Let Freedom Ring!!!

Sold - Thank You!!!!!

Ryan's Graduation...yes, time flies....

“The Lord’s tender mercies are the very personal and individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance, loving-kindnesses, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts which we receive from and because of and through the Lord Jesus Christ. . . The Lord’s tender mercies do not occur randomly or merely by coincidence. Faithfulness, obedience, and humility invite tender mercies into our lives, and it is often the Lord’s timing that enables us to recognize and treasure these important blessings.”
-Elder David A. Bednar

Memorial Day - yesterday

"America's veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world."
- John Doolittle

"God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in Him to keep moving, keep living, keep rejoicing. In fact, He expects you not simply to face the future (that sounds pretty grim and stoic); He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities.

God is anxiously waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as He always has. But He can't if you don't pray, and He can't if you don't dream. In short, He can't if you don't believe."
— Jeffrey R. Holland

Oh So Breezy!!!

“The stronger the breeze the stronger the trees”

My little Graduate....Ryan!! Pictures....wonderful pictures...courtesy of Maddy Lemon!

While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt

The backyard "happy place" Royce created for me....

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

Sarah Bear....

Yesterday my son in law graduated from college...yay Ryan!!.... and I was able to watch Sarah for Christi and Ryan. All I'm gonna say is "PURE DELIGHT!!!"
“Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.”
Mary H. Waldrip

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger
you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
-- Epictetus

"True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."

--Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Our Cherry Tree actually works!!!

Ocean View

"I hope you always have a shell in your pocket...and sand in your shoes."
Sold - - - Thank you!

Memories

sold - thank you!!!

"Faith in the Lord is trust in the Lord. We cannot have true faith in the Lord without also having complete trust in the Lord’s will and in the Lord’s timing. As a result, no matter how strong our faith is, it cannot produce a result contrary to the will of Him in whom we have faith. Remember that when your prayers do not seem to be answered in the way or at the time you desire. The exercise of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is always subject to the order of heaven, to the goodness and will and wisdom and timing of the Lord. When we have that kind of faith and trust in the Lord, we have true security and serenity in our lives."
-Dallin H. Oaks

“When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.”
~Thornton Wilder

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
- Harriet Tubman

Gotta watch this You Tube video by Breena and Mitch Grimes...soooo cute!

got my MRI results today!!!

NO NEW LESIONS ON MY BRAIN since last year's MRI!!!!!
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"If our lives and our faith are centered on Jesus Christ and his restored gospel, nothing can ever go permanently wrong. On the other hand, if our lives are not centered on the Savior and his teachings, no other success can ever be permanently right.” Living the gospel does not mean the storms of life will pass us by, but we will be better prepared to face them with serenity and peace."

--President Howard W. Hunter

Beeeautiful "Double Delight" rose from my backyard.......I couldn't be happier with my garden than I am right now! The roses are coming on like crazy!!!!! Gorgeous!!!!!!

"Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers."
- Thomas Tusser, A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry, 1557

MS Walk today with my Family and Friends....

look at that orange lei glowing...it's radioactive!!! Here's me walking with Grant....I could choose no greater walking companion than my sweet grandson. PRECIOUS!!!

Leslie, my mom and my niece Aimee

The lovely, bright ORANGE lei and MS hat the folks from the MS Society sent me to wear today(Does ANYONE really look good in orange? hmmmmm....) :

My daughter Christi and my grandchildren having some food after the walk.
Sweet Sarah nibbling on an apple.
My wonderful son in law Ryan and my grandsons Grant and Nathan.

My wonderful husband Royce pushing our son Sean in the wheelchair (he broke his leg last month) ...Our grandson Grant leisurely enjoying the ride.

Wonderful friends - Corinne and Melanie
more sweet friends...Kellie and Erika
more sweet friends: Allyson, Linda, Me, Robin and Teri
My sons Ryan and Sean

My grandson Nathan and my daughter Leslie

A surprise rose bouquet from my son Ryan today...so beautiful in so many ways.

More Charms.....can't stop!!! $7.00 per charm!

Easter 2010

Mom's traditional Lambie Cake

Sarah...my little Lamb!

Happy Easter!!!