tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54773502523709134292024-02-19T03:13:59.200-08:00Becca's Life! I like to have fun!Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.comBlogger269125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-15617183314526772252016-08-04T08:54:00.002-07:002016-08-04T08:56:36.064-07:00Yoga and mediation...much needed today!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Meditation. Today I felt like I should really go to yoga. I am so glad I went. 30 min into class, the instructor had us lay back and we literally went through progressive relaxation from our brains to our toes. I needed it! I have been stressing and haven't been able to fully relax until this morning. She had us find ourselves on the beach. These pictures are from 2 years ago when I went to Anguilla. When she mentioned to find a beach, my mind instantly went to Aruba from last year, but as I got to thinking, I thought of all of the beaches that I have been to and I realized how blessed I am. The Lord has given me such a good life! I needed to remember that just getting in touch with my body, my mind and gratitude, changed everything for me this morning. I am grateful for small in touch moments. I will do my first heart wall therapy this morning. I am a little scared, but excited to tear down pain-filled walls and open my heart to healing and the Lord. I know that the atonement of Jesus Christ heals us and that all of the remedies to heal are available all around us. Part of the experience of life is finding remedies and health coping mechanisms. The longer I'm alive, the more grateful I am for experiences, both good and hard to help me grow and become more intelligent and knowledgeable about how to deal with issues and experiences. Thanks be to God for good things amongst hard things! Life is good no matter what. We experience what we look for! Have a great day!<br />
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If you want to try progressive relaxation go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86HUcX8ZtAkBeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-28786291914165682992013-06-06T14:25:00.000-07:002013-06-06T14:25:28.547-07:00Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-50605601880071856062013-06-06T13:59:00.001-07:002013-06-06T14:16:19.282-07:00Tuesday, May 28, 2013 A day of standing in the rain, then standing in museums, eating in the rain, then eating, I mean taking pictures in the museums...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I was so tired that I fell asleep last night. We
went to so many museums yesterday, that I don’t know what to do with
myself! My feet hurt sooo bad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7 statues of women and ironically enough the only one that actually has her breasts covered in the one that represents Europe! What the heck??</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apparently I wasn't supposed to take this picture, but i thought the sign just said, "no flash" not "no camera" Oops! I like it do you?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yummy, yum, yummy...I love French pastries...it's a problem!!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Monday,
May 27, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Today
has been so great! After waking up at 7:30am, got in the shower. I had already
packed my bags the night before, so it was really easy to just hurry and get
the other stuff ready. Went down to breakfast. I love this place, they give us
fresh hot cocoa from a cappuccino machine, so it is really good! I love it.
Gilbert had eaten all of the croissants from our table so the guy who owns the
place was mad at him. When I got around to asking for a little bit of water for
my “Emergen –C” he made fun of my
French. I asked for “un pu d’eau” so he brought me back steaming hot water from
the machine! Craziness. I pour a little
bit into a saucer to help it cool
off. The Emergency wasn’t as bad as
usual. My allergies have been KILLING me! I’ve been taking my oils, but still,
they just hate me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our way out I asked if I could get a picture of the guy who was in charge of us
at the hotel. He was like, “No…” then grabbed my camera and took the picture
you see below!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Off
we went to get on the bus to go to what very well may be my favorite place we
have visited so far. What I love about France, is that everywhere is so different
than the last. Each château has its own
feel. This one, Chambord has 365
fireplaces!!! And 440 rooms, only 80 of
which we can see. It has the coolest pillars on top, that represent the
smokestacks from the fireplaces. It was originally a hunting lodge. I took tons of pictures of the fire
places. The staircase was amazing too. I
just loved the whole thing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">You
could even paddle boat. If I would have known, I would have liked to do that. 6
Euros for 3 people! I bought some cool
postcards there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then
we were off to le Château Cheverny. That
was cool. They still live there on the 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> floor. We got to tour the first 3 levels (the math
doesn’t add up does it?? Well, really it does because when you walk in a
building here, the first floor you walk onto is actually level 0, then you go
to the other levels 1, 2, 3, and so on!)
What I really liked about the Cheverny house was it was quick, not too
big (because half of it is currently being lived in!) but the designs were all
different. The kid’s toys were a bit
much for me, but they had scenes set up with tea time, dinner time, a wedding
dress and real family pictures. The beds
these people slept in back in the day were so small, even for 1 person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After
we toured the house, we were kind of white trash and ate right on the steps of
the mansions our white trash French bread from breakfast that morning, our
apple sauce and cream cheese kifed from breakfast! I ate some honey, hoping it’s local to help
these awesome allergies. Myra has said
that I’m not allowed to sneeze anymore, that I’ve been “cut off”…I told her, I
wish I was cut off. I just can’t stop sneezing. My right nose is running as I
type!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So
after we ate our white trash meal, spread out on the steps, (notice Myra’s
shoes off!) We went to see the hunting
hounds. These people have a bunch of
dogs and they feed them at 5pm everyday, and the dogs are so well behaved that
they put the food out and then say “Go” and then they run and get the food.
Unfortunately, we had to leave before we could see it. But we did go over and
say hi to the dogs. I had just eaten
apple sauce, so they were smelling my hands. They were for sure hunting dogs!
They were way brilliant! I loved
them! Then we went to the garden and
they were pretty. Some bumble bees, were bumbling around on the flowers and I
got some pretty pictures there too! Then onto the bus we went and now we’re on
the train. We still have a lot to do. We get to trapes back to the hotel with
our luggage in the subway (that’s my favorite!! NOT!!! And to make matters more
fun, my luggage strap broke! Fun stuff huh! Ironically I bought new luggage for
this trip, then at the last minute said, that I would just use my old stuff!!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It
has been an awesome day. I got a nap in between castles and got some playing
cards! I love my life! I also gave
professor Christensen a massage. She was
all tight, but now she feels better. She said it was like she went to the spa
while at the train station (that’s where I massaged her at)! One student said maybe I’ll get an A in the
class! Well, I’m going to nap now I
think or go find le toilette! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Tonight
we’re going to dinner together, everyone on the program! It’s going to be
great! Love it! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Okay
we just got back from dinner and the best night ever! Talk about fun!!! Oh my
word! 11:22pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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totally just had the night of our lives! We just went to Moulin Rouge and took
a picture then to the sacre Coeur (the sacred heart a huge chapel downtown) we
never made it inside, but it was sooo cool because the soccer guy is out front
and it is the coolest thing ever. He dribbles the ball on this tower, then he
literally takes off 3 shirts, climbs a poll holding the soccer ball on his
head, poses holding the ball on his foot while hanging on the poll…it was the
coolest thing ever! Then when he was done, he shakes everyone’s hands as we
give him money and then he grabbed Lyndsie and pulled her up on his pillar and
picked her up and held her for a picture! It was awesome! We were all
cheering!!! Then he let me come around
and give him a hug and pose for a picture. He was awesome!!! I loved it! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I
also bartered for some Eiffel towers! I bought 2 medium ones and 2 small ones
for 7Euros! Pretty good huh! It was so
fun! Poor guys on the street. Sometimes
I feel like I should just give them their asking price.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then
we went to dinner at this nice restaurant. It was so fun, it was like we were
in Spain again! I miss eating out with everyone! This time, we all ate
together! It was fun! We bonded. I got
to know a bunch of people better. I got up to go to the bathroom and this guy
escorted me to the bathroom. Then he said if I was okay to get back on my own.
I said yes, but that we needed to take a picture together. He said okay. Then I went to the bathroom and we took a
picture together, a silly one, then he told me to kiss him on the cheek, so that
was my first mistake, I went to kiss him on the cheek and he turned his head
really quickly and kissed me on the lips!
I’ve had that happen before, in Mexico, so it wasn’t that big of a deal,
but I was like…no way this is going to happen.
He said, “you’re single so what’s the problem?” I was like, “Um, je ne
se pas” and walked away laughing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then
we ate dinner and enjoyed conversation. It was really nice and yummy! Then as we got up and these guys were doing
some sort of dancing and they pulled Tammy, or professor over by them and
danced with her. It was one of the best things I have seen in a long time! It
was awesome! We were all laughing and
then after he was done with her, he grabbed Myra! It was so funny!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was getting crazy. The he ran and jumped
into her arms! My camera was sadly dead at the moment, so I got nothing, but
Sam did record it all!!! What a night!! I loved it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then
we walked over the sacre Coeur (sacred heart) cathedral and you should have
seen Gabby’s fancy bartering skills. She was like a mean French lady. It was
great!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Came
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">K, sometimes they have these cool things you can slide your bags down, since you have to bring your bags up and down all of the stairs at the train stations, metros...everywhere!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chase being a gentleman and carrying my 50pound bag up the stairs! Look at those muscles!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">lots of motorcycles in Paris!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The stairs to walk up to the Sacre Coeur...we took the tram!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Sacre Coeur (The Sacred Heart)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tricky waiter...he kind of kissed me on the lips. He said for me to give him a kiss on the cheek (that is custom here) so I did and just at that second he turned his head...not too honest, but kind of funny. I just laughed and said that was tricky...He said, "You're single right? So why not me?" I tell you...if you want to feel good about yourself, go to a foreign country!!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sunday, May 26, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What a day! I am exhausted.
It is 10:49pm and we are just getting ready for bed. Today was very full. I can’t believe that
it’s only just one day. Okay here’s the highlights:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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does it cost?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Je veux</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tu veux</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Il/elle veut</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">4.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nous voulons</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">5.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Vous voulez</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">6.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Elles/ils voulent?</span></li>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Malade-sick<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Reviewed the
following verbs:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>i.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Être-to be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>ii.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Aller-to go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>iii.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Faire-to make/to do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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quite the adventure. She had to end up riding on my bike on the back!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">e.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Just tons of stuff<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Flying
contraption etc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">1<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bike ride<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mile! It was actually really fun!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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separately. I was sooo tired!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of a flower!!! So pretty and yummy! Cake
and caramello flavors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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today at 8:21. Hurried back to the train station, but the train at 8:21 doesn’t
even run on Sunday! So we sat and played “photo
booth” before my battery ran out!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Friday, May 24, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My favorite parts of my day
began with arriving in France and seeing the sign! Oh my word! It was so cool!
It was like reality hit me. I was actually here! I couldn’t stop smiling, even
though that’s something my “French of Foe” book taught me not to do!!! Then when I got the stamp in my passport, the
smile came back full strength and I saw my stamps from Spain and the Bahamas
and I realized just how blessed I am and how many places I have been able to
visit! And so began our trip to France.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We arrived at the hotel after
dragging our bags from the train to the metro. I took the deepest, weirdest,
most drugged nap ever. I thought I wouldn’t be able to function afterward.
Technically for my body, it was like 4 in the morning when we finally go to the
hotel, but really like 12pm here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We were on our way at 3:30
to go see Paris, as the other group showed up.
My professor pointed to a man in the corner. I looked and saw a man peeing
in the metro station. Craziest thing I
saw today. Apparently, it is common
sometimes, sadly enough. Maybe Paris
should get some more bathrooms! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One of my most favorite
parts of the day was playing peek-a-boo with the cutest little black baby on
the metro. He was crying, so I tried to distract him by playing peek-a-boo. It
worked! He was soooo cute. I totally
wanted to take a picture of him, but I didn’t want to get yelled at by his mom!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well,
it was raining pretty hard when we got off the metro, and we were by a kiosk
that sold umbrellas, so I bought one.
What I didn’t realize is that right behind us was the Eiffel tower! After I opened my umbrella, I turned the
corner and behold, it was the coolest sight ever; the Eiffel tower was there in
all its 1,038 feet glory! It was the coolest sight ever! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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then went on a boat tour and I talked to the guy who was one of the captains!
