the Ghost of the Mortuary

A few days ago Luke was at school, Kade was taking a nap in his crib, and I was reading in our bedroom. I began to hear music and assumed it was from the mortuary office a few rooms away. I continued to hear it and walked into our family room to discover that a cd was playing on the radio. I turned it off and went back to reading.

Early Sunday morning I woke up around 2:30am to find the cd player on, this time on track 7 which means it had been going for a while. It must be a ghost. . . . . . .or,

Kade loves to touch all the buttons on the stereo and I have now discovered that there is a timer function that allows you to set it so that the cd player will come on some time in the future. I have never used the timer, but apparently Kaden has figured out how to do it :)

Free Rice!

Someone at work showed me this great website where you can do vocabulary quizzes or quizzes on a variety of subjects. Not only is it a fun game, you are also donating 10 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program. So happy learning and happy rice donation!

www.freerice.com

This 'n that

One mini-wheat in each hand and one in the mouth. . .his very own food storage program!

My cute little niece Leslie was baptized on Saturday.

Kade is now a formidable foe at the foosball table (is that how it is spelled?)

Tuckered out after a Sunday afternoon walk.

Cute!

Three Cups of Tea

I recently finished reading the book Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. It is a fascinating book about Greg Mortenson's work in Pakistan and Afghanistan to build schools for children who have no other opportunity for education. I learned a lot about that region of the world and also about the history and formation of the Taliban. The Taliban established schools where radical Islam was taught and then recruited these students to fight for the cause. By establishing secular schools where students were given a basic education, Mortenson is promoting peace by giving people an opportunity to rise about their poverty through education. It tugs at your heart strings to read of the poverty of these people and yet they are happy and content. Even during an economic recession, it still ain't bad to be an American. I highly recommend this book to anyone! If you want to buy it from www.threecupsoftea.com then some of the proceeds go to Mr. Mortenson's nonprofit organization (the Central Asia Institute). Happy reading!

Blog Give-away

My sister Janetta is a lucky lady. In the past few months she has won an IKEA gift card from a radio call-in contest and then a blog give-away from one of our friend's blog. She now is offering a give-away on her blog of 5 handmade items to the first 5 people who comment but the kicker is that if you comment and sign up, you also have to post the give-away on your blog. So now the offer is up on mine. . .cookies, cards, a personal violin concert, a blood pressure check with auscultation of heart, lungs and abdomen, and much more are all for the taking if you want to be a winner on my give-away :)

Cause and Effect

Because Mommy found this. . .

















. . .Daddy and Kade worked together to install latches on all the kitchen cabinets. He is having lots of fun crawling and exploring everything and everywhere!

The injured warrior

Luke sprained his ankle so badly on Wednesday while playing basketball with the Elders quorum at the church. He has been wearing a brace and using crutches and it is still so swollen and starting to bruise. Since this is my field of nursing I am going to start charging him for the personal nurse he has living with him. Actually it has been hard to see him hurt--I have never seen him injured or really sick since we have been married but he is tough and even cleaned up the house for me on Valentine's Day. Love you Luke!