Okay Mom,
I'm tagging you! Here are the rules, I really want to see your answers!
List 7 songs you're into right now. No matter the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs.
Monday, February 27, 2006
Saturday, February 25, 2006
"You don't have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people by your words and smiles... You carry within you the power to make the world better..."—Sharon G. Larsen
I really like this quote. It was on the LDS living site for Wednesday. I think it is really true. Another saying is, "A smile is something you receive when you give it away. I know that many people's smiles have made me feel better and I hope that mine have helped others.
This morning we watched Polar Express. We borrowed it from Karen & Kent. I really enjoyed it. My husband didn't so much. He said it was too fantastic and someone's imagination really ran away with them. I liked the way the hero boy was able to forget his own fear in trying to help the hero girl and lonely boy have a good experience. I think that life is like that too. When you are thinking of others and helping others and forget yourself, then you really gain yourself. A sign on my World History teacher when I was a sophomore in high school said, When you help someone else up the hill, you get a little closer to the top yourself." And another, "Aim high. You have little chance of missing your goal when the range is the length of a lifetime." I remember those signs. I don't remember much about what he taught. He talked more about football and his life experiences than he did world history. He was the football coach. He used to boast that he had played all of the characters in the temple except the devil. Of course none of knew to what he was refering. After I had been to the temple a few times I had the tho't, "The roll of Satan probably took more talent to do than any of the other rolls." I had to smile about that. Because the next tho't was: that was probably why he didn't play it.
Karl still isn't over his cold. He didn't even go to the spa yesterday nor today. He says he feels better lying down. I may have to start talking about his going to the doctor before too long if he doesn't get better soon. If he had a cold or if it were down in his chest, then I would have done long ago. It is mostly in his head and his throat. He can hardly talk sometimes and is very hard to hear at times. Three weeks is just too long for a cold to last.
I went to the temple Thursday with my friend from my exercise class. She had gastric by pass surgery two weeks to the day after I did. We have been each others support group and become good friends. She has been a widow as long as she was married....24 years. She lives in Rigby. When I was talking to her Thursday morning, she mentioned that she had been planning on going but wasn't sure now. I told her if she decided to to come and pick me up and I'd go with her. It had been three weeks since I'd been. I was planning on going last week but Karl wasn't feeling good enough. We did two of the Singh Gill names. Now five are done out of fifteen. Last December, Karl and I did initiatory work. Our high priest group leader came the night before and brought us each fifteen names to do. He said that a Brother Gill from one of the Coltman wards was originally from India and had researched 10,000 names and would like help doing them. I don't know if the woman are further along than the men or what but Karl was told he could do only five of the fifteen names and would have to do ten temple names. I was able to do all fifteen. One of the women who helped me during the intiatory work last name was Gill. I asked if she were related to brother Gill. She said he was her husband. The next time around I told her that I'd be glad to help with the endowments for those women. She said to just take the cards home instead of leaving them their at the temple as we had been instructed. I'm glad to do this. It seems more like a "real" person than when I do a name from the temple.
It's hard to believe that the second month of the year 2006 is just about over. It was warmer today and much nicer. It was supposed to be in the high 30's. Just a week ago we had subzero temperatures. That is so unpleasant. I'm ready for spring! and it always come slower here in Idaho.
I really like this quote. It was on the LDS living site for Wednesday. I think it is really true. Another saying is, "A smile is something you receive when you give it away. I know that many people's smiles have made me feel better and I hope that mine have helped others.
This morning we watched Polar Express. We borrowed it from Karen & Kent. I really enjoyed it. My husband didn't so much. He said it was too fantastic and someone's imagination really ran away with them. I liked the way the hero boy was able to forget his own fear in trying to help the hero girl and lonely boy have a good experience. I think that life is like that too. When you are thinking of others and helping others and forget yourself, then you really gain yourself. A sign on my World History teacher when I was a sophomore in high school said, When you help someone else up the hill, you get a little closer to the top yourself." And another, "Aim high. You have little chance of missing your goal when the range is the length of a lifetime." I remember those signs. I don't remember much about what he taught. He talked more about football and his life experiences than he did world history. He was the football coach. He used to boast that he had played all of the characters in the temple except the devil. Of course none of knew to what he was refering. After I had been to the temple a few times I had the tho't, "The roll of Satan probably took more talent to do than any of the other rolls." I had to smile about that. Because the next tho't was: that was probably why he didn't play it.
Karl still isn't over his cold. He didn't even go to the spa yesterday nor today. He says he feels better lying down. I may have to start talking about his going to the doctor before too long if he doesn't get better soon. If he had a cold or if it were down in his chest, then I would have done long ago. It is mostly in his head and his throat. He can hardly talk sometimes and is very hard to hear at times. Three weeks is just too long for a cold to last.
I went to the temple Thursday with my friend from my exercise class. She had gastric by pass surgery two weeks to the day after I did. We have been each others support group and become good friends. She has been a widow as long as she was married....24 years. She lives in Rigby. When I was talking to her Thursday morning, she mentioned that she had been planning on going but wasn't sure now. I told her if she decided to to come and pick me up and I'd go with her. It had been three weeks since I'd been. I was planning on going last week but Karl wasn't feeling good enough. We did two of the Singh Gill names. Now five are done out of fifteen. Last December, Karl and I did initiatory work. Our high priest group leader came the night before and brought us each fifteen names to do. He said that a Brother Gill from one of the Coltman wards was originally from India and had researched 10,000 names and would like help doing them. I don't know if the woman are further along than the men or what but Karl was told he could do only five of the fifteen names and would have to do ten temple names. I was able to do all fifteen. One of the women who helped me during the intiatory work last name was Gill. I asked if she were related to brother Gill. She said he was her husband. The next time around I told her that I'd be glad to help with the endowments for those women. She said to just take the cards home instead of leaving them their at the temple as we had been instructed. I'm glad to do this. It seems more like a "real" person than when I do a name from the temple.
