So Here's The Thing...: Isn't It The Best!?!

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Isn't It The Best!?!

I just can't stop taking pictures of these cute boys enjoying fall type things. Such lovely weather and beautiful colors for a backdrop.

The weather is not so good for backyard camping and we had promised Isaac he could sleep in the tent. So, we did living room camping. And it was great. Jacob and I got to sleep in our bed and Isaac was as happy as could be to sleep in the tent.

We even had popcorn and a fire.

Please note the mis-matched boots on each boys feet. So funny.

Ah, fall! LOVE.

These boys really dig playing in the leaves. Especially Ben, who turns anything into a car and "drives." That's what his hands are all about in this picture above.

1 comment:

Jason&Shannon said...: I guess your boys were desperate for a bigger pile of leaves as I see they were trying to rake them off the branches of the tree. Love those autumn pictures!; October 22, 2014 at 8:21 PM

Post a Comment

Words of Wisdom

“I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk’s lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”

-Marjorie Hinckley

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."

-Logan Pearsall Smith

"Sometimes we fill our lives with hobbies or pursuits that produce more immediate rewards. If we aren't careful, we start to resent our children and see them as obstructions to the things that bring us real pleasure. The key is to discover pleasure in our children--to make them central, to genuinely value them during the relatively short time that they are in our home. The day will come that you will be free to spend whole days any way you want-- you can travel, go to school, or go in your room and shut the door. But today, you are a mother."
-Jane (from blog Asking Jane)

"Never forget that these little ones are the sons and daughters of God and that yours is a custodial relationship to them, that He was a parent before you were parents and that He has not relinquished His parental rights or interest in these little ones."
-President Gordon B. Hinckley

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
-Thomas Carlyle