Friday, January 14, 2005

Heidi Dresses Up


Today we are cleaning out closets, organizing laundry, sending junk AWAY in preparation for packing and eventually moving. Heidi was on my bed helping me sort through clothes and she found a hat and put it on! Posted by Hello

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Picnic, Anyone?

I Kid You Not:

0°F
Cloudy and Windy
Feels Like-25°F
UV Index:
0 Low
Dew Point:
-6°F
Humidity:
70%
Visibility:
10.0 miles
Pressure:
29.81 inches and rising
Wind:
From the East at 28 gusting to 38 mph
And for a little more local flair, here are the lyrics to our official tourism song (it's on a commercial for skiing and stuff):
"My home's in Montana
I wear a bandana
My spurs are made of silver and my pony is gray
While I'm riding the ranges
My luck never changes
With one foot in the stirrups I gallop a-way."
Dang right I gallop away...to Arizona where the cowboys are WARM!

After-Christmas-Sale-Shopaholics Anonymous


We love after-Christms Sales! Addie and Heidi got all kinds of winterwear for 75% off at Old Navy. Doesn't Addie look snuggly in her $3 set? Posted by Hello

'Feed Me'


Here is Heidi showing off her little choppers at the dinner table. I think she is starting to wean herself because she very much prefers to eat what we're eating and hates when I offer her formula or baby cereal instead. Posted by Hello

Grimace


Heidi has started wrinkling up her nose and showing off her teeth in a funny grimace that makes us all laugh. She is quite impressed with herself, being able to crack up the whole family. We couldn't quite capture it, but here's the end of one of her face-making episodes at the dinner table. Posted by Hello

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

HAPPY #4, LIAM!


Today is the 4th birthday of one of the cutest boys EVER...my nephew Liam Post. Happy Birthday, Liam! We miss you! Posted by Hello

Silly Boy


This might be Liam last year on his birthday...this is disco Liam and his buddy, Uncle Sam (my 2nd younger brother--Liam's Dad Will is my 1st younger brother). Posted by Hello

Getting It Done (2 weeks ago)

This is how faith-based charities are supposed to work--efficiently, together, swiftly, and WITHOUT money or direction from the (or any) federal government.

More than 70 tons of medical supplies, hygiene kits, clothing and shoes
will be flown to Indonesia to aid tsunami disaster victims in a partnership
effort by Islamic Relief Worldwide and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. A chartered MD-11 cargo plane is being loaded today(12/31) in Salt Lake City for a New Year’s Day flight to Medan on the island of Sumatra in northern
Indonesia. Islamic Relief Worldwide is paying the shipping costs.


Saturday, January 08, 2005

Thawing

I am just now getting warm from taking the Young Women (and my girls) sledding this morning at 10am. At 11am, we had a blizzard, so we packed it in and had cocoa and some basketball at the church (THEY played--I just watched all day, but I still got cold). Heidi is hoarse so I can't even hear her when she cries, poor baby.

I haven't said anything about the tsunami because--well, what is there to say? I can't even get my brain around the fact that the equivalent of a major city has been washed from the face of the earth. But 3 stories really touched me this week--they made my stomach turn and my heart break, and made me THANKFUL for the squirmy, snotty baby coughing next to me every night lately.

1. The little Indonesian man who appeared from the rubble sobbing when the CNN helicopter touched down. He proceeded to walk up to a crew member and just hugged him and wept on his shoulder--"I've lost everything! Everything! My family is gone!"

2. Anderson Cooper told of a woman who comes crying back to the beach everyday to the spot where her daughter washed away from her, hoping that somehow she'll find her there or
something.

3. The Swedish woman who lost her husband, son, and mother, who said, "I will never forgive myself for letting go of my baby. All my life I will see his eyes as he floated away from me." Ugh! That wreched my gut. I know we should be grateful for our lives, but I would seriously rather have died than to live with that image in my head every day.

I am so grateful for my babies even though they make me so tired. I am so grateful that a natural disaster is so unlikely here along the rocky mountains--what a peaceful, beautiful place we have to live out our lives--the "everlasting hills."

I need to go medicate and bed down my still-sick girls. More later.


Friday, January 07, 2005

How Cute is My Dad?


My Dad and Stepmom sent out these cards for Christmas (this is only part of the card) and I can't get over how great they look. For some reason it just struck me that he is, in fact, "getting old." I got this picture and couldn't stop looking at it. He looks like a really cute little grandpa--which he is. But it's just so weird because when I visit him, my eyes still see my 30- year-old "daddy," even with about 14 years of only seeing him a few times. It took something like a photo catching me off guard to notice he's aged. But gracefully. Posted by Hello

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Correction

About the weather--I guess 18 was the expected high, because now it's afternoon and it's only "5 degrees, Feels like-11" thanks to the 15 mph wind. Yeah, the swimming trip is cancelled.

FAMILY LETTER 07.28.19

Dear Loved Ones,                                                                                                        We have just ...