He was so nice. He spoke to me in slow French and taught me how to say the
water level is high. Le nivo du’eau
c’est (I can’t remember how to spell
this) ou (the water level is high)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then
Jaque and I got lost from our group while we were buying post cards!!! I knew
they had to be somewhere, but they literally disappeared. When we went across the street, I saw my
professor’s bright pink coat!!! I’m so grateful for that. They were just on their way up the Eiffel
tower! So we got in line (life changing day I might add) and went up to the
very top of the Eiffel tower! That is sooo many feet up in the air. It was an experience I will never ever
forget. You could see everything from the Arch de Triumph to the cathedrals
Louie XIII had built.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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were up there in the freezing rain and wind, but it was so cool. We finally made our way down 2 hours later
and met out teacher. It was sooo cool,
because in 10 min the lights would begin to twinkle. I had no idea they did that! And it was a
full moon! The light was amazing on the Eiffel tower! It just doesn’t get any better than that! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we barely made it to this dessert place called Ladurée. Way expensive, but way yummy! And home we went! It was a great first day in
France. I can’t believe I’m going to be here for another month! What blessings!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My nice Arabic/Egyptian/Muslim seat partner! He was so nice. I shared the plan of Salvation with him and my other seat partner pictured above, Steven. It was all divine intervention, even though I was mad that I had a middle seat. I still got a lot of good sleep! Blessings are always there!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of our luggage on the train!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is my first france happiness!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seriously, dreams come true!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first and second French crepe. Jacque and I split 2. We got a chicken and cheese one for dinner and then a nutella and cake one for dessert to share!!! So yummy!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Captain on the boat! He was way nice!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm not gonna lie, when I saw this couple kissing, and I realized I was in France, it was like it was out of a romantic movie!! I was happy for them and loved it!!!</td></tr>
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I went to a concert two weeks ago and am in love with this new music, this voice and possibly this guy. He seems way down to Earth, sincere and heartfelt. I'm loving listening to his music. Give it a listen and you'll see why he melts my butta! (see song list below!) After the show, I went up and gave him a hug and my and my rommate Erin's number and took my picture with him. <br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/6-ebSthKUVM">http://youtu.be/6-ebSthKUVM</a> (I'm Gonna Make the Music)<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/6cBNcy4KoAQ">http://youtu.be/6cBNcy4KoAQ</a>
(My Kinda Crazy)<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/HIVWk9F1ixE">http://youtu.be/HIVWk9F1ixE</a>
(Something Natural) My favorite one!!!<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/maa3n_Ny2wM">http://youtu.be/maa3n_Ny2wM</a> (Silent Night)<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/StBm_ZXr_Iw">http://youtu.be/StBm_ZXr_Iw</a> (Hold On)<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/PWv7sfINgaw">http://youtu.be/PWv7sfINgaw</a> (The Butta Song)<br />
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So I emailed him and asked him if he would sing a song to my class for Valentine's Day. He respectfully replied back and said that he didn't have time in his schedule. I was grading papers later that day and wrote him an email that is below. Then my friend Bryce thought it would be funny to write back as if he were Ryan and answer me! I've had some pretty good laughs over it! What are you gonna do in life, if you don't live it! He'll probably never call, but a girl's gotta HOPE for good things to come!<br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/8nczw6xHJ0I">http://youtu.be/8nczw6xHJ0I</a> ( Jeffrey R. Holland "Good Things to Come")<br />
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The email I wrote him:<br />
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Ryan,<br /><br />I don't know if you remember who I am (I'm not a crazy<br />person, well, I can be, ask my students!) but I'm the girl that wrote you a<br />note and gave you my number at the concert on Saturday. I was just sitting here grading papers<br />tonight and your music was on. I was thinking, "Wow, how is he not married<br />with a voice like that? It's almost<br />unfair that his music makes you fall in love so easily." So I was just wondering how it is to be so<br />amazing and have so many girls want to make love to that voice and let those<br />lyrics sink in so deep, without having anyone as your media naranja. (other<br />half). Enjoy your Valentine's Day. And honestly, I hope you do have someone to<br />share it with, because a guy like you should be making someone happy every day<br />and should be having someone do the same for him. Happy Valentine's Day!<br /><br />A fan who could be in love,<br /><br />Becca<br /><br />PS when I said you could sing my class a song, I was<br />thinking over the phone, but if not, that's okay! I'll just listen to you<br />online (not staulkerish or anything, just loving listening to you "make<br />the music").<br />
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The sudo response from my friend Bryce! Happy reading! I hope you get a good laugh.<br />
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My Dearest Becca (dare I say Becca Innes),<br />I am so flattered by your email of February 14. This must be fate. When I saw you in the crowd on Saturday night it was as if time stood still. I saw my future in your eyes. In fact I am writing a song about it right now, wishing you were by my side on a quiet Valentine's evening. It is called "Becca's Eyes". When you gave me your phone number I was too nervous to call (after all, the best guys are always the most shy). When I was just getting up the courage to call you I received your email. It was everything I could have hoped for...until the end, when you misspelled the word stalker. When I read that, I lost that loving feeling. I'm sorry but I don't think it will work out. I just can't see myself with someone who makes such gross spelling errors. I hope and pray that you will learn how to spell so that we can be together forever. I will remain faithfully single until that happens. <br /><br />With love,<br /><br />Ryan<br />
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Yesterday I had a cool experience. I went up to Brighton to start ski club. I'm in charge, but sick, so I couldn't snowboard yesterday, because I felt like I might get pneumonia if I was out in the cold. (About once every other year, I lose my voice so I can be humbled but that's another story.) So I went up to make sure that everything was organized, that everyone found their right class and then went home. On my way down the mountain, I just thought how gorgeous it all was and how could I leave the mountain of snow without taking some pretty pictures. Well, I was on windy canyon road and didn't see too many convenient places to stop and pull over until after I had passed them. But then around the corner, I found just this quick pull out. So I pulled off really quickly. As I got out of the car, I noticed that people next to me were trying to get their BMW unstuck. They were in pretty good and not going anywhere. I thought for a second how funny it was that of all the places I could pull over, I, without thinking just stopped here. As I got out and looked at their situation, I said, "Are you guys stuck?" They said, "Yes." Of course the first thought I thought was, "I'm not very big. I'm not sure I can do much, but I'll try." So I put my boots on and went to the front of the car. Just then, like angels, these two guys literally came out of now where and asked if they could help. Now we had this. A plight that had lasted about 30 min for these stuck people, became a non issue within about 60 seconds as we pushed the cute little beamer out of the snow. Then we all exchanged hugs and cheering, got in our cars (I took a few more pictures) and we were off! It was like the moment when you think things will never get better, you've been working on them for forever and can't change anything, and then like lightning, one thing comes in and changes it and it's like that moment of pain never existed. It was a miracle in the snow!<br />
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I have looked at my life and have seen miracle after miracle daily in my life. They are small, but meaningful. I counted 8 miracles on Sunday alone and that all started after 2pm. It was amazing. I wrote about them in my journal. A few are too personal to share on my blog, but I am amazed at how many miracles happen daily in my life. As I look for them, they are right in view! I have to keep thinking of them and how they are significant. <br />
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Well, this morning I was reading a talk by President Monson "Consider the blessings" Conference October 2012<br />
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He made me think today as I was reading it, that the miracles that happen in our daily lives, aren't just happenstance. They are because we need them, but that as we look for them, we will find more and more. That has been the case with me. I feel like I have seen so many miracles as I have consciously looked for them and thought of them as such. I believe in miracles daily.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">As I have reviewed the past 49 years, I have made some discoveries. One is that countless experiences I have had were not necessarily those one would consider extraordinary. In fact, at the time they transpired, they often seemed unremarkable and even ordinary. And yet, in retrospect, they enriched and blessed lives—not the least of which was my own. I would recommend this same exercise to you—namely, that you take an inventory of your life and look specifically for the blessings, large and small, you have received.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">In my Sunday School class, I taught them this quote that I learned about years ago as an EFY counselor. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;"> "God does notice us, and he watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs" </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">(</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Spencer W. Kimball </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">"The Abundant Life," </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font: inherit; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tambuli</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">, Jun 1979, 3). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">God has the power to do His work by Himself, but He allows us to help because of the fantastic feeling we get when we serve. I'm pretty sure that we need that fantastic feeling to get us through our hard times. At the beginning of a really hard day for me, last Monday, December 31, 2012 (New Year's Eve is significant to me for so many reasons), I opened up the conference Ensign and found the talk "Trial of Your Faith" by Elder Neil L. Anderson </span>http://www.lds.org/ensign/2012/11/trial-of-your-faith?lang=eng Just from the title I knew it might be something I needed to read, but didn't want to read, because sometimes it's easier to stay focused on the problem, than actually deal with it and try to figure out how to move on with it as a building block of faith. Well, I started reading this talk that had been placed right in front of me as specifically as if the Lord had done it Himself (probably did!) and the part that stuck out to me was how to deal with a trial of faith. I was experiencing a trial of faith right then and thought, okay, then how do I get through it? And there was the answer. Not necessarily the answer I wanted, but the answer that I knew could come if I worked and did my part. It said, "<span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">How do you remain “steadfast and immovable”</span><sup class="noteMarker" style="background-color: #f9f6ed; border: 0px; color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/ensign/2012/11/trial-of-your-faith?lang=eng#footnote6-10411_000_018" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #486fae; font-size: 9px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6</a></sup><span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> during a trial of faith? You immerse yourself in the very things that helped build your core of faith: you exercise faith in Christ, you pray, you ponder the scriptures, you repent, you keep the commandments, and you serve others."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">So there I was thinking easy:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">1. Exercise faith in Christ by Praying ( I had done that)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">2. Pondering the scriptures ( I was doing that)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">3. Repent (Needed to do that, then did it with a more humble heart)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">4. Keep the commandments (was always working on doing that)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">5, Serve others (This is where all my miracles came about! I had miracle after miracle, with my miracle "serving cookies" and they just kept coming)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I am here to say that miracles happen everyday and if we are willing to do what the Lord wants us to do, then we are going to be blessed for sure. I know it to be true. And as we do, our lives will increase in faith and be firmer in the convictions that we know are true. I know we will be able to fight the storms that come, because the foundation we have set is a solid one. I'm working it the best I can. I'm doing the baby steps and the bigger steps as I progress and thanking the Lord and recognizing His miraculous hand in my life daily, multiple times; a lot more than I even know. I know He lives and loves me and that all of His children are blessed with what the good Lord sees fit to give us, because as we all grow, we are all strong and challenged in our own way and we can become what we need to daily as we lean on Him. I'm leaning everyday, if I didn't, I couldn't arise and shine daily! Thank goodness for new days and new experiences and daily miracles!</span></span><br />
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Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-22851434317827569662012-11-30T19:54:00.002-08:002013-02-19T14:47:28.751-08:00Life is like learning to ride a bike<br />
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Life is like learning to ride a bike....<br />
I just thought a lot about learning today as I babysat one of my best friend's little girls. The 5 year old learned to ride her bike with training wheels. We were going down a pretty steep hill, me walking and holding the 2 year old and her riding her bike. Well, when she could see how steep the hill was, she got off her bike and walked. I told her to get on and I would help her down the hill. Well, she was quite apprehensive and even started to cry. But she trusts me because I teach swimming to her in the summers and I think she knew I wouldn't let anything happen to her like I don't in the pool. I reminded her that I haven't ever let anything bad happen to her and that I wouldn't let go. She proceeded down the hill and I taught her how to use the breaks on her bike by pushing back on the pedals. At firs she didn't trust me. She had no idea what I was talking about and pushed down on the pedals. Then she got the hang of what "push back" meant and started to let herself go a little bit (me holding onto the bike and walking in front of her the whole time) and then saying, "push back" out loud to remind herself what to do. Every now and again, I would let her go just a little bit faster and a little bit farther than she had the time before and it brings tears to my eyes, because I think that, that is how Heavenly Father does it with us. He knows we have the keys we need to be successful, we have the brakes, the pedals and the safety net, but we don't always know how to use them. He also just pushes us a little bit at a time, letting go and letting us ride along a little bit farther, a little bit faster than we did before, and just when we get scared He sometimes reminds us verbally, "Push back" and sometimes He literally stops our bike from getting out of control. Sometimes He just lets us figure it out. And sometimes, before He even gets a chance to interject, we do what she did and immediately drag our feet on the ground, instead of doing any of the effective things that would be so much easier to do, like just "push back" on the pedals and thus engage the breaks! But then when she got it. When she remembered, with tears still wet on her cheeks, there was a huge smile and she was so proud of herself for remembering how to take control of the situation and "push back" on those pedals. I was so proud of her. Just going down one hill, she was off on her own. She learned so much. She learned how to brake. Now she knows how to propel forward and to brake and slow down. She has progressed so much. The next step is taking off those training wheels. Well, as she was peddling along on the more flat ground, she was so proud of herself. She just kept saying, "push back" and then would peddle and push back and was riding her bike. I thought, "Wow, what a learning process for something so small as riding a bike. Was I like that when I first learned to ride a bike?" And then I thought, maybe this is why we're supposed to be parents, so we can see that things were hard when we were kids but that they got better, in fact, half the time, we don't even remember that it was hard. And maybe as parents we're supposed to have hope as bigger things come up in our lives, and we learn from little kids who think the world is going to end because they scraped their knee or have to ride down a "giant" hill, but to us it is such a small thing. Well, we as adults have things that bring us down, that are big "giant" things that get right in front of our face and block our vision and tell us that we are in for a world of hurt if this or that doesn't work out and that we are really at a loss. But things are just so momentary in this life. We don't really have to worry as much as we do, but it just seems like such a big thing. <br />
