Living my Religion

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Yep, us and our girls, we were all still partying last night.

There was none of this.

Or this.

Or this.


There was only this.

Thank you
Grandma and Grandpa Gold.

We love your music.
It’s as if you saved the collection just for us.
Because you knew we wouldn’t be able to
afford to go to Chuck E. Cheese.
Because those tokens are a whole lot more than $1.89!
This one was one of the night’s favorites.
When the girls stopped dancing and started
dressing up like mom, the party suddenly came to a close.
I have no idea why.
I thought Abigail did a great job of imitating me.
Here she is taking pictures for the blog.

Bella was really the most accurate though.
I spend all my time in my robe and baseball cap.


We can’t wait for Sunday.

Tomorrow night, I am pulling out the piano music of
“We Are The World”.
And we will move on to a new decade.
The one owned by the late Michael Jackson.

You Tube Talent
I recently got an e-mail forward about this Mormon boy.

Here is Adam Ashby for your listening pleasure.

I had never heard of him.

I love the ukelele.

And I love that he loves the ukelele.

When he gets home from his Mormon mission,

I hope he makes a record.

And, for Cally and Lori, I want your honest opinion.

Don’t you think that he looks a little like the twins?

Although, we know that Conan was WAY better

when he sang and played the guitar at his wedding reception. 🙂

A message for the mothers

I read John’s blog yesterday. He was a little worried about his assignment to preach a sermon on Mother’s Day. I shared my thoughts with him about what a huge challenge I think that would be. It is a hard task to pay tribute to motherhood without making mothers feel guilty about what they aren’t accomplishing, or further hurting those who’ve lost their moms, or the women who can’t have children for whatever reason who long for nothing else but motherhood.

I think one of the greatest challenges about Mother’s Day Sunday though is forgetting the worship of our Savior. So many years, all you ever hear about are the mothers, and it seems to be forgotten that Sacrament Meeting is meant for worshiping our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Lori posted this video today from the church website. I thought it was a PERFECT Mother’s Day message. Not only because it spoke to me so strongly a few weeks back when I first heard it, but because the message of our Savior taking on himself all of our trials and discomforts is exactly what moms need to remember. Jesus Christ NEVER stops thinking of us and he never gives up on us, even when it may seem like we are all alone in a insurmountable task of raising God’s children.