Utopia! Is it a real place?

Utopia!  This is a  new word i found while reading a mag. this week and I loved it.....it tells us there is a place where every one will have complete happiness one day and good health as we have never known before.  I do look forward to that special day and time.

Wow! I can go for that especially since I been so sick lately. 
Alot of people can't believe it could ever get any better than this life where we are right now.   I think we all love this life and what it offers us.....for the most part I have always loved life and even would jump out of bed in the mornings anxious to get up and get out there and live! Seriously! I loved those days!
But as of lately I been down and sick and its taken that good feeling away as sickness tends to do to all of us at times.   Maybe we are suppose to feel pain in order to appreicate wellness and this life more.
Just imagine , a world with no wars, crime or natural disasters....no sickness, no death,no pollution , no terrorists to frighten us, no blind , no deaf, no lame or crippled, no mourning , no crying or pain.....for the old order of things will have passed away.   

IT SOUNDS WONDERFUL!!!!
To see all our hearts changed and everyone happy and well and together ..... 
 that for sure will be a great day!
           







                                                                                Must be Heaven!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Doctor and Vertigo

Well went to the doctor about this horrible vertigo that has been a curse on me for over a month. Went to a ENT doctor and they tested my ears, Then had my eyes tested  and then on to a neurologic who after placing a dark mask over my eyes put me down on a table and turned my  head which sent me spinning and screaming! Yes you heard me right.   It was horrible! He set me up fast and I cryed soooo soooo hard.  He said we have to diagnose you to find out the problem and you will have to spin!!   He ask if I wanted to do it again and I said let me calm down first.  I said would try again but results were same.  He quit and said i would have to go back to my doctor and talk about it.  I ask if there was another way like knocking me out and he said no that i would have to keep my eyes open and spin. I ask could you make a good guess and he said no again that he could lose his license if did that.    I would rather die than go through that again.

Well been reading on home remedies and found that I can do a routine and help myself so thats what i am doing.  So today its a good day. I feel sooo good today!!! Only did this routine by Dr. Foster once and it was wonderful!  I hope I continue to get totally better!!  

Another Baby's Day Out

    Well so we think we are waking to just another ordinary day but not so today!!   So it was that we woke up to a ringing of the door bell.  Ed our neighbor came over and said these two kids were in his yard and he thought perhaps they were our grandkids and we said no and he wasn't sure where they came from.

Well  since he was  leaving to take his wife to doctor or somewhere he gave them to us.
 Of course Joey went out around block looking while I kept them busy in the house.  We just thought parents would surely be out there frantic trying to find them. No parents... so we decided we needed  to call the police which was finally what we did.  These boys were adorable!  One had poo pants so I having no daipers here had to get inventive and pinned a dishtowel on him.  I gave them some fruit and they played with our puppy maggie.  A Day out for these two little guys was quite fun! ha!  anyway police came , ask for ID and tryed talking to the oldest, checked them out for abuse and said they looked fine. Finally about two hours in all had passed and their father finally came up the street.  Said he was the father and they had gotten out and no fence in back yard or lock on door, they had just moved in this house.

The thing is they face a busy road so they are lucky their boys didn't go that direction but came our direction.  To make this even more interesting we wake up two days later hearing our door bell ring again and yes, there they were again.  This time I told dad he should not call police but take them home and talk to the parents. He did and told them how to fix the door so they can't

get out again. Wow!  this reminded me of the movie " Baby's Day Out."

Hardest Puzzles

Jen and I are working on the bottom one with cats of course!
And this top one is one of the / hardest puzzle ever!   I think its possibly the hardest puzzle that I have ever worked all by myself!

A Day in the Life of Plo

I have come to love this little guy so much!  For whatever reason Plo loves to hop onto our puzzles when we are working them. So at top I covered it to protect it. ha.  He also loves the Sun that shines in our sunroom.
Not too long ago we were a little worried about him cause he has been acting different and afraid he might have taken into his system something that made him sick. :(
Kept a close eye on him. Took him to Vet but had a bad experience with the guy there.  He tryed getting blood from Plo and went into his foot to do it, not anyplace where soft ..... Plo has had  this done before and they never hurt him or drew it from his foot.  I was sooo upset over this experience and will never use that vet. again.  It was totally uncalled for! Jen suggested doing it in back where its soft ..... now why would a doctor have to be told that! ugh!  I made sure I told the nurse who helped  that it just wasn't right.  No more!
                    Some fun pictures of Plo!!

some of my favorite songs.

Be Still My Soul

If You could Hie to Kolob

FOR THE LOVE OF ANIMALS

   Well for those of you who follow my blog you know we have our Maggie dog and Jen my daughter has her cat Plo and  Kristen my granddaughter has two cats and dog then Valerie my oldest daughter has many pets which include two dogs , three or four cats, and a fat guinea pig which roams the house which might be a bit too much for alot of us. ha!
    Anyway Kristen and I went to the animal shelter today and its really so sad to see all the dogs and cats there without a loving family.  Kristen loves them all so much and it touched me that she feels so strongly about these little creatures that have been placed on the earth for our enjoyment and to be companions
to old and young alike!
                                                     Pictures soon!
I just recently watched a movie called " The Day of the Dog's" it was funny and strange also.
Anyway we all love our pets and when
                                  you get attached they do become family!!

MY YELLOW TREE !!

Wanted a tree with yellow petals like this on left and finally got one going and its starting to take off!
 So  Lovely! Hope mine does well.  will see!
               

I love this!

  Quote by Gordon B. Hinckley

“Let me say that we appreciate the truth in all churches and the good which they do. We say to the people, in effect, you bring with you all the good that you have, and then let us see if we can add to it. That is the spirit of this work. That is the essence of our missionary service”
 
I knew when I heard Bro. Hinckley speak he was a prophet of God!

