Football and Archie Manning

Today i watched a documentary on Archie Manning a football star.  Now i am not a big one on sports but honestly this blew me away. All i can say is if you have a chance to see this please do.  I was totally touched by this man and his love for his boys and time spent with them and the love of the game. I could set here and write about their whole life and the sons but won't.  You just have to watch this to appreciate this dad and his three sons and the relationship he had with them.  It is a" Beautiful Story" and one worth watching when you have time with no interruptions.  You will feel and see  this father's love for his sons.  Its very touching!   Also you will hear what great honor and respect these boys had for their dad and the  love this father has for his sons.  There is something very special here we can all learn from this father /sons relationship.  Watch this documentary and you will see why I feel i should post them in my blog and why i cryed!!  ;Beautiful story!!!
18 was his number and two of his sons carryed it on!! Cooper was unable to play because of a spinal injury.
Three sons : Peyton, Eli and Cooper

With Peyton and Eli Manning so successful in the NFL, Archie Manning the QB has largely been forgotten, and the patriarch of the first family of football said he's always been fine with that. "Oh, the years fly by, that's just natural," he said on a conference call in advance of the film's Tuesday night debut. "You know, if it wasn't for Peyton and Eli coming along, nobody would know who I was. Maybe a few people in Mississippi, a few old people.

"I never worry much about that. I always had kind of a philosophy, I really enjoyed playing. Gosh, I loved playing."

He said he enjoyed every step of the journey even though he never came close to the kind of success his sons have enjoyed in the pros, and he's taken great pride in watching his sons excel at the game he fell in love with. Said the only thing that he wanted in life really was just for the boys to feel their dad was a good person!!

On Marriage

 More and more couples today are living together seeing no reason to get married. So today was thinking of these couples i meet who are really sweet people but that see no need for marriage and just live together /  well today i read this about marriage and it just made sense so I am posting it. 
                                                  The Article
Sometimes, people wonder why a marriage ceremony or a marriage license is important and say, “why can’t we just live together and forget the rest , we love each other."  So think of this, Isn't there something severely lacking in a love that doesn’t want to proclaim itself; that does not want witnesses; and that does not want the bond to be recognized by the civil authorities or before God. I think perhaps that love falls short of true marital love.

                                           I thought this well said.: 
Marriage is likely the most important step you will take in life. Not to be taken lightly but given to must thought and prayer..Living together doesn't cut it. We’ve grown used to thinking of divorce as the greatest threat to the stability of the American family. But cohabitation has now assumed that role.
  Children who reside in these homes where couples live together, not married , are about 11 times more likely to be sexually, physically or emotionally abused — and six times more likely to be neglected — than children living with their married biological parents. Children of cohabiting biological parents are four times more likely to have problems than are their peers with married biological parents. Look around, its happening.
                          
                                                         Quote: Gordon B.Hinckle
  " Keep your affections within marriage. Regard as your most precious possession in time or eternity the person with whom you joined hands over the altar in the house of the Lord and to whom you pledged your love and loyalty and affection for time and all eternity. Your companion, your children, and you yourself will then know and feel a security far greater than any that can be bought with hardware and gadgetry."
                                                                 

Leslie and Music

  




Leslie always loved to sing. Started at about three singing in church and even joined a group later.  Will post picture of her at church singing . 

Later in her life was with a group  called "R.E.A. L."   It was the initials of each girl in the group.  Will post pictures here of the group and about this special time of her life when she got to perform and be a star for a little while.   Music has always been her life!   She loved to sing!! 

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Val and her Pets

Val's guinea pig died this wk.  she was sooo attached to it and called me and cryed. :(  I know how we love our pets and how sad it is and how she must have felt.  When that time comes for Maggie to leave us , i too will be sooo upset/  dad and i  both will be a total mess.   We have had alot of pets through the years and i never seemed to had time to get as super close as perhaps dad and some of the kids did but none the less I did cry when they died.  With Maggie it will be different. She is a big part of my day and our life!   All the others were buried  back in Pine Hills down by the playhouse.  They were all  special!
Val has and likely will continue to have many pets  around!  Here is a picture of Val's Guinea that passed.

