Have you ever found yourself thinking that you just want to give up on the world. I find myself doing that more often these days. A couple of months ago I put up some inspiration sayings on my fabric board to help me. I thought that I would go a step further and write them here for people to see and hopefully get inspired. Here is one that inspired me today:
Our Busy Lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes as we focus on who we really are. To establish and accomplish those greater goods we do need heavenly help. -unknown author-
Have a wonderful day
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Baseball is back
Well on Saturday was the opening ceremonies of baseball in Stansbury Park. Dallin is on the Dodgers Tee-Ball team. He really has a fun time and loves to be up to bat. Dallin also had a game at noon.
Dallin after one of his many times up to bat, unfortunetly he hit the tee instead of the ball so the ball went backwords. But he still had fun
The rest of the family sits on the sideline and watches him play. Isaac goes and jumps from chair to chair and will actually make Jeff and I move so that he can steal our chair. He is so funny.
This is Dallin as he got to first base. Dallin also on this day played right field. They had him play too far back so that he never caught any balls. But Monday he had another game and they had him play third base and he was able to get a ball. He was excited. The cool thing about his coaches is that they teach the kids their positions on the field and so they don't all go for the ball.
This is the members of his team that showed up to opening ceremonies and also his three coaches. Total Dallin has eight other team members on his team.
During opening ceremonies they walk around home plate so that everyone can see them. This is Dallin walking. I was so proud of Dallin. Last year Dallin had one of his anxious fits about opening ceremonies and also playing. But this year Dallin had none of that. He did try to hid his face a little at opening ceremonies, but he did not have a tantrum. It is nice to see him slowing getting over his anxiety.
Dallin after one of his many times up to bat, unfortunetly he hit the tee instead of the ball so the ball went backwords. But he still had fun
The rest of the family sits on the sideline and watches him play. Isaac goes and jumps from chair to chair and will actually make Jeff and I move so that he can steal our chair. He is so funny.
This is Dallin as he got to first base. Dallin also on this day played right field. They had him play too far back so that he never caught any balls. But Monday he had another game and they had him play third base and he was able to get a ball. He was excited. The cool thing about his coaches is that they teach the kids their positions on the field and so they don't all go for the ball.
This is the members of his team that showed up to opening ceremonies and also his three coaches. Total Dallin has eight other team members on his team.
During opening ceremonies they walk around home plate so that everyone can see them. This is Dallin walking. I was so proud of Dallin. Last year Dallin had one of his anxious fits about opening ceremonies and also playing. But this year Dallin had none of that. He did try to hid his face a little at opening ceremonies, but he did not have a tantrum. It is nice to see him slowing getting over his anxiety.Well on Saturday was the opening ceremonies of baseball in Stansbury Park. Dallin is on the Dodgers Tee-Ball team. He really has a fun time and loves to be up to bat.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Our Trip To Virginia
We returned from Virginia yesterday and I thought that I would share the fun that we had. First off it is hard to come home when over in Virginia Spring is all around. Most of the treees were starting to bud, flowers are in bloom and the wheather mostly stayed in the high 60s and low 70s. The pictures below are actually in reverse order but you will still get a good picture of what we did.
This is a reconstruction of the capitol building in Williamsburg Virginia. They dug and found the foudation and then rebuilt what it looked like from a couple of pictures. They were in the process of resconstructing another building across the street from this one. We went to Colonial Williamsburg on Thursday. If you have not been there it is a reconstruction of what the town of Williamsburg would have looked like before the revolutionary war. some of the houses have more of the original building materials, but the big houses like the capitol and the governors palace were destroyed in the war. They have people that dresss up like the people of the time and give the information. The things that Jeff and I thought were the coolest was when we went into different houses that would make stuff and they would actually be making tools, cabinets, jewelry, etc like they made them back then. Another thing that we took from this day is that everyone, both rich and poor, had to have the knowledge to survive by themselves if needed. Everyone knew how to make baskets, but the difference comes in that the rich would buy the imported ones from England just for the stature.
