Wednesday, December 10, 2014

 I had breakfast with Darrel this morning.  He gets to go home today when his shift ends at 3:30.  We had more fog today.  Darrel says it takes him a good 15 minutes longer to get into work when it is foggy.

I went into town this afternoon to get something to give Shelly and Kelly for babysitting last night at the Relief Society activity.  I want them and the other girls to know how much we appreciate their willingness to serve.  I also picked up my order of Nerf guns from Walmart.  

James got home from the valley this evening just as I was leaving for Mutual.  Tonight we had our Christmas party for the girls.  We had a white elephant gift exchange and gave each of the girls a Christmas gift from their leaders.  It was a fun evening but I wish I would have made some cookies.  We did have soda's to drink for refreshments but cookies would have been nice too.
Those girls who attended: Kyah, Alice, Hope, Heaven, Maddie, Kilee, LeeAnn, Kelly, Trenda, Coty, Shelly, and Jordyn.  The best turnout we have had all year!

Kelly, Heaven, Shelly, and Trenda

Our fearless leader

LeeAnn, Rosie, Ruth, and Trenda

Coty

 Maddie, Kyah, Analee, Alice, Hope, Stefani

Kilee looks like she fell asleep picking out her present.

Maddie

Stefani, and Jordyn

Diana and Kelly

Diana, Kelly, Heaven, Shelly

Maddie, Kilee, and LeeAnn enjoying their

Crush sodas.

Stefani's reindeer shirt

Back at home in Chandler Max had a band concert.  

I watched two Christmas movies today: "A Christmas Secret", and "Silver Bells."

Saturday, November 22, 2014

"The scriptures speak of the role of parents - that it is their duty to teach their children "the doctrine of repentance, faith in Christ the Son of the living God, and of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost." (D&C 68:25)

-Tad R. Callister

We had a big breakfast with Darrel this morning before he went to work.  Potatoes, eggs, ham, onions and green chilies were all a part of this big breakfast.

Robert Kadelak worked several hours on James's truck today.  He is having difficulty getting to the fuel pump.  He says he needs a tool and will be back tomorrow to finish.  James told him he doesn't want him to work on Sunday but the guy is determined

Here are some of the things I did today: Waxed the floor, read to James, worked on my Book of Mormon journal, paid bills, posted on my blog and made dinner.  

Stacy called and wants to come to the cabin for a couple of days after Christmas to see Jared and have Joshua play in the snow.  Maybe we should pray for snow.

Our current Sarah Eden read.

She really is tutu cute!

We watched a couple of movies this evening: One of my favorites, "Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade" and a new one "A Royal Christmas."  

I couldn't resist posting this:

 

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

"The importance of having a sense of the sacred is simply this: If one does not appreciate holy things he will lose them.

Absent a feeling of reverence he will grow increasingly

casual in attitude and lax in conduct.  He will drift from the

moorings that his covenants with God could provide.  

His feeling of accountability with God will diminish and 

then be forgotten.  He will care only about his own comfort

and satisfying his own appetites and desires.  He will come to

disengage himself from sacred things, even God."

- Elder D. Todd Christofferson

 I love sunflowers.  James considers them weeds.

James has two early morning pours.  One was at Rio Verde where it rained.  Two guys got into an argument and James had to settle it.  This job he has can be very stressful.

I fixed Darrel some breakfast this morning before he left for work.  He works from 8am to 10pm so he had to leave around 7.  He is going to be the head pharmacist and will make an extra $10 an hour over what he normally makes.  I hope he has the stamina for these 14 hour days.

I thought my visiting teachers were coming today at 10.  I waited for them until 11when I made a trip to the Stanford store for a Pepsi and a burger.  Their little in house deli is quite good.  I really enjoyed my burger.  

 View from the top of Green's Peak

This afternoon I paid bills, baked cookies for Young Women's, changed sheets and finished cleaning upstairs and downstairs.  

For Mutual tonight we helped the girls work on Personal Progress and had interviews.  I worked with Kilee Hunsaker.  Kelly Reynolds passed off three value experiences.  Hope helped her and LeeAnn played games on Hope's Ipad.  LeeAnn is way ahead of the other girls so I didn't mind too much.  

On the way home Kilee and I went by to visit Maddie.  Her mom said she had a migraine.  We left her the information for this Saturday's activity at Brother Mayfield's where the girls are doing chores and then riding horses.  We also left her some cookies.  I had a nice visit with Kilee.

When I got home I made some taco soup out of things I had in the pantry.  It was delicious and I left it out for Darrel to have when he got home.

 Good advice!