Posted on June 27th, 2009 by Jenn
Sarah’s Quilt
By Nancy Turner
402 Pages
Finished June 2009
Summary:
In These Is My Words, Sarah Agnes Prine told the spellbinding story of an extraordinary pioneer woman and her struggle to make a home in the Arizona Territories. Now, in this mesmerizing sequel, a three-year drought has made Sarah desperate for water. And just when it seems that life couldn’t get worse, she learns that her brother and his family are trapped in the Great San Francisco Earthquake. A heartwarming blend of stubbornness and compassion, Sarah Agnes Prine will once again capture the hearts of readers everywhere.
Sarah’s Quilt is the sequel to These is My Words, which I enjoyed immensely. I was really excited to continue on with the story of the Prine family and Nancy Turner delivered another victory with this one! I can only hope that there’s a third book on the way!
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Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by Jenn
Remember the cool picture that we got in Zoey’s memory earlier this year? I just love it, and I think it’s such an awesome service for the photographer, Carly Dudley, to offer grieving parents. She entered the photo of her son’s name in a contest with Canon and the winner will receive $60,000 for the cause of their choice (she chose SIDS and Kids in Australia) as well as new Canon equipment, which will enable her to further her work for bereaved parents. She is currently in 3rd place and needs all the votes she can get. It only takes a minute (probably less!) to cast your vote HERE. I was so touched to receive my picture of Zoey’s name, and I’m so impressed with Carly’s dedication to help in the healing process of those who have lost children….she totally deserves this!
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Posted on June 21st, 2009 by Jenn
Posted on June 19th, 2009 by Jenn
We’ve had quite the week at our house….
Bubbles are so much fun to clean up…I’m glad Joseph was here to do most of the work.
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Posted on June 16th, 2009 by Jenn
This time, it was the pan of brownies for a Relief Society social tonight. Thankfully I had already put together a plate to take with me!
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Posted on June 16th, 2009 by Jenn
The calendar might say that I’m 30 now, but I certainly don’t feel it (in most ways). However, yesterday I got a reminder that I am, in fact, aging.
I generally listen to talk radio. After marrying Joseph, my music tastes were pretty much shunned–he KNOWS which bands are worth listening to and which aren’t, and unfortunately, everything I listened to falls into the “aren’t” category. Rather than watch him grimace and have him make snide comments while I listen to what I like, I started listening to talk radio more and more. Once in a while, when I’m alone in the car or something, I’ll turn on some music, but I generally don’t recognize most of the songs anymore so it’s not as enjoyable as it used to be.
One of my Beehive girls prepared our weekly activity recently and it was centered around music….and I realized that I didn’t recognize a single song that any of the girls picked to share what they like to listen to. I actually felt a little bit like my mom when I was a teenager, resisting the urge to say “turn this crap off, I can’t stand it anymore!”. However, some of it did appeal to me, and I decided that I need to get with the times and at least be able to identify some of the more popular bands so that I can look at least partially aware when having conversations with my 12 and 13 year old charges.
So, yesterday, while working around the house, I set some music station presets on the radio in the kitchen. I flipped through them trying to find something that sounded OK, and landed on a station with a song I recognized….something from my teenage days….and off I went cleaning the bathrooms. I was amazed that I knew almost every song that followed and even had fun singing along. It wasn’t until quite some time later that I heard the station call numbers….FM100. Yep….I’m officially old. The most appealing station my ears could find is the very one that I used to roll my eyes at in the dentist office or elevator. It’s the station that we turned on in the car as teenagers because it’s the only one my mom could tolerate. I had myself a good laugh and then went on singing along.
I also had a laugh over the fact that the music FM100 is playing now is the same music that my mom couldn’t stand to listen to when I was a teenager….it’s apparently so tame now compared to the current popular trends that it falls into the “easy listening” genre.
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Posted on June 14th, 2009 by Jenn
The Perpetrator:
The Victim:
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Posted on June 14th, 2009 by Jenn
This morning the boys were pretending to be astronauts. These are their uniforms. Not a days goes by that they don’t bicker, so it’s fun to see them playing nicely together once in a while!
Before we left for church today, Ryan showed us that he had written the word “bear” on his magna-doodle. He said he saw it on WordWorld. It’s been a few days since he’s watched an episode, so he pulled this right out of his amazing little memory. After all of the stewing and fretting I’ve done over sending him to kindergarten next year, it puts my mind at ease to see him doing things like this. He’s started reading simple books, with some help, and he’s obviously doing a pretty darn good job with his writing!
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Posted on June 14th, 2009 by Jenn
We went to the HAFB Air Show a couple of weeks ago. Having never been before, we didn’t really know what to expect. Traffic was insane, as were the lines to the lovely port-a-potties, but the kids had a lot of fun. Ryan loved looking at the airplanes do tricks in the air (he kept waiting for them to spell his name in the sky with the smoke trailing behind them), and Emmy thought the parachuters were pretty cool. We tried to hold out till the end when the Thunderbirds would be performing, but Owen dropped his grape, and no other grape would do, so he had a mega-tantrum that sent us packing. After hearing how long it took people to get out after the show, I’m kind of glad we left, even though we missed the best part.
Zonked out before we even saw anything.
Joseph stepped on a ketchup packet and look at who got sprayed….lucky me!
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Posted on June 12th, 2009 by Jenn
My mom chastised me today for not updating the blog in so long. Owen has hit the super-duper TERRIBLE twos lately, and I’ve been too busy trying to stay sane from his screaming fits to focus on getting something posted. My goal this weekend is to get all the pictures off the camera and get caught up. In the meantime, enjoy this little video of Owen actually being cute! The birds have been getting in to my strawberries, so I picked a few before they were quite ripe just to save them, and they gave Owen quite a sour face!
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