blessings...

I had yet another beautiful hot summer afternoon down in the slightly cool and rocky creek, with some very small and very sweet little people.   The two little brothers I had today have brown hair and brown eyes and are well tanned from being out in the sun all summer. I applied sunscreen on them only because it was the right thing to do.  However, today's three little girls are all fair! Very blonde, blue-eyed twin sisters and a pretty little red-haired girl whose appearance matches well with her Irish name ;) Without sunscreen long afternoons in the warm sunshine would end in painful and potentially dangerous sunburns.  Thank Heaven for sunscreen.

What a day! I don't know what I'd do or how I'd carry on without Sundays... It's always an oasis of peace and rest at the end of my week. Sometimes after church I like to take a walk by the creek or up in the hills.  Other times I am to be found bundled cozily in the lightest and warmest room in the house; talking on the phone to my parents or sisters, reading scriptures etc, searching out my great-great-great-great ancestors online. (I have a lot to learn about how to do this kind of research, but I enjoy every minute of it even if I don't get very far very often.)  Some Sundays I take a nap with Kirby, but not very often, as it's somehow a rather unfulfilling way to 'spend time together'. He falls asleep pretty fast, and isn't the quietest sleeper out there.  I like the awake family time we have on Sundays. Thank Heaven for the teachings of the prophets or I'd never experience all the benefits of a day of rest!