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We often ask, "Oh Lord where is Thy pavilion?" and then it seems like forever before we learn to ride that bike. Then we look back and say, "That wasn't as hard as I thought it was." Even though in the process, in the growth process, it was all we could do to just have enough faith to stay on the bike and not get off and walk. I'm here to learn and everyday, I'm so grateful for a Father in Heaven who says, "Becca, get on the bike. I know it looks scary, like a big steep hill, but I promise, I'll guide you down it and I won't let go (maybe just enough to let you grow a bit) but trust me. Keep your feet on the pedals. "Push back" when I tell you to and I'll keep you safe. When you react and take your feet off the pedals and drags them on the ground, which is much less effective than actually just "pushing back" then, I'll give you a chance to reposition those feet and try again." We have a God who loves us and who is always pushing us to be better and do better and my favorite part about Him is that He is there to push us along and loves us enough to get us where we need to go. No matter what. He gets us back on the bike and when we're ready, He is still ready, there to receive our offering and hold us steady while he pushes us along! I love the Lord. I love my Father in Heaven and I love little children; their trust and their faith to get on the bike, because they know that they can trust us and we would never let anything happen to them. Nor would our Father in Heaven. I learned again tonight, that He is just like us. We want to help our kids, nieces, nephews, kids of friends and everyone we can. He does the same. He is our Father and would never guide us somewhere that wasn't a good place for us to go or a good thing for us to do. It's a great thing to remember to be like a child. I'm, little by little getting what they said, when they said, that we need to be like a child.<br />
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Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-62970940373445383962012-07-27T15:29:00.001-07:002012-07-27T15:29:52.167-07:00A week with Aunt Becca! Let the fun (and sometimes not fun) begin!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Not every Aunt gets to (or wants to) experience the things I got to experience this last week. It was hard. Difficult, tiring, overwhelming, wonderful, fun, funny, laughable, full of learning and much much more.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I feel blessed and privileged to have been able to help out and enjoy precious moments with my cute nieces and nephews!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I’m grateful on the other end that Mike and Liz got to go on a much needed and well deserved vacation and that it was all they could hope for (minus and exotic beach!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Here we go.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>These are in no particular order, but I just took notes as I went or captured memories in my mind for later moments when I had energy to write, because let me tell you at the end of my day, I did not want to write in my journal. (I wish I had, because I would have more detail, but I just didn’t have the animo to find energy inside to even write a little…I was done. I laughed at “Friends” and even broke down and treated myself to some of the best tasting Rocky Road (great ice cream choice for the week) ice cream I’ve ever had while Tyler and Austin went to sleep in my bed with me, because Tyler wouldn’t go to sleep!!!)</span><b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"> </span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We ate outside a lot! This was pancakes with fresh strawberry syrup. I'm still learning how to make that!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swimming at the pool! I love pools! We had such a good time at the pools we went to!</td></tr>
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<li style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">1.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Don’t throw away a 3 year old’s food right after the meal.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>He is not done eating.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>He kept coming back and asking where his food was. I had already cleaned it up.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>That only lasted 2 days until I figured it out that he eats a little bit, says he’s done. Goes and plays, then comes back and wants food to magically appear.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>So instead of making more work for me, I just left his same food there and he totally ate it cold and yucky. He is a little weird like that I guess.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Although when his chicken got cold, he said that it was stabbing the inside of his mouth!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Funny kid!</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">2.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Give options and choices.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>If you want them to eat healthy give them the option of carrots or celery.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Or fruit apples or oranges.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Then they can have something less healthy, but if you do the love and logic thing and give them two choices you’re happy with, they will choose one of them (as long as you’re consistent and stick to your guns!)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">3.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">I made popsicles from my left over smoothie that had spinach, berries and bananas.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>They liked them and ate spinach all day long without even knowing!</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">4.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Eat popsicles outside!!!!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>If need be get them a bowl to let it melt into.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">5.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Make easy popsicles in Dixie cups with a popsicle stick.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Too easy and fun!</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">6.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">I made soup and it was totally healthy.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>They ate it! It was kind of funny, because honestly, I didn’t really like the soup either. I hadn’t cooked the celery and onions I sautéed enough.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>So they were a bit crunchy, but the kids wanted their cake for dessert, so I told them that if they ate it they could have cake.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>All 3 of them ate all of their soup!!! And cake was served!</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">7.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">I want a stretchy sink faucet when I get my own house!!! So helpful to clean kids off after meals, reaches dishes…it is great!</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">8.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Wash dishes immediately after eating, especially the high chair, then it will all be clean and ready for the next go round.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">9.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Kids eat all the time…oh my word. I feel like I was in the kitchen for the majority of the time I was at home!</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">0.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Sweep!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>That floor gets dirty fast.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>And Ashley is eating everything she can get her hands on.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>As she was at my feet, she was down there eating everything. Kind of gross.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Although, my mom said I ate cigarette butts at the beach all the time as a child…(I guess that tells us something huh!)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">1.<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">If you are going to leave the dishes, at least soak them so they are so much easier to was when you come to them later on.</span><b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"> </span></b></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Amberly was such a good girl.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>As I was curling her hair so she could go to her friend’s party, I said, “You have to clean up your room all clean so that when mommy and daddy get home, it’s all clean.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>It was hilarious, because I finished her hair and totally forgot that I had told her to do that. The next thing I knew she was in her room running around frantically trying to get everything all cleaned up.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She is the cutest and so efficient.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She tries so hard to please and is such a good kid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Amberly is so funny and such a good girl.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Even when she doesn’t do what she’s supposed to, she immediately feels bad for it and tries to make it right. She is totally a blue personality.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>One night we had just gone to the pool and then the play place at Burger King (I have now been play placed out for a while!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Those kids were spoiled with play places!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I stayed there for like 3 hours once and we went to at least 3 different play places!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I’m kind of sick of them!) so when we got home I told Austin to get in the shower, then help Tyler get in the tub, wash his hair and make sure he was ready to get out before he played in the tub.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Amberly got in and I told her to stay in until I came back to do her conditioner/brush out the snarls hair routine.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She was playing in the bath. I snuck away just quick enough to hurry and jump in the shower. Brought Ash into Mike and Liz’s room with me, gave her toys to play with and speed showered so I could feel comfortable (because when I’m wet and tired and still in my suit etc, I’m more cranky, and I needed all the patience I could muster to get through the next hour.)<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>So I hurried really quickly, thinking they’ll just play in there and it will be fine.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Well, when I got out, what do you know Amberly was running around in a towel, hair not washed.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Tyler was running around in a towel and everything was in an uproar! I told Amberly that I had specifically told her to stay in the bath until I came and got her.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She was soaking wet and getting water everywhere etc. I said, “Now you have to get back in and we have to do your hair.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>If you would have just stayed in the bath it would have been easier for everyone. <span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>No dessert for you.”<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She was upset, but completely understood. After dinner, she brought her plate over, didn’t really say anything, and just went to her bed and went to sleep. I felt so bad, because I didn’t even get to apologize for being so abrupt.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">It’s in those moments when I react that I’m kicking myself for being so over the top and out of control and yet on the flip side justifying my actions, because they’re “called for” because you’ve got to discipline and have consequences.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>And it’s like you get madder and madder at yourself for being mad and mean and then you get mad that you aren’t doing things right and it’s this cycle over and over again…I don’t know how to break it, but to admit when I’m wrong immediately so that the damage can be taken care of at least a little bit.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Liz is a good example of that as she is so gentle (sometimes!) with her kids. She’ll stop and play or listen to them. It’s not just one task after another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Amberly when she saw the Disney castle at the beginning of Snow White the movie. “That’s where you don’t get married. That’s just a fake temple!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Advice I gave Amberly, but learned from when she was trying to open her lip stick container and it wouldn’t open.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>“ Leave it for a while. Be patient. Come back for it and it works.”<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She came back and opened it after she had left it a while and wasn’t frustrated when she came back and tried it a second time. I learned that sometimes we just take time and give it a bit of patience and it will all work out better later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">While saying the prayer, “Bless Tyler that he can learn to color with markers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">We were having chicken and zucchini (a very yummy dish I might add) and Amberly said, “What is that?” I said, “It’s chicken.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Do you want to try it?”<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She very seriously said, “I don’t want to try it. I want to eat it.”<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I laughed so hard. She didn’t even realize that it meant the same thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">I was feeding breakfast to Ashley (you gotta feed her when she’s hungry or you’ll have a crying kid on your hands.).<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Amberly comes up to me after she had asked me 10 min before to make her pancakes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Amberly: “No one is getting me my pancakes.”<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Instead of getting frustrated I did a little love and logic, I said, “Why do you think no one is getting you your pancakes?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Amberly: “Cause no one is getting me them.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Me: “Why do you think no one is getting you your pancakes?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Amberly, “Because you’re busy feeding Ashley.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">I responded, “Yep. Can you be patient for me while I feed her?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">So I was in the kitchen cleaning, making food etc.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I had seen Amberly “walking” (more like dragging) her little stuffed animal cat or dog (can’t remember what it was…look at all that attention to detail!).<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She was pulling it on its leash that was made of a chord from her leap frog notebook thing that plugs into the wall.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Well, later on all the kids were sitting on the couch watching some show like “Curious George” or those dancing and singing kids…anyway, I walked by a couple of times and didn’t think anything of the chord I saw over by Amberly. I thought her dog/cat was on it and on her lap.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Well a little bit later I hear Austin say to her, “You’re going to choke yourself.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Stop doing that.”<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I walk over to her and get a close look at it…Oh my word, She had wrapped the chord around her throat, because sometimes they play “puppy” and she was acting like the puppy this time and putting the “leash” on her.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Well, her hair was all tangled up in it.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I thought I was going to have to chop her hair off.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>It was so tight to her neck and a good job of it getting really nice and wrapped around her neck. I just laughed, but was actually really concerned.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I pulled it and stretched it as best I could to get it off, but the little knots she had tied were so tiny that it was hard to get the adapter part through, because that part was bigger and as she worked, she had tightened it and tightened it. I thought, “What a horrible aunt I am.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I almost let her choke herself to death and didn’t even realize what she was doing all those times I walked by.”<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I asked her why she had done this, she said, “Because I was trying to put my leash on.”<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I’m thinking it’s time to get a dog!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>(But they can’t have one because of Mike’s allergies!)<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Anyway, it was scary, but I got it off, no chopping of hair or the chord. It was hard for a second, but luckily hair stretches a little bit!!!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see the genuine love she has for animals. A dog walked into their backyard. She immediately made it feel at home!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yummy cake!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing in the play place. She is so cute and gorgeous!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fell asleep after play time!<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ready for our girl's night. I went in and put Ashley down and came out to this beautiful spread of finger paints!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amberly and Maddi her cousin at the Botanical gardens.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So cool! Sea turtle!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eating popsicles outside! She got Tyler's because he didn't want it anymore!</td></tr>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">What a good helper (when he wants to be!) I learned that Austin is a yellow. He didn’t take the color code test, but what I know about him, he is a yellow through and through with some blue shining through (maybe more will come as he gets older, like his dad!) but this kid is motivated by extrinsic rewards and anything fun. Once I figured that out, it didn’t bug me so much that all he wanted was to have fun and what the next “fun” thing we were going to do was. He only asked to play video games once the whole week!!! Yep, that was a miracle and very wonderful!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>After he played for a little bit and then lost the privilege he never asked again. That could be, because he knew I’d say, “No” or because we just had so many other fun things to do!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I don’t know.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">He was a huge helper with Ashley. He really is her second mother. He knew what to do to get her to stop crying.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>He knew how to get almost everything I needed in the house.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Most importantly of all, he knew how to work the T.V’s I didn’t!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">He was a good consoler for Tyler. He really takes good care of his little brother. He didn’t even complain when he had to clean up after Ty like 100 times!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>He helped me clean the living room, cleaned off the table, cleaned, took out the trash, reminded me about things to do like take out the trash or take back red box movies (of course there were incentives on that, that meant we got to get a new red box sometimes), to put on and take off the emergency brake on the van at home in the driveway.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>He told me how to get to church, how to get to Sonic, Mc Donald’s, Burger King, home etc!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>He was a great helper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">He even learned that when I say, “Clean.” I will check under the bed and everywhere!