NO camera....

What do people do with out a camera? my sweet children broke mine. Yes my digital, my precious, and now I have no way to log my daily accomplishments....

So I have been using the phone camera....gulp... how much do they charge for those transmissions? I am afraid to ask.

So the last log of photos from my precious Canon Digital Rebel were these:


Peanut Butter Buddy, Abigel took these photos and the flash was off, so I had to adjust the lighting a bit, kind of poor quality. 9but better than my razr camera!)


So I have pretty cute kids, this is the reason I did not Kill them when I discovered my broken camera. It was a week of destruction, and I will not re-live the nightmarish events. I will not....

Yesterday I spent my time cleaning house and then running around preparing a 3-4 acre garden. I hope it is enough to feed my family ;)

I get to work at the Far West Store, so if your ever in this neck of the woods, just drop in and come see our Garden!

http://www.farwesthistorical.org/

BTW: current state of house:

Date.... day

We made a 12 hour date yesterday, we drove to Omaha we left at 8:30 a.m. luckily sweet Sasha let us borrow her great gas car. (rather than paying $120 in gas we only paid $30)

I failed to call the Temple in advance, I KNEW we were supposed to go yesterday, I just didn't check out ALL the details. being from Utah, we assume some things, well we arrived at 11:30 and the Temple opened at 6:00 p.m. We had 7 hours to kill!

We had the tour of the Visitor center, it has an amazing set up to get to know the history of the saints stop in Winter Quarters. What an amazing SPIRIT attending the exhibit. We walked through the cemetery of the 600 that were buried at Winter Quarters.

I met with a genealogist, she taught me so much about how to find ancestors, there is some amazing stuff on the saints who traveled with the exodus.

http://earlylds.com/

http://winterquarters.byu.edu/

I found journal entires from Wes's G G Grand father, Curtis Edwin Bolton, he was one of the first to come west with Brigham Young, he was mentored by Brigham Young, and several of his entires include advice given to him from the Prophet!

I also found an excerpt from the church's scribe and it included not only information on the BOLTON family, but it mentioned SETH DODGE, and how when he was on sentry watch they caught him sleeping! I had to chuckle, just like my family to sleep while on duty!

What started out as a big inconvenience turned into a beautiful day, ending with Wes and I holding hands and whispering encouraging words in the Celestial Room. What a day! we returned home at 11:45 pm and the house was in reasonably good shape, only the dishes had to be done, everything else was on the up-&-up!


More with photos later.

Hum Drum and a Wrench

Just as we begin to start feeling comfortable, we get a wrench. Right? isnt that how every ones life is? when I speak to my mom, she concurs. I will give you the run down on my weekend.

Monday was FHE and tidy the house day.

Tuesday I picked up Wes from the airport, drove to Sam's Club and got supplies for the YW camp spaghetti dinner. Service for 150.

Wed. we worked on the house, attended Mutual, handed out assignments for the dinner, and recuperated from our all niter with Zeke (hand foot mouth malady)

Thursday I fretted over how much time needed to be spent doing the cooking I debated on whether I should make meat balls, or just add the meat to the sauce (I added the meat to the sauce, as I did not know how many to plan for the dinner).

Friday I cooked pasta, 30 lbs. and prepped it to be quick serve. Madi began the Sin-a-Buns for her auctioned off item, and the Kitchen-Aid mixer burned up (again), she left to help the widow neighbor vacuum and clean since she is bed-bound for back pain. At 3:00 I had to track down keys to the Church & deliver the items for the YW auction & Dinner.
I cooked.served, and cleaned up from the UBER Successful event. and we returned home at 11:00 p.m.

Sat. I prepared a load of laundry for Sunday clothes. I had a stake camp meeting in Liberty and left home at 2:00. I had to find a ride for Wes as the adult meeting was at 6:00 pm. I attended my meeting, attended the adult session of conference, and then we had a quick bite to eat with Sasha & Brian.(gotta LOVE Chipotle!)

Sunday we woke, ate waffles & oatmeal (not together) and got everyone ready for Stake meetings we left the house at 10:00 am, (giving our friend Consie a ride) we arrived just in time to get a bench, and enjoyed the talks given that were focused of Missionary work. WHAT AN EVENT, our stake president Lehnardt spoke, and reiterated that we as obedient servants of the Lord, should be "Plant a garden as if our lives depended on it" he actually said that. He said as the price of wheat & grains rises we should be prepared in not only the style in which we cook, but the growing and preparing our foods. We left the conference meetings enlightened, and Wes made a 'snarky' comment about how as trials of life have come and gone, we grow and learn so much, and he looks forward to the next challenge. . . . .

Upon our arrival at home we were all starving! the house was in disarray we frantically started lunch (as it was 2:00pm) I fed & watered the chicks, and someone pulled into our driveway. :Enter: our current landlord, the ones who live in Utah. SURPRISE! They had been at our home while we were at church, had taken the liberty to show themselves around the house, and of course found nothing but chaos. They had been waiting for us to come home and I was *SO* upset by their 'surprise attack' I was ill. She made it clear that she was not happy with us, and then made the off comment that we "May want to find somewhere else to live" as she is not happy with the state of the house.

OK, so now some of you ladies know me, and I know I am not the MOST organized person, and I may let things slide for a bit, but I am NOT a slob, and I am not un-sanitary
This woman had raised ONE child 54 years ago, and has a very low tolerance for children she even said "It was against my better judgment to allow a family with THIS many children to move in" As if my 2-dozen children are too many to handle. (read 5 that run around really fast seeming like 24).

The last thing she said as she left the house, was "We will return" kinda of like the terminator, "I'll BE BACK".

So now I sit on pins & needles and agitate myself over this issue, I have 5 months to go before my house is complete, and I may be living in a tent (again), thank goodness I am not 8 months pregnant this time!

Traveling and Dreaming

For many years, (since I was probably 5) I have wanted to do two things,

1) travel the world, Africa , Asia, and South America primarily.
2) Adopt Internationally.

While both are very expensive and loft goals, they are both for good purposes. I want to share my love of life with others, and I want to ease suffering . I long to spend time digging trenches, and building school houses, I dream of toiling with my own two hands and teaching my children compassion and service. I have a desire to spend all my extra time and resources bringing the knowledge of Christ's atonement and love into the hearts and lives of those less fortunate.

I know others who have the resources to do these things, and yet they do not have the desire to help others. they have the desire to feed themselves, and enjoy the fruits of their labors .... however they foolishly believe that the fruits they are enjoying are the labors of their own two hands, rather than the Lords.

It is my desire we stop whatever we are doing, and acknowledge that ALL good things come from a loving and compassionate Saviour.

Please take a minute to enjoy this YOU Tube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/reflectionsofchrist

Thursday April 17th 2008

the porch has begun!

My favorite part about this house is the wrap around porch. I shall SO enjoy it!