#1 mom

Mom, you have shown me all I hope to be as a mother. You are my ultimate example and I can only dream that one day my children will feel the same about me as I do about you.
I love you


Grandma Brown
they are such beautiful women


Grandma Durrant
what amazing women we have in our lives....

So I was asked to speak on Sunday at the singles branch, I began by explaining that "I would not be talking about my own mother because she was not a great person." Everyone died laughing and Chris quickly corrected me from behind. I guess I was more nervous than I thought and I simply couldn't get out all those double negatives. I wanted to say that I would not be speaking about my own mother not because she was not a great person but because I had prepared a different message. AH!

is this really my job...

Today I took this family to the science museum. They have never experienced anything like it before. The children ran around from one thing to the next like kids in a candy store. It was really fun to see how excited they were and how much fun they had! I do love my job.




I get strange comments from people sometimes when I tell them what I do but I love my job. If I could create the perfect job for me right now it would be this. It is so much fun and I look forward to everyday.

favorite visits

isn't she the Gerber Baby in person. too cute!

FRC-parents as teachers

Group Meetings

A college student from RIT wanted to do a photo journalism story about the Family Resource Center and it's affects on families in the Rochester area. She was able to join me on a couple home visits as well as a group meeting. She loved the families and produced a great pamphlet for us to distribute about the programs we offer.

http://www.parentsasteachers.org

the lilac festival

we used to live next to highland park so we have so many memories walking or running it's trails and of course the yearly lilac festivial. it has the most beautiful lilac bushes and every kind of tree and flower. we spent friday evening enjoying the live music, the delcious food (artichoke french +), the fun vendors (handmade crafts from around the state) and the smells of the lilacs. It was a much needed date night!

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home sweet home

well it is official we bought our first house in new york. I guess we are going to live here for a while. we are thrilled to have found a house that we love, in the neighborhood that we wanted and in the ward that we will one day a part of (or we hope). everything is going smoothly now we just wait.... until july since we don't move in until then. we would love visits from everyone, any time! you are all welcome and we look forward to seeing you soon.

YW Leadership Training Meeting

For trainings in the past we have done different things like ask speakers to come or unit leaders to share ideas. They have worked out well. This year I really felt like it just snuck up on us and all of a sudden it was here. We were really dependant on the Lord's guidance for this one. We really wanted to address concerns that had come up through out the stake and be able to get to know each other and share ideas. So we decided to focus our remarks on the counsel from the General YW Presidency and then worked in the concerns that we were aware of. I was so impressed with the ideas and the spirit that these unit leaders have. I am always learning so much from them; their ideas and solutions. I am so grateful to know them as friends and be working with them. I hope everyone else got just as much out of it as I did.

Sunday at Stake Conference we had a combined YSA & youth choir. The music was an arrangement done by a member of our stake with three Primary hymns about love; Love one another, Love is spoken here and As I have loved you. It was beautiful. Our Branch President conducted it and I was so please to see so many of our youth participate. It turned out really powerful and was a good learning experience for me since I am not a singer.