Good Times With The Family

Shya and Chad watching "Ice Age:Mammoth Christmas" in my bedroom.

This really tickled me!

Hunty having his first lesson on the hammered dulcimer. He's two years old.

Look at the concentration on his face!

Shya had her 4th birthday on the 18th 

Shya and Mommy = Beautiful Girls

Shya got her ears pierced! 

Smiling because she has Hello Kitty earrings!

Shya is Beste's Favorite Helper

Spencer just HAS to be in the middle of everything!

Lovely Christmas Tree!

I am grateful for such a lovely family! Takk Jesus!

Favorite Family Christmas Songs

Christmas songs say a lot about people. What's your favorite?

Bunads!

There's nothing cuter than two wee grandbabies in their Norwegian bunads!

Shya is going to be four in a couple of weeks and Hunter turned two in August.

Here is a pic of Shya and Hunter with their magnificent mom, Meghann!

We're going Christmas-tree shopping soon! 

Utah, this is your queue to snow!!!!!

A Beautiful Day!

What a lovely way to spend a Saturday morning: making soap!

Shya was fascinated by the process and especially liked the 'poorple' soap.

Thanks for the air-mic concert, Raelynn, you are always a ray of sunshine!

Thank you, Megs, for your steady hands when it came time to remove the soap from the molds. 

Can't wait to try this again!!!!

Beautiful, Beloved Snow!

At last, a REAL snowfall in Sandy! I'm SOOOOO happy! It's snowing!!!!!!

It's hard on poor Spencer because his hoo-haw is so low to the ground that he has to immerse himself in the snow to do his b'ness. It's tragic but cute at the same time.

Unless it's your hoo-haw in question.

Shya caught snow on her tongue tonight in celebration of the first snowfall. Priceless.

Bring it on, Winter! I'm ready for you!

Hjemlengsel for Norge!

Ok, it's true....I am hopelessly homesick for Norway! I dragged Vivien to Ikea this morning (wearing our Norwegian sweaters, of course) so I could feel a little bit of the Norge vibe. But it didn't work. And my heart is still aching. 

This is Elin & Geir's cabin. We had a lovely time there with Pascual from Mozambique

as we chilled in the beautiful mountains of Norway. Check out the sweaters once again.

If this doesn't abate shortly,  I'll have to bust out the krumkake iron!

The Lightning Of God

I went to an intercession class last night at church and we watched a Dutch Sheets DVD. His theme was the 'Lightning of God' and how we, as intercessors, are like God's lightning bolts that hit the target. Just as we may turn a magnifying glass towards the sun and beam it's heat to burn paper on the ground so, too, we may turn our faces to God and learn to direct the fire of His Presence through intercession. Dutch Sheets explains it this way: We become the violent flashing forth of His divine energy, shattering, scattering and routing the enemy.

Here we are, the prayer warriors in Utah,

releasing God's glory and thwarting the plots of the enemy.

I think that's awesome!