Saturday, January 29, 2011
Alyzah's new/stupid tricks
So Alyzah has a few new favorite thing...she loves to shrivel up her nose and push air in and out of it as hard as she can; it sounds like she is snarling. She also snorts when she giggles now. It is super funny. Shriveling up her nose...
Lyzah's first time Swimming....
....and she didn't like it one bit. HA! She cried from the minute her foot hit the water. The only part she enjoyed was when I put the bathing suit on her at home, I think she liked the silky feel because she was so excited about it. If I would have known, we could have just stayed at home and let her wear her bathing suit around the house all night as happy as can be :). We will have to try again.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Silverware Drawer
Well I finally broke down and bought a silverware organizing tray!! Here is how our drawer has looked for the last 3 1/2 years...
Yes that is a plastic bag. I was too cheap to buy an organizer. And this next photo is what our new drawer looks like! And as you can probably notice, I did buy the smaller, narrow one for only $2.22 instead of the bigger, wider one for $5.00 - the little one will work just fine :)
And this one will be my next project....when I finally break down again and decide to spend a little money anyway...
And this one will be my next project....when I finally break down again and decide to spend a little money anyway...
Alyzah loves to jump!
Alyzah is at that stage where she loves to show off in her jumperoo. If you praise her, she goes crazy. This video doesn't do justice to it but it's still cute.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Happy Birthday Kasey
Its late but I'm just getting around to putting this post out to tell my sister Happy Birthday! Thanks for being one of my best friends, one of the greatest example to me in life, and of course the best sister ever (well you and Kort that is)! Hope you had a great birthday!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
My Favorite Quote about the Atonement
This is 100% my favorite quote about the atonement. I heard this in a talk back when i was 16 years old and still read it often. It is from Sister Okazaki's (old 1st counselor in Relief Society Presidency) book and its broken up a little bit...it's taken from 3 pages of her book with paragraphs taken from a few different places.
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The Atonement is an Individual Experience by Chieko N. Okazaki
We know that Jesus experienced the totality of mortal existence in Gethsemane. It's our faith that he experienced everything-- absolutely everything. Sometimes we don't think through the implications of that belief.
We talk in great generalities about the sins of all humankind, about the suffering of the entire human family. But we don't experience pain in generalities. We experience it individually.
That means he knows what it felt like when your mother died of cancer- how it was for your mother, how it still is for you. He knows what it felt like to lose the student body election. He knows that moment when the brakes locked and the car started to skid. He experienced the slave ship sailing from Ghana toward Virginia. He experienced the gas chambers at Dachau. He experienced napalm in Vietnam. He knows about drug addiction and alcoholism.
Let me go further. There is nothing you have experienced as a woman that he does not know and recognize.
On a profound level, he understands the hunger to hold your baby that sustains you through pregnancy. He understands both the physical pain of giving birth and the immense joy. He knows about PMS and cramps and menopause. He understands about rape and infertility and abortion.
His last recorded words to his disciples were, "And, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." (Matthew 28:20)
He understands your mother-pain when your five-year-old leaves for kindergarten, when a bully picks on your fifth-grader, when your daughter calls to say that the new baby has Down's Syndrome. He knows your mother-rage when a trusted babysitter sexually abuses your two-year-old, when someone gives your thirteen-year-old drugs, when someone seduces your seventeen-year-old. He knows the pain you live with when you come home to a quiet apartment where the only visitors are children, when you hear that your former husband and his new wife were sealed in the temple last week, when your fiftieth wedding anniversary rolls around and your husband has been dead for two years.
He knows all that.
He's been there.
He's been lower than all that.
He's not waiting for us to be perfect. Perfect people don't need a Savior. He came to save his people in their imperfections. He is the Lord of the living, and the living make mistakes. He's not embarrassed by us, angry at us , or shocked. He wants us in our brokenness, in our unhappiness, in our guilt and our grief.
You know that people who live above a certain latitude experience very long winter nights and can become depressed and even suicidal, because something in our bodies requires whole spectrum light for a certain number of hours a day.
Our spiritual requirement for light is just as desperate and as deep as our physical need for light. Jesus is the light of the world. We know that this world is a dark place sometimes, but we need not walk in darkness. The people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and the people who walk in darkness can have a bright companion. We need him, and He is ready to come to us, if we'll open the door and let him. (Chieko N. Okazaki, pp. 6, 7, 8)
*****
The Atonement is an Individual Experience by Chieko N. Okazaki
We know that Jesus experienced the totality of mortal existence in Gethsemane. It's our faith that he experienced everything-- absolutely everything. Sometimes we don't think through the implications of that belief.
We talk in great generalities about the sins of all humankind, about the suffering of the entire human family. But we don't experience pain in generalities. We experience it individually.
That means he knows what it felt like when your mother died of cancer- how it was for your mother, how it still is for you. He knows what it felt like to lose the student body election. He knows that moment when the brakes locked and the car started to skid. He experienced the slave ship sailing from Ghana toward Virginia. He experienced the gas chambers at Dachau. He experienced napalm in Vietnam. He knows about drug addiction and alcoholism.
Let me go further. There is nothing you have experienced as a woman that he does not know and recognize.
On a profound level, he understands the hunger to hold your baby that sustains you through pregnancy. He understands both the physical pain of giving birth and the immense joy. He knows about PMS and cramps and menopause. He understands about rape and infertility and abortion.
His last recorded words to his disciples were, "And, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." (Matthew 28:20)
He understands your mother-pain when your five-year-old leaves for kindergarten, when a bully picks on your fifth-grader, when your daughter calls to say that the new baby has Down's Syndrome. He knows your mother-rage when a trusted babysitter sexually abuses your two-year-old, when someone gives your thirteen-year-old drugs, when someone seduces your seventeen-year-old. He knows the pain you live with when you come home to a quiet apartment where the only visitors are children, when you hear that your former husband and his new wife were sealed in the temple last week, when your fiftieth wedding anniversary rolls around and your husband has been dead for two years.
He knows all that.
He's been there.
He's been lower than all that.
He's not waiting for us to be perfect. Perfect people don't need a Savior. He came to save his people in their imperfections. He is the Lord of the living, and the living make mistakes. He's not embarrassed by us, angry at us , or shocked. He wants us in our brokenness, in our unhappiness, in our guilt and our grief.
You know that people who live above a certain latitude experience very long winter nights and can become depressed and even suicidal, because something in our bodies requires whole spectrum light for a certain number of hours a day.
Our spiritual requirement for light is just as desperate and as deep as our physical need for light. Jesus is the light of the world. We know that this world is a dark place sometimes, but we need not walk in darkness. The people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and the people who walk in darkness can have a bright companion. We need him, and He is ready to come to us, if we'll open the door and let him. (Chieko N. Okazaki, pp. 6, 7, 8)
Friday, January 14, 2011
Formula
Since Alyzah switched to drinking formula 3 weeks ago lots of things have happened. She has:
- So much more energy
- Gained a ton of weight (probably like 3 lbs) which is excellent since she was a stringbean before.
- Turned into a sweet little angel child who is sooo easy and happy all the time
- Started rolling around the house like she owns it
- Started sitting
- Just barely started to TRY to army crawl. She is horrible at it but she tries really hard and moves a foot or two and then her arms must get tired cuz she gives up
- An obsession with jumping up and down with her legs when you hold her in a standing position, hence why she suddenly likes her jumperoo 10x more than before
- FINALLY started sleeping at night!!!!
- Made her Mommy's life so much easier!!!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
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