5.10.2011

Grant's First Birthday

Grant turned one!!! I can't believe how time has flown. It seems like only yesterday that I was still pregnant waiting to have him. He has been such a joy. Grant is a fun loving boy. He still laughs at everything. I mean everything! He laughs when I change his diaper, he laughs when dogs lick their paws, he laughs when we head butt each other, and for so many other reasons. He has his moments for being tough, because if he isn't laughing he is crying! Boy does that boy now how to put the crocodile tears on. But that is okay, he is laughing way more than he is crying. We love him!

For his birthday/Easter weekend Grandma B, Peter C and Melissa C, all came into town. It was fun having them here. The kids loved, loved, loved the attention. Grant's birthday was nice and small just family. That's the way I like it! I made a cars and trucks birthday cake and let him go to town on it. Lucy wanted to help (of course!) Thank you everyone for sending gifts. He loved all the toys, books, and clothes. He is such a stud in the new digs.

We love our boy and can't believe how big he is getting!





















I love these videos because you can see Grant’s personality so well. Lucy is cute as a button too. I also love that Grant is eating the cake so slowly. He did that for probably close to an hour. It was super cute to watch. Lucy wanted to help him with the cake. He did not quite get the concept of opening presents, but that’s okay because he loved all of the presents once they were opened!

Here are just some of the cute pictures from that day.













5.08.2011

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day! I read this and thought it was appropriate. I love you Mom! I may not always show it or say it, but know that I do!


Motherhood: An Eternal Partnership with God

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland shares an encouraging tribute to mothers who, through both challenges and accomplishments, work in partnership with God to raise His children.

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.

One young mother wrote to me recently that she felt like the world expected her to teach her children reading, writing, interior design, Latin, calculus, and the Internet—all before the baby said something terribly ordinary, like “goo goo.” She worried because she felt she didn’t measure up or somehow wasn’t going to be able to be equal to the task, the mental investment, the spiritual and emotional exertion, the long-night, long-day, stretched-to-the-limit demands that sometimes are required in trying to be and wanting to be the mother God hopes she will be.

But one thing, she said, keeps her going. I quote: “Through the thick and the thin of this, and through the occasional tears of it all, I know deep down inside I am doing God’s work. I know that my motherhood is an eternal partnership with Him.”

Mothers, cherish that role that is so uniquely yours and for which heaven itself sends angels to watch over you and your little ones. Yours is the work of salvation, and therefore you will be magnified, compensated, made more than you are, better than you are, and better than you have ever been. And if, for whatever reason, you are making this courageous effort alone, without your husband at your side, then our prayers will be all the greater for you. Know that in faith things will be made right in spite of you, or more correctly, because of you. We thank all of you, and tell you there is nothing more important in this world than participating so directly in the work and glory of God.

May I say to mothers collectively, in the name of the Lord, you are magnificent. You are doing terrifically well. The very fact that you have been given such a responsibility is everlasting evidence of the trust your Father in Heaven has in you. He is blessing you and He will bless you, even—no, especially—when your days and your nights may be the most challenging. Rely on Him. Rely on Him heavily. Rely on Him forever. And “press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope.”

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