Tomorrow my little girl will be 6 years old!! I can't believe how fast time goes by. I will get more into that tomorrow. Faith is 9 months old and thought I would put up some pictures of how fast she has grown. She loves to eat people food and screams at the top of her lungs if she sees anyone eating and she isn't. She is crawling and pulling herself up on everything. She will walk with you if you hold her hands. As of yesterday, if she starts to put anything in her mouth that isn't food and I say "FAITHY" she holds it out for me to get, as if she knows she is in trouble. She still cries herself to sleep at night but her siblings love to throw things in the crib to shut her up. She says "da da" " ma ma" and I am trying to teach her sign language. Yesterday I was showing her the sign for "Milk" and I swear she looked at me and said "milk" lol. She likes playing Baby bumblebee with the preschool kids and is barley getting that concept. She gets excited when people come around her and play, and if you sneak up on her she giggles and hides her head in your shoulder thinking the person is trying to play a game with her.

From Brea's Blog- a reminder. Thanks!

To realize
The value of a sister/brother:
Ask someone
Who doesn't have one.


To realize
The value of ten years:
Ask a newly
Divorced couple.



To realize
The value of four years:
Ask a graduate.



To realize
The value of one year:
Ask a student who
Has failed a final exam.

To realize
The value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.



To realize
The value of one month:
Ask a mother
Who has given birth to
A premature baby.



To realize
The value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize
The value of one minute:
Ask a person
Who has missed the train, bus or plane.



To realize
The value of one-second:
Ask a person
Who has survived an accident.



Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have.
You will treasure it even more when
You can share it with someone special.



To realize
The value of a friend or family member:
LOSE ONE.

Happy Birthday Holly!!! One of my dear friends had her birthday!! Everyone came over to my house to watch "Bride Wars" Trent made it possible so that we could have real snow cones and theatre popcorn. We had some pizza and sang to Holly. Holly LOVES ice so I thought snow cones would be appropriate. Shelley made a yummy chocolate cake that she is incredible at, I have been craving it since my birthday!! Lyndee made her yummy ice cream cake that I have been craving since her Lyle's party! It was so nice to be with the girls and laugh! We painted toes and enjoyed it when Shelley and April showed up in their wedding attire. Holly and I had to run and get our veils to fit in. We shared with those who didn't have veils! Thanks once again for Lyndee taking awesome pictures and letting me use them~ Thanks Cameron for babysitting so Holly could get out, and letting us steal her on her birthday!

This story is for my mother in law. She wanted a story of something symbolic. She is serving a mission at Martin's Cove. Her phone keeps dying right in the middle of our conversation and I told her I would email the story. Since I know she will be checking my blog I decided just to share it on here, since she doesn't have an email address :) The story is what I remember of it. A woman told us this story and I am sure you have already heard it before.
" There was a girl who wanted a pearl neck less so bad that her mother took her to the store to buy some fake pearls. Her father came in to tuck her into bed and asked her what they were. She was wearing the pearls and told her father they were her pride and joy! Her dad kissed her goodnight and left it at that. The next day came and went, and it was time for her Father to tuck her into bed. This time he asked her if he could have her precious pearls. She was so upset he would even ask, she told him those were her pearls and she would not give them up!! Night after night the father kept asking " Can I have your pearls?" Each night the same reply was NO! Finally one night the little girl thought that if her father wanted them so bad she would give them up. She gave her Father her precious pearls, and when she did he held a box out for her. She opened the box and saw real pearls." The moral of the story is that we all have weakness's, sins, or wrong doings. Sometimes we hold on to them so tightly when the Father has his arms stretched ready for us to give them up. He simply doesn't make us, we have to let it go on our own. When we do we receive true joy and happiness. There are many things that this story can be remembered by, but all I know is that each one of us is a real pearl to someone who needs us. Kind of like the quote to the world we may be one, but to one we may be the world. What a good quote for mothers on mothers day. I think of this life as a war. We have people falling in the trenches with bullets being shot all around our heads. Are we going to run and save ourselves from the dread? Or are we going to jump in the trench, lift up our own and help him to his feet? reminds me of "Onward Christan Soldiers" This life how easy is it to turn our backs when we see someone hurt, or doing something they shouldn't be? How easy is it to gossip and throw our own stones at people we may know? WE may know a friend who has made a big mistake by going out of the bonds of marriage and has no one to turn to. We may know people with addictions and are too scared or too lazy to help them up. Whatever it may be I am so glad that we were given the opportunity to not have to judge. I wouldn't want that burden on me. One of my favorite pictures is of Christ holding the black sheep. I have had many eye opening experiences where I realized I was the one who needed the changing and that I was judgmental. When we strip ourselves of the pride we all have then we can truly see that people out there are wonderful people. I believe this life is to get on our hands and knees and pull each other out of the trenches and up on their feet without judgment. For those fake pearls we may think make us happy, what great joy to know there really is REAL joy if we allow it. Too many people are afraid to talk about such issues, but I think we need to if we are going to get better. Hopefully you have surrounded yourself with good people who will carry you when you need it most. I can't find the picture that I once saw of Christ sitting down holding the black sheep.

