True Love

True love is a man who stands outside in the freezing, windy rain (yes, the thermometer in the background says 30 F) cutting tile with a wet-saw to finish this backsplash

to coordinate with this (filthy, but that's a project for another day) shower surround after having already tiled this identity challenged ex-laundry room (that as of this week stopped being his personal office space and became my pantry) that he had previously vowed to NEVER tile

- all without a moments complaint and all to please this fastidious female.

I am one very lucky girl - who is, by the way, in love with the cute guy in the garbage bag and his freshly tiled floor and backsplash. I'm also in love with the fact that all my beautiful tile was less than a buck a square foot and that the potty chair seen in picture #2 is now regularly used by a certain little boy who successfully wore his big-boy underwear to school today.



PS Is it fundamentally wrong to enjoy the blatant use of run-on sentences? I think it must be, but enjoy it I did.

More of the Same

Dad: Our prophet is Thomas S. Monson. Can you say Monson?
Tomas: Monson.
Dad: Do you like Thomas S. Monson.
Tomas: No, me like Thomas Train.

Sounds Like ...

Me: Our prophet today is Thomas S. Monson.

Tomas: No, me no like mons'ers!

Me: You don't like monsters?

Tomas: No, it's scary.

Keeping Christmas With You All Through the New Year

Happy New Years! I meant to send these pictures out as Christmas cards, but this procrastinating female never made that happened. So, we send everyone love and Christmas cheer for the New Year.

"Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women."

"Joseph her husband, being a just man... did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him..."

"And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn."

"And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night."

"Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy..."

"...behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem...and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh"