Thursday, May 15, 2008
The Circle of Life
This story was heart-breaking to me. We love to visit the elephants at the zoo and sometimes eat lunch watching them. We went Monday, but they had the elephants blocked off because one of them had a stomach-ache. When we were leaving the zoo around 4:30 pm, channel 5, 8, and 11 news were outside the entrance. We asked one of the camera guys what was going on and he said an elephant had just died. So sad...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Small Details
I wish I had been able to capture more pictures, but my camera never seemed readily available when I needed it.. here are a few highlights from the past two weeks...
Swimming Lessons
Cowboy Roman and Cowboy Ben tying up the cow they caught (Grandpa)!
Keeping kids occupied while I cleaned up broken glass plate. It worked rather well, and I already had the broom out!
My sweet Emily loves to finish Ben and Annie's apples - after they have eaten the skin off.
A hot morning at the Arboretum. I LOVE this picture!
Everyone loved the swing!
Swimming Lessons
Cowboy Roman and Cowboy Ben tying up the cow they caught (Grandpa)!
Keeping kids occupied while I cleaned up broken glass plate. It worked rather well, and I already had the broom out!
My sweet Emily loves to finish Ben and Annie's apples - after they have eaten the skin off.
A hot morning at the Arboretum. I LOVE this picture!
My Almost Perfect Mother's Day
Mother's Day was fabulous! It was actually the best one I think I have ever had! I woke up to Andy taking the kids out of our room, then woke up again to fluffy pancakes, a perfect flipped egg, grapes, milk and yogurt! I got chocolates in church, the young women participated in my lesson, my little niece played with Ben and Annie after church, my family (minus my mom but plus my brother's girlfriend) came over for dinner and we had LEFTOVERS, my sister and the kids had fabulous mother's day surprises for me ($ for pedicure, beautiful roses, and Arbonne beauty things), and I was asleep by 8:45 that night! What a fabulous day!!!!
To top it off, my sister and her family were here from Utah visiting and she let me borrow her brand-new dress to wear to church so I could feel like a princess! It was a great day!!! The only thing that could have made it better was for my mom to be here, but alas - she does have other children to visit...
To top it off, my sister and her family were here from Utah visiting and she let me borrow her brand-new dress to wear to church so I could feel like a princess! It was a great day!!! The only thing that could have made it better was for my mom to be here, but alas - she does have other children to visit...
The Law of the Garbage Truck
Thanks Andrea for posting this!!!
One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!
The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly. So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!'
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.' He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you.
Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so..... 'Love the people who treat you right.. Pray for the ones who don't. Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!
One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!
The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly. So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!'
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.' He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you.
Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so..... 'Love the people who treat you right.. Pray for the ones who don't. Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!
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