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I hope all you hard working and wonderful mothers had a great day!

While searching for my herp lamp (a lamp used to warm reptiles in captivity), I stumbled upon some papers I thought were long lost.

I was so thrilled to find 14 different poems I had written either with Ben or Alesha in tandem between 15-16 years ago. These are a big deal to me. Even the handwriting on the pages brings tender feelings to my heart. I feel like I've definitely found some treasure.

I would also like to say how much I really like Dr. Seuss. He has been a wonderful influence on reading and speech in our family and in my own young life. However, this page of Oh The Thinks You Can Think has been eerie and frightening to me my entire life. Can you believe I closed my eyes to this page as I read the book to Bryce the other night?

I mean, what would you do if you met a jibboo? I would run screaming in terror. Tell me, isn't this creepy?!

I got to laugh a lot this weekend. I'm terribly fond of laughing, especially when it's with my parents and brother Ryan.

I hope you had a great weekend and spent it with someone you love.

I went to the movies with my dad and Cameron last night. We saw Iron Man.
It was wonderfully done and was a very cohesive, stand-on-it's-own film.










It had a few fun references to sequel possibilities and at the end had a sequel teaser where Col. Nick Fury (played by Samuel L Jackson) is introduced and the Avengers are mentioned...wait, did I already lose you non-comic book reading people?

Well, Cam went back into the theater to watch the end of the previews (thank you to the movie theater employee who suggested it) and see the trailer.





Dad and I got our popcorn refill and had some fun of our own.

New stuff from the weekend:

New experience with Mandy (my sister) of seeing Laser U2 at the Clark Planetarium. Although I genuinely enjoyed the show and loved the music, I don't know that I attend another laser show. Not my thing, I guess. Mandy gained a new appreciation for U2.

First Sunday with our new church callings. Cam is in the Sunday School presidency and I am the Relief Society chorus. We'll miss our Primary acquaintances. It's like being new in the ward all over again, but of course I got plenty of smiles and was again memorizing names like crazy.

Ella got new teachers for Sunbeams and she is enamoured with them. I think she'll get a lot more out of Primary now.

We also got a new Bishopric. We enjoyed our former bishop and his councillors and look forward to getting to know the new guys on the stand.

I got a new and very welcomed perspective about my wonderful children.

I've been able to spend time pondering on the great gift that they are and realizing more than ever that motherhood is not a right but an amazing priveledge. I've been able to rethink my influence on their lives and as I ponder a life with no new babies, I'm trying to figure out how to let go a little 'cause these kids are growing fast. Enter a new phase of mothering (but not until Bryce is potty-trained!)



Got to know a new music artist: Kate Walsh. Read this review, it sums it up perfectly. Very folksy. A lot like early-Jewel, but with a better voice. This was really relaxing.

I also have a new attitude about Monday. Sorry, Garfield, but Monday is my new go-to day. I was actually excited about all the housework I could do as the day dawned. To me this is the result of the new trend of Bryce sleeping, ergo me sleeping through the night as well as what a messy weekend we had.

Oh and a new blog look!

I'm sure this is a copyright issue and I'll gladly take it off, but may be it'll help if I tell Jan Eliot, the author and illustrator that I really love her comic, Stone Soup, and read it every single day I can keep this up here...may be...