Recent Ramblings

It's been a long time and so I am going to brief in my descriptions so that I don't bore all of you...however, it has been a fun March full of "new" things. I just want to mention a

few of them for y'all.

Anyone that knows my father, probably won't be surprised to know that he is having a book published!! He has tried before to publish informative books and with no success has ventured on to a brighter road with a novel. It is titled Unto This End. I have read it and it is great! But more than the fact that it is a good book, I am a proud daughter. Not everyone can say that their father is a published author. He had been made an offer to publish his book by a publishing company last year, but he sat on it for while because it was going to be quite expensive. There is a friend of his that is trying to start a new publishing company and as it is-Dad is interested still in having his book published and so there you have it! He is going to get it done after all of this time. I can not express how exciting this is for me!! Anyhow, I was over at their home the other day and lo and behold, on their kitchen table was the sample of the front cover. It just made it so real and exciting-I had to share it with all of you!

That same day, I had gone over to my parents house to join my mom and her "quilt club". In her ward, there was enough interest to do a little club where she has been teaching them to do quilt squares to put together for a quilt, a table runner, or whatever else they can come up with. I decided to try. For anyone that knows me, I DO NOT sew, but to mine and my mother's surprise, I tried it and I actually liked it!!! It even turned out cute. It ended up not being as hard as I thought. I will even go back to make another one! Here is a picture of my first quilt square ever!! Also, a picture of me sewing above because it doesn't happen every often!! Documentation is part of it!

At the end of February (I know...it's been over a month!) we were able to go down to Salt Lake City and go through the Temple with my youngest brother Ben. It was a very special day. My grandparents were there, my parents, my brother and sister-in-law Jon and Kyla, my younger brother Joe, all of my aunts and uncles from my mother's side and Jeff and I were able to be there. It was beautiful! Thanks Ben for letting us share your special day with you!

While we were down for Ben's Temple day, we able to take our family and visit my grandparents for a little while. How lucky am I to have two grandparents still who love me and are just still livin' life and doing their things together? My grandpa works at the temple a couple of times a week and they are still very active and do a lot together still. They especially love to go on drives together and look at their surroundings. They live just walking distance from Temple Square downtown Salt Lake which comes in very handy when we need parking for that area. What a special event it is to go and visit them. I love them so much.

Lucky Tender Mercies

I have very ambitious scrap booking friends. I LOVE it!! This year they decided that we should do a new challenge every month. In January, the challenge was 31 scrap book pages in 31 days. In February it was a mini book. March's' challenge is a one page layout of things we feel lucky for. With that being said, a few years ago, I heard an amazing talk given about Tender Mercies. It was an account of one persons feelings of our Heavenly Father and his tender mercies that he gives her. Since that talk, I often try to notice the little things that I receive from my Heavenly Father each day and thank him for them. Yesterday was a day of Luck and Tender Mercies. I know that not all of us may think of the same things as luck or tender mercies, but here are a couple of mine yesterday that I would like to give credit.

1. A plumber who came and unclogged a pipe for me and it surprisingly cost way less than I would have expected!!!

2. A GOOD hair day.

3. A four year old who didn't cry when it was time to go to preschool.

4. Another moment that I got to spend with my parents! Living by them has been more amazing than I would've ever imagined. Lunch out is nice!

5. A new(er) van that we have the money to make the payments on.

6. A hidden bag of Easter Chicks and Bunnies under the luggage in my cart at Target so that when I loaded my luggage in my van saw that I hadn't paid for them and therefor had to hurry and return them to the store without eating the whole bag before I got home (which I would have)!!!

7. Had money to put the extreme amount of gas in my car that I needed.

8. Recycling.

9. A son who is 11 and can stay with the other kids while I make a quick run to the store all by myself.

10. Front row parking at the store.

11. Kodak machine where in minutes I can choose, edit, print, and enjoy my pictures!!

12. A VERY creative friend who can pop an idea right off the top of her head when I need an idea for an activity!!

13. THE SUNSHINE!!!!!!! and warmer weather!

14. Primary songs being played on our humble keyboard.

15. A husband who flew home to be with us for one day before he flies out for another 4 days!

16. Friends in Boise who still want me to come and visit so that I am not alone for those 4 days!!

Farwell Elder Andrew Nelson

My brother-in-law left for his mission to Argentina yesterday on March 5th! Mom and brother Alex went with him to enter the MTC down in Provo, Utah so that he can be taught the language and to be taught how to teach the people in Argentina. It is so exciting sending a brother on a mission. I am not sure how I will feel when it is my son, but it sure is fun sending brothers. He was so ready and so excited! Quenalee told Jeff last night on the phone that as soon as they entered the room where they welcome all of the new missionaries, he was escorted to the front and then asked to give the opening prayer. WOW! That would be scary and intimidating! She said that he did such a great job! I would not have thought he would have done any different. The best of Luck Andy! We love you and know that the Lord and your dad will be there with you the whole way!

An Old Friend...Do you think she'd remember me?

Okay-I was telling the girls during scrapbooking the other night about my friend that I had in High School that I sang on stage with in a show choir that we had. Well, I guess we WERE friends-who knows if she would remember me or not now-however, I still wanted to share this with you. Without embarrassing myself too badly (because there are no closeups of me...) I am showing you a video of her from one of our competitions (wait a while, she comes out after the storm...he he). I would tell you to watch for me, I am the one with big hair-but then...everyone has big hair!!! I really just want you to see HER...THEN! you have to watch the video of her and Andrea Bocilli-it is amazing!!

And to think that in my Senior yearook, she wrote "Becca, You are my hero!!" Crazy!

Charisma 1992 http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ld9oBJwthsg

Heather and Andrea http://youtube.com/watch?v=3wZxZ9U1rjs&feature=related