Pets of Val and Lindseys: 
Cats [5] names are  Hitler, Baby boy, Poohbear , Eeyore, Salem
also had  a Bunny named Miss Buttontails,  two Dogs, Roxy & Ally / a Guinea Pig called
Timothy McTumbleBottom and a wild Bunny called Charlie/ and an Old Hamster called Bear. they sure come up the cutest names. ha. Mr. Guinea was the biggest i ever seen and the dogs never messed with him, Val said they knew he was family!  sweet!  Some of these have died but will always be remembered as part of Val's family!  More names:
Si, Baby Boy, Rufus, Woolla , Peanut, Tabby, Kova, Baby, and Gizmo.

Seen, Heard and Learned in my Life

 Hopefully i have learned alot from growing up in a family that had many problems.  Seen lots of anger and arguing as a way of solving problems and from that  i wanted things to be different when i raised a family of my own! I set out to do my best!  Growing up in such a household as we kids did was not easy. We saw alot and with what I seen, heard and learned  for sure made me want things to be better in the home I would one day have.  I looked around and knew what kind of family i wanted to have and even the kind of husband i wanted when it was time to choose one.  I remember telling Joey that if we married there could be no hitting.  He was happy to say that would be no problem. I saw a family in the church sometime after we had Valerie and they seemed ideal  so i watched that good family and tryed to follow.  Not to say i always succeeded but i sure did try to do my best.
 Having a good example when  growing up is everything! I know for sure i taught lots of things better than my parents.  So i  picked up what I admired in other families and learned alot as i went along.  The George Family was one of those families and they were near dad and my age and had a daughter named Debbie and at that time we had Valerie.   Some things just didn't come easy to me cause just never saw it in action.   Well it all went pretty good  up until had teen agers and then it got  tough but both dad and i tryed to do our best!
 We can't change the pass but we can move on and  learn from it. Thats just how it is!  We learn alot from just living and watching life happen!   I think from my own experience, the most important thing i learned from it all was to show and have a genuine love for your children and people in general and treat them as you would want to be treated.   I hope and pray dad and I have taught our children to truly show love and have compassion for those whom may cross their path because you honestly don't know what they may or may not have gone through until you have walked in their shoes!
      
                        

Don and Jean

Picture coming of these two people who made our lives better!


Don and Jean Clark were a couple that lived across the street from Bump and I as we were growing up.

They had a couple kids of their own Karen and Steve but even so they opened up their home to Bump and I  and it became our refuge from the storms of life. Its no great secret that there was alot of anger and fighting that took place in my home.  My dad tryed to run things and had problems making a living and he and mom could not get along. It was tough times, little money and my mom was always working and had her friends.  Mom missed out on what should have been her fun teen years but as it turned out she went right into having children and responsibilities at a very young age. thinking she was fifthteen when she married.  Well she rebelled and many a evening when things were messed up at home Bump and I would run over to our neighbors the  Clarks and stay till felt safe to go home. were over there till near time to go to bed.  There at Clarks we found peace!  It was where would hang after school.   Jean would give us snacks, all the soda we wanted and do little things for us that we missed out on at our home. Anything we needed done, she did,  sometimes sewing a rip or fixing something that we wore, she did it,  hungry she fed us,  needing pampered,   she gave it.  I think she knew the circumstances in our home and she was so giving. I cry right now just thinking of her kindness to Bump and I.

Poor Don, her husband, their were times i know he would have given anything if we just would leave and go home so he could have time with his wife.  i can remember him wanting  her to come to bed  sometimes.  she would say you go and we would go ahead and stay up with her late into the night watching her favorite show on tv , Jack Parr.  It was funny and  for sure we needed a laugh!  Jean was funny, she could always crack a joke.  almost like Lucy and could make you laugh, seemed to me she was always happy.  it was fun being there!  She never ever made us feel we were a burden to her. She truly seemed to enjoy having us there.  We ate many a meal there. Drinks were plenty as well as all her baked goods.
 I know Joe and Marianne do this same thing for the kids across the st. from them, they are like grandparents to those kids. .  Of course Jean & Don were too young to be grandparents .  I often think about Karen and Steve their children and how they had to share their mom and dad with us.   I really think they were ok with it, they were young and think they enjoyed us being there.