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I know that he does his best.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>He carried the swim bag into and out of the pool.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>He made sure everyone got their swim suits and towels in the washing machine.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>He was a great helper and even read scriptures with me, because no matter what that kid doesn’t take naps even though everyone was napping on Sunday afternoon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">He is also really good at finding the DVD player and sneaking movies!!! HOP!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">One day Austin came inside from outside fanning himself and said, “You know how hot it is out there?<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>It’s like 60 degrees.”</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">K, he's 9...shouldn't be able to fit in a booster seat!!! That was the only seat available that wasn't at someone else's table so we used it!! Funny huh!<br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">I laughed and was like, “It’s like 90!”<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>It was just too funny, because he doesn’t grasp the concept of how many degrees makes it hot!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Won a gun for going into the balloon pit and finding the Chick Fil A balloon at Family Night. I love and support Chick Fil A and their values. (Added that comment after I've heard all the uproar about it...craziness...what is this world coming to?)<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What a good big brother. Always willing to help out!<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Austin in the deep end!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Austin and Collin his cousin looking at the cool sharks!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ready to swim!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helping Ashley in the play place tunnels!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This kid could play in the play place every day and never get tired of it. He meets whoever comes and just plays with them! True yellow, through and through!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Tyler quotes that were just funny, made me laugh or just unique!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>After a while I just had to start laughing at some of them or I might have cried, like “You’re mean!”<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">“Here’s the deal.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">“You are kidding me!” ( you have to hear that one with his cute little voice!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">“You’re not the boss of me!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">“You’re mean.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">“You’re not being good.”<br style="line-height: 17px;" />“You’re being naughty.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">“Why are you so mad?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 17px;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">I gave him his cheese sandwich and he was like, “Oh YES!”<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>He was so excited! It was cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 27px;">July 19, 2012</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 27px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 27px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 21px; line-height: 27px;">I just came in from crying outside. Here’s the scenario: Liz called to see if I could look up a place online for them to eat. After this trip they are getting smart phones so they can find places without calling someone with internet or a smart phone. Tyler (3) came up to me and was like, “I wanna watch my DVD.” I was on the phone with them and was frustrated. Ashley was pooped again, and I just changed her right before her bath. I had like 14 things going on and so I said, “Go get in your bed.” He went away screaming. I told Liz the address to the restaurant they wanted to go to. I got off the phone, told Ty as he screamed his head off that he needed to be patient and I would be back after I put Ashley down. He calmed down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 27px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 21px; line-height: 27px;">I almost had her down to sleep and he started screaming his head off. “Aunt Becca. Aunt Becca. Aunt Becca.” At the top of his lungs. I was so irritated. She woke up a bit, but not all the way. I told Amberly who was almost asleep in her bed, to go run and tell him to be quiet. She sleepily staggered to go tell him. I very shortly told her, “Hurry. Hurry.” She was so cute and did. Then she came back and I almost had her to a deep sleep and Tyler came and opened the door. Angrily I shewed him away. I was so annoyed. So what did he do next? Run in his room and started wailing. I was so mad. I put her in her crib (so glad that she was asleep) and ran (literally, before he woke her up even more) so that I could get to him before he woke her up. It had just taken me like 15 min to get her to sleep. The second time is always harder than the first time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 27px;">So I ran in, covered his mouth just as he was about to scream out his next scream. I muffled it and told him, "Stop crying right now, because you’re going to wake your sister up." He just cried harder and louder. I covered his mouth up and said, “If you don’t stop you’re going to have to go sit in the back yard.” I covered his mouth up again and it was not the prettiest, nicest covering up of a mouth. He was so sad and mad. It made him even worse. So I went to the back yard and just held him in my arms. That was when the learning came into play. He was calm and needed some love. He cuddled with me and calmed down. He quit crying. He turned into this cute little boy that needed love, and not this annoying little boy that was waking up his sister. I was so annoyed minutes before and my heart broke for how mean I had been and I just sat there and cried. I just cried for how mean I’d been and how unforgiving in the moment I had been. I cried because I was so scared for children that I might one day get, that I might (scratch that), WOULD mess up on. I was sad because I was so imperfect and Heavenly Father gives us these perfect little people to care for and we are mean to them. We don’t take care of them as best we can every day, because we are selfish. I was selfish when I wanted him to be quiet, not only so that Ashley could sleep, but so that she would be out of my hair. I was selfish and realized in that moment that he hugged and cuddled with me, holding the Curious George DVD in his hands, that he wasn’t wanting a DVD, he wanted and needed some love and attention. He needed to be held. He needed someone to pay attention to him, even if he couldn’t recognize that, that is what he needed (currently he is sitting in my bed with me, when he should be sleeping and it’s because he is an individual and his individual needs are not fitting with my ideal (he would be sleeping right now and I would be playing Nintendo with Austin) idea of what should be going on.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 27px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 27px;">I was mad at myself and I’m sure that that was why I was crying so hard. I really felt the Spirit and knew that I needed to forgive myself and understand that what we are doing is so important, forgiving others and ourselves, but that we both need to try our best and on our worst days, don’t give in and say we can’t do it, but that we can keep trying. The thought, “You haven’t failed until you quit trying.” Came to mind. That it was crazy how Tyler was acting, and how I reacted. That he didn’t need a DVD. He needed a hug. He totally sat there while I cried and sobbed and held him. I thought he was asleep. The record shows that he was not asleep even now, but I can be nicer and more patient and try to see what is bothering him. I’m going to put lavender on his feet right now and on guard. Hopefully it will help him relax and go to sleep.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 27px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 27px;">I learned a lot tonight I hope I never forget the memory of “He didn’t need a DVD, he only needed a hug (and so did I)” experience at Liz's.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 27px;"></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good little helper! He always swept after we ate! He is such a good kid!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">His birthday ice cream cone. It was a big deal. Believe me! We about had a tantrum because he ate it all and he wanted more...and don't help me remember the blue balloon that I let fly away!!! Oh man that was a disaster!!!! I don't know if he'll ever forgive me for that!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One really funny COW! On Chick Fil A's bday! You know we went and dressed up like cows!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Without that leash, I would have lost him for sure!! He did really good on it and you can tell he was used to it, except for that one incident that he cut across traffic. I went one way with him and the stroller went down hill the other way. Thank goodness a lady grabbed it for me!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For family night they had a minute to win it contest. They had to go inside a huge pit of balloons and find the one chick fil A balloon and win a prize! They gave him 2 prizes cause it was his bday!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy 3rd birthday! That is supposed to say "Tyler" in sprinkles...but let's be honest no help for the weary!!! We're lucky to have gotten a cake without eggs. Great recipe BTW!<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the coolest picture ever! That monkey was totally looking at him and interacting with him! I loved it!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally! Enough said! Seriously, this kid has soooo much energy! The only problem with him getting a nap, is it is just an energy storer for later that evening when it's bed time!! Watch out!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Ashley is my sweet, sweet girl. I think I will miss her the most. I can’t even imagine life without Ashley. I miss her already, even though sometimes, I wish she would just take a nap.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>But she really is such a good baby. She eats quickly and lets you know when she’s hungry.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She was so happy and can be entertained in such easy ways. She just needs something to play with. She is so happy on her own.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She needs to know someone is around to take care of her (Austin usually did that!) and she’s good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">The thought of her makes me want to cry, because tonight I won’t get to put her to sleep.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She is the sweetest Angel that heavenly Father sent me this week (except for Nati, who I could never have done this week without).<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>When I look at her face as she’s sleeping, my joy is so full. I can’t even feel an inth of what Heavenly Father feels when He looks down at His children and sees us in our perfect and imperfect states.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>The annoying part and then the sleeping child who is “Trying to be like Jesus.” I thought about what Ashley was thinking about today as I laid her down to nap. Her eyes were going back and forth looking beyond my head. I wondered if perhaps she was seeing angels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">When I looked at her, I saw myself. I know that sounds weird, but she is the 4<sup style="line-height: 14px;">th</sup> child and I remember mom saying so many times how she needed me as her little KIT.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>That I was her little angel at times.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I know what she was meaning, because just when I needed a little reprieve I would hold Ash and have a few minutes with an angel, who didn’t talk back to me and who didn’t tell me what she wanted constantly!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Her cute face, nose, ears, eyes, mouth, everything as she slept was so cute.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>It made every moment worth it and I thought, “This is how mom’s do it.” I remembered when John was a little baby and I had babysat Melissa’s kids right when I got home from my mission and how there were such hard moments in my days and how he would just cuddle with me and how I needed those moments of reprieve.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>That is what Heavenly Father gives us; moments to dwell with his perfect angels, before we go face the world.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I loved those moments and feel like those will get me through anything when I have kids of my own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">I also kind of liked it when she saw me and Liz at the airport, when Liz had just gotten back.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She looked at both of us a little confused, because now she had two moms and she kind of reached for me before she reached for Liz. That was cute!!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Made me feel special and that I had made enough difference in her life that she knew who I was that week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Ashley is such a good baby.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She stays in the stroller all day!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>We went to the zoo and she totally stayed in the stroller, no complaining all day.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>2 days later we went to the botanical gardens and the aquarium.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She totally stayed in the stroller. It’s not that she didn’t want to get out and play, it’s that she knows that she stays in there (what would we do if she and Tyler were both out!! Help us all now!!).<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I gave her her snacks and drink and she was set.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Sometimes she was fussy, but you just have to talk to her and she’s back in business for a good hour!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She is such a good girl! Maddi helped take care of her too, feeding her every 5 seconds at the zoo! There were fish crackers everywhere!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Always give Ash her two drinks. 1.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Happy tea 2. Her chamomile teething water.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>So no matter what she drinks, she’s getting calmness or soothing! It works! What a good mom Liz is!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Friday Miracle: I was supposed to take out the garbage on Thursday night. I totally forgot.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I woke up Friday morning early.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Took advantage of it. Read my scriptures and grabbed my Ensign and headed out back for some nice early morning reading in the beautiful weather.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I was reading and heard on the street next to me a loud, loud truck….”Oh crap!!! It was garbage day!” In a family of 6 if you miss garbage day it is not a good thing.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>So I jumped up ran and took out all the trashes, and the garbage to the curb.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Not a huge thing, but a big thing at the same time. I know the Lord blessed me to be outside reading so I could hear it.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I would have been in bed sleeping, but He helped me wake up, be alert enough to read and be outside to hear the warning signal!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>And thus the Friday Garbage Miracle came about!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Totally perfect Ashley face when she is about ready to cry! Perfect moment!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Birthday cup cake earlier in the day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She loves climbing in the play places! Austin is so good to help her!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I wish this one wasn't blurry, because I think it's hilarious that she's got celery in one hand and a cupcake in the other! Happy Birthday Ashes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Such a good girl!!! Drinking her happy tea at the Zoo!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Birthday ice cream! Don't worry she only ate that whole thing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One year older and wiser too! Happy Birthday to you!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are the sweet moments life is made of!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> She totally laid on my chest for like an hour and didn't even fall asleep. She's so cute and a good little girl!<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">What a good mom Liz is. You can totally tell. She is happy and kind to her kids. You can tell that they respect and love her. So many times Amberly would say, “That’s not how mommy does it!”<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I would laugh and say, “How does she do it then?”<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Her kids are well trained.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>They’re used to playing outside.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>They help each other and I have seen a lot of growth and maturity in Austin this last year.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>He is growing up, but Liz expects him to do things to help and he has learned how to correctly clean his bedroom.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I love that there isn’t too much stuff to be in the way to clean up and I love the new format of their room so the “stuff” is hidden behind the bed kind of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">You can tell how good of a mom she is because Ashley is so well trained for her naps.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>She goes down so easily and then knows to cry herself to sleep if she wakes up when you put her down. I learned that you don’t play games with you kid and go back in and pick them up.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>You put them down for their nap or the night and they know you’re not coming back so they will go to sleep, otherwise you and them will be in a nightmare stage for 4 or<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>5 years!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">She taught me a good lesson with Tyler to love him and being sweet gets you a lot farther than being mean back when he’s mean.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I learned the phrase turn the other cheek with him sometimes.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Or agree with thine adversary quickly.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Gets you a lot better results than arguing with him!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">I understand why she tells me not to call the house phone when the kids could potentially be sleeping!!!