I've been tagged!

This is our little joyful Emilie in August of 2004! I look at her and wish I wasn't done having babies! How can one resist those fat little arms and legs. The bright happy eyes that light up with love just to see my face. The sweet moments holding a little one against my chest and feeling their warm breath against my skin. The grip of a little hand around my finger and the joy of baby laughter and even the tears. They need Mommy so much. How fast the time goes! Maybe we should adopt....

This is how it works. Go to your pictures. Pick the 6th file and the 6th picture in that file. Post it on your blog and write about it!
I tag Natalie, Amber, Dee, Lara and Kelly

Life is...Interesting

Well,
I didn't get my kitchen by Saturday. Why, you ask?
My wonderful husband had had enough remodeling and decided to enjoy some well deserved playtime...on a dirt bike.
His bruised ribs have been reminding him daily that he isn't 15 anymore.

Now that he is feeling like getting back to the remodel he is going to have a lot of time to do it. Today he was informed that he has been terminated at work!!!!!

Don't worry about us, the Lord will provide. However, prayers would be greatly appreciated as Bryan searches for work.
I do feel somewhat guilty as I have been praying for a way that Bryan could be around more often. I don't know why I always get what I want. I think I will start praying that he finds a work at home job with a very large salary attached. It can't hurt, can it?
Sasha
PS In other news....Jacob had surgery on a growth plate on his right leg on the 17th of this month. The operation slows the growth of his right leg to allow his left leg to catch up. We are so excited for him! The surgery went well and he is now working on limping around to gain full strength in his leg so that he can run his lawn mowing business again this spring and summer and enjoy some scout camping trips.

Mission: Remodel

Proof that I helped
Thanksgiving vacation we spent doing the living room and laundry room






The kitchen will be DONE on Saturday night!! I am moving in even if it is midnight!

We've been busy!

Since my last post we have been in a constant state of remodel. I would show you pics but I lost the camera!! Bad! Christmas is coming!
We have a living room now! It is beautiful and last night I put some actual art on the walls. It has been a long time since we had anything on our walls. I was busy painting the new laundry room yesterday. It will have one apple red wall. Fun!
I am quite proud of myself as I have done the majority of the drywall mudding, taping, sanding, and painting all on my own. Bryan spent the week of Thanksgiving working hard on the electrical, plumbing for the laundry, and major wall structure of the living room, we all worked together to put in our new flooring. Today and tomorrow we hope to move the washer and dryer to their new location and move all of the food storage out of what will be our dining room and into the PANTRY!
We hope to have our kitchen island which is concrete, polished and ready for Christmas. Yay!!
I am so excited to have a real house!! Come over for a visit!

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm

Our Founding Fathers and the Prophets said it much better than I can.

"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." James Madison, Federalist No. 10, November 23, 1787

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796

"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams, July 17, 1775

"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." John Adams, letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, Address to the Military, October 11, 1798



"That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all too common philosophy that the government should protect and support one from the cradle to the grave. The policy of the Founding Fathers has made our people and our nation strong. The opposite leads inevitably to moral decay."
Ezra Taft Benson (1899 - 1994)
Source: at BYU, February 28,1962

"In the 1940s while serving as the executive officer of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives in Washington, D.C., I saw in a Hilton Hotel a placard depicting Uncle Sam, representing America, on his knees in humility and prayer. Beneath the placard was the inscription, "Not beaten there by the hammer and sickle, but freely, responsibly, confidently. . . . We need fear nothing or no one save God." That picture has stayed in my memory ever since; America on her knees in recognition that all our blessings come from God! America on her knees out of a desire to serve the God of this land by keeping his commandments! America on her knees, not driven there in capitulation to some despotic government, but on her knees freely, willingly, gratefully! This is the sovereign remedy to all of our problems and the preservation of our liberties."
Ezra Taft Benson (1899 - 1994)
Source: Ensign, November 1976,

Ether 2:9 "And now we can behold the decrees of God concerning this land of promise; and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall serve God, or they shall be swept off when the fullness of his wrath shall come upon them. And the fullness of his wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened in iniquity. For behold, this is a land which is choice above all other lands; wherefore he that doth possess it shall serve God or shall be swept off; for it is the everlasting decree of God...Behold this is a choice land and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land , who is Jesus Christ...

Family Pictures

We recently went to Far West for a family photo shoot. Our good friend, Deanna Gordon took the pictures. I am sure that she will now reprimand me again for not having a link to her blog. I must say that I have forgotten how to do that. Someday when I have more time I will figure it out.
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A Temple in Kansas City!

We are so excited at our house we are jumping for joy! Well, I am. Bryan doesn't jump very often, he is more the smiling serenely with deep satisfaction type. We were told yesterday at our Stake Conference that our temple would be similar to the Idaho Falls Temple. It will be in North Kansas City, close to Liberty and near I-435 and Shoal Creek Blvd.
My feelings of gratitude to my Heavenly Father for this amazing blessing are hard to express. I feel as though he has looked down on our little family and has seen our struggles and simply wants to bring us joy and pour out blessings upon our heads. I can imagine Him rejoicing in our rejoicing. Congratulations to all the families who will be within our new temple district! Rejoice!