She was SO excited for her "celebration". It's interesting how they have a graduation when the kids are returning next year for more preschool.... Oh well. They loved it and don't care. :-)
When asked what she wants to be when she grows up, she promptly and confidently responded with "a princess!"
My very dear friend Keri Cook was kind and thoughtful enough to host a baby shower for me! It was so much fun and she really went above and beyond to make it special! We had great food, great friends and some great laughs! What a joyous celebration as we prepare for the arrival of our newest love.
Yum! Yum! Too bad I couldn't have any of it... Oh well.
Here I am with my friend, Kris... too bad her eyes were closed. ;-)
Me with two of my favorite gals! Keri (on my right), the hostess, and Heather! Sure love these ladies!
And it would appear that they love me, too. :-)
I don't know WHAT was so funny, but I predict I'll be expressing a similar look in a few weeks for a different reason! ;-)
Mark and I have been married since June of 2003, but have been together since 1997. We have been in our new house since June of 2007 and just filled it up a little bit more! We welcomed Rylee Michelle into our family on June 5th, 2009. June seems to be a good month for us! Karina turns four on October 2nd, and seems very secure and happy here. She has room to play and grow, a big backyard and a park across the street! It's a great neighborhood and we are very blessed. Jaclyn, Mark's daughter from his first marriage, is now 18 and living with her mother in Salt Lake City. She's going to take two classes at the University of Utah in the fall and is looking for a job. She seems happy and well and we're very pleased about that!
"Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we're so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act.
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can't see how it is."
-Baba Ram Dass
This was part of Karina's blessing
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you, but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies, but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.