It's hard to believe that the second month of the year 2006 is just about over. It was warmer today and much nicer. It was supposed to be in the high 30's. Just a week ago we had subzero temperatures. That is so unpleasant. I'm ready for spring! and it always come slower here in Idaho.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Daddy's Birthday
Today would have been my father's 92nd birthday. He died when he was only 55....almost seven years younger than I am now. My mother has been a widow for 36 years....longer than she was married. They had only been married 27+ years when he died. He had Hodgekin's disease. our children were only 6, 5, 3 and 1 when he died. I always figured that he knew Richard before he was born seven years later. Sunday would have been my father-in-law's 96th birthday. He was born the February before the June that President Hinckley was born. It is always easy to remember the age because he was born in 1910. Just subtract ten years from the year. Mom & Dad had been married 58 years when Dad died. He died nine years ago. So our children still have both of their grandmothers but neither grandfather. All of our children were married by then.
It has been very cold up here in Idaho Falls. Friday it was more than -20 with windchill. It was too cold to go anywhere! It was colder with the windchill than if it were just -20. It is supposed to be warming up to 33 or so tomorrow and maybe even in the 40's by the weekend. I hope it starts warming up soon. I'm ready for spring. It was starting by this time of year the year we lived in Eugene, Oregon. I really liked that.
In Sacrament Meeting Sunday we had a professional scouter who lives in our ward talk and the scoutmaster. They gave very good talks. The first one told of a man who was born in Greece and was a youth there during WWII. Every year he would at his own expense would buy the fixings and prepare them for scout leaders who were on a retreat for a week. He was a chef by perfession. When asked why he did this every year he told this story. He said that when the Germans took over that many of them joined the resistance. One night they were all very proud of themselves for blowing up a power plant. Shortly afterwards, the Germans rounded up all of the men and youth in the town and lined them up. They were told that every 5th man or youth would be shot. He said as they commenced doing this and went from the first row to the second row where he was, it didn't take him long to cermise that he was a 5th person. As the German who was counting came in front of him, he noticed his scout buckle on his belt. He made the scout sign with his right hand and said, "Run, boy, run!" The chef reached in his pocket and pulled out the belt buckle. He said since scouting was responsible for his being there and alive and well, that that is how he honors scouting and those who work in it is to every year to fix that feast for the leaders. It was a very inspiring story. It was first told by Thomas S. Monson. The professional scouter also told of a troop in the Lincoln Stake in our area who had a physically challenged young man in their troop decided that they wanted to take this young man with them when they climbed Table Rock there by the Tetons. So they worked and got materials donated and then built a cart that they could push and pull him up so he could be there with them too. He said it really inspired him to see how they all worked together so that young man could be there with them. Then Blaine Ward, the scoutmaster got up and said that that was his old troop who did that. He was living in our ward at the time they did that but since he had worked with those scouts, they called and invited him to go with them. So he was there when it happened. It was such a neat meeting and left such a good feeling afterwards. I was very glad that I was there.
It has been very cold up here in Idaho Falls. Friday it was more than -20 with windchill. It was too cold to go anywhere! It was colder with the windchill than if it were just -20. It is supposed to be warming up to 33 or so tomorrow and maybe even in the 40's by the weekend. I hope it starts warming up soon. I'm ready for spring. It was starting by this time of year the year we lived in Eugene, Oregon. I really liked that.
In Sacrament Meeting Sunday we had a professional scouter who lives in our ward talk and the scoutmaster. They gave very good talks. The first one told of a man who was born in Greece and was a youth there during WWII. Every year he would at his own expense would buy the fixings and prepare them for scout leaders who were on a retreat for a week. He was a chef by perfession. When asked why he did this every year he told this story. He said that when the Germans took over that many of them joined the resistance. One night they were all very proud of themselves for blowing up a power plant. Shortly afterwards, the Germans rounded up all of the men and youth in the town and lined them up. They were told that every 5th man or youth would be shot. He said as they commenced doing this and went from the first row to the second row where he was, it didn't take him long to cermise that he was a 5th person. As the German who was counting came in front of him, he noticed his scout buckle on his belt. He made the scout sign with his right hand and said, "Run, boy, run!" The chef reached in his pocket and pulled out the belt buckle. He said since scouting was responsible for his being there and alive and well, that that is how he honors scouting and those who work in it is to every year to fix that feast for the leaders. It was a very inspiring story. It was first told by Thomas S. Monson. The professional scouter also told of a troop in the Lincoln Stake in our area who had a physically challenged young man in their troop decided that they wanted to take this young man with them when they climbed Table Rock there by the Tetons. So they worked and got materials donated and then built a cart that they could push and pull him up so he could be there with them too. He said it really inspired him to see how they all worked together so that young man could be there with them. Then Blaine Ward, the scoutmaster got up and said that that was his old troop who did that. He was living in our ward at the time they did that but since he had worked with those scouts, they called and invited him to go with them. So he was there when it happened. It was such a neat meeting and left such a good feeling afterwards. I was very glad that I was there.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
This was on the LDS Living News & Event Ad today that I get six days a week. I'm not sure if I remember this happening or not. I think I do but was not aware that she made a full recovery. It really is miraculous! She is truely blessed.
