Memorial Day sales are a great time to stock up on condiments and other items for your food storage. There are more deals before the 4th of July, but if you get some of the items listed below now, you can focus on different items in few mon…
Continue reading → “Our doctrine is clear; we are to be positive and of good cheer. We emphasize our faith, not our fears. We rejoice in the Lord’s assurance that He will stand by us and give us guidance and direction. The Holy Ghost testifies to our hearts that we hav…
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Roast w/chili sauce, potatoes, carrots, onions & wheat bread in bread machine (chili sauce, spices, wheat flour, white flour, dry milk, yeast)
MONDAY (dr. appts.)
Swedish Pancakes, strawberries (flour, sugar…
Continue reading → Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve wanted to meet Bill Cosby. Click here to read a post that I wrote about him.Bill Cosby
Continue reading → “Let us learn and contemplate our duty. Let us be willing and worthy to serve. Let us in the performance of our duty follow in the footsteps of the Master. As you and I walk the pathway Jesus walked, we will discover He is more than the babe in Bethleh…
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Do you see Scarlett? (left-side of this photo?)She’s been beaming like that for weeks now in anticipation of her 5th birthday.Well, the day has finally arrived, and we are living it up.Previously, we’ve done an Art Party and a Paper Bag Princess…
Continue reading → I had a conversation recently with a fellow student at Chico State who is a Seventh Day Adventist. He wanted to know why it is that the LDS church (and many others) observe Sunday, the first day of the week, as the Sabbath instead of Saturday, the seventh day. My first thought was that the [...]
Continue reading → “Wherever you now find yourself on the road of discipleship, you are on the right road, the road toward eternal life. Together we can lift and strengthen one another in the great and important days ahead. Whatever the difficulties confronting us, the w…
Continue reading → The Empty JarWhile I appreciated all of the many gifts, cards and well wishes that Kim and I received at our wedding, there was one gift in particular that stood apart from the rest.An empty jar.Attached to it was a letter with a quote from S. Michael …
Continue reading → “When our hearts are filled with the love of God, something good and pure happens to us. We ‘keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world.’ The more we allow the love of God to gov…
Continue reading → “The Church is the mooring in this tempestuous sea, an anchor in the churning waters of change and division, and a beacon to those who value and seek righteousness. The Lord uses this Church as a tool in pulling His children throughout the world toward…
Continue reading → My rendition of an Alaskan Salmon.Last night, I finished transcribing my book from the scribblings in the leather book that Kim gave me to the computer.116 pages so far.Mind you, it’s still just the skeleton; the basic structure of my book. B…
Continue reading → “Men who bear God’s holy priesthood should be different from other men. Men who hold the priesthood are not inherently better than other men, but they should act differently. Men who hold the priesthood should not only receive priesthood authority bu…
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Autumn excited about becoming a BIG sister!We followed lesson #13 in the FHERB at FHE last night.It was all about taking Christ’s name upon ourselves at baptism and honoring that name by the things that we do. The lesson suggested hiding strips o…
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Here is our cupcake wedding cake! It was delicious and since many of you didn’t get to eat any of it I thought I’d at least share a couple of the photos with you. 
Our cupcake wedding cake. Thanks, Cami for the picture!Our world traveler cake toppers….
Another busy week is upon us as we come to the end of a school year. My daughter qualified for the state track meet, and with her AP exams also this week I wanted to make sure dinner would be on the table. This week I listed food storage items in par…
Continue reading → Scarlett – Caught red-handed getting into my make-up before church yesterday! Most days, Scarlett is a nearly-never-ending stream of stories and songs and commentary, which is quite the turn-around from her 2nd birthday where she barely said a word and…
Continue reading → One of our favorite recipes is Easy Chicken Stew. I love it because it doesn’t take long to prepare and it uses some of my canned food storage.
First you peel one medium baking potato per person. If your kids are hearty eaters, then use l…
Continue reading → “Every thoughtful person has asked himself the question best phrased by Job of old: ‘If a man die, shall he live again?’ Try as we may to put the question out of our thoughts, it always returns. Death comes to all mankind. It comes to the aged as they …
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Before leaving for school this morning, Guy looked at his picture in the frame on our wall and said, “Mom, can we switch out the pictures for all the kids?”I looked at the photo, which is a few years old and reluctantly agreed that we could.I have been…
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