What I learned in Church Yesterday!

Yesterday we had Stake Conference and we had a General Authority come speak to us Elder Bruce C. Hafen. He was incredible but honestly it was his wife who spoke for just a few short minutes who made me think the hardest. She was telling a story about an extended family member who had made some pretty serious mistakes in the eyes of the church and her family, but who had gone through the steps of repentance learned from her mistakes and was doing well. Then she said this "The only dumb mistake is the one that we don't learn from." She made the point that the Lord put us on this earth to learn and well that is going to include learning the hard way. Since none of us are perfect and we are all going to make mistakes, and the Lord set it up this way, the only dumb mistake is the one that we don't learn from. I have thought about this a lot and realized that this is how I want to teach my little Derek. He will make mistakes and make some bad choices but as long as he learns from them and makes himself a better person than he will be doing OK. I know that I have made many a mistake and probably have made a few dumb ones because I've made the same mistake a few times but now I think that my view on it is a little different which hopefully will help me become a better person. Anyways I thought I would share what I learned in church today.

Oh yea!!

oh yea I forgot to mention Corey got a new job. Doing the same thing he was before just a different company. Thanks to all you were such a support and help during these hard times and we have made it. Such a learning experience that we never want to have to go through again.

New Internet

So if you read my last post you realized that I was quite frustrated with our new internet. I did change that service and now we have real internet and it is faster now so hopefully we won't have all our pictures that we post fuzzy and hopefully we can at least start being better about keeping in touch. So basically I'm going to just try to post a bunch of pictures.

These pictures are from a pretty good fall, we called him scar face for a little while

These are some pictures from our latest trip to Wyoming.

Yes Derek Loves to Empty Baskets and Climb in.

Good Morning

Again if we can't have baskets then an old diaper box will work. Derek has definately been missing being with his Daddy every day.

Reunion pictures. He loved his Aunt Suzie

hello

Hello all!!

Well this last little while has been quite the whirlwind for our family. We went back to Georgia for the family reunion had a wonderful time seeing everyone there. Derek started walking as soon as we got back, and Corey got a job!!! He started a week ago and he really likes the new company that he is working for. They are pretty small but he is on a job site at BYU which only puts him about 20 minutes from the house and he doesn't have to drive north into Salt Lake. The best news though is that now I can start working on cutting my hours back. Although I must confess Corey made a great housewife. His cleaning skills were pretty good and even though it took a little bit of time he finally got the whole maintaining a house thing down pretty good. The only thing that he really lacked were cooking skills. Corey will still tell you though that if he had it his way he would stay home with Derek everyday and just let me go to work. Although he does say that he feels good going to work and bringing home a paycheck and well I really like it.

Father's day was really a downer for Corey this year unfortunatley I was sick all day long so instead of him getting pampered he was taking care of Derek and I. I felt so bad because he made his own breakfast, he didn't have to make his own dinner because my mom cooked but what a drag. But I guess that is what happens when you are the Dad and Mom is sick right. All it prooved to me though was how lucky I was to have such an awesome husband who even on his day was willing to do anything for us. We also made a quick trip to Wyoming to go and see Grandma Carol and Grandpa Jo. These are just a few pictures but I hope that you find them cute. We had a fun time. Sorry there aren't more pictures but well the internet connection is so slow that I can hardly stand it.

We signed up for a netzero dial-up connection and well I guess you get what you pay for. I remember being on a dial-up connection a long time ago when I was young and honestly i don't remember it being this slow I don't quite know how long that I can stand it we may have to upgrade.