Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Small Miracles
At work the topic of religon comes up frequently and at one point someone said there is no way that God can be real because miracles don't happen anymore, I begged to differ, small miracles happen everyday. I thought of this again today after a phone call from my parents. I have very recently been stress out due to money troubles, who isn't right? Anyway we were going be short a great deal of money for next month and I had been praying for sometime about what we were going to do and today my parents called to inform me that my grandfather has sent them money to divide up among their children and that I would be getting twice what we actually needed. It's the small miracles when I need them the most that remind me who I am and that my Father in Heaven knows me and my needs.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
All by myself...
So my husband is away at scout camp this week leaving me to myself in my suddenly way to big apartment. When "the ladies" at work heard that my husband was going to be gone for a week their responses were "oh it must be nice to have your apartment to yourself for a week" or "oh I wish my husband would go away for a week". I couldn't believe what I heard, I don't want my husband gone for a week!! I love him and even more I like him, I like to have him here, I like to come home and have him listen to my latest rant about work.
Kevin... I love you and want you to know that I am her to support you in all your endevours!
Kevin... I love you and want you to know that I am her to support you in all your endevours!
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Pioneers
This coming week is my church's pioneer day celebration so last night was our ward party to commerate it. We had to start out and load up our hand card organize our families and begin our journey. We went around to different stations to see how the pioneers lived and to hear stories about some handcart companies and a few determined pioneers.
We got to turn butter, that was interesting and easier than I thought it would be. We had a race in our handcart company between some of our youth, of course none of them had to get the patience to go till it was done but in the end we got some fresh turned butter to have and it was good.
Our next stop was to hear stories about pioneers, the relief society president tells a story that brings me to tears everytime I hear it about her great great grandmother and how she came to be in the Salt Lake Valley. I don't remember the womans name so I will call her Sue. Sue's family was from Denmark and they were taught by missionaries in the early days of the church, were converted and wanted to go to Zion. Unfortunately since there were nine children they could not go all at once so they paired the children up and sent 2 at a time. The two oldest went first to set up a home there and help get things settled for the rest of the family. The next to go was Sue, she was 11. Since there was 9 children one had to go by themselves and they decided that was Sue. Some missionaries were on their way to the States so the took Sue along, she had a very long, very lonely boat ride from Europe to the states and once there she made it all the way to St Louis with these missionaries but after that they said they could no longer let her tag along and set her up with a nice family to work for. So at 11 she found herself in St Louis with a family that while nice, was entirely unfamilar. She became their nurse maid, help, she cleaned and took care of the kids and in return they gave a place to stay food to eat and an income. After 2 years with this family she decided she had saved up enough money and at 13 began to walk to Council Bluffs, which for those who don't know is at the complete opossite side of the state. She did finally make it to the great Salt Lake Valley and lifed a long happy life there but it didn't come without trials and perserverance. The strength and faith that these pioneers had was amazing, I am truely grateful for their sacrifices that helped build the Kingdom of God on this earth and I am equally greatful to be a part of it and to help the work move foward in this day.
Our next stop along the trail was our game room, we got to play some of the games the pioneers loved. First was the.., well I don't know what it was called, but we had to race to hammer a nail into some wood, Kevin won everyone he did!! I lost everyone but that's ok, he'll do the hammering in the family, lol. Next we did the..., oh I can't remember what this one is called either, it is where you sit feet to feet and pull on a stick to try to pull the other one over. Anyway, seeing as Kevin and I are incredibly competitive with each other we had a go, after a little stuggle, although he'll say it wasn't but the look on his face said otherwise, he did win, and went on to win several other after that. I think he really likes to win, lol.
After that we heard more stories and ended in Zion for some miggling and cobbler, I made a peach cobbler but it didn't turn out very good, I used to much cake mix and butter for the crumbly crust, oh well, I'm sure it wasn't as bad as I thought it was. During all our fun of finally making it to Zion the relief society president of my ward came up and pointed out that the hair line of the first presidency and the hair lines of our bishop brick are exactly the same, Bro Hunsaker pointed it out to her, leave it up to bro Hunsaker to notice something like that. LOL!
We got to turn butter, that was interesting and easier than I thought it would be. We had a race in our handcart company between some of our youth, of course none of them had to get the patience to go till it was done but in the end we got some fresh turned butter to have and it was good.
Our next stop was to hear stories about pioneers, the relief society president tells a story that brings me to tears everytime I hear it about her great great grandmother and how she came to be in the Salt Lake Valley. I don't remember the womans name so I will call her Sue. Sue's family was from Denmark and they were taught by missionaries in the early days of the church, were converted and wanted to go to Zion. Unfortunately since there were nine children they could not go all at once so they paired the children up and sent 2 at a time. The two oldest went first to set up a home there and help get things settled for the rest of the family. The next to go was Sue, she was 11. Since there was 9 children one had to go by themselves and they decided that was Sue. Some missionaries were on their way to the States so the took Sue along, she had a very long, very lonely boat ride from Europe to the states and once there she made it all the way to St Louis with these missionaries but after that they said they could no longer let her tag along and set her up with a nice family to work for. So at 11 she found herself in St Louis with a family that while nice, was entirely unfamilar. She became their nurse maid, help, she cleaned and took care of the kids and in return they gave a place to stay food to eat and an income. After 2 years with this family she decided she had saved up enough money and at 13 began to walk to Council Bluffs, which for those who don't know is at the complete opossite side of the state. She did finally make it to the great Salt Lake Valley and lifed a long happy life there but it didn't come without trials and perserverance. The strength and faith that these pioneers had was amazing, I am truely grateful for their sacrifices that helped build the Kingdom of God on this earth and I am equally greatful to be a part of it and to help the work move foward in this day.
Our next stop along the trail was our game room, we got to play some of the games the pioneers loved. First was the.., well I don't know what it was called, but we had to race to hammer a nail into some wood, Kevin won everyone he did!! I lost everyone but that's ok, he'll do the hammering in the family, lol. Next we did the..., oh I can't remember what this one is called either, it is where you sit feet to feet and pull on a stick to try to pull the other one over. Anyway, seeing as Kevin and I are incredibly competitive with each other we had a go, after a little stuggle, although he'll say it wasn't but the look on his face said otherwise, he did win, and went on to win several other after that. I think he really likes to win, lol.
After that we heard more stories and ended in Zion for some miggling and cobbler, I made a peach cobbler but it didn't turn out very good, I used to much cake mix and butter for the crumbly crust, oh well, I'm sure it wasn't as bad as I thought it was. During all our fun of finally making it to Zion the relief society president of my ward came up and pointed out that the hair line of the first presidency and the hair lines of our bishop brick are exactly the same, Bro Hunsaker pointed it out to her, leave it up to bro Hunsaker to notice something like that. LOL!
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Oil
So my dad has a website blog concerning the current oil prices and what we can do about it. He is a-knoyd with the currect oil situation and has started a gress roots compain to do something about it. Visit www.knoyd.com to see what you can do!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Tucker
This is baby Tucker, he is the cutest little new born. He was 7lbs 14oz, 22 1/2in. We are taking a little vacation and going up to see them for labor day weekend I can't wait. I'll have pictures from that as well.
Monday, July 14, 2008
New Life
So my brother and sister in law had their baby today... healthy little boy named Tucker Robert Knight. He is adorable, I'll post pictures later. It got me thinking today though on how fast time flies by. It seems like just yesterday Jedi and I were walking to school together and now he's got a wife and kid, I'm married, little kinsman that I used to hold is to big to be held by anyone, lol. Skylar is getting ready to go on a missions and Auvie is close to being an adult. It's amazing that time has gone by so fast.
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