Going For The Dunk!

Jarom loves to play basketball, and used to practice by himself for hours. Now that Heber is here he gets to play a lot of one on one. These were taken one afternoon when he was playing around!

Our Little Nerd!

Jace put Megan's glasses on one evening, and had us cracked up!!! The more we laughed - the more he hammed it up!!! He's a cutie!!!

14 April 2009

This is one of my favorite pictures of Ashlei

I got a phone call at about three o'clock in the morning on April 14th - Ashlei had coded. I remember I didn't even really react because in my mind it was another obstacle we would overcome. The second phone call was that she was stablized and in ICU - I told Milton, "I knew it! I knew she was still here!" The third phone call was that they couldn't keep her stablized, and the last phone call was from Heber. The doctors told him they had to stop - what should he do. It was at that moment that I knew...we had to let her go. I had made the decision to keep my faith strong; I would not falter; I would not doubt - until the last breath was drawn - and I didn't. I miss Ashlei so much that at times it is overwhelming. The heartache and the sorrow and the pain are almost too much to bear at times. But where else? Where else can one feel such peace and comfort, and even joy in the midst of such overwhelming sorrow? Only in the Gospel of Jesus Christ ! I have never been more sure of Heavenly Father's very profound and personal love for each of us. I have never been more sure of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. There is never a moment of depair that is not tempered by a sweet peace and comfort from the Spirit. I am thankful for the Plan of Salvation, for my testimony that life is eternal, and that families are forever!

My Poor Neglected Blog

I have really neglected my blog because of my obsession/addiction with facebook! My goal: do not neglect my blog anymore! My greatest weaknesses I think are sins of omission - all the things I should be doing or doing better that I don't - and not using my time like I should. My goal: do what I should be doing and do it better - and stop wasting so much time. Simple, huh?! So...I'm going to get off the computer now - I got things to do!

The Dinglehopper

So there we were in Chile's. Emelie and I had picked Claire up in Beaumont to bring her home for the rest of the weeked, so we decided to take her to lunch at Chile's in Silsbee cuz I had to go to Wal-Mart. While we're sitting at the table waiting for our order Claire picked her dinglehopper (fork) and proceded to comb her hair. Auntie Em's mistake: taking the dinglehopper from her and telling her she was not to put it in her hair cuz she would be eating with it. Poor Claire was devastated. She cried huge tears and wanted her dinglehopper and wanted to comb her hair with it! Of course Gammy (that's me) says - let her have it and let her do whatever she wants to with it. Do I spoil her? YES! Do I apologize for it? NO! Does Claire watch an awful lot of Disney Princess movies? Maybe. I can tell you this though - she's pretty smart and has an amazing imagination for a two year old. We should all have a dinglehopper!

Being the Instrument!

Last Friday was a horrible day at work. My entire day was spent on the phone with APS (adult protective services) and the state, filing a report that should never have been filed. Without breaking too many privacy laws - a complaint was made against an attendant when the family was already aware of the problem and knew way more than the attendant ever could have. Anyways...there are rules to be followed when you file one of these reports - an important one being that it has to be filed within twenty-four hours - and here it was Friday evening.

I began faxing my report at 4:40 pm and by 5:00 pm the fax number was still busy. 5:10 - still busy. I called my supervisor - whining just a little bit - about the fact that the fax number was still busy and I had been trying to fax for thirty minutes. She was going to be in the office the next morning and said she would send it then, but there was that danger that it may not go through before the twenty-four hour mark. They are pretty strict about that - the fines are pretty stiff if the report is not filed just right.

5:15 pm finds me praying for this fax to go through. I explained to Heavenly Father that I had a time line that had to be followed - AND - I wanted to go home :(

At 5:20...the fax went through! This time - a prayer of thanks! At 5:21 I get a call on my cell phone. It's my friend Trudy. We work together and also I'm her visiting teacher. She is just up the road out of gas. I have the opportunity to serve. I pick her up, we get the gas, her truck is running, and she's able to get home.

Coincidence? Luck? I don't think so. It's an amazing experience to be the instrument in Heavenly Father's hands. I'm thankful my fax took forty minutes to go through. I'm thankful I was at the office instead of at home just when Trudy's truck ran out of gas. Wow!

Megan's Famous!

This article was in our local newspaper, The Tyler County Booster, last week! Hopefully you can read it cuz it speaks for itself!!!