Mom's Letters: My trip to Seattle

Thursday, January 22, 2009

My trip to Seattle

Enjoying Chipotle, of course. (I'm trying to see how many food pics I can post of Ali while she's prego. I think it is funny.)

Thai food with B and A

DeeDee working on her wedding registry at Macy's

Enjoying a beautiful day in Seattle after a nice lunch

Having our nails done

The happy couple, Dee and Geoff - to be married in August (I was there for their engagement party)

Me, Dee and Jana - friends for life - at the party

My other engaged friends Megan and James - to be married in May!

A nice toast to their relationship by Mr. Abo

Enjoying a tea party with little Lauren, Jana's daughter

1 comment:

DeeDee said...: Oh my love, great pictures! What a weekend to remember. Can you email me the pics from the weekend? thanks! love ya!; January 22, 2009 at 5:01 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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Thursday, January 22, 2009

My trip to Seattle

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