A new month

Tomorrow is a new day, a new week, and a new month.  I like the sound of that.  I will go into it hopefully and prayerfully. 

We love October at our house.  Halloween is next to Christmas in importance to my children.  The excitement, the costumes, the parties, the sugar coma.  I can't wait to start carving pumpkins.

We are also planning a Lord of the Rings party at our house in December.  A good excuse to invite friends over, and to get us excited for the Hobbit premiere.  We need things to look forward to, and this will be fun for us.

Happy Fall to everyone!

Church in the canyon

We went to Rock Canyon again today.  The colors are so beautiful.  We walked farther and longer than we have before.  The view is always a treat, and the time spent together priceless.

Hurry up, Hobbitsies!

I suppose it's my fate that as a mother of all boys, and the fact that I'm not very tall to begin with, I am doomed to be the shortest in the family.  Carson is taller than me now.  Micah is quickly catching up.  And Dakota . . . well that battle was lost years ago.

Truth

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

                                   ~J.R.R. Tolkien
                                             (Gimli)

Another quote, for inspiration

"No. We cannot. But we will meet them in battle nonetheless."
                                       ~  JRR Tolkien
                                            (King Theoden)

Photo catch-up (because my camera is working again)

Here is a little pic catch-up of our lives.  My camera is now working again, and so is my brain, after a day's rest.  Here we go.

       Micah received his Wolf Scout badge and won 3rd place in the Pinewood Derby

First day of school, Aug. 21st.  Carson started 7th grade and Micah began 4th grade.  New schools for all of my kids this year.  Whewww!  Notice the lack of uniforms.  There is no photo of Dakota, because . . . well he's 18.  He started UVU this year.  Wah hoo!

Rock Canyon today.  The colors are coming out, and it is so beautiful.  We couldn't wait to get back to the canyon and check it out. 

A new link to an older poem

In August of 2010, one of my poems called "From a Stolen Child" was published in the Provo Orem Word Review.  The editors did a fabulous job with the layout and the added photos.  I was so pleased with the way it turned out.

This particular poem has meant a lot to certain members of my family.  It was written about my great great grandmother, and largely inspired by the information sent to me by my Uncle John and my cousin Sue.  My Uncle posted the poem on the family genealogy site he created online.

In my heart, I really hope that Sarah is happy about being remembered and still loved by all of us.  I am sure that her life was difficult. I am adding a link here for those who would like to read it.

http://www.provooremword.org/index.html?edition=2010_8

Keeping up with . . . who?

It's official.  My life has run away without me.  I can no longer keep up with the requirements.  I passed the exhausted and overworked stage months ago.  I passed the flashing red OVERWHELMED light several weeks ago.  Now it's my sanity that I question on most days. 

Anyway, this evening I gave up the fight to stay ahead.  I got in my pajamas and watched movies with my children.  And yes, best evening ever.