Tee Ball - Priceless!

You have to love the determination and drive. The passion for the game and the admiration of the fans. Few places combine the pure joy of the sport an the perspective of what matters most than at the local Tee Ball game.

We had a great time. Recommended (Should be required) attendance for all.

Many a lesson of life can be taught at a Tee Ball Game. Go check one out at your earliest opportunity.

Thanks for sharing such a fun game with us Nathan.

Kaylene In Concert with a Choir

Kaylene when to the choir concert to night to get ready. And ready she was when they handed her two more pieces she had never seen. She is amazing. Sight reading the music flawlessly.

Well the weather had other plans. As Jenna and I arrived We enjoyed watching the equipment get put away.

I finally found Kaylene as she was playing for some of the specialty acts. They were enjoyable. The group then performed several of their numbers. Turns out there were a few guest in from out of town. Rather than have them miss it completely the choir had a mini concert for a few in the green room.

Kaylene played and the singers sang. All was good in the world despite the buckets of water pounding the building outside.

In the end they get to do it all over again next week 8pm Layton Amphitheater.

In the end the ducks were pretty happy and so were the participants.

UP Made me look around.

We went an watched UP. What a GREAT movie! I got me thinking a lot about the important things in life. Then Saturday Jenna and I went to the air show. All those people looking UP made me look down and around. It was fun what I found.

There are a ton of important things that happen when you get your feet back on the ground after watching UP. Go see the movie. Then you will know a little more about important things.

Enjoying those moments when we are up!

Some days it is just the best to have a tramp in the back yard.

Just after dinner... doing the dishes and ... you look up and see things are perfect. The sun is at their back and you get that cool back lite hair look. They are a bouncing quite nicely. I wonder if I can get them hair in the air without getting caught. (Once the kids see the camera they are never their natural selves.)

Sneak to the door... raise the camera.... compose the shot.... capture the moment... see what you got. Hey, not too bad for the first and only click. In the air... sun lite hair... joy of childhood all in a single moment.

Do you get the idea that having a tramp in the backyard at times is the best. To feel the joy and delight of taking flight. Reaching for the stars and dreams before you discover the distance required to reach them.

Oh, that everyday we could see the UP in our up and down lives!

Transformation: Good for us all!

"The gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel of transformation.  It takes us as men and women of the earth and refines us into men and women for the eternities"

Joseph B. Wirthlin of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
 (Ensign Nov 2007, 39-30)

Memorial Day. Again.

Memorial Day is for Remembering

Our lives are blessed each day by those who have gone before.  As we interact with family and friends we sometimes miss moments that affect our future memories.  Thankfully, this Memorial day was memorable again.

Family filled our day as we played, worked and remembered together.  Nathan helped me remember the firm foundations provided by so many who helped to build the society we live in.  We worked construction on a train station.  Nathan was foreman and he the most exacting specifications.  Like so many who have prepared buildings, roads and other infrastructure for us to enjoy we worked and labored until the task was done. It was done in all good fun. 


Fun was followed by food.  Then we went to the cemetery for remembering those loved whom have passed on before...






The past memories bring rich present thoughts as we try to teach those living in the present the gifts of those gone before.  Each person in their own way making the most of this memorial day.

Dear neighbor.  Dear friend.  We contemplate your passing and long to greet you on the other side.

Wondering what your life has done to fully effect ours.


Causes our thoughts and hearts to yearn upward....



Certainly do love Memorial day!

All Hours of the Day

So where are the margins in life?  I mean where is the a blank spot in your day.  With family, friends, work and recreation where are the truly free moments?  You know those moments when you fell the cool breeze.  When the sun hits you just right to give you a moment of bright delight.  Where is peace found in the turmoil of a day?

If you wait for the activity around you to slow down it may be a long wait.  If you think it is when the last task is finished and before the next one begun?  Maybe for you but so often the projects blur and there is nothing between them but double the work! 

For me the moments of peace are in the middle of the mess of any moment.  It is right there!  Not in the waiting for something to be done or for the pressure to go away.  It is instead, inside your head!

Crossing the street earlier today a car whizzed by, about made me cry,  "Watch out you....."  And then it happened, not two steps away.  A overwhelming peace swept through all of me.  I felt a bit of the sunshine mixed with a soft breeze radiating from my pleasant thought.  "Life is good... glad I can enjoy such a wonderful day!"  (as the car continued on its way.)

At that moment.  The miracle of that magical moment, I was glad the margins in my life are sometimes in the middle of the page.

So if anyone ever asks where the margins are. You tell them.  The margins are in the middle!

I wish you the best in delightful, peaceful .... ah...  Isn't life great!