Feb 10, 2006 12:23 am US/Mountain
The Miraculous Survival Story Of Michelle Funk
Do you believe in miracles? You might after this story. Shauna Lake introduces us to a young woman who beat all the odds, and then some.In 1986 a little girl named Michelle Funk was on the hearts and minds of thousands of Utahns. Many of you were praying for her survival after she was submerged in water for more than an hour. She shocked everyone and beat the odds.We found Michelle Funk, 20 years later, embracing the life that she almost lost.“Its just amazing that I’m here today,” says Michelle. Amazing, because when Michelle was 2-years-old something devastating – and miraculous – happened."We were out having a picnic and me and my older brother, who was 4 at the time – I was 2 ½ – we went across the street to throw rocks into the steam. I was a clumsy two-year-old. I fell into the stream,” Michelle recounts. She was carried downstream, swept through a culvert and trapped under the frigid water for a terrifying one hour and six minutes. “I was clinically dead. They didn't think I would ever survive when they pulled me out. I was an ice cube. I was blue," says Michelle. As rescuers and television viewers looked at that little limp body, it seemed almost impossible that someone so small could survive that kind of trauma."Everyone just said ‘She won't survive, she won't survive,’ and my mother knew differently being as faithful as she is,” a tearful Michelle told Shauna Lake. Right after the accident, Michelle’s mother, Pam Funk didn't just believe Michelle would survive; she had faith she would thrive."The Lord wouldn't have brought her this far to be whole again and complete and I think she will. I think she will,” Pam told 2News in1986. An hour after being rescued Michelle was breathing again – her blood warmed by a machine used during heart surgeries."The only thing I remember is waking up and my father sticking his tongue out at me and it took me a while, but I was able to stick my tongue back out at him. I guess at that point they knew I was going to be ok," says Michelle. It was a 6-month recovery process. During that time the Funk family, strong in their LDS faith, spread the word that little Michelle needed prayers.“People prayed for me, and they used their faith in my behalf,” says Michelle. “News coverage had gone and word of mouth had gone forward and people prayed on my behalf that I would be ok,” says Michelle. "She’s a real fighter. She has a lot of spunk," Pam said early into Michelle’s recovery. That “spunk,” and according to Michelle, those prayers have served her well as she now serves others. Michelle, better known now as Sister Funk, is serving an LDS mission in Franklin, Massachusetts – a suburb of Boston. She feels she has a lot of work to do. “I think there is a certain obligation that I hold in my heart, that I know that I shouldn't be here and that it's a gift,” says Michelle. Michelle says that gift still touches to her very core.“When I opened up this interview and asked you the very first question, you got emotional. It seems your emotions are pretty close to the surface on this,” Shauna asked Michelle. "Its definitely not far beneath the surface. Its right there on the top of my heart – its just amazing,” Michelle replied. To this day people remember the little girl that captured their hearts and their prayers.“This woman from Utah came up to me, and she said, ‘Are you Michelle Funk?’ and she said, ‘You were that little girl we were praying for.’"A prayer that Michelle says was definitely answered.“I'm grateful that I have that opportunity and to be able to tell people and teach people that life is a huge gift,” says Michelle. “I can't believe the little lifeless girl is me. I have another chance – I have another shot."Michelle made the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest underwater submergence for surviving being under water for 66 minutes.Michelle has few months left of her LDS mission in Massachusetts until she comes home. She says she has loved living in the Northeastern U.S. so much she wants to return and live after her mission.
Yesterday at my exercise class there was a new young woman (younger than I am but she was probably in her 40's) who visited with us after class while we sat in the hot tub for a few minutes. She mentioned that she had been in an automobile accident a few years ago. A drunk driver, going 60 mph hit her was she was walking across the street and threw her 80 feet away from the impact. She needed a trache to help her breath right there at the scene. She was expected to live. She had epilepsy, memory loss and paralysis of her legs after she "recovered". She said that of those three things she no longer has the paralysis nor the epilepsy but she probably will never remember "my first life." I said, "You are lucky to even be here. She said I'm not lucky, I'm blessed." I later told her that it so refreshing to have her say she was blessed. And she replied that she owed it all to God and she would profess God every chance she got and whenever she could. At first I wondered if she were LDS but I felt like she wasn't when I was later talking to her. She witnessed unto Christ characteristic of Born again Christians do. I think the Spirit guided me there too. Anyway, I was very glad to make her acquaintance and hear her witness that she was very blessed of God. Too many people don't or won't acknowledge that. I know I am. I'm not sure what or who or where I would be if I didn't have my faith in my Heavenly Father and know of His love for me and mine. I know my children wouldn't be the upstanding great people they are without the help and influence of the gospel in my and their lives. I am so thankful to be alive at this time in the history of mankind.