On Tuesday and Wednesday we went to Busch Gardens. In this park they have five large roller coasters. The picture above is a picture of our favorite the griffon. It takes you up a steep incline to 205 feet and then it lets you hange (the picture is showing the hanging) then it drops you down 90 degrees where you reach the speed of 71 mph. It then takes you through twists and turns and you do one more drop. It was the best. Jeff and I sat in all three sections and we found that they are all fun, but the front is the best with the hanging over the egde. All of the other were fun and we enjoyed ourselves a lot. Also at Busch Gardens they house Clydesdale horses. They say that they are the budweiser clydesdales, but we weren't really sure. There was a budweiser factory down the road though.
This is the largest ship of one of the reconstructed ships that the settlers from Jamestown came in one. The journey was 144 days and we both were glad that we had better means of transportation these days.
This is a reconstruction Native American hut from the powatan tribe. This tribe was close to the Jamestown settlement and helped the settlers learn a little of the land. These first couple of pictures were taken from the Jamestown settlement that was constructed around 50 years ago for the celebration of the 350th year since Jamestown.(though the only thing still standing from that celebration is one brick statue. Everything was rebuilt) Sadly it is not constructed on the same site as Jamestown, but up the river a little ways. The historical site of Jamestown is contolled by the national park service and there is still an archeaological dig going on there. There is also a museum were you can most of the things that have been found there. We did not spend a lot of time at historical Jamestown, because it was cold, windy and we were by the river so that made is even more colder. Also close to historical Jamestown they found the ruins of a glasshouse and then the park service made their own (with modern supplies). We actually got to see a worker blow glass and shape it to make a decorative pear. I bought one to remember the experience they had a couple of different colors of glass. I gought the green one because that is the natural color of glass. If you want it to be clear you actually have to add a couple of things to it. Also, because you have to have the fire extremely hot the people back then were only able to blow glass four days a month. There because they use natural gas they can blow glass every day.
The first historical site we went to was Yorktown. The site were the English surrendered to us at the end of the Revolutionary war. You can view the battlefield. Which the picture above is when we were on the battlefield with one of the english cannons. You can see replicas of the cannons that there used. We learned a lot about how the war was fought. After that we took the short walk to Yorktown itself, which was weird because there were actually people still living there. One house was a historical house then across the street was someones actual residence. We felt a little like we were intruding. The one house to see there is called the Nelson house. The house actually still has a little damage from the Revolutionary War. The sad part is that you could not tell by yourself which ones that were because they had put in some fake stuff as well.
This is a reconstruction of the capitol building in Williamsburg Virginia. They dug and found the foudation and then rebuilt what it looked like from a couple of pictures. They were in the process of resconstructing another building across the street from this one. We went to Colonial Williamsburg on Thursday. If you have not been there it is a reconstruction of what the town of Williamsburg would have looked like before the revolutionary war. some of the houses have more of the original building materials, but the big houses like the capitol and the governors palace were destroyed in the war. They have people that dresss up like the people of the time and give the information. The things that Jeff and I thought were the coolest was when we went into different houses that would make stuff and they would actually be making tools, cabinets, jewelry, etc like they made them back then. Another thing that we took from this day is that everyone, both rich and poor, had to have the knowledge to survive by themselves if needed. Everyone knew how to make baskets, but the difference comes in that the rich would buy the imported ones from England just for the stature.
On Tuesday and Wednesday we went to Busch Gardens. In this park they have five large roller coasters. The picture above is a picture of our favorite the griffon. It takes you up a steep incline to 205 feet and then it lets you hange (the picture is showing the hanging) then it drops you down 90 degrees where you reach the speed of 71 mph. It then takes you through twists and turns and you do one more drop. It was the best. Jeff and I sat in all three sections and we found that they are all fun, but the front is the best with the hanging over the egde. All of the other were fun and we enjoyed ourselves a lot. Also at Busch Gardens they house Clydesdale horses. They say that they are the budweiser clydesdales, but we weren't really sure. There was a budweiser factory down the road though.
This is the largest ship of one of the reconstructed ships that the settlers from Jamestown came in one. The journey was 144 days and we both were glad that we had better means of transportation these days.
