The Law of the Garbage Truck

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.

So I asked, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost caused an accident and sent us to the hopital!" This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck."

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, full of disappointment and rage. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't pick up their garbage and spread it to other people in your life, whether at work, at home, or to people that you don't even know on the streeets.

Always remember that good people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so..."Love the people who treat you right and forgive and pray for the ones who don't."
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Fun Day

I'm kickin myself because I always forget to bring my camera places. Lat night for activity days we took the girls on a nature walk along a river trail near the church. It was fun and we collected things along the way that we took back and made these nature bags out of wax paper with the things we had collected in them.. I was planning to take picts but of course forgot the camera.i had to take all my kids with me with steve being out of town again so it was a little hectic but they had fun... Logan came down with a cold yesterday so we ended up not being able to go on our movie date that we usually do on weds so I came up with a brilliant idea as I was running this morning. We were supposed to go to the marina after the movie and have a picnic and let the kids play in the park so the kids were all bummed we couldnt go so this morning I ran to blockbusters and got a couple movies. Then went to the store and bought some candy and some subs from subway and then headed to 7-11 and got all the kids a slurpe that they just love and told them to lay a blanket out in front of the tv and that I would have a surprise when I got home.. So we had a picnic lunch in front of the tv while we watched a movie and ate subs and candy.. The kids had a blast. They were so excited.. I figured it gave us our chance to have our mommy kids date but still stay in until logan gets feeling better. Plus these last couple of weeks that I have been trying to have more one on one times and mommy kids dates have made such a diffrence for me and them. It's making us some great memorys. Yesterday I tried to spend 15-30 mins alone with each kid doing something they just wanted to do.. I ended up playing alot of air hockey and going on bike rides and playing operation.. It was pretty fun.. We are planning to watch another one tonight and have some popcorn.. I just wish that steve could be here with us to make it a family thing.. I want them to have some good memorys of him doing things with them too but with work lately he just doesnt seem to have the time. And when he is home we have so many things to try and get done we dont get a chance to stop and go do some of the fun stuff. Owell we will keep trying.. I know on the Saturdays that steve is home he takes Austin to the church with him to play basketball with some of the elders and other men.. Austin just loves doing that.. He wakes up early just so he doesnt miss out going with his dad.. They usually go early while the girls sleep in.. That will be great memorys for him.. Isn't that what its all about???? The memorys we are making here.................................

Bike Ride

Sorry for all the posts today but I wanted to include some pictures of our bike ride tonight.. I went on a one on one ride with my oldest daughter Allie tonight. We rode up to the big park that has alot of walking and biking paths around it and I decided to take the camera with me to catch some pictures of the trail we ride.. I got a picture of the path leading up to the bridge that goes across the river we cross to get to the park. We even got one of a turtle sticking his head out of the water. I hope its clear enough for you to see.. Then we got some of the park. Its way to big to fit it all in one picture so I took a couple to give you an idea but the trails go all the way around to the far back where the thick dark trees run. Its a big park. Its about 2 miles from the turn off to get around then another mile from the house. It's about a 4.25 mile round trip. It was a great ride and gave me some time to be just with her which made her day.. we had a really good sunset tonight but by the time I saw it it was already to low to get a good picture of with all the tall trees. I tried to catch one from my daughters window upstairs but they just didnt turn out very good.

Looking off the bridge.

Turtle sticking his head out of the water. Other side of bridge..

Brazillian Visitors

Hey I just wanted to say hi to my Brazillian visitors.. I'v had a few visits from brazill the last couple of days.. My husband served an LDS Mission in Recife and Sao Paulo Brazill. He loves it over there and says we will go back for a visit some day.. The hammock down below was actually from brazill it is so comfy.. So greetings... Thanks for stopping in.. I love comments so drop me a line....