Feb 10, 2006 12:23 am US/Mountain
The Miraculous Survival Story Of Michelle Funk
Do you believe in miracles? You might after this story. Shauna Lake introduces us to a young woman who beat all the odds, and then some.In 1986 a little girl named Michelle Funk was on the hearts and minds of thousands of Utahns. Many of you were praying for her survival after she was submerged in water for more than an hour. She shocked everyone and beat the odds.We found Michelle Funk, 20 years later, embracing the life that she almost lost.“Its just amazing that I’m here today,” says Michelle. Amazing, because when Michelle was 2-years-old something devastating – and miraculous – happened."We were out having a picnic and me and my older brother, who was 4 at the time – I was 2 ½ – we went across the street to throw rocks into the steam. I was a clumsy two-year-old. I fell into the stream,” Michelle recounts. She was carried downstream, swept through a culvert and trapped under the frigid water for a terrifying one hour and six minutes. “I was clinically dead. They didn't think I would ever survive when they pulled me out. I was an ice cube. I was blue," says Michelle. As rescuers and television viewers looked at that little limp body, it seemed almost impossible that someone so small could survive that kind of trauma."Everyone just said ‘She won't survive, she won't survive,’ and my mother knew differently being as faithful as she is,” a tearful Michelle told Shauna Lake. Right after the accident, Michelle’s mother, Pam Funk didn't just believe Michelle would survive; she had faith she would thrive."The Lord wouldn't have brought her this far to be whole again and complete and I think she will. I think she will,” Pam told 2News in1986. An hour after being rescued Michelle was breathing again – her blood warmed by a machine used during heart surgeries."The only thing I remember is waking up and my father sticking his tongue out at me and it took me a while, but I was able to stick my tongue back out at him. I guess at that point they knew I was going to be ok," says Michelle. It was a 6-month recovery process. During that time the Funk family, strong in their LDS faith, spread the word that little Michelle needed prayers.“People prayed for me, and they used their faith in my behalf,” says Michelle. “News coverage had gone and word of mouth had gone forward and people prayed on my behalf that I would be ok,” says Michelle. "She’s a real fighter. She has a lot of spunk," Pam said early into Michelle’s recovery. That “spunk,” and according to Michelle, those prayers have served her well as she now serves others. Michelle, better known now as Sister Funk, is serving an LDS mission in Franklin, Massachusetts – a suburb of Boston. She feels she has a lot of work to do. “I think there is a certain obligation that I hold in my heart, that I know that I shouldn't be here and that it's a gift,” says Michelle. Michelle says that gift still touches to her very core.“When I opened up this interview and asked you the very first question, you got emotional. It seems your emotions are pretty close to the surface on this,” Shauna asked Michelle. "Its definitely not far beneath the surface. Its right there on the top of my heart – its just amazing,” Michelle replied. To this day people remember the little girl that captured their hearts and their prayers.“This woman from Utah came up to me, and she said, ‘Are you Michelle Funk?’ and she said, ‘You were that little girl we were praying for.’"A prayer that Michelle says was definitely answered.“I'm grateful that I have that opportunity and to be able to tell people and teach people that life is a huge gift,” says Michelle. “I can't believe the little lifeless girl is me. I have another chance – I have another shot."Michelle made the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest underwater submergence for surviving being under water for 66 minutes.Michelle has few months left of her LDS mission in Massachusetts until she comes home. She says she has loved living in the Northeastern U.S. so much she wants to return and live after her mission.
Yesterday at my exercise class there was a new young woman (younger than I am but she was probably in her 40's) who visited with us after class while we sat in the hot tub for a few minutes. She mentioned that she had been in an automobile accident a few years ago. A drunk driver, going 60 mph hit her was she was walking across the street and threw her 80 feet away from the impact. She needed a trache to help her breath right there at the scene. She was expected to live. She had epilepsy, memory loss and paralysis of her legs after she "recovered". She said that of those three things she no longer has the paralysis nor the epilepsy but she probably will never remember "my first life." I said, "You are lucky to even be here. She said I'm not lucky, I'm blessed." I later told her that it so refreshing to have her say she was blessed. And she replied that she owed it all to God and she would profess God every chance she got and whenever she could. At first I wondered if she were LDS but I felt like she wasn't when I was later talking to her. She witnessed unto Christ characteristic of Born again Christians do. I think the Spirit guided me there too. Anyway, I was very glad to make her acquaintance and hear her witness that she was very blessed of God. Too many people don't or won't acknowledge that. I know I am. I'm not sure what or who or where I would be if I didn't have my faith in my Heavenly Father and know of His love for me and mine. I know my children wouldn't be the upstanding great people they are without the help and influence of the gospel in my and their lives. I am so thankful to be alive at this time in the history of mankind.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
I forgot to mention that my sweetheart took me out to Johnny Carino's Italian Restaurant for lunch. It was nice but not as nice as an Olive Garden Restaurant. We had chicken fettachini with a side salad with basalmic vingrette dressing. That is the first time we have gone to that restaurant. I am looking forward to when the Olive Garden Restaurant gets here. They are building it where the old JB's restaurant used to be on West Broadway. They haven't officially announced it yet but it has been published in the paper that they don't do that until everything is signed and sealed. Since they have started on the construciton the reporter says he feels sure that that's what it will be there. I hope so.
Thoughts on Valentine's Day
Today has been a very nice day. I slept in some. Got my shower, worked on the baby afghan and watched Diagnosis Murder. I made my sweetheart's Valentine. I was quite pleased with it. I put the writing on the front in Red background with white writing. I tho't it looked very nice. The inside writing, I put in red. Red is his favorite color. He bought mine at the Dollar Store. It was a very nice card with a lovely verse. The verse on the card was: For My Wife a Special Valentine. Sweetheart, whenyou smile because I've made you happy, when your eyes show love meant only for me, when I feel your touch--I know what love is. And if I've learned to share my innermost thoughts, and if I've learned to give, it's because you've shown me what a special gift it is to be held above all others in someone else's heart. Then he wrote me a letter in which he mentioned my eyes and smile again. (He does mention he likes to look into them often.) He goes on to say: I've learned so much and could not hope for a ncer, loving, and helpful friend. you are a wise and humble and charitable person. I appreciate your testimony and desire and ability to serve and exemplify what you understand your mission is in mortality--and for the Eternal goals you are striving for--throughout all eternity. Always know/feel and realize that even with our waknesses and mistakes in judgement, that our life together is and always will be full of joy and our choices to be happy come from within our own spirit/heart and mind. I hope our Father in Heven and the Holy Ghost will help you know how much I love you. Yours always, Karl F. Robinson. (Always was our song while we were courting.) He wrote a letter stating that I had placed my priorities in the right place with our children and grandchildren and in-laws. I do know that my family is everything to me. I hate to think what my life would be had I not met my sweetheart and married and had the children that I had. And the grandchildren. I feel very blessed.
