Family Home Evening - The Garden

We decided to get our garden ready for family home evening last week, but...I didn't get a chance in the day to go to home depot so we took the whole family.

It was all fun and games when we first arrived...

...but by the time we were done, everyone was tired.

In the end everyone had a great time!

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Three Girls

How could it be that we have three girls - only three and a half years apart and they are all so different. I remember in college discussing nature versus nurture and kind of having an attitude of "who cares" but, now that I have these three I am really interested.

I noticed from a very early age that I was not going to be able to treat Sara the same way that I treat Hanna. The parenting techniques I used on Hanna didn't work and I had to keep trying different options.

Hanna is king and caring, organized, compassionate, tender, etc.... Her first word was "mess" and she loves everything in their place. She thinks life should always be fair and she treats everyone fairly.

Sara is fun, spunky, messy, the class clown and a ball of fire. She requires more parenting and pushes her limits. One minute I am so mad at her that I want to scream and the next I am laughing.

Allie is a true princess at heart. She worries about having a bow in her hair that matches her outfit and the perfect shoes. She is always content and blends in to any situation. She has always been happy and makes the best of everything.

So, in the case of my three girls, nature has won and I will do my best to nurture their 3 different personalities into outstanding adults who are all individual and all contribute to society in a variety of ways.

Some visiting my blog may know my friend John Marriott. He went to High school with me and college and was my partner on Acclamation. Last week he was diagnosed with Leukemia. For the past several weeks John had been experiencing excruciating headaches lasting for about 5 minutes… and coming a few times each hour. It was recently determined that he would need a blood test to see if that could help the doctors determine what was causing his headaches. During that series of tests (on March 27th) is when they discovered his rare form of leukemia. By March 31st it had gotten so painful that he was admitted to the Cancer Center at Dixie Regional Medical Center until he was stable enough to be transported to the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the U in Salt Lake City… and where he will now remain for the next 30-45 days. John started his first round of Chemo, and is optimistic that by catching the disease early and employing aggressive chemo and possible radiation treatments he will have great success and beat this. His pain has been tremendous, and although his white count is going up, he feels as if his bones are expanding inside his body. ..although he’s on all sorts of pain medication. It was determined with 100% surety that he has “APL Leukemia” which is less common, but in most cases more treatable. I just wanted to put this one post for those who don't already know, if you would like me to forward information as I receive it please leave me a comment with your email address. Please keep him in your thought and prayers. There is a site set up for him giving updates on his condition at http://johnmarriott.bravehost.com

Future Rock Star?

I have to write this funny conversation that took place between Carter and Allie last night.

Allie - Carter, when you grow up you should be a truck driver
Carter - No, when I grow up I'm going to play the guitar
Allie - Oh, yeah you should be a guitar player
Carter - No, I won't be a guitar player, I will be Hanna Montana (for those of you who don't know Hanna Montana is a teen pop star - female- on the Disney channel)

I love the terrible two's. One minute I want to pull my hair out and the next he has me laughing. The other day Carter was over at my sister-in-laws house and she asked him what his favorite kind of sandwich was. He kept saying Apologize and she didn't understand. She finally figured out that he was talking about his favorite song, not his favorite sandwich. "Its too late to apologize" is his favorite song, not twinkle little star or itsy, bitsy spider. Its a pop song by -one republic- that is on the radio all the time.