A Story for You!

Some years ago, President Gordon B. Hinckley told “something of a parable” about “a one room school house in the mountains of Virginia where the boys were so rough no teacher had been able to handle them.

“Then one day an inexperienced young teacher applied. He was told that every teacher had received an awful beating, but the teacher accepted the risk. The first day of school the teacher asked the boys to establish their own rules and the penalty for breaking the rules. The class came up with 10 rules, which were written on the blackboard. Then the teacher asked, ‘What shall we do with one who breaks the rules?’

“‘Beat him across the back ten times without his coat on,’ came the response.

“A day or so later, … the lunch of a big student, named Tom, was stolen. ‘The thief was located—a little hungry fellow, about ten years old.’

“As Little Jim came up to take his licking, he pleaded to keep his coat on. ‘Take your coat off,’ the teacher said. ‘You helped make the rules!’

“The boy took off the coat. He had no shirt and revealed a bony little crippled body. As the teacher hesitated with the rod, Big Tom jumped to his feet and volunteered to take the boy’s licking.

“‘Very well, there is a certain law that one can become a substitute for another. Are you all agreed?’ the teacher asked.

“After five strokes across Tom’s back, the rod broke. The class was sobbing. ‘Little Jim had reached up and caught Tom with both arms around his neck. “Tom, I’m sorry that I stole your lunch, but I was awful hungry. Tom, I will love you till I die for taking my licking for me! Yes, I will love you forever!

President Hinckley then quoted Isaiah:

“Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. …

“… He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

No man knows the full weight of what our Savior bore, but by the power of the Holy Ghost we can know something of the supernal gift He gave us. In the words of our sacrament hymn:

We may not know, we cannot tell,

What pains he had to bear,

But we believe it was for us

He hung and suffered there^.

Kristen and Grams

This gal comes over and visits dad and I and delights us with her sweetness and we hope she never outgrows wanting to stop by for a quick visit  her old grams and pa. :)

Stacey

Tryed to get this in because it reminded me of Stacey and that I had made her a mermaid outfit once for a school play. If can will try to find the real picture soon and repost it. Stacey enjoyed school and know she did well and had many friends. She was a great help also with Jenny and I remember that Jenny would be so excited when it was time for Stacey to get home from school and Jen and I would rush off to the bus stop to meet Stacey! I will add more pictures here of  those early yrs. of Stacey and Jen together.  The girls all enjoyed themselves back then and Jen had taped them having some fun together while on a road trip.  You got to hear it, so funny!  Love my girls!

Vertigo!

  This is the worse thing ever....  I was sick with vertigo for two wks. and thought it would never go away!  So tough I went into some depression. Why me I thought???     I did not go to the doctor but was ready to throw in the towel and go. I went on the computer and saw the procedure they do and was totally afraid of having them do that to my head because turning my head anyway made me crazy with dizzyness. This was always worse when lying down or turning over in bed. I would wake with a shout!  Then also thought ok this could be my inner ear but felt no pain and so took some ear drops because as a kid I was always having earaches. I would wait and took many pills and tryed things.  Having  gone through this before ( since moved here to Eustis) felt it couldn't last forever but yes this time it did seem forever!!!!  I never ever had it living in Orlando and not even right after we moved here (cause traveled alot then)  but last maybe five  yrs. not sure.   I remember once I went to a walk in client and they said do you live around alot of  trees. I told him yes i did.  He said it could very well be Pollen....Pollen?  never had to worry about that in Pine Hills....so then I tryed many pills and did watch how I slept and  not turning head fast or picking up stuff on floor, that job I gave to Joey.  Yes it finally went away. What a nightmare!   I will put it to the test next yr. and leave the area in late Jan. and Feb.  I cannot go through this again!

This came upon me with a.

Geneology

Geneology........Dad loves loves doing this work and has reminded me many times how important geneology is and that  he is doing this work for those  people that were here at one time.  He feels a strong bond to them, even the ones that go way way back.  For sure he loves this work!  He will often give Donna and I names when we take a day to go to the temple together. Guess its easy to forget these people after a given amount of time has passed . I say isn't there a faster way to do this work and he says "no there is no other way for each person deserves to have their work done for them individually." all three of us sisters did sealings for families while there last week.
So  remember your loved ones, and that they were really here once upon a time...just as you and I are now.

Moroni quoted this...

“Behold, I will reveal unto you the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

“And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers. If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming.” 
 

The Hiker The Gardener

In the highlands a hiker chanced to come upon a beautiful estate. The caretaker was caring for the beautiful garden and showed the hiker the flower filled garden that he cared for.  " Is your master here the year round said the hiker,"   no he is away said the gardener.  "How long has he been gone?"  "Its been about twenty years now the gardener replied."   I suppose you hear from him often right?  "No said the garderner,  he hasn't come by or written me even once."
So who comes to oversee things? "Its seldom that anyone shows up or even stops around here" said the caretaker.  Wow, and you still keep the estate in perfect order! "Yes I do sir, I keep everything as though my master were to come today."
Moral of story:    If in these uncertain times you and I apply the gardeners principle to cultivate our little plot of "spiritual ground" that our creator has entrusted to us, then we will certainly be ready when our Master calls us home!

 

Axel Turns Two

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AXEL!

 Axel had the cutest little party with mommy and daddy, Aunt Jen , Grandma and his brother Aidan.  We all went to Turkey Lake Park to see the animals and then back to the apt. for cake and ice cream.  I am posting some pictures here of the day.  I love how Stacey went all out to make it a special Curious George party choosing to make it small for Axel this time around. Decorations were adorable! Here is the  Birthday Boy!