Find JOY in the JOURNEY!: Family

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Family

These two beautiful people Amy and Sylvia were in town visiting so Aunt Donna had a wonderful dinner. Sylvia on the right introduced Keith and I when we were 9 years old and 10 years old. We became Pen Pals after that and got married 4 months after his mission and have been happily married for almost 13 years. How grateful I am for her!

The cousins playing red rover red rover. It was so much fun watching the kids play games I used to play as a kid. The weather outside was beautiful!

Amberly with her 2nd cousin Chalet. They had sooooo much fun together!

Cute little Kendal watching the chickens.

Amberly teasing the chicken. I really wish we had a little place in our backyard for chickens. We've had them before one at a time and they make the biggest mess but they sure are fun.

Aunt Donna lovin' on Paige. She has been through a lot of what we are going through right now with her son Wes. She is a great strength to me and her testimony of the gospel burns inside of her. She is a great example of having great faith and enduring to the end.

Pyramid time.

As a young girl I used to carry this amazing beautiful talented girl on my hip all the time. It is so crazy to see her with four little kiddo's. She's a great mom and I just wish we lived closer to each other. We would have a ton of fun!

Paige & her new little 2nd cousin that I can't remember her name...how awful is that!

1 comment:

LaMar & Donna Davis said...: SSSSSOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!
Love you, Aunt Donna; April 7, 2010 at 10:46 AM

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"Parents who have surrendered the sweetest and smallest flowers from the family's garden need to remember our Heavenly Father. He has promised a special reward to those who now suffer in silence, who spend long days and longer nights through their trying times of bereavement. Our Creator has promised glory. He said, "For after much tribulation come the blessings. Wherefore the day cometh that ye shall be crowned with much glory; the hour is not yet, but nigh at hand." (D&C 58:4) That promised glory includes the blessing of reunion with each child who has left the family circle to help surviving members of the family to draw nearer to God. Those children still live and are a heritage to the Lord."
Russell M. Nelson

President John Taylor once said: "that the best explanation he could offer why so many little children among the Saints were called away, notwithstanding the great faith and power of the priesthood exercised to keep them here, was that they were bright and noble spirits who held important positions in the kingdom of God in the spirit world, from which they could not long be spared., They were given brief furloughs, long enough to come to earth, take upon themselves bodies of flesh and bone that they might be prepared for a resurrection to a kingdom of glory; and after a short experience in mortality were called back to resume important labors in a higher sphere."

Joseph F. Smith said:"Joseph Smith taught the doctrine that the infant child that was laid away in death would come up in the resurrection as a child; and pointing to the mother of a lifeless child, he said to her: ' You will have the joy, the pleasure, and satisfaction of nurturing this child, after its resurrection, until it reaches the full stature of its spirit.' There is restitution, there is growth, there is development, after the resurrection from death. I love this truth. It speaks volume of happiness, of joy and gratitude to my soul. Thank the Lord he has revealed these principles to us."