Mom's Letters: Happy Six Months Blake and Al!

Friday, April 18, 2008

Happy Six Months Blake and Al!

I just talked to my sister and was reminded that today is their six month anniversary. So I want to send a shout out to tell them how much we love them!! We are so happy that you are so happy together. And, by the looks of the floral apron, we can see that Blake has been successfully domesticated. I am sure you will enjoy your night in snowy Seattle at a romantic dinner at the KEG!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: we need Drew's address in MD. We have his MTC address, but that just won't do us any good...; April 19, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Blake Hillstead said...: thanks for the post sis! and work it girl on the 7 minute mile. can't believe it! could you walk the next day?? Ali; April 19, 2008 at 9:33 PM

Mom's Favorite Quotes

I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

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Friday, April 18, 2008

Happy Six Months Blake and Al!

2 comments: