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Sunday, December 27, 2009

For Journaling Purposes:

I know, I know! Everybody is soooo past looking at Christmas pictures....but I had to do it- for remembrance sake. Just skip it- but if you know how I can change the order of the post so this will show up anywhere near Dec. please let me know.

By the way... if you are brave enough to look at the pictures, notice Joe's Christmas socks. He wears Christmas ties and Christmas socks the whole month of December. Nerdy?...Maybe, but it is just another reason why I love that man so much!!!!

Christmas 2009:

This was a great Christmas, the kids were at such FUN ages and we had just moved in. It was a month full of parties, family, and working on the house...VERY BUSY!

It was our year to spend Christmas Day with the Hurd's, since Grandma and Grandpa Hurd's house wasn't finished, we hosted the Christmas Day festivities- it was a house full- and a lot of fun. Grandma and Grandpa Hurd came over first thing Christmas morning to watch Jed, Gage, and Corinne open gifts (this is our favorite family traditon- we alternate having each side of grandparents over every other year). Jed wasn't feeling his best Christmas morning but he tried hard to keep up with everything going on. Gage was out of his mind excited, and Corinne wondered what in the world was going on.
We slipped over to my parents for a few hours in the early afternoon and things were hoppin' over there as well, both of our parents are so incredibly good to the kids. The kids were on their BEST behavior this Christmas and were so good at showing their gratitude for all they recieved (makes it all worth it, doesn't it Santa?)
All in all, we just felt so blessed for all the love we felt this year, and enjoyed celebrating our Savior's birth as a family.

1 comment:

NicoleFebruary 02, 2010
Okay Steph, super easy: go into edit this post and on the bottom left corner (right underneath the text) there will be a link that says Post Options. Once you click there you can change the date of your posts. I typically backdate my posts so that they are around when the event occurred too... I've been a blogging slacker. Yet, I still love looking at your pics/post. *
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood
-Covey

More important than speaking is listening.
-Jeffery R. Holland

If we wish away the moments they will be gone. The things that we wanted to leave-the mess, the noise, the obligations- will be gone, but so will the children! This is true with every moment of life. If we do not see its joys, if we do not make the most of it, it will pass- and so will it's opportunities.
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Sometimes weaknesses challenge weaknesses. Maybe the child who needs patience the most has the trick of exasperating you almost past endurance. Maybe the child with a flaring temper that needs control, repeatedly kindles your own temper. Whether at peace or at loggerheads, the two of you are joined together... You have lesson's to teach each other, and once you've weathered the process, you will each be more of what your Heavenly Father knows you are capable of being.
-Beppie Harrison

Do not find fault with every trifling error that you may see, for this will discourage your family, and they will begin to think that it is impossible to please you: and, after a while, they will become indifferent as to wether they please you or not. How unhappy and extremely wretched is that family where nothing pleases- where scolding has become almost as natural as breathing.
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Obedience brings forth blessings. Exact Obedience brings forth miracles!
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When all is said and done, when you have lived your life and grown old as I am, you will recognize that it is the simple virtues that count, that make the great difference in our lives...

When all is said and done, our success in life will not be spelled out in the money we make, in the honor we attain, in the plaudits of men, but in those virtues which become the essence of that which is greatest within each of us.
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Sunday, December 27, 2009

For Journaling Purposes:

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