Tuesday, November 17, 2015
On the 3rd day of Thanksgiving..My Hubby
On the 3rd day of Thanksgiving my gift of gratitude is for my sweetheart!❤😘 When I think back over the27 years of marriage, especially these past three years struggling with my lung disease, he has always been there for me! Whether it was to make me laugh when I wanted to cry, smile when I wanted to scream, or hold me when I couldn't take it any longer! He has always been there for me through it all!! My @gangstakim1 might portray a tough exterior but inside he really has a heart of GOLD!!💛💛Thanks for everything!!😘😘Love ya honey!!
Monday, November 16, 2015
On the 2nd Day of Thanksgiving..Our Country
On the 2nd day of Thanksgiving, my gift of gratitude is towards our country and the many countries around the world who are offering their deepest sympathy and support for Paris, France! Our sincere condolences go out to all the families and friends of those whose lives were lost.❤ #12daysofThanksgiving #12giftsofgratitude #prayforparis
Sunday, November 15, 2015
12 Days of Thanksgivng begins...On the 1st Day of Thanksgiving..My Family
It is 12 days before Thanksgiving and in light of recent events, and with so much turmoil in the world, may I suggest we offer 12 gifts of gratitude!! Instead of spending just 1 day showing our thankfulness for everything in which we are so richly blessed, why not express our gratitude on each of the 12 days before Thanksgiving! So....On the first day of Thanksgiving my gift of gratitude is for my FAMILY!! They mean the world to me and I love them all so very much!!❤😘😘 #12daysofThanksgiving #12giftsofgratitude
My Favorte Fun Pic of my Family!
Saturday, November 14, 2015
FAMILY PICTURE DAY... FUNNY TIMES!
Today we decided to take our annual family pics. We really look forward to this day, because it is not your average family picture setting as you would think. We all get together in somewhat matching attire and try to take a decent family picture.
We spent about 2 hours traveling around our city to find the perfect spot for this years picture. The kids really wanted to take it in the canal or at the cemetery this year. I was laughing hysterically at the though of either of those, but the canal had too much water still in it and the cemetery was a bit to morbid to attempt. So we found an old path, a railroad track, and even big old dead tree to stand in front of. Most of the pics we took were of us laughing or being silly. We did pull off a couple decent ones. But the best ones seemed to be when we were just having fun!
Family Pics 2015
This would have been a good pic until Kim decides to pose like...I don't know what?? haha
We spent about 2 hours traveling around our city to find the perfect spot for this years picture. The kids really wanted to take it in the canal or at the cemetery this year. I was laughing hysterically at the though of either of those, but the canal had too much water still in it and the cemetery was a bit to morbid to attempt. So we found an old path, a railroad track, and even big old dead tree to stand in front of. Most of the pics we took were of us laughing or being silly. We did pull off a couple decent ones. But the best ones seemed to be when we were just having fun!
Family Pics 2015
FUNNY FUNNY!
C'Jay tormenting J'Dee constantly
Sweet Little Ireland looking at the goats
We were all just trying to walk down the path, but of course C'Jay and Niah couldn't help themselves!
FAV FUNNY ONE!!
Everyone was a little crazy in this one.. Ireland is looking at all of us like we are nuts!
Pretty Decent pic but the spacing is quite off haha
CUTE PIC even though Landee is hanging from C'Jay....
LOVE THIS CUTE PIC
THE CRAZY KIDS
AWWW Kim does love me!!!
Ireland is running away from family pics, she is so done!
C'Jay and Niah thought is was fun to teach her duck lips!!
Now we never will get a smile again! haha
CUTEST PIC OF THE DAY!
Red cold cheeks and noses of these cute little stinkers!
Love his blue eyes and her brown eyes!!
THEY NEVER TAKE FAMILY PICS Seriously
This would have been a good pic until Kim decides to pose like...I don't know what?? haha
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Niah's LAX Championship Weekend
Kim and I enjoyed a weekend in Las Vegas watching our daughter Shaniah play on a hand-picked select Utah lacrosse team. Girls all over Utah from many different high schools were selected to play this weekend. It was so fun watching our girl play her heart out with other very talented players. She had such a great time making new friends and playing at such a high level of play.
She loved every minute of it especially when they went undefeated in pool play and then on to win the championship game to top it all off.
Here our a few pics and a little video clip I made for her of her weekend.
She loved every minute of it especially when they went undefeated in pool play and then on to win the championship game to top it all off.
Here our a few pics and a little video clip I made for her of her weekend.
