The Haggard Herald

Matt and I were talking yesterday about this story from Elder Christopherson's talk from a couple years ago.  I don't remember how it came up but it did and then this morning I found a MormonMessage video about it. I love this story.  Take a look:

I was thinking the other day that I want to remember the fun things I did in school growing up and try to recreate some of those fun memories for my kids, or if I ever teach, to be a fun teacher and make learning meaningful like some of my favorite teachers have done for me.  I'm starting with my favorite memories from elementary school: 1.  Painting in kindergarten 2.  decorating cookies in kindergarten 3.  dressing up on Halloween, getting to go in the Halloween parade as a kindergartener 4.  making carrot juice with Mr. P (3rd grade) 5.  reading Encyclopedia Brown as a class at the end of each school day (2nd grade)  I think that was the year I also started getting into the Boxcar Children series and My Side of the Mountain .  Mrs. Potter was big on reading and finding us books that we would like.  I loved those and remember them better than many other books I had to read for school. 6.  having class hamsters (2nd grade) we g...

Matt happened upon this cool cooking blog yesterday and forwarded me a recipe for homemade graham crackers that he wants to try.  I perused some of the other recipes on the blog and am excited to try several of them; I made the taquitos tonight and really liked them.  Here they are: smells-like-home.com

 Here are a few more pictures from our little photo shoot a week or two ago.  She was very happy to be taken out of the dress and have her yellow and white onesie put back on.  It's a lot easier for her and me when she's wearing regular clothes, even though this and the other Sunday dresses she has are beautiful.   I love this picture.  She was staring up at the fan while I changed her out of the blessing dress and back into regular clothes. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Last weekend M&M and I went for a walk in the canyon along the river trail.  It had been rainy that day and  the weather forecast said the high was only 65, hence the sweatshirt Matt is wearing.  It wasn't cold at all actually, it was actually still warm.   Madeleine was trying to pick her head up here.  Sometimes she just doesn't want to recline and she is anxious to be able to move on her own.   Side note: one day last week I wa...

I was reading an address by Julie Beck to seminary and institute teachers which focused on teaching youth the doctrine of the family.  At first I thought that was an unusual phrase, "the doctrine of the family."  Then I started to read and I understood what she meant by that phrase.  It's summarized in "The Family: A Proclamation to the World."   If you haven't read the Family Proclamation recently,  read it again .  To me its like the scriptures and general conference messages; I need to reread it and think about it and when I do I feel happier, my mind is clearer, and its like being filled with sunshine.  In the meantime, here is an excerpt from Julie Beck's address: "In The Church of  Jesus Christ  of Latter-day Saints, we have a theology of the family that is based on the Creation, the Fall, and the Atonement. The Creation of the earth provided a place where families could live. God created a man and a woman who were the two essen...