Look alikes???

We just picked up some photos and I have to post two of them. In both of these pictures Parker looks so much like his Grandpa. The picture of Parker with Mark looks especially like Grandpa did as a baby! Love those chubby baby thighs and cheeks Parker boy!

Sportin' new teeth!

Mark and Christy totally surprised us when they called last week to see what we had going on for the weekend. They came to visit for a few days and what a treat for us! Ken came home Wednesday and hours later Mark and family arrived. There is nothing quite like waking up to your happy-go-lucky little grandson in cuddley striped p.j.'s with a big grin sporting brand new teeth! (Well, Cannon is a pretty cute morning greeter as well!) Parker is 10 months now and is just a darling. Such a happy boy and a little charmer for sure! We had such fun shopping, (right Christy?) talking, visiting with Ev and family and visiting Grandpa at the beach. Ev took some nice pictures some of which I include here and I've also included some cute ones that Brent took too. Thanks for coming Mark and Christy and Parker and Cannon. We love you and had great fun being with you!

It is so cute to see the interaction between Parker and Cannon. Cannon is very sweet to Parker but is clearly very jealous of attention given to the baby. Any time Parker is being held the dog jumps on your lap as well. I'm glad Parker is so unafraid of dogs; even being licked on the lips doesn't faze him in the least.

Enjoying a beautiful day on the San Clemente pier. Thanks for the pics, Brent!

This post is for you...Cami!

Cami, I bought these really cute red heels today and I knew you would be surprised and happy since you enjoy "expressive" shoes...best part for me is that they aren't just cute...they were also $7.50.

Evaly shared something she learned at her Enrichment meeting last night and I have thought about it all day. I'm so glad she shared it. The message was about emotional health and the thought was (sorry, this is what I learned from what she said rather than what she actually said) that if something is a sort of a trigger and always seems to upset us we should act proactively and avoid it, if possible, much in the same way one would do if they had a food allergy. For an example, Ev and I have talked before how the news can be so depressing and/or frightening. If someone is adversely affected by that, one can choose to safeguard their emotional health and turn it off. I love that comparasion to a food allergy because you can't expect other people to care for you and your allergies; you take steps to care for yourself because you don't want to suffer with a reaction. I want to think about that some more. I think I can reduce some of the stress I sometimes get to feeling by evaluating my triggers. Thanks Ev!

Goal.....finally accomplished!

Have you ever wanted to accomplish something that you knew would be really challenging? Well, I had something I really wanted to do. I've wanted to read the Old Testament in it's entirety. I've read portions of it with the Sunday School reading schedule but I've never read the entire book. Well, guess what? After 4 years of reading it...(it took a long time because sometimes I read very little of it because the prophet or a Stake President had asked us to read the Book of Mormon in a set period of time) but I persisted and finally, today, I finished. I am so excited about that. I can't believe this day finally came! Maybe I can do hard things....