I remember back on the first Valentine's Day that we knew each other. We had been going together since November. He started toward the end of January to do his student teaching at Spanish Fork High School. We tho't that very interesting. We had spent most of our free time together, just the two of us. at the beginning of the week, I suggested that we not see each other until the weekend. If I remember right Valentine's Day was on Thursday that year. I had bought a Valentine for him but decided to wait until the weekend to give it to him. He left mine at the door in the old fashioned way. In it he told me that he missed me and loved me. I felt so bad that I had said I didn't want to see him until the weekend. That was the last time I suggested such a thing. I just needed some space. Things were moving toooo fast. After all, I was only 18 years old....not even 18 1/2 yet. We were officially engaged within three weeks. I didn't have an engagement ring but he had asked me to marry him. I am so glad and blessed that he did. We have had a good life together and such good children.
I remember back on the first Valentine's Day that we knew each other. We had been going together since November. He started toward the end of January to do his student teaching at Spanish Fork High School. We tho't that very interesting. We had spent most of our free time together, just the two of us. at the beginning of the week, I suggested that we not see each other until the weekend. If I remember right Valentine's Day was on Thursday that year. I had bought a Valentine for him but decided to wait until the weekend to give it to him. He left mine at the door in the old fashioned way. In it he told me that he missed me and loved me. I felt so bad that I had said I didn't want to see him until the weekend. That was the last time I suggested such a thing. I just needed some space. Things were moving toooo fast. After all, I was only 18 years old....not even 18 1/2 yet. We were officially engaged within three weeks. I didn't have an engagement ring but he had asked me to marry him. I am so glad and blessed that he did. We have had a good life together and such good children.
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Saturday Is a Special Day
It has been awhile since I have blogged anything. It has been a quiet week but a nice week. cold but nice. We went to Blackfoot Thursday to visit with Karen and Macie. We hadn't seen Karen since they got back from their cruise. We hadn't seen Macie since the Christmas holidays. Karen brought me back four magnets to hang on my French doors. One was from Aruba with chimes hanging on the bottom, one from New York with the Statue of Liberty on it, one from Barbados, and the last one from Dominica. We say Do-min-i-ca. They say Do-mi-nee-ca. When she told me that I tho't well, it is Spanish. Macie is getting so cute. She can sit alone now. We watched Bambi 2 while we were there. In it Thumper and Flower try to teach Bambi how to growl and act brave. I don't know if that's where she got it or if she just started it but she started growling at me. I just started laughing at her. The more I laughed the more she growled. She would throw out and stiffen her arms, throw our her chest and growl. She looked "fierce" and sounded more fierce than Bambi did. It was so funny. Karen told us that she hadn't seen her do that before. Shani called when she was doing it and Karen discribed it to her. Shani said that she had never seen her do it before either. It was fun. After Kylie got home, we told her about it and so Kylie started growling at her and Macie growled back. Of course we all think she's adorable.
I finished The Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans last night. I really enjoyed it. He is a good author. Good clean books with good themes and happy endings.
Today we went to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. They did a good job of it. It did get quite tense in spots even tho' I knew the story. I couldn't remember all of the details tho' becasue it's been a couple of years since I read the book. We need to get that volume so I can read it again. We've got the first four in paper back and Vol. VI in hard back. We both enjoyed the show very much.
We enjoyed watching the XX Olymic opening ceremonies last night. It was interesting to see that the only athlete from Venezuela is the progessor from Boise State University who is competing in the Logue (sp?). The Post-Register had an article on him a month or two ago. He's in his late 40's or early 50's. He's close to one of the oldest athletes there. But what an opportunity! They pointed out that Mexica didn't have any athletes and I noticed that Jamaca didn't either. :)
I finished The Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans last night. I really enjoyed it. He is a good author. Good clean books with good themes and happy endings.
Today we went to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. They did a good job of it. It did get quite tense in spots even tho' I knew the story. I couldn't remember all of the details tho' becasue it's been a couple of years since I read the book. We need to get that volume so I can read it again. We've got the first four in paper back and Vol. VI in hard back. We both enjoyed the show very much.
We enjoyed watching the XX Olymic opening ceremonies last night. It was interesting to see that the only athlete from Venezuela is the progessor from Boise State University who is competing in the Logue (sp?). The Post-Register had an article on him a month or two ago. He's in his late 40's or early 50's. He's close to one of the oldest athletes there. But what an opportunity! They pointed out that Mexica didn't have any athletes and I noticed that Jamaca didn't either. :)
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Geneology
I ran across a cardboard envelope that Karen gave to me a year or so ago. She got it from Bryan and Sandy. In a letter to Karen and Kent Bryan explained about some disks he'd enclosed about some of Kent's ancestors. They weren't in there. But there were some pink and blue papers used for family names when doing endowments--five pink and seven blue--that were some of my ancestors. I looked on the Church's website Family Search to see if their work had been done. The reason I did this is because my sister Mildred had sent me some before and I did the initiatory and endowment for each of them. I didn't feel anything when I did it and tho't it quite strange. When I went to the family history center here in IF and checked them out, I found out that their work had already been done for them years ago. Well these names that had Bryan & Sandy's name on them as the submitters--this was when they lived in Albuquerque, I checked on the family search Sunday night after our "family" chat closed. I found that the work had already been done for all of them but three and the two men whose didn't have dates were cleared in 1991 to be done. So I guess I need to go back to the FHC and check and see if they were done. The only woman I couldn't find anything on was Magdlena Durler who married Jacob Rufener, one of my grandma Wendel's ancestors. When I started looking for the link on my PAF file on this computer, I found out that hers had been done in the IF temple in 1999. I think I remember doing hers. That would be the only reason that I had the information on my PAF. I guess I'm going to have to take these names to the FHC and see if they can help me hook them up to my family line. I have their names and the dates for the work being done but don't really know for sure where they come into my line. Some are for my Grandma Wendel, I know because of the Rufener name, which was my grandma's maiden name and they originated in Swizterland. And some are probably for my Grandpa Wendel because the people orginated in Germany. I hope to go to the FHC this week or next week and see if I can figure some of this out. I found it very interesting.