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I won’t ever do that again!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Once they’re down, you don’t want them up!!! Reprieve time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">You can tell that Liz has a routine with her kids.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>How they eat, sleep, play etc.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>That shows consistency!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Tyler was so cute when I was feeding Ashley and would start singing “I am a child of God” to her so she would eat.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>He would start singing it along with me.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>That is a home where the Spirit dwells and they know that they are children of Heavenly Father.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Or when it’s meal time and everyone fights over who gets to say that prayer! That is funny and great!!!</span></div>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I love that they only drink water and juice or milk sometimes!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>That was a great blessing!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>It would have been hard for me to put juice in their cups every meal, knowing how much unneeded sugar is in juice.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">I can tell that this is a good family because when I ask them to turn the T.V. off for meal times or any time in general, they do it and it’s not like a foreign concept.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>They just do.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>They are consistently nurtured and disciplined.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>That helps a lot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">I loved how they would eat veggies so they could get treats! That shows that Liz has trained them already and that they will do it, if they are expected to!.</span></div>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Getting in the car was so much less a hassle when they would get in their car seats and get buckled, and get a treat. They were so good in the car. They only asked to watch a movie one time and then we listened to my book on CD the rest of the time; Fablehaven.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>I loved it when I hadn’t turned it on yet and they would request it.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>They didn’t complain when church music came on, because you can tell they are used to it and that is a part of their life.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>That means they have good parents who help them consistently have the Spirit in their lives.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I can tell that Liz cooks a lot of different foods because they were willing to try and eat everything I gave them (yes of course there was a sweet incentive afterward, but they were willing to try new things even my very yummy orange vanilla cake!)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Liz is so thrifty all those McDonald’s coupons and the happy hour sonic coupons.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Good times. I never did get my shake from Sonic!!! Next time!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went to Chick Fil A for their birthday! If you dressed up like a cow you got free food. Fun stuff!<br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Mike is a good dad.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>He loves his kids and plays with them.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>According to them he can do 4 flips on the tramp!<span style="line-height: 17px;"> I'm pretty sure he is the reason they have a trampoline to begin with! Yay for that! I love trampolines!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">I had a Mike moment when Tyler was being rude and I couldn’t take it anymore. I told him to stop splashing water like 100 times (a bit of an exaggeration, but a lot) and he kept telling me I was mean and not the boss of him, with his bent up little nose like does when he’s being rude. I grabbed his little body out of the water, put his towel on him and put him in his room with his pjs and told him to dress himself. He started whaling…crying his head off. Had his tantrum. I came back after I had taken care of everyone else and then he was ready to be better.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>We had a little cuddly moment and he was happy again…I tell you what those kids and their learning moments. I learned so much, because just as they want everything right then, I realized that I do that too!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 17px;">Mike mows the lawn and takes the trash out (I have always love that about him!)<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>He provides a great living for them and is patient when Liz is too much of a Proper!!!</span></div>
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</tbody></table>Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-28926987360100519822012-06-28T07:43:00.001-07:002012-06-28T07:43:59.726-07:00The Things We Learn from Weeds<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I've been learning a lot from my weeds lately. It started about a month ago when I started my garden. It is growing beautifully, but I thought I had gotten all of the weeds. I spent extra time really digging to the roots of those huge weeds and pulling out, or so I thought, all of the weeds. Well, I came back a week later and there they were again. Those darn weeds. So I started pulling. Some of them were just barely growing and were easy to pull out, but quite time consuming because there were so many individual sprouts. Then there were others that looked small and when I went to pull them they just broke off, but left a deeper root at the bottom under the dirt. I was lazay and just moved on when I couldn't see the actual weed in its place. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Well, we all know what happens there, leave it to grow a couple of days and there they are "growing like weeds" hence the reason we have that phrase to begin with (I think). And so I have tried to be wiser. I went in a week ago and hoed the entire thing. Turns out I had to do it in the heat of the day, because I had no time otherwise. So there I was sweating, hoeing and cursing those stupid weeds I thought I had dug up 2 weeks earlier. I told myself that this was going to be the end of my hoeing days and I was getting every last one. Well, after hoeing the heck out of the weeds and some of my poor plants (oops) the garden was pretty and weedless. I laid Preen down and hoped that I had done it right...well, lazy hoeing equals more weeds tomorrow. So needless to say, I didn't do it right (it doesn't help that the plot I'm working with hasn't had a garden on it in 10 years and so the root system and seeds of the weeds go way back and deep down.) I have weeded for about 30-40 min every day this week and crazily enough there are still plenty of little tiny weeds growing. I'm realizing day after day that I'm doing it wrong. I'm being lazy and just ripping off the top part (not meaning to of course), but realizing that it takes some digging and work to get those deep, embedded roots.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Yesterday I did it in the sprinklers so it wasn't so hot. This morning, I did it at 7am so it wasn't so hot and the ground was still moist. I dug around the weed and its mighty root before pulling, assuring myself and the weed that the whole thing had been dug up. As I did this, I couldn't help but liken this to life and real weeds that we face. Divorce, addictions, daily routines we can't break, miscommunications, behaviors etc. I think we all have our own weeds and we're sometimes fortunate enough to have people help us with our weeds and help us. We have to get to the root of the problem if we are going to not have to go back and deal with the same problem over and over again. I was thinking about parenting. (Far be it for me since I don't have kids...but I do deal with a lot of kids...)Not just giving in each time a child wants something, but setting up boundaries and continually being conistent (one of my huge goals!!!) so that the kids know what the clear expectation is and that their behavior will reflect the reward/outcome. We do that every day, but I think we often get negative behavior because it gives the child the outcome they want (us exhausted and giving in to their whining, fits, tantrums etc) and we are left with one more weed that we only snap off at the top and the root is ready to grow again.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I look at cycles and things that we continuously do and think about how many times we just take care of part of the problem and don't cute it at the root. We continually fall back into bad habits, because we don't change the habit entirely. It is interesting. I have recently lost 30 pounds and have been consistent in my eating habits since I lost the weight, but I'm not eating as well as I did when I was losing the weight. So frankly, if I was doing what I was doing when I lost the weight I could still be losing weight (on to my goal of 10 more pounds so I could weigh what I did in Jr. High when Coach Stephenson asked me how much I weighed and I felt totally bad about it...looking back, I would be 100% okay with that number!!!) but now I'm just settling for maintaining. But that is not effective, because frankly, it's easy to let a few pounds sneak back on here and there. I haven't been running every day like I used to, but have skipped out on exercises. Even though I formed good habits (chopping off the head of the weed) it's like I'm slipping back into bad habits again (the root still there and the weed beginning to grow). I'm glad that at least because of weeds (and scales) I'm recognizing it and trying to get to the ROOT of the problem before it becomes a bigger problem.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I think it works this way with many things. Communication in relationships, marriage, friendship, families etc. We have the head and we have the root. What are we doing to change those things so they are a more positive experience and don't always end up in confusion we seem to have? I'm not saying I have the answer, I'm just aware of the problem! I'm working on being a better sister. That is hard for me, but I'm working on it. I wrote my mom a sincere email last night (she's in Ecuador so email seems to be convenient) and it felt good to just let down all of my walls and say, "Mom, I'm sorry for not having been the best daughter, but thanks for being patient with me and teaching me all the things you do and for loving me anyway, even though I'm a jerk sometimes! And I love you for loving me and teaching me through your example of how we are supposed to be." </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">If we have boyfriends/girlfriends (or don't have for that matter) and have been in broken relationships before, don't ya think it would do us well to look at the weeds in our previous relationships to help us think about what kind of issues we have in these ones and get rid of the weed completely. Pull up the root, so this one can succeed!!! Hopefully! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Well, here's to happy weeding, that could possibly turn into a wedding!!! (Had to add that as I mispelled weeding and saw wedding. It's too close and too perfect to pass up!!!) Get some dirt under those fingers, cry a few tears and get to the root of the problem before the problem becomes an overpowering weed that you can't control! Happy weeding/wedding!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #2f393a; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What have I learned about the atonement from the Book
of Mormon? I’ve learned a lot, but today, I learned that it is real and there
are no things that cannot be covered by it. I know that sounds simple, but I
was reading in the Book of Helaman chapter 7 and Nephi the grandson of the
original Helaman, son of Alma the younger was praying and a bunch of people
came and were “marveling” at his prayers and so he kind of went off on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said how wicked they had been and how they
needed to stop being so wicked or bad, bad, bad destruction and even complete
obliteration of their people would happen, and then he used a key phrase 4
times; “Except ye repent” I couldn’t help but feel so deeply, “Wait a minute…so
he’s saying that they did all of these awful, wicked things and he was still
telling them they had a chance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
yes, destruction and awful things would come because they had done them, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">except</i> they repent.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that was the key.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He kept saying it, “You’ve done a lot of bad
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the future doesn’t look
bright for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean really bad stuff
and extinction of your people is going to happen…except ye repent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ve still got a chance to stop it right
now and just repent and be whole through Christ.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was amazing to me. It hit me like a light;
like the thing I’ve always known, but hadn’t really understood popped into full
view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except ye repent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So that would mean that repentance was an
option! Crazy!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, not at all. God is
our Father. He wants us home. He provided a way that even when we made huge
crazy big mistakes, that we could make it home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have to know what to do to get back home…it’s easy repent. Be humble
and give your will to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That gave me
more hope than I’ve had in a long time!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And then I was reading President Monson’s talk in Priesthood April 2012
that talked about Nephi and priesthood leaders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He just simply quoted a very well known verse 1 Nephi 3:7. “I will go
and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord
giveth no commandment unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for
them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I thought to myself, after having read Helaman 7 and
pondering on the atonement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That the
part that says, “save He shall prepare a way that they may accomplish the thing
with he commandeth them.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So that means
that he prepares an out for us from temptation in the moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He prepares an out for us if we fail to take
the first out and give ourselves the atonement that covers us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means that we can be free from the sins
that befall us and all we have to do is repent. “Except ye repent”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there could be a huge list of items we’ve
done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t say, “Oh if you did
that or this, you’re disqualified.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
says, “Except ye repent.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s all you
have to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I’ve learned a lot from
that little bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He provides a way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The way is the opportunity to repent of any
sin and then to keep on going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m learning
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lot and am so grateful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s been a hopeful learning day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-42435309440371858572012-06-03T10:21:00.003-07:002012-06-03T10:21:55.128-07:00Dating...here we go again and again and again...I have signed up again on LDSsingles...kind of funny, but kind of my way of showing Heavenly Father that I'm willing and open to whatever opportunities He gives me. Online dating is not my favorite way of finding a spouse (that's what happened before...and look how that turned out) that's why it's been about 2 years since I've done it. But here we go. What's the worst that could happen? Maybe I shouldn't ask that!<br />
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These are some excerpts from a talk that I love and has kept me knowing what it is I need to do as I date. It is called, "How Do I Love Thee?" By Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. I highly recommend it! Here is the link <a href="http://www.lds.org/new-era/2003/10/how-do-i-love-thee?lang=eng&query=jeffrey+r+holland+"how+do+I+love+thee"">http://www.lds.org/new-era/2003/10/how-do-i-love-thee?lang=eng&query=jeffrey+r+holland+"how+do+I+love+thee"</a><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">There
are many qualities you will want to look for in a friend or a serious date—to
say nothing of a spouse and eternal companion—but surely among the first and
most basic of those qualities will be those of care and sensitivity toward
others, a minimum of self-centeredness that allows compassion and courtesy to
be evident.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">I
suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as
brilliant in school or as witty in speech or as wealthy as we would like, but
in a world of varied talents and fortunes that we can’t always command, I think
that makes even more attractive the qualities we can command—such qualities as
thoughtfulness, patience, a kind word, and true delight in the accomplishment
of another. These cost us nothing, and they can mean everything to the one who
receives them.<o:p></o:p></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">In a dating and courtship relationship, I would not have you
spend five minutes with someone who belittles you, who is constantly critical
of you, who is cruel at your expense and may even call it humor. Life is tough
enough without having the person who is supposed to love you leading the
assault on your self-esteem, your sense of dignity, your confidence, and your
joy. In this person’s care you deserve to feel physically safe and emotionally
secure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;">If you are just going for
pizza or to play a set of tennis, go with anyone who will provide good, clean
fun. But if you are serious, or planning to be serious, please find someone who
brings out the best in you and is not envious of your success. Find someone who
suffers when you suffer and who finds his or her happiness in your own.<o:p></o:p></span></span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #2a3753; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Endure to
the End<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Third and last, the
prophets tell us that true love “beareth all things, believeth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things” (</span><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/7.45?lang=eng#44"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Moro. 7:45</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;">).
Once again that is ultimately a description of Christ’s love—He is the great
example of One who bore and believed and hoped and endured. We are invited to
do the same in our courtship and in our marriage to the best of our ability.
