Mitch + Jessie = Missy

Baby, it’s cold outside

It has been really cold this winter. The hallway has been a great alternative to playing outside while staying nice and warm.

This is my baby girl sporting a striped, hooded onesie with peep-toe gold shoes. I love her.

Gather our children around us and let our homes be the abiding place of the Spirit of the Lord. If we will do our part, we may know and be sure that our Heavenly Father will do his.

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—	Teachings of Presidents of the Church: George Albert Smith, Chapter 22: Bringing Up Children in Light and Truth

Morning.

I want to suggest to you … , there is no time that you can spend, no way in which you can utilize your time that will be of greater advantage than training your boys and your girls to be worthy of the blessings of our Heavenly Father.

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—	Teachings of Presidents of the Church: George Albert Smith, Chapter 22: Bringing Up Children in Light and Truth

Little old lady.

Do you have the Vine app? It’s like Instagram but with 6 seconds of video. Follow me.
This is Missy playing in the fort we made.

Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t poke enough holes to drain it dry.

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—	Alvin Price

My house isn’t messy…it’s custom designed by a 14 month old.

Missy saying pleeeease.

Soccer pro.

Have you ever?

Have you ever seen someone and can’t remember where you’ve seen them before?

That happened to me while I was in Chelsea. I passed a man walking on the sidewalk who was so familiar. My first thought was he’s someone I know from church, but that wasn’t right. Then I thought he was someone famous, in a movie, or TV show. I tried picturing his face how I’d seen it on TV. I can see him sitting at a table, so maybe he’s a news anchor? I tried googling all the local anchor’s images, but was unsuccessful at finding his face.

Then a couple days later, I saw an ad for the Food Network and all of a sudden I had this revelation come to me like the flowing waters of a river. THAT’S where I had seen his face! On the Food Network, behind a table, eating food, and critiquing it on Chopped. Marc Murphy.

Ahh…don’t you love it when you solve a mystery? I’m impressed it only took a couple of days. I thought for sure it’d be a couple of years.

Peanut Butter & Co. is a local peanut butter company that makes some great peanut butter concoctions. My favorite so far is Cinnamon Raisin Swirl. We had a Groupon for 4 jars, and this is what we got: Cinnamon Raisin Swirl, Crunch Time, White Chocolate Wonderful, and The Bee’s Knees.

Hooray for peanut butter!

What would you do with 4 jars of peanut butter?

The same God that placed that star in a precise orbit millennia before it appeared over Bethlehem in celebration of the birth of the Babe has given at least equal attention to placement of each of us in precise human orbits so that we may, if we will, illuminate the landscape of our individual lives, so that our light may not only lead others but warm them as well.

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—	Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

Little ballerina.

A day at the playground.