Hope of a new day

The beauty of a morning sun rising out of the haze

is that we have been given the hope of a new day

full of possibilities.

Yesterday is in the past.

We take it's lessons and make today better.

After 9/11 there will be a 9/12, then a 9/13 .

Thankfully . . .  life goes on.

different views

Our Saturday afternoon view. . .

our sunday evening view . . .

and our view of Monday morning.

We  learned about our "shiny" here.

"Beam me up"

Last week was space week at school.

How cute are those buckets on their heads.

You can't see it in the picture, but they even have space

packs on the back.

Cuteness!!

Another cool sunrise.

FHE-the sweetness of sacrifice

Our Monday night Family Home Evening was short and simple.  I taught a little lesson about sacrifice.  When we do hard thingsor things that take time and effort, it softens or "breaks" our hearts allowing them to be filled by the Savior.  Our eyes become open to the goodness and are better able to appreciate it (learning an instrument, family history work, church service, community service,  etc).   Motherhood is an example of sacrifice that can soften a heart and bring about tremendous gratitude for the very beings that are the cause of the sacrifice.  Anything that we put our time and effort into has a power  to change for the better the way we think and feel.

With the lesson, I made these cute pie hearts.  I love pie (the crust is the best)!  I wanted to do this for Valentines, but never got around to it.  Aren't they cute!  The filling is like the "sweet" gratitude we feel in our hearts for the many blessings we've been given. I actually started with the hearts and found the lesson to go with them.  Whatever works...just as long as we could have pie.:)

We had a beautiful sunrise the other day.

On Monday, Abby didn't even make it half way home from Preschool.

She works (plays) so hard.

Goodbye Costco

I've learned to say goodbye to Walmart (too far, dirty and scary) and have decided to give Costco the boot.  I told hubby the other day that I may have to eliminate them since it didn't seem worth going anymore.  I can't find a parking spot, then it's like bumper cars inside the store.  

But I thought I'd give it one more try today.  Bad idea.  I even had a hard time getting out of the parking lot because of all the cars and people (It's not supposed to be like Christmas all  year).

Others have told me that night time just before they close is the best time.

There's nobody there.  Really?  I can't imagine . . .

I won't be there either.

I've shown you so many sunsets, I thought I would share 

 a beautiful sunrise as seen from our back deck.