"Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride." Gordon B. Hinckley

Oct 24, 2010

Lead me with strong hands!!




It's amazing how the Lord works in such small ways. Always showing us and others around us the way. I have really struggled lately with helping a friend walk through a trial in her life that I know all too much about. I feel like I have know her forever and actually just met her. Someone told her to talk to me that I could help her. Somedays I can't find the words to help her because I am looking for those words myself. But something that came to my mind that someone great told me once was "Your life is like climbing a mountain and you need to climb it one tiny step at a time". This seemed to help her more than I thought it would, so I wanted to share it with all of you. I also heard this song "Lead me" today on a friends blog and it jus made me cry. I know that song was put there for me to hear and I hope you enjoy it. Listen to it all the way through! Hope it is a wonderful day for all of you :)


Oct 18, 2010

The Elk Hunt

Well hunting season snuck up on me again this year! Josh went on the week long elk hunt with his family last week and the kids and I stayed for four days in the trailer while he was and still is on the mountain in a tent probably freezing to death :) I stayed with Josh’s Mom, sister and Barb. We actually kept ourselves very busy with all sorts of fun things to do. I can’t say it was very easy with four kids and no husband though! It was beautiful up there and the weather couldn’t have been better. Geez one year I stayed in snow in October!!! So I will take this nice weather over snow any day. Except snow would have made the hunting better. The guys don’t hunt on Sunday so they came off the mountain for the day and they ate dinner with us and hung out for a little while, got a shower, and then they left again. I could tell that Josh was having a lot of fun and I am so glad he is! Hunting really means so much more to me than it use to. Josh is the hardest worker I know, he is never home, and he was in desperate need of a break away, and I am so glad he finally got one, doing what he loves to do the very most. It kills me when some women take away from their husbands what they love to do so much, because I think they really need it especially when life demands so much from them all the time. I mean I know how much I would love a break some days and boy that just doesn’t happen to Mommies because they are needed so much all the time. At least it only took me 8 years to figure this out and not a life time. Now I will hope and pray that my husband comes home with an elk so he will be in a wonderful mood!! See I really am learning now!! :)

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