Spilling the Beans: July 2007

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Feeling sloooow

I feel like I am moving at a tortoise's pace...although I did see a giant tortoise moving quite quickly toward an unknown goal--which turned out to be a "lucky" lady tortoise, so I am not up about like the anxious man tortoise. I just can't make my morning go any faster, where is the motivation I ask you?

The kids are enjoying boomerang and I am waiting for the watering to be done outside. I am still sitting comfortably in my jammies and life is, well great...how many people get to work like this?!

Monday, July 02, 2007

wahooo

We are back from a full weekend, first we spent the evening catching up with friends and letting our kids run wild...it was fabulous fun. Saturday we entered our two bugs in the Layton 'No Show' bug event--Scott was absolutely giddy. We came home, took a nap and then headed to Provo for a family shin dig and after I went to work for a '2nd half extra' everyone else stayed up till 1 or 3 in the am chatting. Sunday we had Hailey's baby blessing and then we went to Andrea's mom's baptism, Sister Boyd's viewing and after all of that had pizza at mom & dad's house, cake for the boys and then finally headed home at about 9:30. Pretty full weekend, but it was so fun. Today we have an appointment for Cam and then Brent & Emily are coming up. Always exciting at our house!

words to live by...

"I run so my goals in life will continue to get bigger instead of my belly."

~Bill Kirby

"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there."

~Barbara Bush

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are living art, created to help others hang on, stand up, forbear, continue."

~Maya Angelou

"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet."

~Winston Churchill

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."

~Christopher Reeve

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

~Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

~The Dalai Lama

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

~Lou Holtz

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

~C.S. Lewis

"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love."

~Pearl Buck

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

~Mignon McLaughlin

"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone."

~Gertrude Stein

"Don't let the fear of striking out prevent you from playing the game."

~author unknown

"He who is tired of Wierd Al is tired of life."

~Homer Simpson

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

~ Abraham Lincoln

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh the thinks you can think up if only you try."

~ Theodore Geisel

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

~ Maya Angelou

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

~Theodore Roosevelt

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

~Marie Curie

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

~F.P. Jones

"If you can't sleep, then get up and do someting instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep."

~Dale Carnegie

"...the greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies."

~ President Gordon B. Hinckley, Dec. 2007 Ensign, pg. 6