My New Car!!

Sold the Suburban. It was silly to drive that beast around with only one or two children in it. Maybe now I can pass a gas station without filling up every time ; )

Fun in the Sun! Yea!

All 9 of us are going together! I am so excited to be with all my favorite people and see some beautiful new places!

Tagged by Whitney

7 TV Shows I wouldn't want to live without;

I don't watch TV much, but here are some I like;

Law and Order

House

Cooking Shows

Today Show

7 Books that may have changed my life or enjoyed a lot;

Book of Mormon

Believing Christ

Atlas Shrugged

Enders Game

The Secret Life of Bees

Cold, Sassy Tree

Killer Angels

7 Albums or Artists I love;

Barbara Striesand

Brian McKnight

Westlife

Joe

BoyzIIMen

Rascal Flatts

Most romantic slow jams

7 Movies I go crazy for;

The 10 Commandments

Dan in Real Life

Sound of Music

7 Brides for 7 Brothers

Funny Girl

My Fair Lady

Pride and Prejudice

7 things you may not know about me;

1. I am actually more comfortable and outgoing in a large group than one-on-one.

2. People love to startle me because I am so jumpy.

3. I still do dance routines and sing loudly with the radio when moved upon and no one is

around to witness it.

4. I took a Russian class because I thought I wanted to be some kind of spy. It was quickly

apparent that it would have been a disasterous and deadly career choice for me.

5. My hands and feet sweat when I watch someone climb high mountains and I feel really

anxious, but I don't think I am afraid of high places-maybe just of falling?

6. Saying the word, S-E-X, is really hard for me, which is really funny because I often have to

discuss the subject at work as I do a lot of premarital exams. My kids love to tease me about

this because it always makes me squirm.

7. If someone can make me laugh frequently, they are already halfway to my heart.

I am tagging you Lyn!

Happy Birthday Sweet Whitney!!!

I got you a birthday cake

without calories-love you

big as the whole sky many!!

Cake Babies Made of Marzipan

These are so real-how could you eat them?

A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives. Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate.

When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said: "Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your prob lems and stress. The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life. The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate God has provided us. God makes the hot chocolate, man chooses the cups.

The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. And enjoy your hot chocolate in 2008!

Oh how we will miss this wonderful, wise, sweet prophet!!