A year older

So grateful to have willing parents that come and help me out. They came to visit and to babysit. I sure appreciate them. I think this is the first time I have ever had my Dad at my house on his birthday. And the odd thing is that Mom was here on her birthday too. How can I be so blessed.

dinner tonight

This is tonight's dinner. I made my own bread dough with some basil and garlic in it, turkey sausage and it tastes great.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chicago-Style-Pan-Pizza/Detail.aspx

Risk

I have been thinking a lot lately about how I handle situations, what I am doing with my life, why I avoid risking looking stupid, naive, all these things. I found this poem and just need to share. Hopefully I will be more willing to risk being sincere and real and vulnerable to the opinions of others as I seek to honor my place and purpose in this world given me by a loving Heavenly Father.

Risks
A poem by Janet Rand

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool,
To weep is to risk being called sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self.
To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naĭve.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair, To try is to risk failure.
But risk must be taken, because the greatest risk of life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love.
Chained by his attitude, he is a slave; he has fortified his freedom.
Only the person who risks is truly free.

Thanks Steph

I just thought I would take a minute to say thanks to Steph for helping me show off my niece, Ryann. She is a great little soccer player and I have never seen her play but now I have it on my blog. Perfect. Steph let me stay at her house on Sunday night and treated me so great. I am so sorry to see them leave the state and move to Texas. I will miss them and I will miss my connection in Logan. It has been nice knowing they are there even if I haven't been up that often. They are a great family that truly know how to have lots of fun. Good luck with everything.

ZEHNOS!

Last week our cute U9 ZEHNOS played in their 1st competitive league soccer tournament! The girls were soooo cute in their new uni's and with their "bags"!!! The first game was against the home team Rampage #1, we whooped them 15 to 1 (& the one goal was off of our player)!! The second game was against another Rampage team, we put the hurt on them too!!! ....11-1. Then the 3rd game we got the chance to play La Roca, from Layton, they were amazing, like us, just a little more experience. We lost to them 9 to 2....ya, ouch! Our 4th game was against ANOTHER Rampage team and we BEAT them 9 to 1. This put us in the CHAMPIONSHIP game against La Roca! The coaches had a little different stratagey for this game.... MORE DEFENSE! The plan did work but the ladies~in~red were still scoring against us. At half time the score was 3 to 1 for La Roca. The second half we did a lot better, more aggressive and more bodying~up!!! We scored 2 more goals (by my sweet Ry...gettin the give-n-go down)!!!!.....but, lost 6 to 3!!!!!

It was an awesome game and we could not have been more PROUD of the girls EFFORT!! For our 1st games together and our 1st tourney....we were incerdible!!!

What an awesome experience and education we are having with Morgan and the Zehnos!

FANTASTIC GAMES ZEHNOS!!!!

For Sale

Yes, we are selling rocks. Beautiful, hand picked rocks found in the local wilderness called our front yard. These entreprenuers do all the work of selecting, washing and displaying these rocks for you so that you might simply choose your favorite.
It all started yesterday when a boy around the corner was selling rocks. Before I knew it, each of my boys had their own sale going on. Then the neighbors on both sides started selling rocks. Although one of them add rice crispie treats. They thoroughly enjoyed their day of buying and selling rocks to each other. I got them to put is all away for the sprinklers but first thing this morning they got all set up again and I had to make a sign "Cool Rocks for Sale". We have plenty to choose from, come and see.
This delightful combination of clothes--camo short, Cars t-shirt, western cut shirt and gym shoes is provided by Mark and Kyle. Simeon loves them all, thanks.This handsome scouter is gone again. He spent last week at timbeline and this week is at scout camp. He loves it. We miss him. I do the the lawn mowing--what a deal.

Isaac has been working on being more helpful. He surprised me yesterday by getting Debbie changed and dressed for the day. Although you can't see it, he even did her hair with several bows. They were both very happy with the result. When I told Isaac I wanted to take their picture he went running to get dressed saying he didn't want to be on the blog in his pajamas. Aaah, my kids know that everything ends up on the blog. Hope the rest of you enjoy it too.

Cousin fun

We sure had a good time with a whole week to play with some favorite cousins. Abe and Elijah were a lot of fun and we miss them.