I ripped this off from the masterpiece about Pioneers a friend posted. It's a pretty good summary of life right now...

I have confidence that we'll make it and survive just like we did last time, but that doesn't make it any easier. Sometimes life just.....stinks.....a lot.



Elder Ballard said “We all face Rocky Ridges with the wind in our face and winter coming on too soon. Sometimes it seems as though there is no end to the dust that stings our eyes and clouds our vision. Occasionally we reach the top of one summit in life, as the pioneers did, only to see more mountain peaks ahead, higher and more challenging than the one we have just traversed.”


It is at the very moment we think we cannot take another step, that we so desperately need to “Remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that [we] must build [our] foundation. That when the devil shall send forth his mighty wind, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon [you], it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless woe, because of the rock upon which ye are built which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build, they cannot fall.” (Helaman 5:12)

Thanks for posting this Jodi, it did me good.

Gabriel: (holding the coyote mask he'd made) "Roar! (making his body twitch around) I have rabies."
Lincoln: "Dad, I want wabies!"


Lincoln: (while sitting at the pool watching swim lessons) "I want to be naked!!"
Mom: "Not at the pool, only at home." *Monsoon, swamp cooler, we ALL want to be naked!*
Lincoln: (sadly) "Oh ok."


Gabriel: "Me too"
Lincoln: "Me too"
Garrett: "Me one"
Lincoln: "Me one"
Garrett: "No, you're me too"
Lincoln: NO! Me one!"