Celebrating Something Everyday!: Pictures

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Pictures

I don't have a lot of time to blog, but I have a few pictures I wanted to post.

I just figured out how to do it...:)

This is Joe pushing the stroller at Hollywood Studios in the evening before the light show. The girls did so good all day long. I love this stroller!

Joe, Xela and Charlotte with Elder Marchant and Elder Taggart. Joe really likes working with the missionaries as the ward mission leader. I think it is because he likes to relate stories about his mission. These are awesome guys...

Grandma and Grandpa Black gave Xela her first Barbie for her 3rd birthday. She couldn't wait to open it! It was her favorite. We like watching Barbie movies here too.

My next blog I will share how Joe's company party went... :)

2 comments:

Unknown said...: Yeah for pictures!; January 15, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Josie and Wayne said...: I wondered why you never posted pictures. Cute family.; January 15, 2009 at 2:49 PM

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Thomas S. Monson

Professor Harold Hill, in Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, cautioned, “You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you’ve collected a lot of empty yesterdays.”

There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.

I remember reading the account of a man who, just after the passing of his wife, opened her dresser drawer and found there an item of clothing she had purchased when they visited the eastern part of the United States nine years earlier. She had not worn it but was saving it for a special occasion. Now, of course, that occasion would never come.

In relating the experience to a friend, the husband of the deceased wife said, “Don’t save something only for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion.”

That friend later said those words changed her life. They helped her cease putting off the things most important to her. Said she: “Now I spend more time with my family. I use crystal glasses every day. I’ll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket if I feel like it. The words ‘someday’ and ‘one day’ are fading from my vocabulary. Now I take the time to call my relatives and closest friends. I’ve called old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I tell my family members how much I love them. I try not to delay or postpone anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives. And each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day. Each day, each hour, each minute is special.”

-Thomas S. Monson, April 2008, Ensign Magazine