"Throughout our lives, we must deal with change. Some changes are welcome; some are not. There are changes in our lives which are sudden, such as the unexpected passing of a loved one, an unforeseen illness, the loss of a possession we treasure. But most of the changes take place subtly and slowly. Day by day, minute by minute, second by second we went from where we were to where we are now. The lives of all of us, of course, go through similar alterations and changes. The difference between the changes in my life and the changes in yours is only in the details. Time never stands still; it must steadily march on, and with the marching come the changes. This is our one and only chance at mortal life—here and now. The longer we live, the greater is our realization that it is brief. Opportunities come, and then they are gone. I believe that among the greatest lessons we are to learn in this short sojourn upon the earth are lessons that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not. I plead with you not to let those most important things pass you by as you plan for that illusive and nonexistent future when you will have time to do all that you want to do. Instead, find joy in the journey—now. Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with friends and family. One day each of us will run out of tomorrows. " Thomas S. Monson

April 29, 2009

Fireproof.....


If you have not seen this movie, go get it from the red box and watch it, it teaches some amazing things about a marriage, its from a bunch of LDS writer and movie producers, by far the best movie i have seen in a while other then it is made a little bit corny and cheap but it teaches great lessons, Also to go with the movie they wrote the love dare book that is in the movie and i went and bought it, it is a 40 day love dare for you and your partner or just one of you how ever you wanna do it, it teaches important things in a marriage, helps you understand and to find new ways to show your love for your spouse, seriously its awesome, i am so excited to take the 40 day challenge we started today and already feel how cool this is really going to be! This book is not just for people who are having a hard time in the marriage but also those who have a great marriage, its just fun and amazing...take the dare...if you dare!!!!

April 14, 2009

Our EaStEr Weekend.....


Kaylin was going going going ALL weekend, he fell asleep in the truck on our drive home and i got this adorable picture of him!!! i love it!!

Kaylin started off the weekend by going poo poo in the big boy potty all by himself so nick gave him and early Easter bunny present...a new soccer ball!

I dont know how i got talked into having more pets but i did....we are now owners of not just 1 or 2 BUT 3 tiger salamanders....nick brought them home and of course thinks they are awesome so he had to keep them...we have to buy them or find them worms and what not to eat and man it is gross to see them eat!.....i take that back we are now owners of 5 salamanders..yuck, nick just fed them and seriously its kinda disturbing to see them snatch a worm up and swallow it whole.....lucky me!

here is daddy and kaylin after our ward Easter egg hunt on Friday!

The Easter bunny brought kaylin a Thomas the train basket and paint book and water balloons and more chocolate of course.


kaylin opening his goodies on Easter morning, it was fun this year cause he actually understood what was going on!

After kaylin was done with decorating his hard boiled eggs he was getting off his chair and "WHAM" right into the corner of the cabinet...here is his own egg right on his head!

here is some of our Easter eggs we decorated!

here is kaylin dying one of his eggs!

Nick and Kaylin throwing hard boiled Easter eggs at each other....every year with nicks family we all decorate our eggs and then we go by the base ball fields and roll them down the hill the see who's last the longest...and every year it end with a egg fight mostly among the boys!

Here we are on Easter, not a good picture but its all me managed to get!!
we had a pretty good year for the most part but i hope next year will be even better!
HAPPY EASTER!

April 04, 2009

Kite flying and Bull petting.....


Since it was so windy this past week, we decided it was time to take kaylin out and fLy A kItE! he really liked it, he wanted it to go higher and higher...he sat in the chair with nick and let the kite go up up and a way! While we were there, this guy that has all his bulls and horses by ours was out feeding and he wanted kaylin to get to pet a BULL...yes a real bucking bull...i was a little freaked to let my toddler in with all those long horn bulls but the guy (bill is his name i should call him that not the guy) anyways bill is always in with them walking around and he pets some of then so i figured i would let kaylin do it..he LOVED it, he was all smiles after getting to pet "cat man do" that's the bulls name,and he didnt have near as long of horns as the other so i was more ok with him petting that one, bill does miniture bucking bulls for the younger rodeo boys and girls...i told him i would go and ride one next time they go out, so look for pictures when i ride my first bucking bull! Here are some pictures of our day!



good advice!

Be very careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man's rib, not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal! Under the arm to be protected, & next to the heart to be loved.

brothers forever

brothers forever

the haslem family