Our Trip to AZ

Cameron Claussen turned 7 years old on January 22nd.
We celebrated with the family at "Amazing Jakes", basically an indoor "Lagoon"

Camryn was ALL about riding the fun rides.
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She about made Grandpa Roger sick on the teacups.
Once she found out that she could make them spin faster, that was all she wrote :)

Then we traveled on down to Yuma to visit mom and dad. It was beautiful sunny weather. I sure miss them at home, but I don't blame them for wanting to stay down in the warmth.

The Window Through Which We Look

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood.

The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside. "That laundry is not very clean", she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap."



Her husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband:

"Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this."

The husband said, "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."

And so it is with life. What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.

*Thanks to my sweet friend Theresa for this thought :)

She said YES !!

Landon popped the question, and Kacey said YES !

We are very happy for them.
April 30th is the date, in the Bountiful Temple.
Congratulations Kacey and Landon !

A Good Lesson

If you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8 feet and Is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner.
The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a Run of 10 to 12 feet.. Without space to run, as is its habit, It will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.



The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkable nimble creature in the air, cannot take off from a level place. If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.



A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom.. It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.



In many ways, we are like the buzzard, the bat, and the bumblebee. We struggle about with all our problems and frustrations, never realizing that all we have to do is look up! That's the answer, the escape route and the solution to any problem! Just look up. Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, But faith looks up!

Fun on New Year's Day