Emotions

Over the last week we have been seeing and hearing about the horrible earthquake in Haiti. My heart breaks. Being a nurse, I questioned my family if I should volunteer to go. My heart wishes to make a contribution of physical help. My family said "NO". I was needed here. I am not sure what their concerns are, but I know that having a family here I do need to be a Mom and be here for them. It's hard to turn off the "Nurse". I don't have financial funds to go there but do have the time. Instead I'll make contributions to help through the humanitarian center with the LDS Church.

My heart wishes to adopt one of those sweet little children who need someone to love them. I have had the opportunity to have given birth to two children in my life and I have numerous others that I claim as mine and I have 3 step-children from my current marriage, and having been married a few times, I have an additional collection of step-children. Yet, while we don't have alot and are not rich in this world by any means, however, we would appear rich to anyone from that area of the world. We are so blessed!! We have so much. I would gladly open my heart to take and love a child who needed a Mom to love them.

I am feeling emotional as the end of last week, we are told that Rogers cousin had a stroke, and wasn't doing well. She is in a Coma. She is the same age as my husband. They used to play together and at all the family reunions she would bring her horse to give rides to the little kids. Through the week they say that Marti, is doing a little bit better. She is still non-reponsive, yet they say that she smiles when someone she recognizes enters the room.

Then yesterday, we received an email that stated that Uncle Ellis had a fall and has fractured both his hips. He is on coumadin and thus they delayed surgery. Today we are told that he is now in a coma and is not expected to live. They have not done any surgery. He is aged, and has not been in great health. I know that when I saw him 2 years ago at the family reunion in Idaho Falls, I was concerned then that he might not live alot longer. His eyes are failing. Perhaps thats why he fell.

Now, with at least one funeral possibly pending in the week ahead and having Young Women's and the ward video to complete I am a bit stressed.

I love people and hate to see them in pain or suffering. I pray for the people in Haiti, for our family members who are ill and in pain.

I had a dear friend come to visit me today and it was wonderful to see her. She gave me a wonderful HUG. Hugs are the most theraputic non-medicine treatment that I know.
So, tonight, I hope that everyone has someone to HUG, kiss and know that you are loved.

Snow, Snow, Snow

To me, this seems like we have had more snow than normal for our winters. At least in the last few years that I can remember. The home is nice and warm and the new windows we put in this year help to keep it that way and so its nice to stay inside and watch the snow.

I am busy creating the "Year in Review" Video for our ward. I absolutely love creating this video and the different segments. While it is fun to make a picture record of the events that have taken place in the ward over the last year. My favorite segments are those that I create that show our personal lives as ward members. Those things that allow me to get to know someone a bit better.

A couple years ago we highlighted those that had served in the military. That is one of my very favorite segments. I learned much more than anyone else by doing that segment. I interviewed each that I placed in there, with the exception of just a few. There was only one in the ward who did not want to be mentioned in that video. I respectfully left him out. He had served and retired from the military, he had given much but didn't want to be thanked for his service.

This is my break from the video for the day. Its been a week or so since I posted to this. This year I am creating a segment of peoples hobbies and where the members went on vacation last year. I Thought it would be fun to see where everyone went to take a rest from their normal lives.

I want to do a segment that I call "All because two people fell in Love" and show a wedding photo and a photo of their entire family. Don't you think that would be cool? I do. I thought about using the song from Brad Paisley with the same title or two people fell in love is the title I guess. Anyways, its the same thing.

When this is done, I'll figure out how to make this site look "orignal" to me. Well, on with the days work.

Cell phone search

This morning began with my sweet husband looking for his cell phone. He is really pretty great about not putting his things down where they do not belong. So, this was a little out of character for him. This search began early, since I am a night owl, 6:30am is early to me. I was trying to have compassion and got out of bed to join the search.After looking on counter tops, desk tops, inside couches and recliners, and even inside his shoes at the foot of our bed I suggested that perhaps it fell off his belt while he was walking the pooches last night. Which, while he considered that a possibility continued to tell me that he was pretty sure that he had it when he returned and that he has misplaced it in the home.

After about an hour of searching, not too many places to search in our home, so I once again recommended that he retrace his walk from last night, before someone runs over it in the road. He doubted that it was, but given that he should be on his way to Salt Lake City today to work, he agreed it was worth a try, but again said that he thought he had placed in somewhere in the house.

He put his coat on and checked the yard, then returned into the house and went through each room again and even going through the garbage can at his desk before taking it out, since this is garbage day in our neighborhood. Once again I reminded him that he might want to go on that walk and check as we are not finding it in the home. Oh we tried calling the cellphone, but of course, it went straight to voicemail suggesting that his battery is DEAD. So, He then went on his walk. When he exited the home, I quietly spoke with our Father in Heaven in his behalf. His cell phone contains important information including schedules, phone numbers that he relies on for his job and for our family he even has our family genealogy inside his phone.

Within a few moments he returned to the house. I asked if he was sucessful, and indeed he was. He found it laying in the road a block from our house. We are grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who hears and answers our prayers.

This morning my husband is grateful for a persistent wife, who pushed him to retrace his walk on a cold morning when he really didn't want to have to do it. Well, the day got an early start.....for me.

Todays project is a huge one, I am working on the Ward Year in Review Video. This is a joy to produce. I absolutely love doing this project each year. It takes me approx. One to two hrs of work for every minute of video produced. In the end it is a wonderful work of love. I try my best to make a nice video that everyone will enjoy. Well, need to get to work on it once again.

Hulk is laying at my feet as I work on this today. It's a cold day so I am grateful for the opportunity to stay inside.

The Beginning

This is new for me. I am going to join the world and leave my mark on the web of life.

We are a Latter-day Saint family living in Utah. We are alot like most families across this great nation. We are a blended family. We have a total of five children. We have HIS and MINE and NO OURS unless you believe your pets are like your children and are an intricate member of your family. In that case, OURs are two purebred shi tzu pound puppies, Hulk and Paddi. We adopted them from the local animal shelter. In fact, that is where we adopted all our pets.

We have an Yellow Naped Amazon Parrot and we have a siamese cat named Miss Kitty. We enjoy the pets.

Most of our children are now married or out of the home, with the exception of one. We hope that she doesn't leave us for many years. She is still in high school so we are safe for a few years.

We have interests in genealogy, family history, photography, videography, scrapbooking, cooking, baking, and last but not least is our great love of music. My husband has a degree in photography and communications as well as in the medical profession. I am also in the medical profession. We enjoy talking shop at times. It's nice to be able to use medicalese and still be understood.

That is my introduction of myself and my family tonight.

This is Hulk


This is Paddi and Hulk at Christmas, of course they are dressed for the occasion.


Miss Kitty


Remember we adopted him from the animal shelter, his name is Cockroach. We have tried to change his name, but he knows it so well. He talks and is a joy to listen to. He only knows nice words and is very entertaining. He sings as well, and has a lovely vibrato!