Mom's Letters: Arizona SNOW!!

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Arizona SNOW!!

Claire wasn't feeling well today so I stayed home from church to let her nap. We'd been told that a big storm was going to come through this weekend - and boy did it ever! I was so sad the kids missed it so I went outside to take lots of pictures and even save some of the "snow" (hail) in bowls for them! It was incredible to see our pool deck covered in white, the trampoline, our house, the patio, the streets! Plus the thunderous roar of all the hail slamming against our roof for so long! It was a thrill. :)

2 comments:

DeeDee said...: Just got caught up on the blog - you must be private again. the fam is as cute as ever ;-)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! love you!; March 19, 2012 at 12:53 PM
Anonymous said...: Crazy storm it was indeed! Happy Birthday sis! So sorry I couldnt be there with u to celebrate! I love u more than u know!

Dru; March 20, 2012 at 1:55 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."

*

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Arizona SNOW!!

2 comments: