Documenting life...: Trek

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Trek

Jasper and I were asked to be the Ma and Pa for trek this year. We went for 3 days with the youth in our stake and walked with handcarts 25 miles! It was amazing. Such a good experience. I'll post more pics later...

14 comments:

chelle said...: I am sure it was fun. I am looking forward to the next trek! I am planning ways to get invited to go! Don't you think they should have a photographer on hand?

;0) M; July 30, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Brian and Kim said...: Love it!! I can't wait hear more about it.; July 30, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Christine said...: how cool! you guys are so awesome to do that.; July 30, 2008 at 6:18 PM
Emily said...: I LOVE that 2nd picture. You should read Jackie's blog. Apparently, there's a picture of you to submit to Pioneer Playboy. :)

I'm thrilled you had such a good experience! You and Jasper are just incredible. It doesn't matter where I go, people are always talking about you two and how amazing you are!; July 30, 2008 at 8:54 PM
sara said...: I bet the kids loved you!! Not that you guys don't look like kids yourselves in that picture!!; July 30, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Tanya said...: Jen it sounds absolutely fantastic! I can't wait to see more!; July 31, 2008 at 3:39 AM
Jo said...: What a great experience!! I loe your blog!!

Jo Skinner; July 31, 2008 at 12:49 PM
Jo said...: I wish you could have been my Ma and Pa on my treck.
Love ya; July 31, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Anonymous said...: You and Jasper are perfect fit for Ma and Pa!; August 1, 2008 at 10:43 AM
Anonymous said...: I bet you guys were an awesome Ma and Pa! Good for you!; August 1, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Melissa Spurgiesz said...: What an awesome experience~! I remember going on a trek as a youth. IT was a very eye opening and spiritual experience for me. It must have been such a joy to experience that with the youth in your ward. I am sure that the youth loved you and Jaz's humor throughout the trek. You definately need some humor at times to get you through.; August 3, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Aislinn said...: I hope you post more about it....I would love to hear about your experience. I was planning on going with our ward but then they released us (YW presidency) a month before. One day I would love to go. I heard it is really hard but such an amazing experience. Had you been before this?; August 3, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Jamelle Kelly said...: I've never had the opportunity to trek it!! Glad you could participate.; August 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Michelle Arnett said...: What the? How did I not know you got to go on TREK! I am so mad! I would have loved to go! Hopefully one day. . I have never gone before.; November 26, 2008 at 11:41 PM

Out of the mouths of babes

5/11 Tae: "My dad is bigger than my mom and my mom is mini-er than my dad"
5/11 Tae: "Don't coffee me!!!" she and paige seem to think the word for copy is actually coffee.
05/11 Tae: After going in the front yard after me telling her not to.. " oh mom, I accidentally thought the front was the back"
03/09: Maddie: " Why do we have to pay taxes? Why do they have to have laws...like pay your taxes? Or don't stand on swivel chairs?" Ha ha!!
12/08: Tanner: "mom, don't pick your nose and throw it on the ground or you will slip on it like a banana peel. So you have to put it on a picture, or a high shelf"
Tae 3/09: Today she was looking for little scab on her hand and noticed it was gone. So she said "Mom, my owie went home!"
2/09 Maddie: Kimi is eating a burger, Mad hates red meat. "Mmmm, that looks good" Me: "But you don't even like hamburgers!" Maddie: "But if it were the only food left on earth, I'd pound it."
12/08 Tanner: "Mom, when can we get out our bean stocks?" I realized he was talking about Christmas Stockings. :)
11/08 I'm in the bathroom, alone. But never really alone. Maddie comes to the door and says "mom what was your best moment?" Uh, can we talk about this later?
11/08 Tanner: "Mom, is my bones warm or hot?" later that day..."I wish our house was made of nachos." Ya, me too.
10/08 Me" Well Maddie when I was little I only got a quarter or 50 cents for a tooth" Maddie" Ya, well that was in the OLDEN DAYS mom! The tooth fairy hardly had any money then."
9/08 Tan:" Mom, when you have the new baby, will we sell Taelyn?"
01/08 Maddie: "Guess what Mom, when I lose my front tooth the tooth fairy brings me $20" What?? Who said that? "A girl in my class! I'm so excited to get my very own $20!"
10/07 Madeline: "Mom I remember what it was like to live with Jesus before I was born" Oh really? "Ya, it looked just like it does here, but it was on clouds."
09/07 Tanner: "Mom sometimes your mean to me, but Sister Castleberry (nursery teacher) is always nice to me...like this many times ( he holds up his little 5 fingers right in my face)" How cute is he??
Just the other day Madeline came to me after practicing some intricate dance moves with Jaren and said "Mom, I just wish I could marry Jaren because he dances with me, he does whatever I say, and he's such a gooood guy. Why can't I marry my brother? " I then explained just why we don't marry our siblings. Hopefully she'll have no problem finding a guy just like Jaren in 20 years.
"Shake your bootie, shake your bootie..." This goes along with a mooning of sorts by the 3 yr. old Tanner
“Do you wish you were Dad so you wouldn’t have to change Taelyn’s diaper or do all the work, and you could be at church on time?” -Maddie
"I'm the last number strong" -Jaren

Deep Thoughts...

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.