Blogging

Sometimes I read some of my old posts and I cringe!

I cringe with embarrassment or I shake my head at my silly thoughts

But 

I also marvel at how much changes

I have more than 500 posts.

I have hundreds of pictures.

I journal too. I journal my deepest thoughts

things that most definitely shouldn't see the light of day

{at least while I am alive}

but

my blog is different.

I can find specific things I have tagged.

I can browse through old photos.

I can cringe at myself.

I love reading other peoples blogs.

ESPECIALLY

the normal ones.

the ones that aren't famous

just normal people doing normal stuff 

They are disappearing in the hustle and bustle of peoples lives

and

that makes me sad.

I wish more people would let people in.

Let people glimpse into their world.

I am 100% positive that my blog isn't amazingly interesting

I am not ego centric enough to believe that I will be whisked away into "stardom" because of my ridiculously incredible monologues...

ha ha

 but

Our life is. ___________?

and that's good enough.

I miss all the people.

and their stories.

so the moral

start a blog

share your life.

I will read it

and

I will probably think it's awesome. 

and I promise 

WHEN 

you get to your 500th post...

you will be amazed at the story you've created.

Outtakes

I have been waiting for some snowfall to do some family pictures.

Of course the afternoon was perfect

but

it took FOREVER to get organized.

The results meant one unhappy group of models.

We have far more outtakes than normal.

Some of the outtakes are pretty perfect though.

This one pretty much sums it up.

Dusty smiling and being totally annoyed at everybody's lack of focus.

Me paying attention to Andy.

Andy being a baby and totally not caring.

Ellie looking at the camera (glad she isn't the one with Penny's focused attention)

Lucy being dramatic and being stamped on

and Penny being Penny.....

This should be the one on the wall.....

Paper bag Prayer Book

The Lesson this week in Sunbeams is 'I can pray to my Heavenly Father'. I've been racking my brain all week to come up with a fun idea for the kids. I think this book will achieve what I was hoping for. I want the kids this week to walk away with the knowledge of the format of a basic prayer and the idea that we can pray to our Father in Heaven about pretty much anything. Most of the kids in the class can't read yet so I used as many pictures as I could.

This project took me about an hour to do. It's pretty basic but with a few more things it could be a really cute little book. I have lots of cut outs and will most likely attach them with either yarn or magnets. This book I attached my pictures with magnets. The actual construction of the book is only 3 paper bags. I stacked them with opposite ends so I could have pockets in the book. I bound this book with sisal twine but you could use ribbon, sew it, binder hoops, or raffia.

In this book I have cut-outs of:

1. Things I am thankful for

- A living prophet

-My family

-Scriptures

-the priesthood

-temple

-pretty much anything else you can think of

2. Things I am praying for
-me

-dusty

-Ellie

-Lucy

-Our Leaders

-Our food

-Pretty much anything