Bear up and be strong. Be hopeful and believing. Some things in life we have
little or no control over. These have to be endured. These are not things
anyone wants in life, but sometimes they come. And when they come, we have to
bear them; we have to believe; we have to hope for an end to such sorrows and
difficulty; we have to endure until things come right in the end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Lucida Grande";"><span style="color: #0b5394;">In a
final command to all His disciples for all time, He said, “A new commandment I
give unto you, That ye love one another; <span class="emphasis1"><em>as I have loved
you</em></span>” (</span><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/13.34?lang=eng#33"><span style="color: #0b5394;">John
13:34</span></a><span style="color: #0b5394;">; emphasis added). Of course such Christlike staying power requires
more than any of us really have. It requires something more, an endowment from
heaven. Remember Mormon’s promise: that such love—the love we each yearn for
and cling to—is “bestowed” upon “true followers of Christ.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Lucida Grande";">This
next quote has literally saved my life throughout the course of my dating. I have
been able to see right from wrong and truth from error as I have applied this
quote, because I have been able to see what is right in a relationship and what
isn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have had to cling to the truth
to help me see what I really really want in my marriage and it has saved me
from big mistakes and unknown and unhealthy paths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Lucida Grande";">I’m
grateful to Elder Holland for being so bold, when sometimes I didn’t want to
see it or hear it, but I knew that he was right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of this quote I was able to be safe
in a relationship that could have changed everything in my life and would have
made it a very unhappy ending.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
grateful that though it’s hard advice to follow when you’re “in love” if you
follow it, your relationships of “love” will be deeper and bonded in the right way,
with the Savior at the helm of your relationship. It’s so true and so
essential.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you want capability, safety, and security in dating and romance, in married
life and eternity? Be a true disciple of Jesus. Be a genuine, committed,
word-and-deed Latter-day Saint. Believe that your faith has everything to do
with your romance, because it does. You separate dating from discipleship at
your peril. Jesus Christ, the Light of the World, is the only lamp by which you
can successfully see the path of love and happiness. How should I love thee? As
He does, for that way “never faileth.”</blockquote>
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<o:p></o:p></div>Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-36656811475487661102012-06-02T12:07:00.001-07:002012-06-02T12:09:48.042-07:00A Cottage or a Mansion?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been recenlty thinking of "Jonah and the great fish" the play I saw a few years ago at the Scera Theatre. Before that play I really had no clear understanding about Jonah. I didn't know why he was in the belly of a great fish...i just knew it was a story in the Bible! Well, as I watched it I learned that he had been running from what the Lord told him to do; go to Ninevah and tell the people to repent. He didn't want to so he stowed away on a ship. The Lord was unhappy with him for doing that and made huge waves and so the people on the ship were like, "Who is to blame for this?" Jonah told them it was him so they cast him overboard. Then he spent some time in the belly of a "great fish" and came to himself. I guess if a prophet of the Lord had to have some refining like that, I think it's okay that I do too. <br />
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I have recently been reading in the Book of Mormon about Abinadi (He wasn't rebellious to the Lord) the Lord told him to go back two years later after he had already gone to a people and was cast out. He was told to go back 2 years later and call the people to repentance, because the Lord had given them time enough to repent. Abinadi didn't run. He was very clear to them and made his purpose clear and said, "I have a message and I'm going to share it, so don't try and kill me, because the Lord won't permit me to die until I say what I need to say." That is a great example of faith and not cowardice.<br />
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I look at those two stories and compare my life. I'm kind of like Johah in a way at times when I'm asked to do hard things. I ask myself sometimes, "What am I running from?" "Why do I not want to do things the Lord's way?" "What am I so afraid of?" I'm afraid of coming to myself and realizing that I may not be perfect (imagine that!!!!) and that the plan the Lord has for me might be hard, but I always (when I really think about it and pray hard) come to the realization that He would never want me to do something that wouldn't ultimately bring me happiness. That is so hard to believe sometimes when He sends me down a road I don't want to go on. I think of the whole tearing down the cottage story and I'm like "Wait a minute. What are you doing? I'm a pretty cottage!" And Heavenly Father is like, "I have to tear down some walls so I can put up even bigger and better ones, because I don't want you to be a small cottage, I want you to be a mansion." <br />
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The tearing down part is sooo hard and painful, because it's hard to believe that hard things and painful things will result in good things. But as I have learned, they really do and that is the faith inducing part! I've been figuring out a lot and literally crying to the Lord and leaning on Him more than I would if my cottage walls were intact...so I guess that is why we're here. To become a mansion. Some settle for a cottage, but in the true end, I want a mansion. So I tell Him through my pain and tears, "If this is going to get me happier and where I need to go, then I'll go. I'll go with you there and I'll do that hard thing (like breaking up with a guy I really didn't want to break up with) and know and trust that in the end it will all be okay." I know it will. It has to, because the Lord tears us down only to put up bigger and better, stronger, cleaner, brighter walls and windows! It's going to be alright. It is always going to be alright in the end and if it is not alright, then it's not the end! That has gotten me through a lot!!! <br />
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A really pretty cottage, but just imagine that we can become more than even we can imagine!<br />
What I want to become: A mansion...even through all the pain! Pool, green grass, towers and all! <br />
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This is a link to an amazing talk that helped me so much when I was trying to get over my engagement. I know it's been 2 years, but it still helps me remember that God has a lot more planned for me than I can even comprehend!<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxOoa9kHQXs&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxOoa9kHQXs&feature=related</a><br />
<br />Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-48809782757170368072012-05-27T18:43:00.002-07:002012-05-27T18:43:33.999-07:00Learning...it's what life is all aboutI just want to say that I have learned a lot in the last little bit. I have gotten down on my knees and asked Heavenly Father to teach me what it is I am supposed to learn. I have been amazed at the results! I keep learning and learning and learning. This time it's the kind of learning that helps! It's the kind of learning that has helped me realize where I am in life and that I am okay where I am. I have loved people more this week, these couple of days especially. I have been able to just get right down and ask, "What is it you want me to learn, because I'm not doing it right." And just like when I was on my mission and we would get to the end of our rope and realize that there was something else we could do, but couldn't do it alone, we gave our will over to Heavenly Father. It has been good to give it away and without fear that He will take me on this forbidden and scary path. It has been the most healing and happiness producing last couple of weeks, because I have given up my will (well, some of it...) and have said, "Help me." And it has been good. <br />
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There have been gentle reminders that say, "Becca you're doing it again; that thing you asked me to help you stop doing." "Becca, you're being impatient again. Remember how you want to work on that." "Becca, just stop. And stop trying to make everything go quickly and be your way." (those are big ones!) "Becca, Listen. Just listen. Don't try to make people think like you do. Just be a listening sounding board." " Becca, love. Remember to love."<br />
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I have literally heard these thoughts in my head and have been reminded so many times of what I want to work on. I have also been gently welcomed back into His loving graces as I say, "I can't do it on my own. Please help me." It has been humbling and a beautiful experience. I have loved being alive these last couple of weeks in a different way than ever. It has been humbling and hope inducing, because I feel so much like Heaven is watching over me and cares that I'm alive and that I exist. Heaven cares that I'm trying to be better and that it is hard. It has been tearful at times and so nice to be honest with myself that I'm not everything, but that that is why I'm here. That is why we're all here. To grow and change.<br />
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I was getting a massage on Thursday. I didn't really want it to begin with (crazy I know!) because after having the stomach flu I was still a little bit nauseated and not feeling too good. But she came. She listened to Daniel Beck because I only had my small Ipod charged and it hold like 500 songs and only a few albums are soothing so we put on Daniel Beck. <br />
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There was this song that he sings to his wife. I know Daniel, so it was a lot easier for me to imagine it and how he would sing it to her and how romantic it would be and how happy she would be. And I found myself jealous and thinking, "Man if I was only married, I could be so happy." And then I thought about them, in real life and how they have all these kids and real decisions to make, and how he took the flying leap into the darkness to go to California, pick up their whole family and just move because he felt it was right. I thought as I laid there, how life doesn't get perfect because you get married. It just goes up a level in decision making. It changes. It's different. It's what you need to grow. It is hard no matter what stage you're in. And laying there on the table I got a feeling of why we are here all over again. I have been having reoccuring thoughts about this. That we are here to grow. No matter our place, situation, circumstance...the goal will always be to grow. When we are able to accept that we can grow at an even more rapid pace.<br />
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I was overwhelmed with the love of our perfect Father in Heaven who wants us to excell in our lives. He wants nothing but the best for us, because He knows who and what we can become, but it is going to take a lot of hard days for us to learn how to deal with them. It is a test. This life is a test. It's the simplest way to put it. We are here to learn and grow and until we pass one test or challenge, we might have to repeat that over and over again. But the quicker we catch on, the better off we are and are able to accept things. We don't have to fear failing, because the worst part of failing is how we feel about ourselves, but I learned that if we accept our failure and learn from it, we haven't failed at all.<br />
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I have been praying this week, hard, to learn and be what He needs me to be. I have given him my sincerest humility at times and have found myself crying and saying, "Why?" and then, "What do you want me to learn?" and "How do I do it?" ( I have to laugh because I told my roommate I was going to take a bath and I got this new "stress relief" aroma therapy bubble bath. She said, "What do you have to stress about?" (because she is stressed about finding a new job and guys) I laughed and was like, "Seriously? You can't think of anything I could stress about?" And she said, "No." Stating that I honestly should have nothing to be relaxing from or stressing about...It was one of those moments that I rerealized that we all have something to stress about, because our trials are hand picked for us. What might stress her, maybe wouldn't stress me out or visa versa, but that is why we each get our perfect trial for ourselves.)<br />
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Anyway, I have been blessed to have a Father in Heaven to lean on and talk to. It has been a very sweet experience and I couldn't have gained this knowledge if I hadn't come to this place in my life. There really are no words to express all the things I feel, but I do feel so overwhelmingly loved from a perfect being who knows exactly what I need and I'm grateful, He cares enough to take the time to make cosmic things happen just the way we all need them. The Lord loves us. If the whole world feels like turning its back, the Lord never ever does, nor will He. I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful for dreams and truth that is freedom inducing! It is good to write and be able to share thoughts, even if no one in the world gets it. I do and the Lord does. Thanks for reading.Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-10946872802724830492012-05-18T17:45:00.001-07:002012-05-18T17:58:07.992-07:005k Finish line 39 seconds after Mr. Veasey<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5CPRApgYC4M?fs=1" width="459"></iframe><br />
This is the finish line at our 1st Annual 5k. It was great. We ran hard and had a great time. I was only 29 seconds behind Mr. Veasey. I told him as we were running, that I wanted nothing but to beat him. He said, "That gives me something to work for then!" He beat me and later wrote me an email, "Sorry I had to beat you in the race...ha ha ha!" <br />
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But I paid him back a bit!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our faithful office staff (there's more, just not in the pics) They won the "support" contest so they are getting a veggie tray and chocolate covered strawberries as a thank you!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jenn and Kevin came to support us! Thanks guys, you did great!</td></tr>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Daniel Rasmuson (1<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup>) 26:46 T-<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jason Clark (1<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup>) 26:51 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Isaac Barker (1<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup>) 27:47 C-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kristen Poduska (2<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">nd</span></sup>) 27:49 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aiden Clark (2<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">nd</span></sup>)27:53 C-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">McKenna Fowler (2<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">nd</span></sup>) 30:57 T-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lauren Fowler (2<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">nd</span></sup>) 30:57 C-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Richard Veasey (3<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">rd</span></sup>) 31:21 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Carmen Partridge (3<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">rd</span></sup>) 31:37 T-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Becca Proper (4<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>)31:50 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chelsey Clark (5<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 33:47 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lauren Allred (4<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 35:51 C-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Summer Chatfield (5<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 35:52 C-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Amanda Fowler (6<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 37:37 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Delilah Betancourt (7<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 38:35 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Adrianna Trevino (6<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 38:35 C-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Katherine Roberts (7<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 42:09 C-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ashli Roberts (8<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>)42:10 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kiera Fox (5<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 44:04 T-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Alex Trevino (6<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 44:05 T-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chris (9<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 44:06 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Autumn (10<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 46:43 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Holly Gibson (11<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 46:43A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Paul Johnson (12<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 48:12 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Elizabeth Lecker (13<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 50:28 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kalea Lecker (8<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 50:29 C-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Melodie Loveless (14<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 51:46 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ashley Hintze (15<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 51:47 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jennifer Kelley (16<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 52:46 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kevin Kelley (17<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>) 52:47 A-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<img height="72" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizyJMNQZAq4U4-g8zGT2WvRiHgN5Df__u4mm1DJxznTdoKlUmicDoKk9Bco1uQzsKXnOZgs5O842d1x02vOaaSfzxr-igJXwM4Fr7wY0IvFrrPBwlJKZW2dX7BxhXlN9AhOlVrXFJGmmAk/s320/IMG_7091.JPG" style="filter: alpha(opacity=30); left: 501px; opacity: 0.3; position: absolute; top: 724px;" width="96" />Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-56149792879784150462012-04-29T10:10:00.001-07:002012-04-29T10:10:10.614-07:00Today's scripture lesson hand out and quote<span style="background-color: #38761d;">I</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #38761d;"> teach the 14-15 year old class in Sunday School. Sometimes it has been frustrating for them to see things like I do!!! (Surprise, surprise...it does help that I teach Jr. High every day! and so I get it, but it's even harder at church...no grades, or anything to help them want to do what they should, except pure desire...that's the fun part...getting the desire to be a desire!)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #38761d;">Today we're reading the scriptures (obviously) and I want them to realize how important they are and how much they can get out of them. If they read them regularly, we will get a lot out of them. I'm giving them a giant jaw breaker (lots of sugar, but lots of fun too! each child to should experience this at least one time in their life!) and they are "supposed to" read their scriptures while eating their jawbreaker, or at least think about reading their scriptures while eating their jawbreakers. We'll see how it goes.So this is my handout for them today:</span><br />
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are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance
and inspiration from on high.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--Elder Richard G. Scott<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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deep the doctrines of the scriptures are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just like the depth of the jawbreaker, the scriptures have depth and
