Handi-Kappy Family

Favorite Quote

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.

I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.

I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.

I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.

I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.

I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

-Marjorie Pay Hinkley

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Bring on the Holly

Thank goodness for mothers and mother-in-laws who have hand-me-downs that happened to fall in our laps this year. My mom was so kind to load us up with her unwanted Christmas decorations and leftover ornaments from her company's festival of trees Christmas Tree, and my mother-in-law passed on her three year old beautiful fake tree because she was given a new one! I honestly have one snowman cookie jar that I bought last year and the rest was given to us. It was a blessing because Steve is a "SCROOGE" about spending money on decorations for holidays that only last a month and then take up storage space afterwards. We are slowly changing his mind each year. Thanks for all the cute decorations mom, and for the tree Cindy! We really appreciate all you guys constantly do for us.