Lily & Thistle

Favorites on Friday...Kids Clothes Week

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I've been debating whether I should sign up to take part in this challenge...I mean I'm lucky if I get a shower in these days! But the girls need nightgowns and I think this will be my motivation to get at least a few easy nightgowns done.

I thought I'd post what I would make if I had all of the time in the world for your enjoyment today:

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Are you participating? Making anything for yourself or your kidlets these days? Please share!

May Outfit of The Month and Shop Specials...

“The world's favorite season is the spring.

All things seem possible in May.”

- Edwin Way Teale

Shop Specials:

Free Birthday Outfit with any Party Package (Print Yourself or Printed Versions)

Free One Year Membership to the Outfit of the Month Club with purchase of ANY package

(including Print Yourself)!

So hurry over and start your membership today (if you already have a membership wouldn't

it be fun to give one away?)!

Favorites on Friday...Royal Wedding Tribute

I wasn't planning to watch the Royal Wedding footage today (not that I wasn't looking forward to seeing Kate's dress...I knew there would be plenty of photos). But, I am so glad we (Grandma, Mom, me and the girls) did. It was so beautiful and in fact, inspiring. I loved the ceremony, it was so centered on beauty and truth. I was especially moved by the Bishop of London’s Address/Sermon. When I heard it, I immediately thought that everyone should have an opportunity to hear/read and meditate on it’s words. I have put my favorite excerpts below. Some of the best marital advice I've heard. You can read the whole transcript here. Enjoy!

"Many are full of fear for the future of the prospects of our world but the message of the celebrations in this country and far beyond its shores is the right one - this is a joyful day! It is good that people in every continent are able to share in these celebrations because this is, as every wedding day should be, a day of hope."

"In a sense every wedding is a royal wedding with the bride and the groom as king and queen of creation, making a new life together so that life can flow through them into the future."

"Faithful and committed relationships offer a door into the mystery of spiritual life in which we discover this: the more we give of self, the richer we become in soul; the more we go beyond ourselves in love, the more we become our true selves and our spiritual beauty is more fully revealed. In marriage we are seeking to bring one another into fuller life."

"As the reality of God has faded from so many lives in the West, there has been a corresponding inflation of expectations that personal relations alone will supply meaning and happiness in life. This is to load our partner with too great a burden. We are all incomplete: we all need the love which is secure, rather than oppressive, we need mutual forgiveness, to thrive."

"As we move toward our partner in love, following the example of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit is quickened within us and can increasingly fill our lives with light. This leads to a family life which offers the best conditions in which the next generation can practice and exchange those gifts which can overcome fear and division and incubate the coming world of the Spirit, whose fruits are love and joy and peace."

Good stuff. What are your thoughts...did you watch?

Happy Easter...He Is Risen

How thankful I am for His sacrifice. I know that he loves me and that because of His atonement, I can overcome my weaknesses and make lasting changes. I know that He lives! I hope this Easter is one of peace and remembrance for you and yours...what a gift we have all been given.

Favorites on Friday...Funny Thoughts From a Tired Mama

Hope this finds you all happy and healthy and ready for a wonderful Easter weekend. Things here are good...more normal (minus sleep) which is good...we like to call it our "new normal". I will be posting something special for Easter Sunday tomorrow...until then, have a great day!

Checking In...

It has been three and a half weeks of getting to know our new little man-cub... two weeks of living here and it really has been about what I expected it would be...crazy, hard and wonderful all wrapped together. I knew to expect high emotions, pain, exhilarating moments of pure love and joy and complete and total exhaustion. That is about what it has been.

We are getting settled in and really enjoying our life here so far...waiting and hoping for the house in Utah to sell and loving the wide open spaces and all of the extra love from my parents and Grandma Dahl. I'll post pictures of my view from here as soon as our camera card gets replaced.

Tragedy: the camera card that held all of the pictures from the last three weeks (and the first three weeks of Ollie's life) is broken and all of the pictures...gone. :(

Thankfully we have some pictures Micah and Camille took (they drove with us and hauled a bunch of our stuff...bless them).

Remember this post? So much more fun having these two "on the outside". Ollie is owning the "grumpy old man" look here. Don't you just want to jump through the screen and kiss that Bradley's cheeks?!

Oh and on a totally unrelated note, I thought I'd post this months' outfit. It's one of my favorites so far.

How are you? What are some of your memories of life with a newborn?