This is a reconstruction Native American hut from the powatan tribe. This tribe was close to the Jamestown settlement and helped the settlers learn a little of the land. These first couple of pictures were taken from the Jamestown settlement that was constructed around 50 years ago for the celebration of the 350th year since Jamestown.(though the only thing still standing from that celebration is one brick statue. Everything was rebuilt) Sadly it is not constructed on the same site as Jamestown, but up the river a little ways. The historical site of Jamestown is contolled by the national park service and there is still an archeaological dig going on there. There is also a museum were you can most of the things that have been found there. We did not spend a lot of time at historical Jamestown, because it was cold, windy and we were by the river so that made is even more colder. Also close to historical Jamestown they found the ruins of a glasshouse and then the park service made their own (with modern supplies). We actually got to see a worker blow glass and shape it to make a decorative pear. I bought one to remember the experience they had a couple of different colors of glass. I gought the green one because that is the natural color of glass. If you want it to be clear you actually have to add a couple of things to it. Also, because you have to have the fire extremely hot the people back then were only able to blow glass four days a month. There because they use natural gas they can blow glass every day.
The first historical site we went to was Yorktown. The site were the English surrendered to us at the end of the Revolutionary war. You can view the battlefield. Which the picture above is when we were on the battlefield with one of the english cannons. You can see replicas of the cannons that there used. We learned a lot about how the war was fought. After that we took the short walk to Yorktown itself, which was weird because there were actually people still living there. One house was a historical house then across the street was someones actual residence. We felt a little like we were intruding. The one house to see there is called the Nelson house. The house actually still has a little damage from the Revolutionary War. The sad part is that you could not tell by yourself which ones that were because they had put in some fake stuff as well.Well if you got though all of that congratulations. Jeff and I had a really fun time. We loved going to see more about our history. We did take a day and a half and go up to Pennsylvania to see Jeff's brother who will be starting his residency in June at the Abington hospital. It was nice to see them since we haven't in four or five years. The best thing about this trip is it got both of us jazzed to learn more about the revolutionary war.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Going to Virginia
Well tomorrow is the day that I travel up to Logan to drop off my children at my parent's house so that Jeff and I can go to Virginia for a week. Jeff and I haven't been away together for awhile. We have had my parents take the kids for a week here and there when we needed a break, but we never went farther than Salt Lake. The last time we took a trip just the two of us was when we went to Anaheim in November of 2004.
We leave Friday morning and we will arrive in Richmond, VA at around 4:30. We will then drive to our hotel in Williamsburg, thanks to Jeff's mom getting us a really good deal. On Saturday we will go to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg and ride some fast rollarcoasters. Then on Sunday we will make the drive up to Jeff's brother who lives in Pennsylvania. We will spend Sunday up there visiting them. We haven't seen them since they moved a couple of years ago so that will be nice. On Monday, on our way back from Pennsylvania we will be stopping in Washington DC and visiting at least a couple of the smithsonian museums at the National Mall. I am not sure how much we will be doing because it is suppose to rain.
The rest of our week we will be spending in Williamsburg going to Colonial Williamsburg and just relaxing as Jeff likes to do when he goes on vacation. We will come home on Friday at around noon. Then on Saturday we will go and pick up our kids from my parents in Logan.
I am excited to be going on this adventure with Jeff in a couple of days and also the much needed vacation.
We leave Friday morning and we will arrive in Richmond, VA at around 4:30. We will then drive to our hotel in Williamsburg, thanks to Jeff's mom getting us a really good deal. On Saturday we will go to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg and ride some fast rollarcoasters. Then on Sunday we will make the drive up to Jeff's brother who lives in Pennsylvania. We will spend Sunday up there visiting them. We haven't seen them since they moved a couple of years ago so that will be nice. On Monday, on our way back from Pennsylvania we will be stopping in Washington DC and visiting at least a couple of the smithsonian museums at the National Mall. I am not sure how much we will be doing because it is suppose to rain.
The rest of our week we will be spending in Williamsburg going to Colonial Williamsburg and just relaxing as Jeff likes to do when he goes on vacation. We will come home on Friday at around noon. Then on Saturday we will go and pick up our kids from my parents in Logan.
I am excited to be going on this adventure with Jeff in a couple of days and also the much needed vacation.
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