YOU have GOT to see this website...

I have some good friends that live in Houston {Katy}, TX and have gotten this site below up and running. It is really a cool idea. I can't believe the response they have received to all this in such a short amount of time. I love how the good of one person and in this case two people can have such an impact on people all over the world. They have had hits from over 80 different countries and are able to put $100 a day in a bank account for him made only for a trustee to to have access to when he is clean and off the streets. He has an offer in Oregon to go to a Rehab and get clean for 6 weeks-just from the website that the Dolans have created. For right now, it is the city of Houston, and in a few days it will be the country of the United States, that is getting the recognition for being a kind, caring, and out of the box kind 0f people that they are. I love the fact that in just a short 11 days the Dolan's have figured out how to help a man who on Feb. 9th had no hope at all. In fact, I'm sure he thought that life as he knew it was going to be living under a freeway sign and panhandling for his day to day food and lifeline. I don't think that he ever thought 2 intelligent human beings would ever approach him and ask him if they could try something that might change his life forever-and change it for the good!

Tim, a homeless, helpless man had given up hope of ever getting off the streets of Houston, TX. It has been 5 long years and was just waiting for the break he needed to make it again someday. Then two nobodys: Sean and Kevin Dolan, took to the streets and found Tim. They made a difference in just one person's life. Doesn't the saying go something like this: "How think ye? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?" And then I think it even says: "And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray." matt 18:12-13. 

I am not by any means a scriptorian and absolutely not trying to chastize anyone-but I just wonder what a difference this one small act of kindness can make to our world. Especially, in such trying times as this...I am proud to say that I know this fabulous family and only hope that this one sheep turns into a hundred and the hundred turns into a million. It would be such a cool reprieve to see the world catch on to this concept and just try it-in their hometowns. It would be relatable to Oprah's pay it forward, one act of kindness movement she caused a few years back. It caught on like wildfire and is now being filmed and talked about all over the globe.

I just have to let them know how awesome I think all of this is. They are being interviewed by News Stations all over Houston and on Monday morning will be on the Fox & Friends news show. If you don't get to read this before then-which I don't think you will, you could probably go online and see it there. They are also going to be on the Rachel Ray show this week. Just letting everyone know there is a new way of being kind, a new road to healing, and a way to make a BIG difference in the life of someone who thought they would never be noticed. Go go go!!!

They are really getting good responses for the most part. Just as an update: the Monday Fox news was just a quick minute and a half but was really well done. The Rachel Ray show will be just a blurb about them and Jeff Foxworthy joking about it....make a difference pass this site on to whom ever you know and help make a difference today.

~CRAZY HAIR DaY~

A few extra minutes in the morning and look what you can create. Isn't this wonderful. I am going to really miss the days of elementary school. Getting excited about the simplest things. Fun parties-getting to be "Room Mom" and help with. Field trips to chaperone. My days are getting close to the end. It has been a big year for Emily. A year of excitement, growth, learning and new, wonderful changes. She graduated from Primary and moved up to Young Women's. No more Sacrament Programs to be in. That was literally my favorite Sunday of the year. Loved seeing all the kids get up and say their parts so close to the microphone that it echoed and sounded very raspy and scratchy. Em was even the girl narrator for the program this year. The nerves flow and it seems like your part will never get here and then the program will last forever, when really it is just a moment in time that,  as parents, we cherish for ever-well at least until the next one.

Isn't it crazy how there's something in front of you

and you can't see it.

Isn't it crazy how letters aren't numbers, not one bit.

Isn't it crazy  that you are you.

Isn't it crazy that you are mine - it's true.

Isn't is crazy that you make us laugh every day.

Isn't it crazy that I love you in every way?

C H R I S T I A N

You ARE one crazy dude!

Here's the story behind this crazy boy of mine. He is always entertaining us. Never a dull moment with him around. So one day is figures out that if he puts a fan on the floor {or holds a blow dryer too} in front of him it would create the effect of him falling and screaming as he goes down, way down...He is pretending that is in California Adventures and is on The Tower of Terror ride.

This is what he would look like. He ends up entertaining himself for hours and making Ash and Em laugh forever too. Then he brings in me and dad and there we sit. I with my camera and Nef holding the blow dryer: for effects only!!  too funny.

FRIENDS. . . 

Oh, isn't that true. I love a good book, a good movie and a good friend. I think they all fit in that same category. always make you feel good. comforting. peaceful.  i need that right now. i'm glad that Ashleigh has that in her life. I am going crazy but not Ash. She always has someone to laugh with, someone to text her back when she needs them, and for sure a good laugh. She is always reading a good book that catches her attention and keeps her engaged in it for many an hour. she can read like nobody's business. get in trouble at home and at school for reading too much. but is always ready when a friend calls. love that about her. simple. doesn't need much attention. doesn't ask for much. loves life. loves school-well, don't know if she loves it, but; she does do quite well despite it all. just a happy-go-lucky kind of gal. i'm so proud of her and the decisions she is making. always one step ahead of the game. received her young women's medallion in church on Sunday and even bore her testimony. fabulous. couldn't ask for much more. love every thing about this girl. way to go ash. i'm so glad you were sent to me. might not say that in a few months when you are driving. for now you are worth your weight in gold. love ya to the moon  and back!! mom

A day of love. . .

Isn't today suppose to be a day of all kinds of flowers, hershey's kisses and hugs, love notes and rose petals? I guess I missed the boat. 

NYC - here they come...Nef, Emily, Christian

Kathy G - here you go- NO WHERE!!

I get to stay home and...oh, nevermind, I don't even get to stay home. I get to work all day today. Ashleigh will be home alone doing homework and catching up on oboe lesson songs, online class and chores. Kathy on the other hand will be in SLC at the jetBlue reservations center and working/talking her little mouth off. I get to work for 10 hours today to help a friend from the class out. I did give those kids a really good Valentine's though! How 'bout a three day trip to NYC-free of charge-well, not completely free but  pretty much! Cheap hotels, free airfare and tired feet with blisters. Can't beat that. If you continue to read on I should have a few photos from the trip posted. If their dad takes any good ones, that is. Enough said.

We've been busy--

Can't you tell I'm a new woman? Look at the beautiful photography I've done and look at the wonderful baking I've been doing. Girls and I have had a blast. I am practicing for Valentine's day and can't wait to surprise everyone with my new look and love of the kitchen-NOT! But I gotcha for a minute didn't I? That isn't even close to my baking or photography by far. I wouldn't even come close to it! Wishful thinking. Do love it though and if you are good enough to come close-let me know, will ya? I would love to hire you for the day and then pretend it was mine. Please, pretty please?