Saturday, February 04, 2006
They won’t be your little babies forever. Your children are slowly becoming men and women before your eyes. You see their potential, but sometimes they don’t. Don’t worry. Here are several ways you can help build your children’s self esteem:
Be a good role model. If you want your children to have confidence, have confidence in yourself. The positive attitudes you have about yourself can create a home environment of confidence, where creativity and curiosity are encouraged.
Be realistic in your expectations. You might have dreams for your children that are completely different from their own. Let them develop their own unique talents and set their own goals. Have reasonable expectations.
Praise every accomplishment and applaud every effort. No matter how big or small, sincerely praise your children for their every accomplishment. But just as important is to praise your children for their sincere efforts. Children can—and do—often learn the most from their failures.
Avoid rescuing. Your children are going to have problems just like everybody else. Give them a chance to work them out on their own. They will gain confidence as they realize they are mature and responsible enough to solve their own problems.
Show respect and love. It is important that your children feel like they are irreplaceable in your family and that they have your respect. Be careful what you say. When there’s a need to correct your children, make sure your comments are focused on behavior. If you just accuse your children of something, they will become defensive and critical.
For more great helpful hints, check out the Jan/Feb issue of LDS Living Magazine
The above I received in my e-mail today from Deseret Book. They have been sending me e-mail since I ordered the DVD The Work & the Glory from them last year. I tho't it very good advice and found myself wishing I had such a reminder sometimes while my children were still at home.
Be a good role model. If you want your children to have confidence, have confidence in yourself. The positive attitudes you have about yourself can create a home environment of confidence, where creativity and curiosity are encouraged.
Be realistic in your expectations. You might have dreams for your children that are completely different from their own. Let them develop their own unique talents and set their own goals. Have reasonable expectations.
Praise every accomplishment and applaud every effort. No matter how big or small, sincerely praise your children for their every accomplishment. But just as important is to praise your children for their sincere efforts. Children can—and do—often learn the most from their failures.
Avoid rescuing. Your children are going to have problems just like everybody else. Give them a chance to work them out on their own. They will gain confidence as they realize they are mature and responsible enough to solve their own problems.
Show respect and love. It is important that your children feel like they are irreplaceable in your family and that they have your respect. Be careful what you say. When there’s a need to correct your children, make sure your comments are focused on behavior. If you just accuse your children of something, they will become defensive and critical.
For more great helpful hints, check out the Jan/Feb issue of LDS Living Magazine
The above I received in my e-mail today from Deseret Book. They have been sending me e-mail since I ordered the DVD The Work & the Glory from them last year. I tho't it very good advice and found myself wishing I had such a reminder sometimes while my children were still at home.
Friday, February 03, 2006
Just Another Day
Today hasn't been that eventful. I have felt like I am coming down with a bad cold. My nose is constantly running and getting more and more sore. I felt like it was starting while we were at the temple yesterday. I didn't feel it at all when we left to go to the temple so it came on really fast. (We were planning on going to Blackfoot yesterday to visit with Karen and Macie but since they were both sick we decided to stay home. We did have a good session at the temple tho' and I got some more incite on some things I've been wondering about. It's too bad I can't really discuss it here. We ate lunch there then came home. We stopped at Deseret Book on the way to use the gift card my sister-in-law, Julie gave us for Christmas. We got five books. I think we will really enjoy them. I chose the Mormon Cook Book. I made a dip out of salsa, cream cheese and chilli without beans since I had all of the ingredients. I remember Richard making it whenever he had friends over when he was in high school. I need to get some green chillies so I can use some more of the recipes. I saw three or four that I'd really like to make and they all call for green chillies.
I've been working on the baby afghan today. I'm just about half done with it. It is looking beautiful even if I do say so myself. I have been trying to get on the familysearch.org site to check out some names and see if their temple work has been done. They are some names that Bryan sent to Karen in 1999 and she gave them to me a year or so ago, maybe two, because she said she would never do anything with them or she didn't know when she would do them. There are five pink slips in there and seven blue slips. I need to find out if the work has been done. I did some that my sister, Mildred sent to me about eight or so years ago. I didn't feel anything at all as I went thro' the temple and it kind of puzzled me. I went to the family history center to check things out on the IGI and found out that their work had already been done. I tho't "No wonder!" I have commited to do 15 names for a man in our stake from India. I did the initiatory work for those 15 women in December. I felt them close by. I told the wife of the man who helped with some of the initiatory work that I would be glad to do the endowments too if he wanted me to. She said to just take the names home then. I have done three and have 12 more to go. If the temple hadn't been closed the last two weeks I may have done at least one more maybe two. Then I can start on my own ancestors if I find these people's work hasn't been done.
I tried to get on the familysearch.org on the internet and it keeps telling me that my user name or password isn't right. So I asked them to send it to me via e-mail. And when they finally did, it was the ones I'd been using! So I tried to reregister and used Karl's name and memebership number and it keeps saying his membership information is incorrect. We looked it up so unless the bishop wrote down the memebership number wrong on his recommend, I don't know what's going on. I hope to be able to check these things out without having to go to the family history center. It would be great to do it here at home online.
They have make some changes in the IF temple in the last two weeks. They have taken out the carpet in the front and the wooden recommend desk and put in marble in both places. It really looks beautiful. Shonda said tho' it is very slick in wet weather and they had a few people fall the first day back (last Tuesday) because the weather was wet. Marble can be treacherously slick when it is wet. They also have put in new doors in the sealing rooms off of the celestial room all the way to the ceiling. And doors also leading from the veil to the curtains. They look beautiful. It is my goal to go to the temple at least twice a month this year. More if it works out. I have benn averaging about once a month. I used to have to use the elevator and stand up at all during the ceremony nor participate in the prayer circle. I now take the 23 steps and stand up all the way thro' and even have participated in the prayer circle twice. It feels so good to be able to do all of that.