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Creating Eternal Families..linking the Past with the Present
I just got back from the temple! This was my first time going alone in a long time. I was so excited that I did not have to wear my special glasses nor did I get dizzy or black out while I was there under the florescent lighting. I am so extremely grateful for the opportunity I had to take some of my families names and do their initiatory work for them.
I felt such an overwhelming gratitude to the Lord today for allowing me to heal and begin to do things that I haven't been able to do for several years. For the past year my mom and I have been doing a great deal of family history research for many of our Danish ancestors. We have both learned so much and have been able to find Danish Parrish records that have linked many missing family members to our family tree. We have sourced many documents and added them to our family tree on Family Search to prove the authenticity of our research. We hope that our research will help many others searching the same ancestors as well as allow them to be able to find some of their own missing relatives both past and present.
Taking your own family names to the temple is so amazing. Not only did I feel the spirit so strong so did the temple workers. We all had tears in our eyes as their work was completed. I knew these ancestors of mine had waited so long to be found to finally get their work completed. I knew they were very, very, happy and so was I. As I did this I felt close to not only my earthly family but also to my ancestors that have passed on as well.
One of my female ancestors I did temple work for in the temple today was born in 1815. Her birth record was unreadable and from that they were never able to identify who her parents were and never were able compete her work when the extraction projects were completed. It wasn't until our research that we found a record of her confirmation when she was 14 from old Danish Parrish records that gave her parents name and birth date. Her name was Marianne Jensdatter and she had never been part of our family records due to un un-readable birth record. But now she has joined our family tree, temple work has been done, and although it has been so many years I know she is so happy today knowing she is sealed tougher with her family forever!
As we have done this work we are led by the sprit and allowed to find things that we never thought possible. I know the Lord is also blessing my health and my family as I strive to do our family history and find missing family members and then do their temple work. I try to involve as many family members as possible in doing the temple work.
My youngest daughter Shaniah did the baptisms a couple days ago, today I did their intiatory, and tonight my oldest daughter Kaylee and her husband are doing the endowments. Kaylee is doing on of my family names and Andrew, Kaylee's husband, is doing the endowment for his father.
My mom will then in two days do the other endowments and a couple sealings with my father. How grateful I am for family both past and present who are working together to create an eternal family that will be together forever someday!
I felt such an overwhelming gratitude to the Lord today for allowing me to heal and begin to do things that I haven't been able to do for several years. For the past year my mom and I have been doing a great deal of family history research for many of our Danish ancestors. We have both learned so much and have been able to find Danish Parrish records that have linked many missing family members to our family tree. We have sourced many documents and added them to our family tree on Family Search to prove the authenticity of our research. We hope that our research will help many others searching the same ancestors as well as allow them to be able to find some of their own missing relatives both past and present.
Taking your own family names to the temple is so amazing. Not only did I feel the spirit so strong so did the temple workers. We all had tears in our eyes as their work was completed. I knew these ancestors of mine had waited so long to be found to finally get their work completed. I knew they were very, very, happy and so was I. As I did this I felt close to not only my earthly family but also to my ancestors that have passed on as well.
One of my female ancestors I did temple work for in the temple today was born in 1815. Her birth record was unreadable and from that they were never able to identify who her parents were and never were able compete her work when the extraction projects were completed. It wasn't until our research that we found a record of her confirmation when she was 14 from old Danish Parrish records that gave her parents name and birth date. Her name was Marianne Jensdatter and she had never been part of our family records due to un un-readable birth record. But now she has joined our family tree, temple work has been done, and although it has been so many years I know she is so happy today knowing she is sealed tougher with her family forever!
As we have done this work we are led by the sprit and allowed to find things that we never thought possible. I know the Lord is also blessing my health and my family as I strive to do our family history and find missing family members and then do their temple work. I try to involve as many family members as possible in doing the temple work.
My youngest daughter Shaniah did the baptisms a couple days ago, today I did their intiatory, and tonight my oldest daughter Kaylee and her husband are doing the endowments. Kaylee is doing on of my family names and Andrew, Kaylee's husband, is doing the endowment for his father.
My mom will then in two days do the other endowments and a couple sealings with my father. How grateful I am for family both past and present who are working together to create an eternal family that will be together forever someday!
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Stand Up for What Right…Even if you Stand Alone
My daughter came home from church today, I asked her how young women's was and she replied with tears in her eyes, "that was exactly what I needed"! She then began to tell me they had a young adult come to speak to the laurels and the priests today. He told of his experience in high school and my daughter said it felt as if he were speaking right to her.
As we talked about what she was taught, the spirt filled the room and I couldn't help but think of her time spent in the temple yesterday doing our family names and the prayers I offered in her behalf while she was gone. I knew that this lesson was just another answer to the plea for help and blessing for her sacrifice in the temple yesterday!
