After a busy weekend, we *stayed* busy by heading to Evanston on Tuesday to visit our amazing friends there! Sometime while Leo was in Utah, we stopped and visited the Powells too. This is the sunset is on the drive back to Megan's on Monday.
First we met up with the Hughes, and we headed to Bear River so Will and Sebas could go crawdad fishing and Becca and I could chat on the shore.
Why we didn't spend more time in the river when we lived there is totally unknown to me. What a waste.
Yes, they caught a TON! 99.5 to be exact. Apparently one was in the process of eating another.
Jason and Jubal got to play too. They were so happy to hang out again.
Elena met up with her friends, and I have no pictures but the Rasmussen's invited us to eat at their house, which was fun and Isabel got to hang out with Raquel.
And another stunning sunset driving back to Megan's.
Yeah, no pictures with the Rasmussens, but I taped their house because I love how they redid it. So gorgeous.
I am *hurray* a stay-at-home mom. I retired many years ago from a long,(4 yr) illustrious career in nursing *boo, hiss*. Most of all, I love Leo (mi papacito esposo de Colombia) and Ana, Elena, Isabel, Sebastian, Nicolas, Jubal, and Efraim (mis hijos). My other passion is also dark and rico and from South America--that would be chocolate. Basically I like to eat chocolate, eat chocolate icecream, eat frozen hot chocolates from Dairy Queen, eat Peppermint Yorks, Junior Mints, and of course dark chocolate truffles. Okay, now that I've wiped the slobber off my chin from thinking about all of that, I'll get on to the rest of my blog. Oh, and I'm trying to learn Spanish but spend too much time blogging here instead.
"Managing a home involves much more than keeping a house clean, organized, and attractive. These skills are important...but these skills are only a means to an end. The paramount objective is to create a setting where family and friends are comfortable and happy, where there are good dinners and good times, where there is fun and laughter, where children acquire good habits and are taught life skills and how to be self-reliant and responsible, where challenges are faced by coupling temporal endeavors with eternal perspectives, where joy through gospel teaching and living prevails, where kindness and respect reign supreme, where love is strong enough to bind the family forever, and where children are nurtured toward eternal life."
--Daryl Hoole
“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.” Elder Boyd K. Packer - November 1993 Ensign
"Dear Prude,
Sober of not, I am forever yours."
-Percy French, a letter to his wife (1776)
"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories."
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