layers to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more you read, the
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<span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img height="300" id="il_fi" src="http://www.candymachines.com/images/bulk_jawbreakers/giant-jawbreaker-65000.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="300" /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-71047693348520672052012-04-23T20:37:00.002-07:002012-04-23T20:39:18.317-07:00Courage<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(249, 246, 237); line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 15pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2f393a; font-family: "Harlow Solid Italic"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Courage is required to make an initial thrust toward one’s coveted goal, but even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have the determination to make the effort, the single-mindedness to work toward a worthy goal, and the courage not only to face the challenges that inevitably come but also to make a second effort, should such be required. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, “I’ll try again tomorrow.” – President Monson<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">I read this quote in a talk, "The Abundant Life" and kept back coming back to it. I realized that it is so hard to have courage sometimes, especially when you've tried and failed, it feels like it's better to give up. But, just when you want to, I love the advice that says it's okay to give yourself a break and say, "I'll try again tomorrow." I'm glad for second chances!</span>Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-7975892317936646892012-04-10T12:29:00.000-07:002012-04-10T12:29:12.216-07:00Reading<span style="color: blue;">I've been reading a lot this week. My personal goal is to sit/lay/be outside in the sun and read at least once every day this week on my Spring Break. So far I have succeeded all the way since Saturday. I've finished 2 books (one I started last Spring break...) "A Bend in the road" Nicholas Sparks and "Silhouette" by Nancy L. Cratty. I am currently reading, "One in Thine Hand" by Gerald N. Lund and have been reading a lot in the Book of Mormon today to prepare for me having a sub in my Sunday School class (Thanks Apple!) and also my talk I'm giving in church this Sunday on the Atonement. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">My sister is flying in on Thursday and I will have to drop her off at the airport on Sunday right after my talk so I can't teach, but it has been really fun preparing with Apple for the lesson. It is on the Plan of Happiness in Alma 39-42. I have loved those chapters since I was about 19 and realized that they actually talk about the Plan of Salvation! It is great. I was looking for a quote online for the lesson and while perusing, I logged into Goodreads which I don't do a lot. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><a class="leftAlignedImage" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/193147.Neal_A_Maxwell"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Neal A. Maxwell" height="200" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1209148479p2/193147.jpg" width="151" /></span></a></span></div><span style="color: blue;"><div class="quoteText" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.” <br />
― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/193147.Neal_A_Maxwell"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neal A. Maxwell</span></a></div></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">I found my profile and had to laugh at what I wrote in 2008. It still stands true except that I've finished reading almost all of the books mentioned!</span> <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">How did I get interested in reading?</span></strong></div><br />
Well, it all started when I started reading Jack Weyland books and babysitter club books. I would save all my money until we would go on temple trips to LA and I would go buy as many Jack Weyland books as I could afford at the Seagull book across the street. I love to read. It is really relaxing for me. Generally, I am reading at least 4 to 10 books all at once. I get bored, or I have to be in a certain mood to read a certain book. Currently, off the top of my head, I am reading the Stephanie Meyer books, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harry Potter (the first one), Elder Maxwell's biography, Esperanza Rising, the Narnia Series, some teaching books etc...I enjoy reading, especially in a room full of people. (weird I know, but it's my way of being productive in 2 ways; socializing and accomplishing finishing a book...i'm weird like that!) I like to read outside a lot at sun set or on the porch. I have a vision of my husband and I, growing old together sitting on the porch rocking back and forth in rocking chairs reading and chatting as the sun goes down. I am going to in the near future, get chairs for the front porch. So yeah, I guess people invited me to this reading web page, because I do enjoy reading. And probably, because I usually always have a book in my purse (even on dates!), maybe that's why I'm not married (yet)!<span style="color: blue;"> (I just added the yet, cause I feel like it's coming! There is always hope! After reading all of the scriptures I have today, I have felt the Lord's confirmation to me that there is hope and it's all going to be okay!)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Welp, I'm off to bask in the sunshine and read my book, maybe even get in a nap! Have a great day!</span>Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-5547515079269599422012-03-28T18:07:00.000-07:002012-03-28T18:07:11.534-07:00Made this tonight! Yummy!<div style="line-height: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px;"><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/181481059954303285/" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="270" src="http://media-cache6.pinterest.com/upload/181481059954303285_ag61Pyzn_c.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
</div><div style="float: left; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px;">Source: <a href="http://allrecipes.com/video/407/making-asparagus-soup/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">allrecipes.com</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/orcachick/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Becca</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></div></div><br />
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Really easy. Only tookabout 40 min. Watched the video 3 times as I made it and about ready to go eat it...if only I had some scallops! Yum!Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-53999076534934057982012-03-26T20:49:00.001-07:002012-03-28T18:09:48.271-07:00Looking forward, while looking back! Happy Birthday to my dad!<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Oven baked parmesan seasoned fries :)" class="PinImageImg" src="http://media-cache0.pinterest.com/upload/48765608434908447_vXDOwpXF_b.jpg" style="height: 288px;" /></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I read this in a talk today be President Erying, “I promise you, if you do all that you can, God will magnify your strength and your wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will <span style="color: orange;">season</span> you.” Henry B. Erying, Conference October 2011 "Preparation in the Priesthood: 'I need your help'".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">thought about the different experiences that I have had today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many names came to mind of so many people I have dated. I laughed as I thought about how my heart has been, “broken” so many times. The fact that I have survived, just when I didn’t think I could and how the Lord has literally <span style="color: orange;">“seasoned”</span> me and my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To season is to spice, flavor, to add experience to etc…I thought, "Would I rather have plain fries or seasoned fries?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Red Robin came to mind, and I thought of how much I love those fries (and the fries I’m going to make that are homemade, that I found on pinterest) and how my life is like flavored, seasoned fries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That I am that much better because of experiences I went through and never thought that I could get through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But now, they’ve seasoned me and my life is full. I am happy. I am very blessed and couldn’t be happier that the Lord has granted unto me the blessings of working in the temple, and getting to know what I want and being happy in the process of growth through it all. It’s good to realize how blessed we are and the fact that as we progress, stretch and grow, that though it feels like it will never end, because it is so up in our faces and that’s all we can see, that life is all about growing and getting bigger and better! It’s to be happy while we grow that is the challenge…as my dad who’s birthday it is today, would say, “Therein lies the rub!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love you John! Happy Birthday doing the Lord’s will on the other side!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew today was going to be a special day for me, from the moment I realized that it was March 26<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>! !Feliz Cumple!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To everything there is a <span style="color: orange;">season</span>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ecclesiastes 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div uri="/scriptures/ot/eccl/3.1"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="1"><span style="color: #486fae;"> </span></a><span class="verse">1 </span>To every <span class="clarityWord"><em>thing there is</em></span> a <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote0" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=1a&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">season</span></a>, and a <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote1" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=1b&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">time</span></a> to every purpose under the heaven:</div><div uri="/scriptures/ot/eccl/3.2"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="2"><span style="color: #486fae;"> </span></a><span class="verse">2 </span>A <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote2" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=2a&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">time</span></a> to be born, and a time to <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote3" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=2b&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">die</span></a>; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up <span class="clarityWord"><em>that which is</em></span> planted;</div><div uri="/scriptures/ot/eccl/3.3"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="3"><span style="color: #486fae;"> </span></a><span class="verse">3 </span>A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;</div><div uri="/scriptures/ot/eccl/3.4"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="4"><span style="color: #486fae;"> </span></a><span class="verse">4 </span>A time to weep, and a time to <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote4" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=4a&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">laugh</span></a>; a time to <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote5" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=4b&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">mourn</span></a>, and a time to dance;</div><div uri="/scriptures/ot/eccl/3.5"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="5"><span style="color: #486fae;"> </span></a><span class="verse">5 </span>A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;</div><div uri="/scriptures/ot/eccl/3.6"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="6"><span style="color: #486fae;"> </span></a><span class="verse">6 </span>A time to <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote6" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=6a&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">get</span></a>, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;</div><div uri="/scriptures/ot/eccl/3.7"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="7"><span style="color: #486fae;"> </span></a><span class="verse">7 </span>A time to <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote7" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=7a&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">rend</span></a>, and a time to sew; a time to keep <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote8" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=7b&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">silence</span></a>, and a time to speak;</div><div uri="/scriptures/ot/eccl/3.8"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="8"><span style="color: #486fae;"> </span></a><span class="verse">8 </span>A time to love, and a time to <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote9" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=8a&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">hate</span></a>; a time of war, and a time of peace.</div><div uri="/scriptures/ot/eccl/3.9"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="9"><span style="color: #486fae;"> </span></a><span class="verse">9 </span>What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote10" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=9a&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">laboureth</span></a>?</div><div uri="/scriptures/ot/eccl/3.10"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="10"><span style="color: #486fae;"> </span></a><span class="verse">10 </span>I have seen the <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote11" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=10a&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">travail</span></a>, which God hath given to the sons of men to be <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote12" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=10b&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">exercised</span></a> in it.</div><div uri="/scriptures/ot/eccl/3.11"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="" name="11"><span style="color: #486fae;"> </span></a><span class="verse">11 </span>He hath made every <span class="clarityWord"><em>thing</em></span> <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote13" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=11a&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">beautiful</span></a> in his time: also he <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote14" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=11b&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">hath</span></a> set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">c</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/eccl/3?lang=eng#" id="footnote15" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=ot&bookUri=eccl&chapterUri=3&noteID=11c&lang=eng"><span style="color: #486fae;">work</span></a> that God maketh from the beginning to the end.</div><o:p></o:p></span>Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-450513573242061602012-03-18T11:26:00.001-07:002012-03-18T11:30:21.731-07:00Getting out of BondageI have learned a lot about the flaxen chord that Satan ties around people's necks until they have no way to get out. It has been a hard thing for me to allow people that I love and care about immensely to go through their own learning process and realize that there is a way out. It sometimes seems that we are so far in that, that giving up is the only option, and generally that results in even more displeasure, pain and addiction.<br />
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I have been reading my scriptures and have found there is a key to getting out of bondage. The key is Christ. He is the answer and has always been the answer. And when we just don't know how to get to Him, if we open our hearts and our scriptures, He spells it out for us quite plainly.<br />
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In Mosiah 7 the people are in bondage; literal bondage to other people and they're asking,vs 23 "And is not this, our affliction great?" vs 24 "Great are the reasons which we have to mourn..." <br />
I know I've asked myself a time or two, "How do I get out of this bondage that is making life unbearable?" <br />
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There are always two answers. The thing is, that life is all about choices and just like the Lord is good at doing, He tells us, "Here's option number 1 and 2. You get to choose. Remember how life is about making good choices and then reaping the rewards (good or bad) of those choices?"<br />
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vs 29-32 talk about the destruction that will come because of bad choices.<br />
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<span style="color: orange;">"<span class="verse">29 </span>For behold, the Lord hath said: I will not <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">a</span></sup></span><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/7?lang=eng#" id="footnote53" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=7&noteID=29a&lang=eng"><span style="color: orange;">succor</span></a><span style="color: orange;"> my people in the day of their transgression; but I will hedge up their ways that they prosper not; and their doings shall be as a <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">b</span></sup></span><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/7?lang=eng#" id="footnote54" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=7&noteID=29b&lang=eng"><span style="color: orange;">stumbling</span></a><span style="color: orange;"> block before them.</span><br />
<div uri="/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/7.30"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="30"><span style="color: orange;"> </span></a><span style="color: orange;"><span class="verse">30 </span>And again, he saith: If my people shall sow <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">a</span></sup></span><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/7?lang=eng#" id="footnote55" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=7&noteID=30a&lang=eng"><span style="color: orange;">filthiness</span></a><span style="color: orange;"> they shall <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">b</span></sup></span><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/7?lang=eng#" id="footnote56" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=7&noteID=30b&lang=eng"><span style="color: orange;">reap</span></a><span style="color: orange;"> the <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">c</span></sup></span><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/7?lang=eng#" id="footnote57" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=7&noteID=30c&lang=eng"><span style="color: orange;">chaff</span></a><span style="color: orange;"> thereof in the whirlwind; and the effect thereof is poison.</span></div><div uri="/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/7.31"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="31"><span style="color: orange;"> </span></a><span style="color: orange;"><span class="verse">31 </span>And again he saith: If my people shall sow filthiness they shall reap the <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">a</span></sup></span><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/7?lang=eng#" id="footnote58" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=7&noteID=31a&lang=eng"><span style="color: orange;">east</span></a><span style="color: orange;"> wind, which bringeth immediate destruction.</span></div><div uri="/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/7.32"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="32"><span style="color: orange;"> </span></a><span style="color: orange;"><span class="verse">32 </span>And now, behold, the promise of the Lord is fulfilled, and ye are smitten and afflicted."</span></div><br />