Not only were the prayers answered through this lesson but I saw a huge relief upon her shoulders as she knew, she was doing what her Father in Heaven wanted her to, no matter how hard it seemed.
For the past several months, she has watched many of her friends make choices that involved word of wisdom problems including drugs, drinking, and smoking. She has tried to help them by setting a good example, asking them not to do it, and even getting angry and calling them out. Nothing has seemed to help her friends and she has been so torn up inside knowing what they were doing and worrying that something bad could possibly happen to her friends that she really cared about.
But after going to the temple yesterday, the many prayers offered in her behalf, the answers came flooding to her as what she has been going through was exactly what this young man taught in church. She knew the Lord was speaking directly to her and she felt so much peace and joy as he spoke of his experience of having good friends who made bad choices and having to spend many times alone because he didn't want to make those same mistakes. He told of how his life turned out versus the friends who did not stay on the right path. He went on a mission, married in the temple, has a baby, and is a very successful marathon runner.
It has been hard for Niah these past few months, as she has stayed away from the things her friends were doing but in the process has felt very alone . Many nights she would be sitting home with her family while her friends were all out doing things she did not want to be a part of. I think she felt a bit trouble and wondered why she felt so alone when she was making the right choice. I told her that It is okay to stand up for what is right even if that means you have to stand alone. But it is much harder than it sounds for a teenager that just wants to enjoy life with her friends.
Although she told me she was getting used to going it alone I knew it was still hard for her. After the lesson today she knew she was doing the right thing and looked at where she wanted her life to be in 5 years and if she kept doing what she needed to do than it would get her where she wanted to be then.
I told her that no ones opinion of you matters except the Lord and He is so extremely proud of the woman she is becoming and knows she is in a great position to make a difference in the lives of her friends by continuing to love them, set a good example, and be there for them, when they decide they need someone to help them get back on the right track.
I am so amazed at her spiritual strength and always having the determination to stand up for what right even if that mean she has to stand alone! I am so thankful for the prayer, temple, and family history work that has blessed her to see that what she is doing is exactly what the Lord wants her to and gave her the strength and determination to not give up on what matters most. I love her and am so grateful for her example to me and the wisdom she has at such a very young age.
As we talked about what she was taught, the spirt filled the room and I couldn't help but think of her time spent in the temple yesterday doing our family names and the prayers I offered in her behalf while she was gone. I knew that this lesson was just another answer to the plea for help and blessing for her sacrifice in the temple yesterday!
Not only were the prayers answered through this lesson but I saw a huge relief upon her shoulders as she knew, she was doing what her Father in Heaven wanted her to, no matter how hard it seemed.
For the past several months, she has watched many of her friends make choices that involved word of wisdom problems including drugs, drinking, and smoking. She has tried to help them by setting a good example, asking them not to do it, and even getting angry and calling them out. Nothing has seemed to help her friends and she has been so torn up inside knowing what they were doing and worrying that something bad could possibly happen to her friends that she really cared about.
But after going to the temple yesterday, the many prayers offered in her behalf, the answers came flooding to her as what she has been going through was exactly what this young man taught in church. She knew the Lord was speaking directly to her and she felt so much peace and joy as he spoke of his experience of having good friends who made bad choices and having to spend many times alone because he didn't want to make those same mistakes. He told of how his life turned out versus the friends who did not stay on the right path. He went on a mission, married in the temple, has a baby, and is a very successful marathon runner.
It has been hard for Niah these past few months, as she has stayed away from the things her friends were doing but in the process has felt very alone . Many nights she would be sitting home with her family while her friends were all out doing things she did not want to be a part of. I think she felt a bit trouble and wondered why she felt so alone when she was making the right choice. I told her that It is okay to stand up for what is right even if that means you have to stand alone. But it is much harder than it sounds for a teenager that just wants to enjoy life with her friends.
Although she told me she was getting used to going it alone I knew it was still hard for her. After the lesson today she knew she was doing the right thing and looked at where she wanted her life to be in 5 years and if she kept doing what she needed to do than it would get her where she wanted to be then.
I told her that no ones opinion of you matters except the Lord and He is so extremely proud of the woman she is becoming and knows she is in a great position to make a difference in the lives of her friends by continuing to love them, set a good example, and be there for them, when they decide they need someone to help them get back on the right track.
I am so amazed at her spiritual strength and always having the determination to stand up for what right even if that mean she has to stand alone! I am so thankful for the prayer, temple, and family history work that has blessed her to see that what she is doing is exactly what the Lord wants her to and gave her the strength and determination to not give up on what matters most. I love her and am so grateful for her example to me and the wisdom she has at such a very young age.
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