RISE TO THE GREAT POTENTIAL WITHIN YOU. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know how. IF YOU DO SO YOU WILL WITNESS MIRACLES COME TO PASS. ~President Hinckley

"My darling little girl, when will you understand that "normal" is not a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage." -Alice Hoffman

Please take my hands in yours, hold on , don't let go! I am just a child living in a world that often is to fast and scary for me, a world I know nothing about. I am eager to learn to grow to develop to become more of what I am able. I want to develop my self worth and share it with others, but I will need you help, you have knowledge of what I know nothing about about. I need you to teach me as others have taught you , but please have patience with me and give me the chance to become what I am capable of becoming.

I pray that you will teach me the things that brings happiness, things like love, faith , hope, patience ,endurance and the joy of working hard and succeeding. I beg you to care enough to correct me when I am wrong, encourage me when I fail, teach me the road is long and often hard and please always believe in me and always believe in my self worth. Give me something solid to cling to, trust in and to have an unwavering faith in. Until am there I can lean on you so one day I to can be strong.

I want my life to have purpose, a meaning, a goal, I want something to dream about, as you also have dreams about me , lets work towards those goals together , help me feel that I am part of this world , in which I live in which I cease to exist. I want to contribute to this world I want to help it grow and I want the progress to make us both something to be proud of. Again I ask for your help please be my voice when my words get mumbled in my head, know to fight for me and my value of my worth.

Help me build a life with character, purpose and fulfillment, Show me peace which stems from freedom teach me to care for myself and others that through this I will learn to love honor and respect my country and my God. Teach me of God that I may know the greatest of love. Make me aware of beauty of creation and of dignity of labor . Teach me to work hard and to take pride in what I do , so I can develop talents.

I am just a child and I may always depend on you for guidance but teach me to try to dream and to believe. As I grow you will grow and as I climb you shall climb. For all you give to me I will give back to you and fill your heart with an everlasting warmth.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility

Oh Brandon

Brandon is a very devoted Ds player, It help clams him before bed it breaks up the monotony of long summer days, it devourers his attention when all attention is lost. So if you could only imagine his grief when his Ds was misplaced. Only two days had passed and couldn't go on living without his it. So the suggestion comes to him that he should pray about it and maybe he could have help finding it .....

" Dear Heavenly Father, put my Ds under my pillow now! "

He gets up runs down the hall... no Ds under his pillow. He comes back just as miserable as one soul can be .
Next he tries the tooth fairy , Easter Bunny , and why not Santa Clause, ( he knows this is a stretch since there is no snow on the roof tops.) He asks me to take him to the doctor so they can fix his brain , and help him remember better. He tries replacing his steps but by now a week has gone by and his going day by day . I suggest that he looks the last place he remembers having it. His response is simple....

" If I knew that I wouldn't have Left it there." We turn the house inside out, bring a new meaning to clean under Brandon's bed. He has just about givin up and is gathering things to sell to buy a new DS. He put his Red eye phantom Stuffed puppy in the pile, A baby picture of himself ( a long with a hefty price tag $40 for a mangled snapshot) HE wants to set a table out front and sell his aunts book for $60 a book. He is willing to trade his little sisters Broken DS for a brand new one. He continues to prays everyday , with his arms raised to the sky muttering under his breath.

As I walk into my Moms house last Monday, There is a excited energy in the air , Brandon was
hugging Grandma with the look of pure joy spread across his whole body. I leave for work know that Brandons prayers were answered, When I came home I knew it was time to teach him a lesson about heavenly father answering our prayers.

"Brandon,, Heavenly Father helped Grandma find your Ds because you prayed about it, You need to thank him for that ." He cut me off

"Mom I can't ... I said bad words to him "

" Brandon what bad words did you say "

"You know Mom ALL of them. "

"oh Brandon. Your lucky you got your Ds back at all."

I'll save this lesson for another day

Another year gone

Another year has came and gone. It is not quite fair how fast time passes. We are on the eve of a new year. What I have done to leave my mark this year? What have I learned ? Where do I go from here?



As my mind races through the year, I stop where I always stop. My children, this year we added yet another family member. I ponder 'was there life before this'. She is perfect and a part of our family already. On Dec. 1 2009. We welcomed Kendra Elizabeth to our home,world and hearts. Little one you have so much to teach us. I have so much to teach and show you. We have so much to learn together.



My all dear children, as this year comes to an end, you are the mark I will make on this world. You are what I will leave behind. I have never felt more sure than now my purpose and place in this world. Each of us arrive here with the opportunity to shape ourselves, to grow, to learn, to overcome opposition and, to hopefully leave some evidence behind of a life well lived. You my children, are my chance, my opportunity to prove my existence. You are the mark I will leave behind, What I teach you , What I show you , How I love you , Will be what I leave behind. Thank you in advance for understanding the mistakes that I will make for Patience so we can grow and learn together. For love that will get us through life. I love you.

First thing first. I am Orthella I have been married for almost ten years. In my mind I am still 23 so, that made me a very young bride. However in the mirror reality sets in and I am not 23. I am married to the most amazing man. He works so hard for our family. He gets up by two to be to work so he can get Rachel off the bus by eleven. Then some how manages to get enough energy to clean the house, do all of the yard work, laundry,and feed the kids before I get home. He also squeezes time to jump on the tramp with Rachel, fly helicopters with Ryan, and well the list could go on and on with everything that Brandon has him do. Then together we bath the kids and start our routine of going to bed. He finally climbs in bed at ten, after getting Rachel to sleep. I am hoping with summer break around the coner that he might be able to start sleeping in till at least three. I am very lucky to have Rob as a husband. He is so willing to help not just me but anyone whom I think might need help as well. How ever there is some one that idealizes Rob more than me, -- Rachel has a beautiful realationship with her father. Its the first words out of her mouth every moring, " Wher is my dad, I love my dad!" and then she sighs and smiles.