Hikers and waterfalls

I thought these pictures of (my cousin) Tallan’s family were great and thought I’d post them here.  Here’s the text of the email I got from Tallan:

Hey fam,
 
Last weekend we went to Palouse Falls where a crazy kayaker set a new world record several months ago going over the falls. The you tube link is below.. as well as some pics of our little hikers!  
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y1Z0uNEK2c
 
Love tal, chad, bren, hay, addi and ella

it's too lost

I told Kysa she better go find her own toy puppy instead of playing with Shay’s.  She said, “Mom, I can’t.  It’s too lost.”

Quote of the Day

"When the work of the Lord is to be done, NEVER count the cost.” Brigham Young

another occurence of "But the Priests"

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/john/12/

 

This whole chapter (John 12) is very good.  I found it by searching for the term “but the priests” that Damon talked about today on scriptures.lds.org:

 

I especially was struck by verses 42-50:

 

  42 ¶ Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:

  43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

  44 ¶ Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.

  45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.

  46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.

  47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

  48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

  49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

  50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

 

Great doctrine here on priorities, the relationship between Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father, and judgment.  Awesome stuff. 

 

 

Quote from Damon's talk

"Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar His face is to us."

 

--President Ezra Taft Benson, Ensign, Dec. 1988

Alma Chapter 5

One of my favorite chapters of scripture: http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/5/9,26#9 I love the search function on http://scriptures.lds.org I just found some really cool scriptures as I was searching for some things Damon talked about in his mission report today.

Summer is officially here! We are in Paul tonight and I’m going swimming in the a.m. with Alice Schenk. The kids love staying at Grandma’s.

Here is a clip of Ty, Raleigh, and Kysa feeding the bass at Perry and Gail’s today:

on the road again

Kysa thought it was a good idea to cruise the neighborhood in nothing but
her underwear and her bike helmet. Safety first!

Monday report

Took Raleigh and the Ehardt kids golfing at Sandcreek today for the Idaho Falls junior golf day.  Couldn’t find a babysitter for Ky and the Shay monster, so I put helmets on them and off we went.  On the green of the 3rd hole Shay was getting cranky and bossy.  I pulled the pin out so the kids could putt and I set it down, and Shay said, "No, back in!"

 

I told her no, we had to wait for the kids to finish putting, and I stepped on the pole so she couldn't lift it up.  I was watching the kids putt, and next thing I knew, she was biting my leg.  Yikes!

 

We met Ty at Leo’s after our golfing excursion.  He had a golf outing this morning in Rexburg for work.  He left Leo’s to meet the All-American yards guys to get our sprinkler system working—YAY!  Raleigh had swimming club at 4 and I did laps.  We sat in the hot tub outside after his class. Ty mowed the backyard and watched the girls.  When we got home Ty took Raleig h over to Skyline to open up the gym for Troy Deane and they shot baskets for awhile.  Busy day!

 

Grandma's Lawn Mower Wheelie

Covered Wagon Train

More Wagon Pictures

The Kids Own Wagon Train

Grandma Ro's Kitchen Stuff

Nochie is the best customer at Shay's restaurant.

RE: no water tonight

Mom, speaking of water problems, I don't think I told you that our water
heater broke last week. I had our handiman Brian fix it on Saturday, and
also get the water softener going while he was at it. He just replaced both
elements in the water heater and cleaned out about two gallons of SILT from
the bottom (from the hard water.) Now it's working awesome and we have lots
of hot water. It's a 64 gallon water heater so we should have had plenty of
hot water all along if it had been working efficiently. It would have cost
about 500 bucks to replace it, so we were happy to pay him for his time and
the cost of the elements. It is fairly new so hopefully it will work for a
long time now.

Kysa and Shay got in a cat fight before bed that ended in Shay biting Kysa's
cheek hard enough to make a noticeable mark, but not hard enough to break
the skin. Don't know what I'm gonna do with those two. The only good thing
about it was that it traumatized Kysa enough that she wanted to brush her
teeth and go straight to bed.

Went and played ball tonight at Skyline with Shalaina, Jessica Carlson,
Gretchen, and a few others. They have been playing at Shelley and Rigby,
but couldn't get gyms there so Gretchen opened up Skyline. Always a good
workout. Ty had to do some organizing of his basketball closet so he
brought the kids over and they ran around for awhile. Funny, they seem to
think it's a privilege to come over to Skyline.

my favorite church song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spjkgMpVDWQ