WICKED!

Bill-bo brought his family up this weekend to see Wicked!  It was wonderful!  Kit and Cami also came, and we left all the kids with LA....she was a trooper, but said she had a great time babysitting.  I wish I had gotten more pictures while they were here, the kids were soooooo cute.  But we at least got this one right before the show

Thoughts on Pride, Self-Esteem, Unselfishness, ETC

I'm just going to copy straight from my journal an excerpt from today. Another shout out to ldsjournal.com, I feel a lot more comfortable being honest in that avenue, and look now I can just share things here that I want, however, I am not editing for grammar, deal with it. Anyways, today has definitely been one of those epiphany moments: 

 I had some great insights throughout my day today though.  At clinicals this morning, one of the techs made a comment about babies.  She said "Babies are born selfish.  Unselfishness is something we learn through life." 

 I thought about that a lot.  Babies start to learn how to act unselfishly first I believe when they realize that doing things like crying affects the people around them, the people the love, in a negative way. So initially it's through love that we change.  I think later, that unselfishness is learned through service, another avenue that relies on love, or charity. 
    Then tonight at work I was chatting with the Elder's quorum president.  I told him about one of my friends who had posted pictures of her kids on facebook.  In each of the pictures throughout a period of time, you could see her husband in the background playing video games.  Obviously not giving attention to his children, obviously not sharing in the joy of their progression, while his wife is working her butt off in this x-ray program to support her dead-beat (stay-at-home) husband. He asked me frankly why women are so anxious to get married that they will go for MR. Right NOW instead of Mr. Right. I attributed it to low-self esteem and loneliness.  A woman like that will jump at anything that will give her attention, I've been there, sometimes I feel like I'm there right now. EQP said to me, "Don't ever settle Megan".  I said I never would, and that my pride and self-esteem were too high for that to ever happen, but that I'm worried about my pride...he agreed that he is also prideful and picky, and I commented on the irony of the two most prideful people in the ward being the presidents of our respective auxiliaries. ;)  He decided we're not prideful, we just have an abundance of self-esteem....which I'm sure we have learned through our knowledge of the gospel and what Heavenly Father wants us to feel.  To know of our potential, we should love ourselves!
    Then a little while later we did some x-rays on a 15 year old girl who had gotten beat up by some other girls at a party, apparently it was the ex-girlfriend of this girl's new boyfriend.  I overheard the police officers asking what happened and telling her they needed to go find her parents....I thought, man I don't ever want to get that knock on the door at 2 in the morning saying my daughter had just gotten her head smashed in.  We discussed it in the CT core while they exam was going on and I voiced my concern about how to not let your children fall into the trap of social pressures like that.  One of the other assistants said she feels like the most important thing she can do is just teach her children to be confident and feel loved, feel secure, and know what the standards of their family are.  I thought it was interesting that she talked about confidence and love, and how I had been thinking about that today in relation to becoming less-selfish.  I love how everything is so intertwined!

Oh Baby

Holy Wah it's been a long time since I've posted.  One of my friends introduced me to the LDS journal which is free and pretty spectacular and I highly recommend it.  It even reminds me when I haven't written in it for a while....which nothing else in this world ever does except for mothers.
  So this post is basically just going to be a picture series of events post.

The missionary came home!!  And came to see me!  And he can't have that facial hair anymore because he's at BYU-I  ;) haha.  It was so fantastic to see him, guess he's gonna need a new name...

 We did all the important Spokane things to do....Saw a weird castle, fed the ducks, rode the carousel, saw the temple, visited with his childhood friend Andrew, and went to Froyo.  Woot!

The Taurus rolled over 100,000 miles!!  Unbelievable.  I'm ready for it to die any day now.

Ellen had the baby!  Shawsh makes him cry, but of course he loves his Aunt Bacon...she's the coolest!

Sorry I really can't figure out why this picture won't flip over.  If you lay sideways then it looks right. 

Un-bearded RM and his new Frisbee.....this thing flies.

He's trying to take over my coolness status, but he'll never succeed.

Because I still rock

Grandma doesn't make the baby cry.

Shawsh didn't harm anyone in the playing of the train game....this time.

This is payback for whoever stole my camera

I love my mama!

Undocumented....My birthday.  Was great.  I had 2 tests that morning, but then Shawsh took me out for lunch and got me some piano music, then I went shopping and then FHE was a birthday party....uh.....for everyone...on my birthday ;) We played red rover, pin the tail on the donkey, had a pinata, a water gun fight, and a chocolate cake.  Then that weekend at Ellen's we had a joint birthday/mother's day/ baby blessing party with ice cream and Costco cake and family, and friends, and happiness.  Maybe someone will send me pictures of these wonderful events as well. I couldn't take many pictures there because I was busy trying to get rid of my baby fever.  He's sooooooo cute. I just couldn't help but hold him every chance I got!   Overall things have been great.  I'm halfway through this quarter, and can't wait to start my last year of school!    YAY!