The Hurst Family: August 2009

Sunday, August 23, 2009

First Day of School

Janna-6th grade

Jeffrey-8th grade

Cammie-10th grade

Amberly-12th A SENIOR

I totally stole this picture from my friend Heather's blog. Her cutie patutie son Kaden is in our first grade class this year and she caught this shot as I let the kids into the room on the first day of school. I have pictures of the kids on the first day, but none of me so I was excited she got this. I'm loving first grade.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Our New Trailer

Last night we picked up our new trailer. I should say new to us. We found this 2002 Tahoe Lite built by Thor. It's a hybrid which means it's a contained trailer with all the features you find in a regular trailer, but the beds fold out so the sleeping space isn't taking up your living area. The kids slept in it last night. It's too bad our camping season is over. It does have a heater and maybe we'll try to go for fall break if we can get an equalizer hitch and trailer brakes by then. I hope I can adjust to camping is such luxury. I'm sure I'll be o.k.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Summer Finale

Well I've been trying not to think about it too much, but I finally have had to accept the fact that summer is winding down. Today I've done a deep clean of the kitchen to get ready for school to start. The kids do pretty well with maintenance cleaning every week, but a couple of times a year I feel the need to scrub it MOMMY CLEAN. I really don't enjoy it, but after putting my earphones in and blasting the ABBA, I get into the groove and go. It really is satisfying to have a clean kitchen. Wonder how long it will last?

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Washington Lake Campout #4

We had a great group camping trip to Washington Lake this past few days. There were 9 families that came this year. The Hursts, Crimans, Daniels, Wrights, Jones', Farrers, Stewarts, Allreds and Williams. We went to Provo river and enjoyed the falls as always. The only scary part was when the Criman's dog Sally went down the falls. I thought for sure we were going to be carrying out a dead dog, but she was fine. We ate great food and had fun playing games, visiting, hiking, fishing and enjoying God's beauty. Now it's time to take a big breath and get ready for school to start in a couple of weeks. Where did the summer go anyway?

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Quotes to Live By

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

It turns what we have into enough, and more.

It turns denial into acceptance,

chaos to order,

confusion to clarity.

It can turn a meal into a feast,

a house into a home,

a stranger into a friend.

Gratitude makes sense of our past,

brings peace for today,

and creates a vision for tomorrow.

- Melody Beattie

Testimony is what we KNOW through the power of the Holy Ghost. Conversion is being TRUE to what we KNOW. --Pres. David Miles

People fall away from the church for the same reason they fall out of bed. They aren't all the way in.

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

‎"We need to teach our daughters to distinguish between a man who flatters her - and a man who compliments her. A man who spends money on her - and a man who invests in her. A man who views her as property - and a man who views her properly. A man who lusts after her - and a man who loves her. A man who believes he is God's gift to women - and a man who remembers a woman was God's gift to man...And then teach our boys to be that kind of a man."

Charity is what we are and faith is how we work. by Kleve Anderson

"Your life is your garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. If your life isn't awesome, you're watering the weeds."

You can never escape the responsibility of your example.

Revealing the truth is like lighting a match. It can either bring light to your life or set your world on fire. (from Being Erica)

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." by Albert Einstein

"If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads but what he rereads." by Francois Mauriac

"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best. God finds it hard to give, because he would give the best and man will not take it." by George Macdonald

Live Abundantly

The more you give, the more you get... The more you laugh, the less you fret...The more you do unselfishly, the more you live abundantly. The more you love, the more you'll find, that life is good and friends are kind. For only what we give away enriches us from day to day.

Charles R. Swindoll once said, “Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it.”

‎"I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble"
--Helen Keller--

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone, And as we let our own light shine, We unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others.

Written by Marianne Williamson as used in Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Speech, 1994

Be not deceived by her defensive posturing, that a woman is not interested in the truest form of love. It is merely the natural consequence of a personal or vicarious hurt done to her soul. --RaeAnn Hurst February 11, 2012

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