Documenting life...: Nearing the end of 7

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Nearing the end of 7

I'm finally looking at a few many bazillion pics I took over the summer, and came across this one, it warms my soul...(you can click to enlarge)

12 comments:

Emily said...: Absolutely perfect.; October 23, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Ali said...: Jen, for some reason I haven't been able to make my pictures a link so that people can click on them for a closer look. How did you do that? It used to do it automatically, but ever since getting my mac I can't get it to do it. Any ideas? Help?; October 23, 2008 at 5:40 PM
chelle said...: I can see why it warms your heart. Wonderful photo. As usual. 8! Wow!

I just got home from the temple. We rode over with your mom and dad. They are so cute. And funny! m; October 23, 2008 at 8:14 PM
tiffunny said...: Love it - what a great way to document your daughter.

And for your friend Alita - is she by chance moving the pictures by drag & drop in compose mode or is she cutting & pasting the code in html mode (when she writes her post). If she drags & drops they don't let you click on it to make it bigger. Totally sucks, but it's true.; October 23, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Tanya said...: So very beautiful!! I love looking back & finding an image that warms my soul..

hope you are well :)

love,
tanya xx; October 24, 2008 at 5:16 AM
Meredith said...: how very precious. I want a little girl to take pictures of....; October 24, 2008 at 7:18 AM
Chrystal said...: Such a sweetheart. I love your pictures!; October 24, 2008 at 11:06 AM
Barbara said...: What a beautiful picture! You are so creative...I love it! You have the most beautiful children ever!; October 24, 2008 at 11:48 AM
Jana said...: Way cute! It's so real...I heart it.; October 24, 2008 at 4:49 PM
Sera said...: What a beautiful, sweet picture. That's so precious.; October 24, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Kimberly Jepson said...: Jen,
I actually got emotional looking at this picture and reading the things you wrote about her. I think it is such a beautiful thing that you see all of these things about her specifically, and the special love that you as a mother have for her. It is such an amazing gift for me to have such wonderful older sisters to teach me about being a mother. Madeline is such a beautiful spirit, and so much of that is because of you. Love you so much, Jen.
-B; November 16, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Michelle Arnett said...: I like this girl. Quite fond of her actually. Maybe it's because she has loved me since the first day she met me. I remember her coming up and cuddling with me for like 30 minutes! What a doll.; November 26, 2008 at 11:37 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.