Secondhand Serenade Concert

This Summer has  been pretty good... My favorite thing has been the outdoor concerts... laying on the grass with a blanket, perfect weather and really good friends!  This concert was especially good... I am so lucky to have awesome friends who make my life so much better.... even though the music and the lightning storm made me  wish i was in love (hahaha)  I am so glad I have good friends to share good memories with! xoxoxo

Steve, Kristin, Jeff, Ammon, Me, Jake, Danielle, Jackson and Krista.... the regulars.....  Dont ask why none of us are dating.... because none of us really know the answer to that question...

"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."
— C.S. Lewis (The Weight of Glory)

"If we press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end,... we shall have eternal life."
- 2 Nephi 31:20

"premortally, in the most difficult of circumstances, we stood loyally by our Father and His Son, and we did not flinch. The question for us today is: How will we do it again?"
- Sheri Dew

Who am I not to be?

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

-Nelson Mandela

Sometimes.....

We have to make hard choices......... and hope they are right.

Kaya's new cousin Linkin Chance

We are so happy to have little Linkin Chance Hamilton a part of our family... especially Kaya. A few months ago when Linkin's mommy's belly started getting bigger, Kaya became very afraid of Shauni... She didnt want to get near her. Finally after a lot of coaxing she told us what was wrong.... she whispered in a very concerned voice..."Shauni eats babies!!" She looked at us like...why are you guys just now getting this? She's a baby eater, didnt you know?? Poor little thing! She thought Shauni was going to eat her too! After I explained to her that Shauni doesnt eat babies... but she is giving us a new baby in our family... she finally kind of started to understand. I told her that she use to be in Mommy's tummy too. Kaya said, "ya, then I say, Help!! I want to get out!" She was still a little leary of Shauni but now that Linkin is here she is happy that Shauni had this baby! She told me last night the reason Linkin finally came out is because he said, "Help!! I want to get out! So his mommy got him out..."