Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Marriage as a Divine Institution
No, this is not an announcement of an engagement. A friend of mine sent me this link, which was a press release sent out by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I found it very interesting and helpful. I hope you do too.
http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/the-divine-institution-of-marriage
Monday, October 6, 2008
The Homecoming Dance
Stay tuned for pictures of Sacha's homecoming this upcoming weekend.
A pretty pose for Julianne if you turn your head sideways :-)
We (Bonnie, me and Celeste's mom) went with the girls out to Casa Giarda for dinner. Rebekah and I were a bit late because someone decided to install some lame zipper contraption in her dress, but no matter- she looked stunning. I drove the girls to the dance and Chad got to stay up late and pick them up. All in all a fun evening. 
Celeste, Rebekah, and Julianne
Celeste, Rebekah, and Julianne
Family Home Evening - Gratitude
Jacob wrote me this sweet note for our Family Home Evening on gratitude. It says, "Thank you for encouraging me to do my chores."
Lookin' Good!
Sacha's urban modeling shots
Mother and daughter
Sacha, Rebekah, Julianne - Sunday DressSunday, September 21, 2008
Alice, Annika, and Maya come to visit Sally
What a sweetheart. Maya will probably get all her teeth as once, I think she's been teething since she was born!
Alice, Annika, Aunt Sally 
Annika, Julianne and Elisabethe
Aunt Sally and Annika 
Friday, August 8, 2008
You may have stopped by my blog today and wondered why there is a picture of Sacha and some other girl (Julianne) on the heading of a blog called "Sally and Sacha"? Excellent question-
I am learning some tricks to make my blog more aesthetically pleasing. I would like to have a picture of Sacha and I together, but I refuse to place one there until I have a good picture of myself. And why don't I have a good one of myself? Well, I have moved to a new climate and can't figure out how to make my hair look good in the humidity; I don't have my hair dresser and so I have a bad cut. I don't dare try to get the bad cut fixed because I may end up with even less hair and a cut that is much worse. I think the humidity in the air makes my cells weigh more and so I feel heavy. I can't think what to wear that is modest and won't make me melt in the heat. Thus, no picture of me until I adjust to my surroundings.
PS I admit I am showing a very shallow side of myself! I am not proud of it; however, until I get over it Sacha and Julianne will be the header on my blog.
Thanks for listening to the ravings of Sally...
Happiness
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it and sometimes travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a might effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold onto good attainments.”
From Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Saturday, August 2, 2008
The 36 Rules of Life (in no particular order)
The 36 Rules of Life
3. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car.
4. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
5. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
7. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
8. A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention! It never fails.)
9. For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
10. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
11. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
12. A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.
13. Eat well; stay fit; die anyway.
14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.
15. No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
16. A balanced diet is a muffin in each hand.
17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
19. Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
22. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
23. Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.
24. Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.
25. It ain't the jeans that make your butt look fat.
1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
2. Don't worry about what people think; they don't do it very often.
26. If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
27. There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness.'
28. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
29. You should not confuse your career with your life.
30. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
31. Never lick a steak knife.
32. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
33. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
34. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely sugge sts that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
35. The one thing that unites all human beings re gardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background is that deep down inside we ALL believe we are above average drivers.
36. Your friends love you anyway.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Debut of Sacha as a beautician
With Julianne as her first victim (I mean client), Sacha tackles the job of giving a haircut. Mind you, she has never attempted this before, but she seems to have the knack. Nice job Sacha! Sacha is very interested in going to beauty school.
Onondaga Cave outing
Rebekah, Sacha and Julianne near the waterfall- a short distance from the cave
Just a few of the spectacular sites within the cave. My camera can not do the formations justice. Did you know that Missouri has the most caves of any other state?
Monday, July 21, 2008
St. Louis Arch- a must for all tourists!
Sacha and Julianne examine the exhibits in the arch interactive museum. Yikes! They've discovered buffalo and bear.
You see an array of pictures of the arch and from inside the arch. The arch represents the gateway to the West, though we don't think of it as the west, St. Louis was the edge of the western frontier at the end of the 19th century. The arch is impressive from an engineering stand point. It stands over 600 feet high and tourists have always been able to travel to the top of the arch where there are a number of lookout windows. The travel involves situating oneself in a small compartment, a bit like an old fashioned Ferris wheel cage, except you are enclosed. There are 5 seats to a compartment and as the car travels up and down the arch, it continues to right itself so that the passenger is always sitting in a vertical position though you are traveling up and down one side of an arch. The view is spectacular as are the shots we got of the arch's shadow. We also snapped some shots of the park and lake surrounding the arch as well as some of the interactive historical replications.
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