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To all of you moms out there, happy Mother’s Day!  My mother is definitely one of the best mothers ever, and I dare anyone to try to top her efforts or results. ;-)  […]

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Maggie and I are going to Washington, DC!  My sister is graduating from college there and had an airline voucher she wasn’t using and used it to buy me a ticket to the family party in DC.  I’m so excited!  My whole family, except the brothers-in-law and Degen will be there as a […]

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Primary’s May Theme is…
Heavenly Father planned for me to come to a family. I can strengthen my family now. “The family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children” (“Proclamation,” paragraph 1).
…and I’m in charge of Sharing Time next week.  Next week’s lesson in the Outline goes like this:
1. Families in […]

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Last night I heard my first Tornado Warning siren! It was exciting and a little bit scary, but not as bad as I would have expected. It was in the middle of the night, so even if we had looked out the window we couldn’t have seen anything. I guess my brain […]

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This is Colin.  General Conference Bingo never changes.  But I couldn’t find any prophet bingo games that had Thomas S Monson on them.  So for the good of the cause I snaggled about.com’s bingo and added a picture of President Monson, and voila.  There’s only one card because we’ll be passing it out in Primary.  […]

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We got back from a very fun trip to visit my sister and brother-in-law in Dallas a couple of days ago and I’m finally getting back on the computer.  It’s soooo nice to have Colin on Spring Break this week and I can hardly stand it that the week is almost over. 
We had a lovely […]

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We’re going to Texas today to spend the Easter weekend with my sister and her husband.  Yay!  We’re going to have tons of fun hanging out and catching up and celebrating.  She had her wisdom teeth extracted this week and is still recovering, so I get to help take care of her, too.  Poor Phoebe…
In […]

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Colin uploaded more pictures of what we’ve been up to in our gallery!  You can see the photos here: http://colinandbethany.com/gallery/album/2008/march/

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I spent most of my day helping my mom with what is known by doctors everywhere as “the scramble” to get into a residency program.  My wonderful mother happened to be one of the people who didn’t “match” perfectly with a residency program on the first try, so she’s got about two days to figure […]

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I read an essay called “I Am a Mother” by Jane Clayson Johnson a few months ago and have been thinking about it off and on ever since.  Johnson talks about the nobility inherent in motherhood and the struggle to recognize and declare the value of her role as a mother.  I enjoyed the article […]

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