{ ME THINKS }

This last week has been such a whirlwind. Crazy how life throws such random punches out of

nowhere sometimes good or bad and you just take it and run with it and do what you can. The kids are so antsy to get started school they've just been fighting and teasing each other. So tomorrow will be awesome. I'm looking forward to routine and Kolten being busy again he loves school and learning so it will be nice to spend extra time with just Masen when Kolt and Lauren are at school. Guess we'll see anyway.

It is so cold right now too feels like fall this whole past week. Actually we've barely had a summer July had some hot days but lots of cooler wet days and lot of storms, and now it totally feels like Fall. But I've always loved September for new beginnings !

We took the kids to town today and did some shopping and took them to lunch which they thought was the greatest thing ever {obviously we don't do it much eh!}. Kind of a last day of summer holidays {full of rain and warm coats and a cast on one arm so a little limited on what we could do} We had planned on taking them to Wall E but Masen was a live wire today so didn't think we'd make it through but it was fun to go as a family for most of the day.

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ME THINKS

People to often take things and make them what they aren't or think we are something other then what we really are. Or take our intentions which are good and make them into something else.

Sometimes there is so much judging going on do we ever stop and consider that we are all individuals all trying our best and sometimes really getting to know someone opens up a world of knowledge and there are so many things to learn from others.

Life affects people differently. For many reasons.

Take an adoption presentation given in our ward yesterday the song by Micheal Mclean "From Gods Arms to My Arms to Yours" was played and if you've heard it and you have something to do with adoption whether you've placed, knew somebody who did, or received a baby through adoption and been through the emotions associated with adoption.

There were a few who had to leave the room to recover from the tears that flowed. I thought wow adoption touches so many feelings and touches so many lives. Sometimes we have no idea what people have been through in there earlier years before we knew these people.

Who are we to judge we have no idea where people have been, where they are going and what they are going through.

Just a thought.

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{ As a really really sad note our stake presidents wife passed away this past weekend from cancer and the day before that his dad past away. Our prayers and love are with their families all of them in there loss its so sad. But it makes me so thankful for the plan of salvation and knowing that we will see our loved ones again. } I love the words to this song another one by Micheal Mclean that puts it so beautifully: {plaque by Heather White }

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I also love this quote by Mother Teresa :

People are often unreasonable and self centered Forgive them anyway

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives Be kind anyway

If you are honest, people may cheat you Be honest anyway

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow Do good anyway

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God

It never was between you and them anyway.

HAVE AN AWESOME WEEK!