B+C+B+C+B+C: August 2009

Monday, August 31, 2009

besides this part, the lake trip was awesome

Mom and Dad would've come to the window to thank us for our beautiful musical tribute to them on their 38th anniversary... but they were too busy in bed. PUKING.

Fortunately, Brianna and Lilia were amongst the individuals spared from this ruthlessly contagious strain. Dave and his 3 boys were also spared. He claimed it was their regular fast food consumption that immunized them.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

So you don't miss me too much...

I've caught up on blogging! So in case you have nothing better to do - or just really love me - please enjoy the next bazillion posts while we're gone for a week.

Cousin Dean

This is the cool kid Brianna will be spending a week with next month in AZ.

He's about 3 months younger than Brianna, but a couple pounds heavier. Good thing - he'll need that weight to stand up to his more-aggressive cousin. Dean's the most laid-back, easy-going toddler you'll ever meet.

6 inches

BEFORE
AFTER

Lily likes Elmo too!

Meeting Lily

I finally got to meet Lilia Eliane Smith. After missing her birth by just a few hours

, I was pretty eager to get this baby in my arms. I have a lot of neices and nephews, but Lily is extra special.

It's hard to e

xplain why. I just know that her and I will be supatight and

Brianna will be her best cousin-friend. That is, if Brianna ever gets over her jealously issues... every time I hold or play with another baby (or any other child, for that matter), she gets a little upset. She'll start saying, "hol you, hol you!" (versus "hold ME," as she should be saying - we're working on using correct pronouns). I pretend to be annoyed, but secretly I like it.

Water Park at Shadle Pool

fuzzy pink shoes

Allowing my daughter to wear the shoes she picks out, even when they're ridiculous-looking, makes me a good mom, right?

Running from scissors

Forgot to post this - here are the invites I made for my party last Monday (for non-facebook friends). I had to pull out the paper, scissors, glue, markers... made me feel like a scrapbooker {shuddering at the thought}

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Warm sandy beaches of ... Spokane

Pics from last month's lake trips:
(Riley creek on Pend Oreille. Long lake for cliff jumping. Vantage beach on the Columbia River).

Quotes I want to remember

"The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain."
- Neal A. Maxwell

"It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men's theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother's influence."
-Ezra Taft Benson

“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. And bear your testimony! Don’t just assume your children will somehow get the drift of your beliefs on their own.
-Jeffrey R. Holland

"We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith."
-Neil L. Andersen

"Certainly there are times when getting the family together to read the scriptures does not stack up as a spiritual experience worthy of a journal entry. But we must not be deterred. There are special times when the spirit of a son or daughter is just right and the power of these great scriptures goes down into their heart like fire. As we honor our Heavenly Father in our homes, He will honor our efforts."
-Neil L. Andersen

President Hinckley admonished both men and women to be nurturers. He said, ‘How much more beautiful would be the society in which we live if every father . . . and . . . mother regarded [their] children . . . as gifts from the God of heaven . . . and brought them up with true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.’ ”
-Susan W. Tanner

"Children are like trees. When they are young, their lives can be shaped and directed, usually with ever so little effort. Said the writer of Proverbs, 'Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it' (22:6). That training finds its roots in the home. There will be little of help from other sources. Do not depend on government to help in this darkening situation. Barbara Bush, wife of former U.S. president George Bush, spoke wisely: 'Your success as a family, our success as society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but on what happens inside your house.' "
-Gordon B. Hinckley

“I give counsel to husbands and wives. Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion’s joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion.”
-Henry B. Eyring

“Reverent behavior is not a natural tendency for most children. It is a quality that is taught by parents and leaders through example and training. But remember, if reverence is rooted in love, so is the teaching of it. Harshness in our training begets resentment, not reverence.”
-Margaret S. Lifferth

"There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else."
- M. Russell Ballard

“As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’?”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Security for our families comes from learning self-control, avoiding the excesses of this world, and being temperate in all things.”
-Kent D. Watson

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