Insight

Note: I actually wrote this a while ago, but forgot to post it. So here it is now!

I was studying my scriptures and this verse in Alma 32 gave me some thoughts:

27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.

I started thinking about the way that I often spend my time. TV and most media is quite passive. I just sit and absorb. And sometimes, I feel that is how I "participate" in church - sitting and absorbing. But that isn't the way that I need to be. I need to be active, to arouse my faculties. That way is the way to gaining spiritual insight.

EJHS Fun Run = Wet

My brother Bri was fund raising for his Jr. High. The fundraiser is always a 5K/10K/17K walk/run, and part of his responsibilities included registering 10 people for the Fun Run. I volunteered to take all 4 of my cousins who live in E. Wen to the race. I went "running" with the 7-year old and 4-year old.

The race started just fine - both kids doing great and having fun. Then it started raining. I decided to cut the 5K short because I didn't think we'd make it back if we didn't. I ended up pushing both girls in the stroller with the scooter wedged underneath. I ran, so mud splattered everywhere.

Right before we got to the finish line, Hannah (4) couldn't move any more - she was too wet. I tried to convince them both to run the last 10 feet, but I had to put Hannah in a stroller and we crossed that way:

Wet. So wet. As we crossed, the lady with a stack of ribbons decided that both Hannah and Alyssa (7) were winners of their division, so they both got first-place ribbons. Hannah was a little confused why someone handed her a ribbon:

Thank goodness for those ribbons!


They helped turn a sad, wet ending of a race to the most amazing day ever - both girls had won! They were do excited. Hannah asked me, "Why were they smiling and clapping at me?" I told her it was because she was a winner. "How did I win?" I laughed. "By finishing the race!" I had a blast.

My Husband, the Wild Thing

Hollis was asked to help out at his work (Barnes & Noble) in the Children's section for story time. He got to be this famous guy:

Yup. A Wild Thing.

Isn't he adorable?

Crapo Sisters Weekend

Every year, the Crapo sisters get together somewhere and hang out for three days. This year we went to Leavenworth. I had a blast staying up too late, playing games, talking, and generally having fun. Though we did a lot of things, the one picture I remembered to take was one of this sign:

Word.

Wedding Collage

I finally printed all of my wedding photos. I made a collage of our photos to frame our marriage certificate. This is a low-quality picture to give you an idea what it looks like:

I'm so excited to have it displayed in our home for years and years!

Making food is fun to do

I signed up to bring hard boiled eggs to the Relief Society birthday dinner. I don't like hard boiled eggs, so I never make them. I decided to try making them in our steamer that our niece Robyn gave us. It had egg holes, and I guessed how long to steam it. We weren't sure if it was done, so I had Hollis cut one open for me.

And you know what it looked like? Eyes.

Puerto Vallarta: Beach, Pool, and Relaxing (September 2010)

Due to the fact that we were in Mexico, Hollis and I spent a ton of time at the beach.

Hollis loved the feel of the waves pushing him back and forth.

The day we remembered to bring our camera, the ocean was muddy from a storm.

But that just meant more awesome waves. Hollis and I met a nice 8-year old girl who had fun playing in the ocean with us.

We built a sand castle with her too.

The view was awesome - sun, rain, clouds - so I took a picture.

Then I made guacamole when we went inside. And I made it look like the Mexican flag!

This is how Hollis spent a good portion of our vacation:

Yep. Reading. I read a ton too. Good thing we had e-books, otherwise we'd've run out of things to read!

We also took our camera to the pool - underwater photos are so fun.

Especially when you play with the light-bending properties of water.

Whelp, that's all for now!

Los Veranos Canopy Tour (September 2010)

Hollis and I bought two spots on a canopy tour that my relatives had been on before and really enjoyed. We were quite excited to get started!

The zip lines were awesome - phenomenal views and exciting speeds! We loved our guides too. After we were done with the tour, we got to spend some time in their small petting zoo.

So many cute little monkeys that we got to feed, and we also got to hold an iguana, snake, and rabit! It was a long day, but well worth our money.