 I will post pictures of these two wonderful people as soon as i get them located.  IF EVER anyone deserves a crown in the next life Bump and I both feel these two people do.   So giving and never begrudging. I will always be grateful for them and that they were there when these two kids  needed them and that they went out of their way to give us a safety net , a place where we could go in times of trouble and made to feel the world is ok and we are safe!!   Thank you Don and Jean, thank you from the bottom of my heart! I will always be grateful for each of you and for being there for Bump and I. 

Coronado Island in Ca.

This is the bridge that connects right from downtown San Diego and on over to  C. Island. Its only a short 2-3 minute drive, but feels like you are going into another world.  The bottom picture shows tall buildings in background over in San Diego.  Had a really nice time that day listening to a music group and  checking everything out.  Thank you Jen for that wonderful day!!  You could take a ferry over or go over on this gigantic bridge, I chose to go up on this giant highway in the sky and looking down and out was so neat!!
  

On Being Thankful

Deuteronomy 15:11 
For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’ 

Mark 10:21
Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

 Matthew 25:37-40
"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

My heart goes out to the poor , give your fast offering to the poor or give to the needy through your church!
But give something! 

SUNRISE / SUNSET

Sunrise / Sunset / Fiddler on the Roof

A MUST SEE MOVIE / A MUSICAL

 BUT WITH MUCH SENTIMENT / 
PLEASE READ THE WORDS

I think of my own children all grown up when i read these lines.



Is this the little girl I carried, is this the little boy at play?
I don't remember growing older
When did they?

When did she get to be a beauty?
When did he grow to be so tall?
Wasn't it yesterday
When they were small?

Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly flow the days
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
Blossoming even as we gaze

Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears

What words of wisdom can I give them?
How can I help to ease their way?
Now they must learn from one another
Day by day

They look so natural together
Just like two newlyweds should be

Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears

One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears

Nature of God

 Joseph Smith came to reveal God, in a day of almost total spiritual darkness, in a day when men no longer knew the nature and kind of Being whom they should worship
            “This Generation Shall Have My Word through You” 

“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by his power, was to make himself visible,—I say, if you were to see him today, you would see him like a man in form—like yourselves in all the person, image, and very form as a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion, image and likeness of God, and received instruction from, and walked, talked and conversed with him, as one man talks and communes with another”  
How many people actually know this?

Quote from" The Book of Mormon"

"And if ye shall believe in Christ ye will believe in these words, for they are the words of Christ, ... and they teach all men that they should do good." 2 Nephi 33:10

Rainbow Beach / Paradise Roller Rink / Gregg Park / Sugar Loaf Mountain / my home town

This is some of a main places where Bump and I would go to and hang out in the summer.

 Rainbow Beach is first picture / a fun spot where many would flock to on a hot summer day.  Bump and I were no different. We looked forward to it.  Half of  the pool was walkable and from middle on out you were in deep water.  I remember the lifeguards set at the top of tower to keep an eye out for anyone having trouble.    Many a day we spent there!  We lived at 1618 Wabash Ave. and it was maybe a 1/2 mile walk to get there.  We loved this place!

  Paradise Roller Rink/  Thats where you would find us on Sat. nights. the picture is old but yes that was the place to be! I always thought i was the best skater there. ha.  Could be because the really best skater there always ask me to skate with him when it was time to pick a partner ,so guess thats why i thought hey, i must be pretty good! ha.

 Sugar Loaf Mount. This is where took pictures of my own children jumping off the mount and if find it will post it here also.

Gregg park was the nicest and biggest park around, where families would come together for family picnics. I remember we would do a picnic on rare occasion.

check this video if want to see our fashion in bathing suits during my era

Rainbow Beach , Vincennes, Indiana 1960 - YouTube

Back to school!

Wow!  watch them grow!    /Off to school!

  Finn to fourth and
Scout to first               Aidan off to kindergarden                Ready with  back packs 
                                                                                            Soren a second grader / Ander pre-school