a few of my favorite things

Friday, December 12, 2008

Favorite Date Night

Mine:
Window shopping
Sipping smoothies while walking through a park
Frosting sugar cookies

Jason's:
1. Go to video store to pick out a movie
2. Go to grocery store or Dairy Queen or both to buy treats
3. Snuggle while eating treats and watching movie

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Friday, August 15, 2008

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Favorite Animal

Macaw (I'm not much of an animal person, but I do think that these birds are the most beautiful and colorful.)

Favorite Song

Worth the Wait - Jason Pyles
So Good - Jason Pyles

Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy
The Luckiest - BenFoldsFive

Love Story - Taylor Swift

Favorite Dessert

Brownie Cheesecake
Dutch Apple Pie or
Krusteez Crumb Cake w/ ice cream

Favorite Sport

Volleyball
Yoga

Favorite Fruit

Nectarines
Pineapple
Grapes

Friday, June 20, 2008

Favorite Book

The Screwtape Letters - This book offers an eerie and fascinating glance into Satan's game plan.
The Thousand Year Books - This series by Cleon Skousen is phenomenal. I actually understand the Old Testament now.
Jesus the Christ - I read this book while I was in Guatemala. I just ate it up and promised myself that I would read it again. I am still waiting for the courage to do so.

Favorite Ice Cream Flavor

Strawberry Cheesecake

Favorite Yogurt Flavor

Vanilla

Favorite Beverage

Strawberry Smoothie

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Favorite Quotes, Scriptures and Poems

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do something you love.- Jason Pyles

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those "It might have been".-John Greenleaf Whittier

“For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.”- Alma 34:32

"The great tragedy of life is when a man dies with his music still in him." - Winston Churchcill

“Keep thou my feet I do not ask to seethe distant scene –one step enough for me.”

“The things I say and do today in memory’s book I’ll keep,and when I’m old and read themwill I laugh or will I weep?”"

"Don't be an idiot. It changed my life. Now whenever I am about to do something I ask myself 'Would an idiot do this?' And if so, I do not do that thing!"-Dwight Schrute

If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
-Rudyard Kipling

"Let them be little. . . 'cause they’re only that way for a while. Let them laugh. Let them giggle. Let them sleep in the middle."

“What I desire is on its way. It will arrive precisely on God’s timetable, not mine. Everything that I’m experiencing now is disguised as a problem, but I know that it’s a blessing. What I desire is on its way, and it’s coming to me in amounts even greater that I can imagine. This is my vision, and I’ll hold on to it in a state of gratitude, no matter what.”-Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Blessed are they who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

"It just felt wrong not to swing." -Merrill Hess, "Signs" (2002)

Speak with the tongue of angels.

“Teach me to live thatI may dread the grave aslittle as my bed.Teach me to die.”-Thomas Hardy

The Cold Within
Six humans trapped by happenstance
in bleak and bitter cold
each possessed a stick of wood,
or so the story's told.
Their dying fire in need of logs,
the first woman held hers back
for on the faces around the fire
she noticed one was black.
The next man looking 'cross the way
Saw one not of his church
and couldn't bring himself to give
the fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered clothes
He gave his coat a hitch,
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought
of the wealth he had in store,
and how to keep what he had earned
from the lazy, shiftless poor.
The black man's face bespoke revenge
as the fire passed from his sight,
for all he saw in his stick of wood
was a chance to spite the white.
And the last man of this forlorn group
did naught except for gain,
giving only to those who gave
was how he played the game.
The logs held tight in death's stilled hand
was proof of human sin.
They didn't die from the cold without.
They died from the cold within.- James Patrick Kinney

“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.”- Matthew 6:28

“And inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall prosper, and shall be led to a land of promise; yea, even a land which I have prepared for you; yea, a land which is choice above all other lands.”- 1 Nephi 2:20

Faith precedes the miracle.– Spencer W. Kimball

“What more do we live for if not to make life easier for each other?”

Natalie: “Jorge Luis Borges was a very famous writer.”Student: “Did he have good handwriting?”

“I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you.”- John 14:18

“When he passed objects out of harmony with its general expression he allowed his eyes to slip over them as if he did not see them. A bell began clanging, and he listened till a hundred- and –one strokes had sounded. He must have made a mistake, he thought, it was meant for a hundred.”- Thomas Hardy

“And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders that even you cannot feel them upon your backs; even while you are in bondage, and this will I do that you may stand as witnesses hereafter, that you may know of a surety that I the Lord God do visit my people in their afflictions.”- Mosiah 24:14

Day-Old Child
My day-old child lay in my arms.
With my lips against his ear I whispered strongly.
How I wish –I wish that you could hear;
I’ve a hundred wonderful things to say
(A tiny sigh and a nod),Hurry, hurry, hurry and grow
So I can tell you about God.
My day-old baby’s mouth was still
And my words only tickled his ear.
But a kind of a light passed through his eyes,
And I saw this thought appear:
How I wish I had a voice and words;
I’ve a hundred things to say.
Before I forget I’d tell you of God
–I left Him yesterday.-Carol Lynn Pearson

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirts from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."-Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Soneto XXV
Antes de amarte, amor, nada era mío:
vacilé por las calles y las cosas:
nada contaba ni tenía nombre:
el mundo era del aire que esperaba.
Yo conocí salones cenicientos,
túneles habitados por la luna,
hangares crueles que se despedían,
preguntas que insistían en la arena.
Todo estaba vacío, muerto y mudo,
caído, abandonado y decaído,
todo era inalienablemente ajeno,
todo era de los otros y de nadie,
hasta que tu belleza y tu pobreza
llenaron el otoño de regalos.-Pablo Neruda

“But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse, you do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you:”- Matthew 5:44

"Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,Prone to leave the God I love;Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,Seal it for Thy courts above. "

"In the gospel of Jesus Christ you have help from both sides of the veil, and you must never forget that. When disappointment and discouragement strike--and they will--you remember and never forget that if our eyes could be opened we would see horses and chariots of fire as far as the eye can see riding at reckless speed to come to our protection. They will always be there, these armies of heaven, in defense of Abraham's seed."-Jeffrey R. Holland

Love
The young man walked down the city street,
In a strange land, with his own so far away.
And his newness clashed
with the echo of horse carts on cobblestone streets.
And he preached of a better world,
To those who loved their own.
And he prayed, "Oh Lord,let my good be known.".......
But no one understood.
The young man trudged down the country lane
And gazed at humble folk,
Their back bent 'neath the heavy load,
And vaguely sensed the meaning of eternal days.
And he preached, "Come follow me That you might have rest."
And he prayed, "Oh Lord,Help me to do my best."......
And a few, then, understood.
The young many stopped in the pitted road,
No stranger now, still searching those paths to roam,
But somehow a little older now he came;
And in his heart he sang, 'This place is home.'
And he preached the brotherhood of man,
And peace, and love, and charity.
And he prayed, "Oh Lord,That I may be worthy of such as thesein some far eternity."......And lo, he understood.

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