Thursday, June 25, 2009

Priceless. . .

EFY Session Fee: $417
Plane ticket to Salt Lake:  All our air miles
New clothes (so she looks cute): $237.25
New camera battery for lots of pictures (just to forget it at home): $12
The time of her LIFE:  PRICELESS

(Addison & roommate Rachel. Complete strangers! Friends in 5 minutes)
Her whole group: CHOOSE LIBERTY (Addison: top left between some cute guys!)
(The girls in her group: Friends for LIFE)
Addison's testimony:
I know without a doubt in my mind that I have a father in heaven and a savior who love me and know me personally. I know that I am an example of this church in every thing I ever do. I know that Christ died for me personally. I know that he has provided a way for each and every person on this earth to come to live with him again. He suffered because of my mistakes, when he had none. I know that through EFY we can enter a positive environment that we can carry with us anywhere in the world. I know now that the spirit we feel at EFY can come home with us and be applied in our lives everyday in every place. 
I love the gospel and I am striving to live like Christ each day. I know that i still have a long way to go in the gospel, but i can obtain my place in the celestial kingdom if i truly become an example of the believers in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, and in purity. 
I know that Thomas S. Monson is called of God to teach youth like myself, and to help us prepare a path for our future that will ensure happiness. I know that Joseph Smith saw God and Jesus Christ at the age 14. I know that if we pray with real intent then we will receive an answer in one way or another. I know that there is strength in numbers and that it is our duty to spread the gospel to anyone in everyone, even if it means loosing your spot in someone else's social circle. 
I know that families are forever. I know that i was sent to mine for a reason. As much as the world tells us it is not so, I know for a fact that we need our families. I know that my parents love me, and I love them too. It amazes me to think of how our Father in Heaven sent his only begotten son to this earth to die. I could never ask that of my own family members. He loves each of us because we are all his children. My testimony of this one true gospel could fill pages, but i leave this things with you now in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen. 

Sunday, June 21, 2009

The BIGGER the BOY. . .

The harder they play!!!
Happy Father's Day Babe!

Monday, June 15, 2009

Dare to be Different

photo by miriam 
may 2009
(for the record these are IBC root beer bottles from the Hattiesburg, MS stake girls camp)

something's buggin' me


"Don't move Anna Reese, I think there is something on your nose!"

Friday, June 12, 2009

Puppy Love


In our home, if you have 4 legs and fur Anna Reese luuuuuuvs you! (This love affair with all God's creatures great and small is why she wants to be a vet when she grows up) "They are so cute mommy I just can't stand it" is her response to every dog, cat, rabbit, turtle, frog, lizard, horse, ladybug, squirrel, rolypoly, (etc. etc.) she meets. And this summer she is in puppy heaven.
And now without any further adue, may I introduce Lola, Skipper, Chubbs, and Paco. The newest additions to the family. Courtesy of our hoochie mama dog, Bella.
"Who is the puppy daddy?" you ask, the world may never know!
(we are still trying to explain to Anna Reese why Bella isn't married)