So Rise and Shout...

Monday, June 4, 2012

Youth...

Just a quick sweet moment witnessed at church today to inspire you...
Our dear neighbor died a few days ago after many battles with cancer. She was amazing and so kind. Even after many injuries and many rounds of chemo she showed up to every activity, she walked our loop daily and had a hello for everyone. Her loss was deeply felt by the ward (as testimony meeting today proved). Although she was loved by everyone, no one loved her more than her dear husband who stayed with her night and day. She fell and broke her hip a few weeks ago and never recovered...
Today we were sitting behind her husband, Dick, at church. He was sitting by himself for the first part of sacrament. When the sacrament ended, two of the priests in our ward came down from blessing the sacrament and sat down next to Dick. As they sat down one of the young boys, Parker, leaned over to him and said no one should sit alone in this ward with a smile. Dick returned his smile and patted him on the knee. I was so touched by the actions of these two young men but as I sat there and looked at them I was even more overcome. One of these young boys comes from a home without a father. His dad is around, a nice person and involved but not the foundational figure in his life. Last year this boy almost died. In a few hours he went from normal to near death from a violent infection. There was about a 24-36 hour period that the doctors did not believe he would make it through. His full recovery took many weeks. The second young man comes from a family of 13 (it might be 12) adopted children. He is the last child and his father died a few years ago. He just recently gave a talk in sacrament about how hard the loss of his father had been. I have heard both mothers on many occasions express what a blessing these young men have been in their lives...
It is clear that sorrow, trials and hardships do not discriminate by age...but it is even more clear that kindness, empathy and love are not limited by age either...what a blessing to belong to a church and community where our seventeen year olds support our seventy year olds and our seventy year olds inspire our 12 year olds - I drove the deacons to the temple for their weekly trip and one young man expressed how he couldn't stop crying at the funeral because of how neat a lady our neighbor was :) Sometimes small things do have a big impact...
Have a good week :)

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Little Miss Sherlock...our first thought when we looked at this ;)

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Gma Prince...

John's mother sent this dress to Elizabeth. She got SO many compliments on it today so I thought I'd throw a few pictures up for her...
I'd also like to thank picasa for all the new stuff...I finally get a chance to sort of edit photos using a few effects...

Bippity Bepity Boo

You may be getting a little tired of my pictures...sorry...but I don't seem to be able to stop :) Inspired by my friend (her amazing work) I took a bunch of shots of Lizzy Beth each day for awhile trying different things. These are a few of my favorite but there were so many good ones I think I keep trying!

This was John's favorite...

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Too cute...

Monday, April 30, 2012

A round of "firsts"...

Everyone is getting big too fast...

Josh...priesthood, first time to pass the sacrament, first YM activity, first lawn job, first time to babysit, first time to teach a YM lesson...

Hy just finished his second pinewood derby with a 2nd place...next stop, Weeblos...

This little guy does not believe he is little. He wants training wheels on a real bike and he really likes to express his feelings :)

And let us not get started on this one...her first food, her first time sleeping through the night, her first rolls from front to back and back to front (she's a rolling machine), sitting up, her first experience with the jewelry section of the store (she loved it :). Again, I have been in tears this week putting up her smaller clothes...why do they have to get big??