Today while shopping, I overheard a little old lady telling her husband what cute kids I had. Just then Faith turned around in her seat and pulled Austin's hair. Real cute.... Later at the checkout stand a man with an eye patch came up behind us. When we got to the car Austin looked at me and said " Mom I saw a pirate in that store!"

YAY!!!

It is official Trent is finished with school!!!! The kids and I decorated the front room with some balloons. I thought this day would never come, then I look back and realize how slow, but also how fast time went by. A lot has happened since the begining of this journey. I can't believe how big my kids are getting!


Hannah has her Kindergarten Bug Program and dressed up as a butterfly. She was so cute!


Faith gets so excited to eat real food, and wants what everyone else is eating or she gets mad

Austin has found two new friends- Ethan and Luke. They all love to play Spiderman together.

Yesterday my sister took some pictures of Faith!! Thanks Kelli they turned out way cute! Thank you Trent P. for holding up the backdrop

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On Wed my friend Holly had her sweet little baby girl! Lyndee, Camille, and I snuck into the house and cleaned and decorated for her arrival! She is the cutest little baby ever with a ton of hair and cute little chubby cheeks. I am so excited because now Faithy will have a new little friend. :) *P.s Lyndee hope you don't mind me using the pictures. These and most of the cool pictures are taken from my photographer friend Lyndee*

80's night!

(pictures are from Lyndee) Last October I told my friend Holly how I wanted to do some fun things with the women in our neighborhood. She told me she would invite everyone and we would watch scary movies at my house. Ever since we have been doing girls nights out. For girls night this month Camille was in charge and we had an 80's bowling night. Some of us went to the DI to find our sweet outfits, others just had them in their closest! I think Camille (the exercises one) won the night away with her outfit. On our way to the bowling we saw a couple running. I told Camille to jump out and run behind them. Right as she was about to, a cop pulled up behind us and asked if everything was ok. Once he saw us and Camille said everything was fine, he told us to get out of the middle of the road. After bowling we went to Denny's. It was fun to get out. I think someone should do one person's makeup through all the era's so you have one face with a 20's look 30's look 40's look and so on. That way you can see what the styles were and how different each one looks on one person. I think I enjoy the
80's look and would love to have been a teenager then! You couldn't go wrong with the big hair all you had to do was walk outside in the wind. One of My favorite era's is the elegant look of the 40's with the rolled hair on top, ruby red lips and fingernails.. fun stuff.

Dearest Darling...

I decided that with all the WWII letters of Trent's uncle, I am going to try and translate them and type them up. I say translate because the letters are so hard to read. I found that there are some from his wife to him and visa versa. I will post a letter on my blog so you can enjoy them as well. reminds me of the notebook! Here is an example of one letter. Both of them write like this.
First Letter (No in Order)

Location: Somewhere in England
Date: Jan. 27th 1945

"Dearest Darling:
Just a few lines to let you know that I am still o.k. I have a sluggish cold but it is not bothering me very much. How are you these days? Fine I hope.
Darling I received a package from you yesterday. I do not see how it ever got here. It was wide open. There was not a sign of string on it. I do not know if anything was lost out of the package or not. IT sustained a handful of candy, a bushel full of pecans, and advocate, 2 packages of tooth past and two tubes of shaving cream. Was there anything else that you sent me in the package? I have hopes of receiving another package now. I know I have one on the way from Aunt Ferna and two from James.
Have you been receiving any mail from me lately? I received a letter from you about some every 6 days. I wrote James and Henry yesterday
Honey I told you last week about me making me a chest of drawers to keep my clothes in. Last night I worked until 12:30 making one for Srgt. Wire, another Texan who sleeps next to me.
How is the weather at home? Here it is still white and plenty cold. I certainly will be glad when this month and the next passes.
Well darling I must close this time as it is time to go to work. Take care of your self.

With Lots of love and kisses
Your husband"
Frank Hathaway

(this is not of them)

I posted a while back about Irena Sendler. The woman who saved many jewish children during WWII. Well on CBS. Hallmark Hall of Fame has made a movie about her story! If you haven't heard about this wonderful woman from WWII "Life in a Jar" read here: http://www.irenasendler.org/thestory.asp

Another tag!

My true age:

My forever age:
A place I would like to travel:Hopefully next year!!
My favorite place:
My favorite thing: My favorite food

My favorite color:My favorite animal:

The city where I was born:
The city where I live now:

name of a past pet: My first name:
My middle name:
My first job:castlebrook reception center
Names of my paternal and maternal grandmothers:



My jobs: lovely wife

preschool teacher


SAHM mother
Child bearer
a The rules are: Google for the photos and choose one from the first list displayed. I now tag: Sheryl, Kelli, Holly, Jessica, Aleese, Gina and anyone else who wants a try