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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

lego video

Trevor got together for at least monthly meetings with friends to make a Lego Video. They had so much fun creating story lines using lego figures and taking pictures and trying to learn how to turn their still pictures into a video. I love their creativity. I will post pictures later!

Watching a session at Kirtland

When we lived in Cleveland, we were in the Kirtland Stake. We tried to take advantage of visiting the sites at Kirtland as much as possible. We would always take the kids to one session of General Conference at Kirtland. We would watch it in the Historic Kirtland movie room.

I had this quote in vinyl lettering on one of our walls in our home. I didn't know it was posted at the Kirtland sites as well.

General Conference Box

This tradition just doesn't get old with the kids. This is one of those thoughts that just popped into my mind when thinking of ways I could get my kids excited about general conference sooner than just the weekend of. We get the conference box out (with all the goodies inside) a week early and they kids have a countdown until General Conference weekend.

They get to open the box on the Saturday morning of the first session.

APRIL FOOLS!!!--mustaches for ALL!

Our family LOVES (I mean really loves) this holiday. The kids get so excited to do a joke on Dave every year. Last year we filled his tube of toothpaste with blueberry pie filling.

This year we put salt on his toothbrush. Dave and I decided to do our own prank on the kids so while they were sleeping we drew mustaches on their faces with eye liner (thank Meghan Loveless for the fun idea). It was SO FUNNY when they woke up. Ashlyn was mortified. She wouldn't even let me take a picture of her and we had to wash it off her face right away (sigh...girls :) ). The boys LOVED it. Trevor kept his on all day. Haha.

Making Tomb rolls

We do this every year. I feel like the kids are out growing some of our traditions. This may be one of them! :(

Here is a link to an easy Tomb Roll recipe: click HERE

Easter

We had Easter dinner at the Jones' house. Good times! Love the Jone's family!

Ward Easter Egg hunt

There were A TON of eggs at the Ward Easter Egg hunt. The kids had a great time watching a short movie and then hunting for eggs!

NUMBER ONE SPEECH

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

"There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

"Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

"Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization - an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win - to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don't think it is.

"It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That's why they are there - to compete. To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win.

"And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.

"I don't say these things because I believe in the 'brute' nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has to work his heart out in a good cause and he's exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

--Vince Lombardi

In the Faith of Christ