I've been working on the baby afghan today. I'm just about half done with it. It is looking beautiful even if I do say so myself. I have been trying to get on the familysearch.org site to check out some names and see if their temple work has been done. They are some names that Bryan sent to Karen in 1999 and she gave them to me a year or so ago, maybe two, because she said she would never do anything with them or she didn't know when she would do them. There are five pink slips in there and seven blue slips. I need to find out if the work has been done. I did some that my sister, Mildred sent to me about eight or so years ago. I didn't feel anything at all as I went thro' the temple and it kind of puzzled me. I went to the family history center to check things out on the IGI and found out that their work had already been done. I tho't "No wonder!" I have commited to do 15 names for a man in our stake from India. I did the initiatory work for those 15 women in December. I felt them close by. I told the wife of the man who helped with some of the initiatory work that I would be glad to do the endowments too if he wanted me to. She said to just take the names home then. I have done three and have 12 more to go. If the temple hadn't been closed the last two weeks I may have done at least one more maybe two. Then I can start on my own ancestors if I find these people's work hasn't been done.
I tried to get on the familysearch.org on the internet and it keeps telling me that my user name or password isn't right. So I asked them to send it to me via e-mail. And when they finally did, it was the ones I'd been using! So I tried to reregister and used Karl's name and memebership number and it keeps saying his membership information is incorrect. We looked it up so unless the bishop wrote down the memebership number wrong on his recommend, I don't know what's going on. I hope to be able to check these things out without having to go to the family history center. It would be great to do it here at home online.
They have make some changes in the IF temple in the last two weeks. They have taken out the carpet in the front and the wooden recommend desk and put in marble in both places. It really looks beautiful. Shonda said tho' it is very slick in wet weather and they had a few people fall the first day back (last Tuesday) because the weather was wet. Marble can be treacherously slick when it is wet. They also have put in new doors in the sealing rooms off of the celestial room all the way to the ceiling. And doors also leading from the veil to the curtains. They look beautiful. It is my goal to go to the temple at least twice a month this year. More if it works out. I have benn averaging about once a month. I used to have to use the elevator and stand up at all during the ceremony nor participate in the prayer circle. I now take the 23 steps and stand up all the way thro' and even have participated in the prayer circle twice. It feels so good to be able to do all of that.
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Another Day again
I found out last evening that my neice Stephanie had a new baby girl. Her name is Charley Dru Manning. She weighed 7# 3 oz. and is 19 inches tall. Another neice, Emily just found out that she is having a boy. Both of these babies are my sister, Joy's, grandchildren.
I booked out tickets on SWA for April 12 to go to Phoenix. We want to be there at Easter time so we can attend the Easter pagent their at the Mesa temple. Since my health is so much improved, I decided this would be a good year to do it. We will fly out of SLC for $437.20 for the round trip for both of us. We will take the shuttle from Blue Sky Airport to Richard & Téa's after riding the shuttle (Trailwayexpress) from IF to the airport. It will be $55 round trip a piece for us. That way we won't have to worry someone else about taking us to the airport nor parking our car there at the airport either. It would have been $200 to $250 a piece to fly from IF. By booking it now it can be paid for before we go. That will be good.
I mentioned in one of my other blogs that I went to talk to Eric Jackson and he suggested that I hire a personal trainer to help me build more muscle mass. Well, I met with Elena Pack the first part of November. She started me right out on the treadmill at 2 mph. She told me to tell her if it got to be too much. I told her than on a scale of 1-10 10 feeling like I was dying that I already felt like I was between a 7 and an 8. I told my carotid pulse and it was only in the 60's which really puzzled me because I could feel a heaviness in my chest and was breathing hard and could tell my heart was working. She slowed me down and eventually showed me some exercises with some weights. I then went down to my water exercise class. Afterwards, I was sitting in the hot tub for 5 minutes. It dawned on me that the last time I was on a treadmill was at Dr. Lijenquist's office and at that time without increasing the speed or the incline or even going anywhere near three minutes, I went into bigeminal PVC's (premature ventricular contractions) which don't profuse or cause a pulse. I wondered if that was what happened. I called and talked to the nurse at the Dr.'s office and she suggested I go in and see him. So on Wednesday morning, I went into talk to the Dr. He ordered an EKG. I told him it wouldn't show anything but a right bundle branch block. And I was right. He also did a bone scan at that time. Since the EKG was negative he ordered a Thalium Stress test. That 's where they insert an IV lock and inject Thalium, which is a radioactive isotope, and have you hooked up to an EKG to monitor your heart beat also. They also have a cardiologist handy to observe as well. That was scheduled for Thursday morning. I wasn't looking forward to it at all and decided I might as well get it over with. Well, I did go into bigeminal PVC's again. (The bigeminal means every other beat.) But Dr. Maley said to keep going so I did and after about a minute I went into a regular pulse. I was comferted to see that. My pulse went up to 138 and the results of the test was Normal heart. Dr. Liljenquist sent me the results. the IMPRESSION was:
1.Good function
2. Frequent PVCs
3. Nondiagnostic electrocardiographic response (I'm not sure exactly what that means)
4. No scintiographic findings of sichemia (lack of oxygen) (which was very comforting because my last resting stress test about six years ago said there was.)
5. Normal left ventricular function. (That was comforting too.)
When I saw that I worked thro' the PVCs, I told the tech my theroy was that my arteries were still slow to dialate (the explaination given six years ago for the ishchemia) but since they eventually did dialate, there was no ischemia.) She said she didn't knpw anything about it but since the results were normal with no ischemia I think that that is as good an explain as any.