And then like the perfect being that He is, He also reminds us of the other positive outcome choice! He says, "But don't forget there's another happy option! There always is!" And so the other option is presented. This option is usually harder, and takes more effort on our part, but in turn makes us happier in the long and tells us of our worth. It reminds us of who we are (literal sons and daughters of perfect parent) and says, "I promise there's options. Good ones that lead to happiness...here they are."<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="verse">"33 </span>But if ye will <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">a</span></sup></span></span><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/7?lang=eng#" id="footnote59" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=7&noteID=33a&lang=eng"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">turn</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"> to the Lord with full purpose of heart, and put your trust in him, and serve him with all <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">b</span></sup></span></span><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/7?lang=eng#" id="footnote60" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=7&noteID=33b&lang=eng"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">diligence</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"> of mind, if ye do this, he will, according to his own will and pleasure, deliver you out of bondage."</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">So simply put</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">1. Turn to the Lord with full purpose of heart</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">2. Put your trust in Him</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">3. Serve him with all diligence of mind</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">and tada....in His own time, according to His own will and pleasure (usually on the fourth watch, just when you think you can't take it any longer, or you've learned what you're supposed to) He WILL deliver you! I know He will. He does it all the time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">On my mission, there were so many times, when I was just done. I couldn't do take it anymore. Whatever it was, a hard companion, no success, physical pain (one time I had blisters under layers of skin on my feet...it hurt so bad I couldn't even walk!!! Another time the bones in the top of my feet would cramp up so badly that I could hardly walk...what is a missionary without walking feet in Uruguay???) and just when we were going up the hill, like the storm was ready to come, just when it was so hot and everyone would say, "If it would just rain, all this humidity would go away" and I was like, "If I could just get a break, it would all be okay. If so and so would just accept baptism etc...well, in those moments when it was literally the fourth watch, when life was so hard and unbearable and I had no where else to turn, I would pour out my soul to the Lord and of course, according to His own will and pleasure, the storm broke, the pain went away and He took my pain. He took it from me and put it somewhere. I know not where, but He took it and held it. It was a miracle and every time ever since, it has been a miracle. Just when I think I'm trapped and in bondage for forever, I realize that the storm is going to break soon. I just need to have the faith. </span></span><br />
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I was reading today in Mosiah 11 and there they were expounding on their bondage and how awful it was, God was saying, "They have done a lot of wicked things and they need to know that "except they repent and turn to me" I will deliver them into the hands of their enemies, they will be brought into BONDAGE, they will be afflicted...in other words, "Things aren't going to look very good, because I am a jealous God, and I will visit the inquities of my people." vs 21-22<br />
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But He always gives us a way out and says, "<span class="verse">23 </span>And it shall come to pass that <span style="color: purple;">except this people repent</span> and <span style="color: blue;">turn unto the Lord their God</span>, <span style="color: orange;">they shall be brought into bondage</span>; and<span style="color: red;"> none shall <sup class="studyNoteMarker"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">a</span></sup></span><a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/11?lang=eng#" id="footnote26" rel="/scriptures/chapter/footnote/default.xqy?volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=mosiah&chapterUri=11&noteID=23a&lang=eng"><span style="color: red;">deliver</span></a><span style="color: red;"> them, except it be the Lord the Almighty God."</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I thought of the verse in chapter 7:33 and thought..."It's just that simple. Go to Him. Turn to Him and will care for us. But no one can deliver us from the BONDAGE we are in, whether it be mental, physical, emotional etc... we have to give our will to Him and do our part. I love the quote by Elder Maxwell that says, </span><br />
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<em>"As you submit your will to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging." </em>--Neal A. Maxwell, "Remember How Merciful the Lord Hath Been", Ensign, May 2004, pg 46<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elder Spencer W. Kimball said: <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes . </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. . <i>when a repentant one looks back and sees the ugliness, the loathsomeness of the transgression, he is almost overwhelmed and wonders, "Can the Lord ever forgive me? Can I ever forgive myself?" But when one reaches the depths of despondency and feels the hopelessness of his position, and when he cries out to God for mercy in helplessness but in faith, there comes a still, small, but penetrating voice whispering to his soul, "Thy sins are forgiven thee."</i> [<i>The Miracle of Forgiveness, </i>1969, p. 344] <o:p></o:p></span></div>So I guess essentially, to get out of whatever bondage we may be in, physical, mental, addicted to something (pornography, alcohol, cigarettes etc) we are able to be released from that by going to Christ and giving our will to Him. It's just that simple, yet so hard that we don't do it as much as we should. I think we are in a battle to fight for what we truly want and when we do that, we show the Lord that we want His way more than any way, and when we do that we are freed from our BONDAGE.Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-22871381846162370802012-03-14T21:06:00.000-07:002012-03-14T21:06:00.970-07:00Now it's really a white trash tooth!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOBNXJCmA23lGfJfdzOmZUwGBux248k0hpyi9apc9TL8LMdl4bZUYrqFgFgMHLCG64b-B10MlrVA4jeuNLGAPosgXze5jcjoceB0MfAOMyVgOoqYS-U2XRhgwC2T72X7mcuOi0fzh9_t0B/s1600/white+trash+tooth+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOBNXJCmA23lGfJfdzOmZUwGBux248k0hpyi9apc9TL8LMdl4bZUYrqFgFgMHLCG64b-B10MlrVA4jeuNLGAPosgXze5jcjoceB0MfAOMyVgOoqYS-U2XRhgwC2T72X7mcuOi0fzh9_t0B/s320/white+trash+tooth+2.jpg" width="236" /></a></div>Wow! So I was doing great and then the endodontist called and said they needed to change my appointment from Friday (to finish the root canal) to Monday. I wasn't too excited about that as is because it was going to take so long to get it fixed. Then I was in 5th period and a piece of the crown came off. Not a huge piece, but enough to start the deteriorating process!!! So by the time I was in faculty meeting an hour later I barely touched the tooth and the entire crown came off. When I say entire, I mean half, because it was already pretty much destroyed because he drilled through it when he took out the old root canal. Well, now this really white trash beauty is what I'm left with!!! It feels like a small mountaineous region inside my mouth to my tongue! Funny how our mouths know when there is something wrong!!! But come Monday I will be one step from another appointment to get a crown and 2 appts away from being "normal" again! Maybe I'll celebrate by eating something crunchy! This has been good, because now all I eat is soup. I did eat a salad today and bit it wrong...not good! I have resorted to eating like a chipmunk with my front teeth and right side!Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-39230166498152057162012-03-11T20:16:00.001-07:002012-03-11T20:18:28.337-07:00I got a new calling...<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sunday, March 11, 2012</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I just got home from church. I got a calling today to teach the 14-15 year olds in Sunday School. It’s like the perfect calling because I get to teach, but then I get to go to Relief Society still and meet the rest of the women in my ward. It was hard and great. It had its weak moments and its great moments, when I talked to them about being sons and daughters of God and if they remembered that, that they could get through anything and in that strength they would make it home to Heavenly Father! It was a sweet moment!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have been coming up with all sorts of wonderful ways to teach them this concept and to allow them the freedom to choose what they want. Life is after all, all about choices! I want them to bring their scriptures because they want to, not because they get a treat. I did however give everyone a piece of gum who brought their scriptures today. I gave a whole piece to people who had all of their scriptures, whether on their phone or in book form. One of the girls was upset because she said that she had them on her phone, but they weren’t working. I said, “Then I can’t give you a piece of gum.” I gave the kid sitting next to her a piece of gum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had them on his phone. And she said she would share with him. I said, “That is fine, maybe he’ll share his whole piece of gum with you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is going to come a time when you have to know what you know and lean on what you know and you can’t borrow anyone else’s testimony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will have to be on your own and stand alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to know what you know.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another kid only had his Bible. He said it was because the library didn’t have any more Books of Mormon (note the correct grammar…thank you “The Best Two Years” the movie). I told him that if he had half of his sword, I would give him half of a piece of gum.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I invited them all to come next week prepared to learn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To bring their scriptures, a writing utensil, and the following colors to mark their scriptures. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Color code your scriptures and learn to love them!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></u></b></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: red;">Red-Words of God/Jesus Christ/Prophets<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: magenta;">Pink-joy/love/charity<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: blue;">Dark Blue-Faith, obedience<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: purple;">Purple-Repentance/Atonement<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: lime;">Green-Prayer<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">Yellow-Holy Ghost/Melchezidek Priesthood/Temple<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: cyan;">Light blue-Baptism/Aaronic Priesthood<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: #e69138;">Orange-Wickedness<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #783f04; font-family: Calibri;">Brown-Historical things/dates/genealogy/geography</span></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I told them that we are going to delve into the scriptures and learn to love them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m so excited! I had a girl tell her friend she was texting, that we were learning that Heavenly Father is our Father and that this will be the last week she texts in class because what we are learning is so important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She even got her seat moved! I told her to move because she was being really disruptive. She was like, "Why do I have to move?" I said, "Just because it would be better if you did." She picked up her chair still stuck to her rear end and moved it on top of the other chair on the other side of the classroom and said, "Now there's two." She was being really obnoxious, but by the end of class she had kind of joined the class. It was fun, but hard, because it’s not like in school when they have to listen or there's a consequence …there are no “rules” here at church. I just want them to do things because they <em>want</em> to and to know that they really will find joy when they give their heart and will to Heavenly Father! <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There was this sweet 13 year old girl (I subbed for 2 classes together, because their teacher didn’t show up…I secretly hope he doesn’t ever show up, because it was nice to have the sweet 13 year olds take the edge off the hard/stubborn 14/15 year olds (I know, I know I teach jr. high and I should be able to handle this!))<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was so kind. She answered seriously, took out her scriptures, even took notes and shared paper with another girl and offered to clean off the board and return the chalk to the library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a good day, but I have my work cut out for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m devising a plan for next week. It has to do with <span style="color: lime;">green candy</span> (St. Patrick’s Day) 3 types, 3 degrees and if they brought the 3 things they were supposed to!!! We’ll see how it goes and hope they get how it applies. <span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01778528390452376540noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5477350252370913429.post-68491778939225929932012-03-10T11:39:00.000-08:002012-03-10T11:39:09.673-08:00White trash toothSo 2 years ago I had a root canal! Oh, the joy! Let me tell you! I have since learned that pain killers and me do not mix well. I am quite nauseaous on them and dizzy. I would probably never be caught with an addiction to pain killers. Who wants to be nauseous all the time? Not I!<br />
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Well, about 3 weeks ago this same tooth started hurting and it like I was going to die. I tried ripping it out myself, but to no avail I went to 2 dentists. I didn't want to go to my old dentist because I had problems with them from previous visits. So I tried a new dentist. When I went they took x rays and told me that I was going to have to go back to the old dentist, because that was the one who did the root canal and that they would probably take care of it. <br />
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After going to the second dentist for the day, it was determined that I would need to go to an endodontist because the root canal was abcessed. I went to an endontist the next day to find out that after they took about $400+ in xrays, that they weren't covered by my insurance!!! Awesome! That would have been good for me to know 20 min earlier. As I was in so much pain, I didn't even think about checking that before making appointment. I just went where I was recommended to go! (You live and learn right!)<br />
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So I called a different endo (mind you, that I didn't even know that endodontists existed until that week!) and made an appointment for that Monday (4 days later). With all the pain, I finally gave in and went and got the prescription pain meds they gave me. I took them. At some top ramen (note that I couldn't chew anything.) swallowed it whole, got a priesthood blessing and layed down to watch a movie (thanks Bryce for the blessing and accompanying me to watch Eclipse or Twilight or whatever it was we watched...maybe breaking dawn!) I felt fine. No pain. No nausea. No nothing! I cancelled my sub for the next day and decided that I could go into school. <br />
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Woke up in no pain! Amazing! Went to work. After taking my pain meds and amox. I felt good, but come 9amish, every time I went to speak, I wanted to throw up. I didn't want the pain medicine to leave my body, because after being in so much pain, I needed to not let the thing that was taking the pain away leave me!!!! So I kept everything down until around 12ish. I couldn't handle it and right in the hall I dry heaved into the garbage can as kids talked to me and passed by. I went into my classroom and hovered over a garbage can. A very persistent student kept asking me questions. I finally had to say, "Do you need something right now?" He said, "No." And I (between dry heaves) said, "Please get out. Can't you see I'm throwing up here?" (Some kids are just very concerned about their education!!!)<br />
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I went home and ate more top ramen, because I associated that with a full stomach and feeling better!!! I layed down, took a nap for 2 hours. Put in some movie. I don't know which one. I slept through it. Woke up 2 hours later, felt so much better! Ate some ice cream! My treat when I'm sick!!! I put in a different movie and went back to sleep. No more nausea. I decided to not take any more pain pills. I felt like perhaps the pain went away because the amox. was killing the bacteria that was causing the abcess and infection.<br />
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My dentist told me that once I quit taking the amox, that all the pain would come back and worse. So I decided to spread out my amox. until I could get in for surgery, which happened to be yesterday. I made it in just in time (after having visited AF Hospital for some "girl" medical stuff...oh the joy! They didn't find anything so that's good! New experiences to help educate me more! Made a friend with the secretary, learned that a mam. isn't as painful as I thought it would be) and had the root canal.<br />
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I told them that last time I had it done, I was terrified and that they gave me valium to calm me down. I asked if they had any there. They just looked at me like I was crazy!!! They did give me nitrous oxide and it made me a little bit "spinny" I told the doctor that my head was spinning. I thought I might throw up a little bit. He turned it down. I wish in a way I had the valium, because last time I had the root canal I didn't pay attention to anything. This time I heard every little zzzzztttt and wwwwwwwwwwww sound...it was awful. I had to consciously tell myself to unclench my hands and relax. I tried to think of a beach and peaceful things while I laid there and he applied tons of pressure to this tooth.<br />
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So step 1 that happened yesterday was to take out the old root canal and put medicine in it (Oh, yeah let's not forget that they found a 4th hidden root! and I of course made sure to remind him to take care of that!!! I'm so silly when I'm on medicine! I was like (with my mouth full of stuff ) "don't forget the 4th root!!" The kind and patient endo said, "Ok. I'll be sure to get it!" I went back to focusing on the beach...<br />
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So I got done and felt like a truck had hit me. He had seriously been pressing really hard on my face. Good thing for my skull to protect me! (I looked like it too. I had to laugh when I saw myself in the mirror! I looked special!) and then the nitrous started to wear off and I could drive. I completely went against all I know to be healthy for me right now and had ice cream and a really (not very good tasting, I wish I could take it back) fattening soup and onion rings!!! <br />
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As I was eating on one side of my mouth, I could feel the other, non usable side and thought, "Wow, that tooth feels like it's half there." When my endo, Dr. Fife (who is very attractive and single I might add) called to see how I was doing, I said, "Good. It just feels like I have a white trash tooth." He laughed as if no one has ever said that before! He said, "At least you can't see it and it's at the back. When you come in and finish it off next Friday, we'll clean it up and will get it ready for its crown." Satisfied I went and took 3 IB Profane and laid on the couch watching Big Bang Theory and Everybody Loves Raymond and fell asleep! <br />
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I feel great today, but had to get a look at what my mouth tells me is a white trash tooth (partially decade and not very useful) so I took a picture. This is what it looks like! I'm pretty sure that a chunk of whatever he put on it to help me out, has fallen out. So to my tongue we are walking in decayed, white trash tooth city. But next Friday I will be back to new. Of course I will have no roots in that tooth and it will die, but hopefully I can run and scuba dive without pain now! This tooth has been giving me trouble for 3+ years now! Good riddens! PS looking at that picture, why would anyone want to be a dentist and put their fingers in people's mouths all day? Not me!!! I just put my thoughts in people's minds all day!!! (I think I still have a bit of the drugs in my system! I've felt kinda weird, but that is probably just cause I AM!!!)<br />
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