More Angels

For Alaina's "princess pre-school" that Becky organized with the other 11 or so girls her age in the neighborhood, one day this week, they made bugs out of crackers, licorice, and peanut butter. Here she is with her good friend Ashley Trost:

Love the peace

Gotta love this peaceful moment! They're fairly rare with Timothy--he's as energetic as can be. But we love him!

More Quotes

Alaina this morning said, while wearing her shirt that says "bootiful"

"I'm not cute anymore, I'm beautiful.  Boys are cute.  Brothers are handsome.  I'm beautiful."

She's also decided orange is a girl color, so she will insist on Orange cups and bowls!

Instructions Made in China

Recently installing some drawer guides in a cabinet, I found the instructions say to put the provided cardboard template inside the drawer to show where to put the screws.

However, printed on the cardboard template were the words:  "Tin Plate!"

Really!  

More Good Foundation

And now we break for a short public service announcement . . .

One donor I work with is one of the most effective member-missionaries I know. One time, after sharing the gospel with a friend, the prospective member did some Internet research on Mormons, found lots of anti-Mormon stuff, and decided not to continue.

My donor friend then did some checking on his own and found very little positive information on Mormonism or LDS-related topics on the Internet, and decided to do something about it. He felt it was important to have a variety of positive sites that are NOT official Church sites--because they're sometimes seen as somewhat more credible or unbiased by outsiders.

The More Good Foundation is a result of his work. It's mostly a network of volunteer bloggers and site-developers who are working to get good information on the Internet. They now own more than 1200 Urls, including Christ.org and lds.net, etc.

For people who feel they have few opportunities to do missionary work, this is one option. If you haven't seen these yet, check it out!

President Hinckley Viewing

We went to President Hinckley's viewing--what a memorable experience. The line was truly incredible--took us a total of about 4 1/2 hours. It kept going on because we kept thinking we were almost done.

But it was a special experience. Here are a couple of photos we took while waiting.

Sledding January 2008

We all had a blast sledding several times this winter with incredible amounts of snow.

If I can get it to work right, some videos will be here.

Okay--you'll just have to use your imagination till I have a bit more time to do this with YouTube.