left by our awesome babysitters.
this was how nora entertained herself at old navy while i waited in the check out line.
u2 concert baby!!! it rocked, and so do all these people we got to go with.
can you believe this truck we were behind on a quick trip to tuscon? ya...we passed it as soon as we could.
paul does it again...seriously...he's good.
the story of these pennies is too funny. i'll try to make it brief. so, if you know paul then you know that he's a bleeding heart. he would give away his services if he could. unfortunately some people have taken advantage of that. he gives way more discounts than he probably should. this brings us to a lady that he worked on. he gave her multiple discounts and lots of time to pay. she never did. so, after months and months of back and forth they finally decided to just cut the bill down to something she would be able to pay. she didn't. they had to take her to court where the judge upheld the agreement. she came to court with the money for her bill...in PENNIES. i guess she somehow thought she was getting a raw deal and felt like this would be payback. i'm thinking it was probably WAY more of a chore for her to count out each and every penny than it was for paul's office to take it to a coin counter. people with this entitlement attitude crack me up...okay they usually make me mad, but this one cracked me up.
max got to spend a morning with dad at work. i love how you can tell he has a huge smile under that mask!
nora only wants to wear flip-flops so i went to hobby lobby and got five for $1.47 each. then i went to the dollar store and got five bunches of flowers for $1 each. now we have these cute flip flops and a ton of extra flowers for hair bows, etc. total cost $17 or so.
nora is such a poser. i was working at my computer and turned around to see this scene. my sweetie, my favorite couch, and one of my favorite books. i had to take a picture asap. unfortunately only the phone was close enough to use. good enough.
you'd think i lived in utah! (click to enlarge)
so...paul and some of his buddies thought it would be a great idea to head down to mexico and go deep sea fishing. this photo shopped picture might give you a clue to how it went down (or really up) for almost half the group. paul was crackin' himself up with this short little video he took below.
day 1: grammie and papa's ward party - nora the princess (what else?), max, jack, and ella (pre-wig). nice look ella. she was really playing the part.
day two: nora to preschool as a flapper girl.
halloween night: ella don's the wig, and nora wants to be just like ella...what else is new! it was hilarious seeing her posing like she was all tough. this couldn't be further from nora's (and ella's for that matter) true character. i guess that means it was perfect for halloween.
Just trying to put this little quote into action...
"We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the “thick of thin things.” In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes."
Thomas S. Monson