A week after having the bone scan I got a letter in the mail stating that it showed significant loss of bone calcium content. When I went to the doctor, I asked about it and I was told that my hip bone had 20% less bone content than two years previously. My wirst and ulna bone were normal, so......He took a Vitamin D test and instead of being 60 which is the low normal, it was 36. So I now take 50,000 units of Vitamin D a month. Since Calcium can't be metalobolized without the Vitmain D that could explain the bone loss. He said they would do another bone scan in two years. I hope that takes care of it. My next doctor's appointment will be March 31. I go in every three months. Karl has been going in every three months also, but at this last visit the Dr. told him that he was doing so well that he could wait to come in for six months. That was good news.
Today we left for the spa shortly after noon so I could workout up stairs on the machines before going down to my water exercise class. My biceps are stiff and sore from doing pushups at my pilates class Monday. I wondered how much I should do today if they were still and sore but I didn't want to go thro' that again so I did everything as I had been doing. I use the chest press with 30#, the rowing machine with 30#, and the leg press with 75#. I tried just 15# the next lowest weight and it was like nothing so I just did what I had been doing. I am still challenged at that weight. I also did the curl ups and step ups and two more exercises that work the triceps and the upper shoulders with an elastic rope. I will do these two times a week on Wednesdays and Fridays and that should build up muscle mass. I weigh in at the New U clinic again on February 15 and will be able to tell for sure. If it doesn't have the desired affect, I'm afraid much of my motivation will go. Time will tell.
I booked out tickets on SWA for April 12 to go to Phoenix. We want to be there at Easter time so we can attend the Easter pagent their at the Mesa temple. Since my health is so much improved, I decided this would be a good year to do it. We will fly out of SLC for $437.20 for the round trip for both of us. We will take the shuttle from Blue Sky Airport to Richard & Téa's after riding the shuttle (Trailwayexpress) from IF to the airport. It will be $55 round trip a piece for us. That way we won't have to worry someone else about taking us to the airport nor parking our car there at the airport either. It would have been $200 to $250 a piece to fly from IF. By booking it now it can be paid for before we go. That will be good.
I mentioned in one of my other blogs that I went to talk to Eric Jackson and he suggested that I hire a personal trainer to help me build more muscle mass. Well, I met with Elena Pack the first part of November. She started me right out on the treadmill at 2 mph. She told me to tell her if it got to be too much. I told her than on a scale of 1-10 10 feeling like I was dying that I already felt like I was between a 7 and an 8. I told my carotid pulse and it was only in the 60's which really puzzled me because I could feel a heaviness in my chest and was breathing hard and could tell my heart was working. She slowed me down and eventually showed me some exercises with some weights. I then went down to my water exercise class. Afterwards, I was sitting in the hot tub for 5 minutes. It dawned on me that the last time I was on a treadmill was at Dr. Lijenquist's office and at that time without increasing the speed or the incline or even going anywhere near three minutes, I went into bigeminal PVC's (premature ventricular contractions) which don't profuse or cause a pulse. I wondered if that was what happened. I called and talked to the nurse at the Dr.'s office and she suggested I go in and see him. So on Wednesday morning, I went into talk to the Dr. He ordered an EKG. I told him it wouldn't show anything but a right bundle branch block. And I was right. He also did a bone scan at that time. Since the EKG was negative he ordered a Thalium Stress test. That 's where they insert an IV lock and inject Thalium, which is a radioactive isotope, and have you hooked up to an EKG to monitor your heart beat also. They also have a cardiologist handy to observe as well. That was scheduled for Thursday morning. I wasn't looking forward to it at all and decided I might as well get it over with. Well, I did go into bigeminal PVC's again. (The bigeminal means every other beat.) But Dr. Maley said to keep going so I did and after about a minute I went into a regular pulse. I was comferted to see that. My pulse went up to 138 and the results of the test was Normal heart. Dr. Liljenquist sent me the results. the IMPRESSION was:
1.Good function
2. Frequent PVCs
3. Nondiagnostic electrocardiographic response (I'm not sure exactly what that means)
4. No scintiographic findings of sichemia (lack of oxygen) (which was very comforting because my last resting stress test about six years ago said there was.)
5. Normal left ventricular function. (That was comforting too.)
When I saw that I worked thro' the PVCs, I told the tech my theroy was that my arteries were still slow to dialate (the explaination given six years ago for the ishchemia) but since they eventually did dialate, there was no ischemia.) She said she didn't knpw anything about it but since the results were normal with no ischemia I think that that is as good an explain as any.
A week after having the bone scan I got a letter in the mail stating that it showed significant loss of bone calcium content. When I went to the doctor, I asked about it and I was told that my hip bone had 20% less bone content than two years previously. My wirst and ulna bone were normal, so......He took a Vitamin D test and instead of being 60 which is the low normal, it was 36. So I now take 50,000 units of Vitamin D a month. Since Calcium can't be metalobolized without the Vitmain D that could explain the bone loss. He said they would do another bone scan in two years. I hope that takes care of it. My next doctor's appointment will be March 31. I go in every three months. Karl has been going in every three months also, but at this last visit the Dr. told him that he was doing so well that he could wait to come in for six months. That was good news.
Today we left for the spa shortly after noon so I could workout up stairs on the machines before going down to my water exercise class. My biceps are stiff and sore from doing pushups at my pilates class Monday. I wondered how much I should do today if they were still and sore but I didn't want to go thro' that again so I did everything as I had been doing. I use the chest press with 30#, the rowing machine with 30#, and the leg press with 75#. I tried just 15# the next lowest weight and it was like nothing so I just did what I had been doing. I am still challenged at that weight. I also did the curl ups and step ups and two more exercises that work the triceps and the upper shoulders with an elastic rope. I will do these two times a week on Wednesdays and Fridays and that should build up muscle mass. I weigh in at the New U clinic again on February 15 and will be able to tell for sure. If it doesn't have the desired affect, I'm afraid much of my motivation will go. Time will tell.
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