Things I never knew

• like that i could be too busy to blog
• that baby barf looks a lot like cottage cheese.
• that I can not eat cottage cheese know from said baby barfing
• how much I really do like hot weather
• that getting mail truly does bring me joy. Real mail from real people. Not bills or "current resident".
• how great families are. truly
• that visiting teaching is oober important and its time to repent
• halloween is a great holiday. I think i have fallen in love with pumpkins
• ...and i have fallen in love with gummy worms
• ...and with Stein Mart.
• it is almost impossible for me to be happy when I don't get sleep
• Murpheys law: when I go to sleep, everyone else wakes up.
• my true long lasting love for book and vanilla cocoa will be my downfall

Our Day at the Beach

Jaedyn Maliana loves animals... as long as they stay far away. This dog was no exception

This is in honor of the Hansen Family Traditional Beach shot.

Family picture

I mentioned that I don't like to be cold. We are about 60 minutes from the beach. I thought I posted these but I didn't. We had a good time. I hope to go twice more before the end of the year

Of One heart. Joseph and Emma

I won these. Nice huh? I love church history. I should specify. I love stories about crossing tht plains and about the women.

The Saints had fled to Far West hoping for a rest from their enemies, but the growing mob violence resulted in the imprisonment of Joseph Smith at Liberty Jail and the slaughter at Haun’s Mill. Driven from their homes in the dead of winter, the Saints began the long journey to Nauvoo.

Emma was among the saints forced to cross the frozen Mississippi River. Can you imagine the faith it must have taken to step on that ice carrying an eight-month old baby and two year old son, while the others clung to her skirts? During those dark days, Joseph wrote, “Oh God Where art Thou? And where is the pavilion that covereth thy hiding place?”

I thought of the pain and sorrow both Joseph and Emma were laboring under at that moment and realized that for Joseph and Emma, though separated by distance they were truly of one heart.

At those times when I feel alone and forgotten I look at this painting and remember that nothing in mortality can place us beyond the reach of divinity.