OUR FAMILY...TREASURING LIFE ONE DAY AT A TIME

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Homecoming Dance and Peaches!!

Karissa and Kelsi both had fun at Homecoming Dance Saturday night! Kelsi found her dress at DI for only $15 and a cardigan to go with it for only $10! And Karissa loved wearing Ali's dress!

Karissa gave an excellent talk in Stake conference Saturday night as well, in between the day date and the dance, she got home 1 minute before her date picked her up for the dance!!

Karissa spoke on Family History and Temples...she is called as our ward's Family History consultant.

LOVED stake conference and Regional conference and looking forward to Women's conference and General conference coming soon!

Bryan and I bottled 81 bottles of peaches!! Bryan bottled most of them!!..he's the best! And Jacob helped some :) ...(Now to re-organize the storage room)...

Sam said it's like we have a peach farm!

One of the dad's in Karissa's homecoming group is a professional photographer so he took these great pictures for them:

Here's Kelsi with her date:

Kelsi

Karissa

Karissa and Kelsi

Karissa with her date when he picked her up:

We bottled 81 bottles of peaches this year!!!

Monday, September 8, 2014

Sisters Weekend 2014!!! Texas Style!!!

We had sisters weekend in Texas this year!!! It was so much fun!! Shopping, River walk in San Antonio, George Bush Library and lots of fun Sister time!! :)

Mindy, Kristi, Julie, Annette

The Alamo: Julie, Kristi, Mindy, Lisa, Mom, Annette

River Walk: Kristi, Mindy

Shopping at Sam Moon (best store ever!): Annette, Mindy

Julie, Mindy, Annette, Lisa, Mom, Kristi

Texas A&M: Kristi, Lisa, Annette, Mindy, Mom, Julie

Airplane ride: Mindy, mom, Lisa, Kristi, Julie

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Fun family night with cousins!

Jeff and Sam

Jeff, Lisa, Mindy

Sam, Josh, Isaac (Utz), Grandma Blake

Bryan, Jacob, Grandpa Blake, Karissa, Alyssa

"He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver"

The following story is a great example of how the Lord teaches and molds us through life's trials.

There was a group of women in a Bible study on the book of Malachi. As they were studying chapter three, they came across verse three which says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver." (Malachi 3:3) This verse puzzled the women and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God.

One of the women offered to find out about the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible study. That week this woman called up a silver smith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest in silver beyond her curiosity about the process of refining silver. As she watched the silver smith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities. The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot--then she thought again about the verse, that he sits as a refiner and purifier of silver.

She asked the silver smith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined. The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left even a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed. The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silver smith, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?"

He smiled at her and answered, "Oh, that's easy--when I see my image in it"
Author unknown