New addition

Remember my post about patience? Well we decided to test it out with this:

Meet Bruiser!! He a 9 week old Maltese and they say he will only get to be about 3lbs!! So far he has been a great dog. We have had him for a week and it has been an adjustment. I'm not really a dog person but i just love little Bruiser!

2010

Everywhere in nature we are taught the lessons of patience and waiting. We want things a long time before we get them, and the fact that we want them a long time makes them all the more precious when they come.
~Joseph F. Smith

Patience: What Im hoping to learn this year.

Christmas 2009

Christmas this year was a hard but good one being the first Christmas year without Grandma. We all had a wonderful time being with family and doing what Grandma would have wanted us to do.

Breakfast was really hard for me this year. I took my Grandmas place and helped my mom cook the ebelskivers. I know Grandma was right there helping us and adding her special touch to everything.

Then there was this. This was my Grandmas that her brother brought back from his mission in New Zealand. It is small neck pendant in the form of a human fetus, used by the Maori of New Zealand as a fertility symbol. Usually carved of green nephrite or a jade like stone called pounamu that is found along the western coast of the South Island, hei tikis normally are worn only by women. The object is believed to possess magical powers that increase as it is passed on from generation to generation. Aunt Tami happened when this was given to Grandma! With what Brandon and I are going through, Grandpa thought it should go to us, and no one else wants the "powers" of it right now!

On the 26th Brandon's parents took us all to see the Lion King. It was AMAZING!! We loved it. I didn't take any pictures but when I get copies I'll post them.

Thanks to all for our families for a wonderful Christmas and all the memories that were made. We love you all!!

I'm spending Christmas with Jesus Christ this year!!

I'm Spending Christmas With Jesus Christ This Year!
I see the countless Christmas trees
Around the world below
With tiny lights, like Heaven's stars
reflecting on the snow.

The sight is so spectacular
Please wipe away a tear
For I 'm spending Christmas
With Jesus Christ this year.

I hear the many Christmas songs
That people hold so dear
But the sounds of music can't compare
With the Christmas choir up here.

For I have no words to tell you
The joy their voices bring
For it is beyond description
To hear an angel sing.

I know how much you miss me
For I feel your breaking heart...
But through our memories so dear
We're never far apart.

I can't tell you of the Splendor
Or the peace here in this place.
Can you just imagine Christmas
With our Savior face to face?

I'll ask him to light your spirit
As I tell him of your love.
So then pray for one another
As you lift your eyes above.

So please let your hearts be joyful
And let your spirit sing.
For I'm spending Christmas in Heaven
And I'm walking with the King.

21 Years

21 years ago on December 9th 1988, this awesome guy, my Great Grandpa Waters did his first live sealing and made

This family, a FOREVER family

in this temple!

And look what it has become!

Thanks Mom and Dad for making the choice to become a forever family! I love you guys so much!!!!!!

Christmas Tree

On Friday, our good friends the Lewis' invited us to go cut Christmas trees with them. We went up around Caliente. The permit was a whole $4! We got a beautiful tree that at a Christmas tree lot would have been around $80. We had a great time hunting for the perfect trees and shooting. Thanks Lewis' for inviting us!!!

Crazy Zack!!!

For my little brother, Zacks birthday he wanted to go ride the rides on top of the Stratosphere. He is one crazy kid and rode them all a few times. Brandon and I were chicken and just watched. Happy Late 17th Birthday Zack!!!