Treasure this day and treasure yourself and others

Brett's cousin, Bryce, died on Wednesday, August 5th. He battled colon cancer for over a year. He was only 37 years old. He left a beautiful wife and four young children.

Another dear friend of ours, Peter, was just diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. He is also in his thirties. I have had many sleepless nights thinking and praying about him.

I just found out another friend, in his twenties, was diagnosed with cancer.

My head is spinning. It all seems to make no sense. I woke up this morning with these words repeating over and over in my head "What am I supposed to learn?" What does God want me to know and understand from these experiences of the last month?

As I was thinking these thoughts I came across this blog post from Melissa Deakin


For some reason that leads me to thoughts of this song. I've always been touched by Michael McLean's music.


I think this is one of the many important things God has for me to learn this month!

Are you a visual learner?

I have had a few people ask me how to put video on their blog. It is so easy that I didn't feel it was really necessary to share. I realize now that everyone learns in different ways. When I was investigating how to put a You Tube video on my blog, I read through the Blogger help section. I am a very visual learner. For me, reading an instruction manual is much more difficult than having someone show me how it's done, so this wasn't the easiest way.

Enter - Google

Last week I was trying to load a pricing gun so I could put price labels on some products in the salon. It was impossibly hard even with the manual sitting right in front of me. So I googled "how do I load a monarch pricing gun" Up came a video. TA DA! Something that was taking 30 minutes to read, understand, and complete - took 2 minutes of video and a few foul words to finish.

HMMMM - Have you ever put together anything from IKEA? I wonder if IKEA could post video for all of their products? Maybe they already do?

If you learn better visually, you can learn how to upload video to your blog in less than 2 minutes. Take a look.

Picky Eater

I just finished scrapping this page last night and I posted for the first time in the Little Dreamer Designs Gallery here. I loved Tiffany Tillman's video tutorial on her blog. I learned a lot and used her template and instruction to create this fun page.

Journaling:
Brett was cutting zucchini squash and Breanna asked, “Why are you cutting that?”
Brett said “Because I’m going to cook it for dinner.”
Breanna said “I am totally not going to eat that!”
Words from a 5-year-old’s mouth. LOL!
Fortunately, there are a few things she will eat like this delicious crenshaw melon we took to Jordanelle.

Thanks for looking!

Surfer Girl and Shy Grandson

We just got back from our family reunion in Lava Hot Springs. I was looking through some videos Garrett took with his i-phone and remembered that I wanted to write about what a great surfer Breanna is turning out to be! In LHS there is a bridge that goes over the Portneuf River. Off of that bridge, a board is tied with a rope. If you are five years old and very persistent, you climb on that board over and over again until you are a surfer extraordinaire. Breanna is a little fish. She swam the river for hours and loved every minute.

My grandson, Charles, on the other hand, sat in the warm water that gurgles out into the river. It's actually really nice to just let the hot springs flow over you - very relaxing!

Take a look-

Summer Fun

We love to go to the West Jordan Pool. We bought a family season pass. The kids are as brown-skinned as ever - especially Charles! Here is a page I scrapped of our summer fun. Click on the image to view larger. TFL!