If you love 'em~tell 'em!

Nate came into Sunday dinner tonight with his 'hot off the press' cub scout shirt and a fistful of patches to be sewn on. He will officially be a cub scout this week and will get baptized on the 27th.
My how time flies! That means that we have 5 grandchildren who have already been baptized and Nate and Sarah to receive this ordinance this year.
A few years ago, Elder Packer stated something to the effect that the older he gets, the thing that means the most to him is how his children treat his grandchildren. I know what he means.
So far you all are doing a wonderful job and we pray for you several times day.
There are a lot of challenges in this world for young people and they need fortification in the home.
The title of this post came from a song that a youth group sang several years ago in our stake and it has lots of meaning in just the title. If you love them ~and I know you do~tell them.
If they are makin' you crazy, stop for a minute and think of how much they mean to you and how they need every word of encouragement they can get. The world will never give them what they need in the way of positive reinforcement. They also need the strength that comes from keeping covenants~theirs and yours. Going to the Temple regularly is one of the best ways to protect your children.
I will close with a word of advice from President Dalton who knows and loves you all and prays for you. He has asked every family in our stake to work on turning the volume down in their homes so that the Spirit can penetrate. This not only means electronic devices but our voices and our passions. It is not easy but also not impossible.
Hang in there kids-you are doing a great work!
Love,
mabell

Perpetual Motion !

I had been wanting a pix of the Utah grandkids for sometime now to hang in a frame to go on the bedroom wall. It has the word 'grandkids' in black wooden letters and three pix frames hang down from it.

Becca's kids go in one and the pix above goes into another and then this one of the Utah kids.

Looks like Sarah, Wilford and Elias were trying to keep the babies company in the lower one.

This was during Sunday dinner at Beth's house.

In attendance were: G&G Bell, Lloyd and Annette,Craig and Peggy, Jennifer, Jessica and Kristofer all with dates, Katie and Mike and their family, Nick and Lindsey and Makenzie, Beth and Adam all all of their ninos, Joe and Heather Bell, Cory and April Jones, and Matt and Sarah Fowler and their 2 girls.

It was so much fun but definitely SRO!

Chip Off The Old Tree~!

This one was too funny to pass up! Dad and Reed were chewing the fat in a very manly type pose and Laynie did not want to be left out. Isn't it funny what children find interesting?

Reed's MBA

It is always a danger to get a new camera and forget to get the pix off the old one before you put it away. Thankfully, we did not give it away!

These pix are from last September when Reed had his graduation exercises from Babson College. It culminated the efforts of 2 years of hard work and deadlines and hard to work with study groups but really good professors and a wonderful opportunity to advance his education of somebody else's dime.

we are so thankful that our sons and sons'-in-law have been able to/are getting wonderful educational opportunities and that they use those to the benifit of their families.

CONGRATULATIONS REED!!