Honesty

I wanted to share part of the editorial about HONESTY from the Church News this week.

One of the virtues that honesty reverberates with is a most significant aspect of mortality: wise use of time. Promptness to repent is near kin to true honesty. While belated confessions are always welcomed, it must be agreed that besides harboring a sin in the silent chambers of the soul, one has also held honesty hostage in those inner precincts.
Bad choices are the wellspring of dishonesty. Using time improperly, such as failing to study, not doing an honest day's work for an honest day's pay, spending money on impulse and in deficit, being unwilling to work, coveting others' property, are examples of bad choices with consequences that foster dishonesty. Once dishonesty is indulged, temptations grow to fabricate additional tangled webs in support.
Some wish to hide behind what they say are shades of gray. But as one person aptly noted, even the lightest gray is merely white with black dots on it.

JUNE TRAVELS

MINNESOTA TRIP
Soccer practice
A fun trip to the Minnesota Zoo.

Andrew and Jacob playing soccer. You can see Jacob is not afraid to go after the ball.

Playing at the Chutes and Ladder park

OREGON TRIP
Karen and Loralee
Isaac swinging at the park.
Helping Steve take the full length wall mirrors off. They were very heavy.
We left some wallpaper for Steve to have fun ripping it off.
Isaac enjoying a cracker while we are picking strawberries.
Picking strawberries with Jonah, Jaden, James, Shannon and Steve.
Playing the piano and singing songs with Shannon and Loralee.
Shannon and Loralee swimming for FHE.
One last picture with Shannon and Loralee before I go home.
Madalyn making a mud pie in the trench that Lance and Dad dug for the rain gutter to drain into.

Trip to Solvang, CA in April

Andrew, Jacob and Danny waiting with Grandpa Stott while Doug and Bonnie rent the van at the Ontario, CA airport.
Getting dinner ready.
We made it to the Resort in Solvang. Let the fun begin.
Showing the leaves of a fig tree.
Andrew and Jacob having fun in a toy store. Emma is in front. Too bad their Mom didn't buy those hats.
We did quite a bit of walking in Solvang. Grandma and Emma on one of our walks.

Grandpa showing how warm it was while the kids swam.

John and Jared swimming.

Bonnie swimming with Andrew and Jacob.

Playing in the kid pool at the Solvang Resort.

Visit from the Kunzlers

 

 

Shannon loved playing outside in the snow.

 

 

 
 
 
 
More photos from Christmas 2009

April Fools Joke

 

Christmas 2009

The annual sugar rush and creativity event.

FINALLY AN UPDATE

Visiting with the Kunzlers in October 2009.
Loralee in the zone.
Madalyn having fun with the dressups.
At a Minnesota Timberwolves game.
Fun watching basketball.
The Thanksgiving spread.
Enjoying the good food of the Holidays.
Thanksgiving in Minnesota. The boys hanging out.