Our Beloved Church President, Gordon B. Hinckley 1910-2008

I received this poem in an email from my sister-in-law Caroline, and had to share it. What an amazing and great man he was in all aspects of his life. I hope you enjoy it.

Prophetic Passing
By Anna M. Molgard
January 27, 2008

I imagine he's running to Marjorie now,
Yes, running, not waving his cane.
I see him embracing his father and mother
While they keep repeating his name.

I see him now meeting his forbears,
Brother Brigham and Joseph are there.
Sweet reunion of prophets, united by service
That only such noble men share.
While Father says, "Good and well done.
So faithful in stalwart endurance, I welcome
My noble, most excellent son."

I then hear the ripples of laughter
As he says the reception's just fine,
But he hopes that he'll get an assignment or two
Since there's no need to waste any time.

I can hear his clear voice in the stillness
At the close of this sweet Sabbath day,
Have faith and move forward there's work to be done.
President Hinckley would want it that way.

18 and ZERO -----> OH YEAH!!!

Our beloved New England Patriots are now 18 and ZERO with one more game to go! What a great season they are having. Lets go PATS! :)

TWICE in 7 Days

To add to the craziness of our lives, we decided we wanted to visit the Emergency Room twice in one week. HOW much fun was that? Well, sit back, relax and I'll tell you. The first visit came out of the BLUE, literally. Corben in his whole 7 years of life has had maybe one (yes 1) earache and I can't even remember when that was or if it was a figment of my imagination. Anyways, back to the story.... I was making dinner one evening, and Corben came running into the kitchen crying that his ear was hurting him and that it was BAD. I grabbed the flashlight, and started looking for anything out of the ordinary in his ear. He wasn't running a fever, or having any other issues. Remedies I tried to alleviate his pain/discomfort---> heating pad, Tylenol, rinsing ear with warm water, and we even tried some ice and I think that was his idea. Nothing worked, at all. Now mind you, this all transpired while making tacos for dinner. Once I finished rinsing out his ear, he said it felt better and then we ate dinner. After dinner, it started hurting again so "bad" that he was crying. By this time, it was after 7pm, and I don't think any urgent cares in this area are open at that time. I asked Corben if it hurt bad enough to take a trip to the ER, and explained that this is the last resort. He said he couldn't wait until the next day, and yes we had to go. Well, I took him to the ER and he was full of drama with me in the waiting room and once we made it to the exam room. Surprisingly, there was only about a 10 minute wait before we saw the doctor. I was SHOCKED!!!! (Only b/c I've heard horror stories about the ER on post here....) Once the doctor came in, the drama was gone, and he was calm and just fine. She looked in both ears, and found NOTHING. No infection, no swelling, nothing out of the ordinary. The only thing she could ask was if his ears stuck out they way they were all the time. ????? Uhhhmm, yeah, and I'd never noticed they really stuck out anyway. Interesting. Well, the end result was some antibiotics just in case, and some ibuprofen to ease any more pain. Unbelievably, we were in and out of the ER in about an hour. AMAZING. Corben was fine, no more pain (at all) and hasn't mentioned his ear since then. Truly, I'm glad it was nothing......whew. So that's the first visit, which was a Thursday. On to the second:

The next Wednesday, we had finished dinner and were having some family fun time playing with Corben's many Nerf dart guns with the foam bullets. We were all scattered in the family room hiding behind furniture ambushing each other and having a great time. After a couple minutes of playing, we each had to reload the guns, and search for more ammo. Once we reloaded, we each took up our positions, and started shooting again. I jumped from my great hiding spot behind the couch and attempted to shoot Corben when he fired and made a direct bullseye directly into my left eye. He couldn't have made a better shot if he had been standing 1 foot away (he was about 6 feet away). I saw a flash of white and fell to the ground. Lester and Corben both thought I was faking and just hoping to get them closer. Not so..... My vision was all blurry and I rushed to take out my contact lens thinking that's why everything was foggy and blurry. Unfortunately it wasn't-- I'll make this story short here---> we tried ask a nurse (not helpful at all since they aren't open after 7pm...nice!), decided not to take a chance with they eyes and took the kids to our friend's house, got a blessing, then hurried to the ER. Once we walked in, I knew it would be a different experience since just to check in there were about 20 people standing in line. After two lines, and about 2 1/2 hours, I finally saw the doctor. Amazingly, nothing was wrong, and the foggy/blurry vision was going away. He gave me some numbing drops and an antibiotic for my eye and we were done. We made it out of the ER in about 3 1/2 hours. No further problems and I can see just fine....whewwwww.

I think we've met our quota for visits to the ER, so no more for us for a good long time. Oh yeah, and from now on when we play with the Nerf guns, we'll wear eye protection! :)

A Little "Mac" Fun

We had family home evening the other night at a friends house and had the opportunity to play around with Photo Booth on their new Mac. I would be tempted to get a Mac just to have fun with that program. It is such a blast, as you can see :)




























Our favorites are definitely the Corben (Gene Simmons) tounge shot, and Lester the headshrunken one. These are too much fun!!!

So I Was Curious...

Saw this on some friends blogs and found this surprising result:

Fast Payday Loans

New Bike + Cool Ramp = One Happy Boy With NO FEAR

Santa and Meme & Poppy (my Mom and Dad) have made Corben a very happy boy. The new bike is from the North Pole, and the ramp from Meme & Poppy. I can't think of a better combination for Corben (unless it's a motorcycle). He asks every day if he can ride and use the ramp, and proceeds to ride and jump for as long as he can. He LOVES it! He has no fear, as seen in the video. I had to post the pictures as well, just to show the actual air he is getting--scary since he's only been riding on it for 2 weeks. I'll have to repost in a couple months when he's clearing it or doing wheelies off the ramp. YIKES!




























Great idea Meme and Poppy! THANK YOU!! (oh, and Santa too :)

Two Fantastic Movies

Over the holidays we saw two really great movies and our family highly recommends them! National Treasure Book of Secrets was a great follow up to the original.

The second movie, I had really been dragging my feet to see. Turned out to be a fantastic movie and definitely left you with the warm fuzzies!
These two movies were voted by our family to be library worthy--our library. :) (sorry the pictures are a little blurry)