Primary

Today I am grateful that I was asked to help out in Primary today. For those of you who aren't familar with this term it is the children's "Sunday School" so to speak of the LDS church. For two and a half years I was the Primary President....I loved my church job....and I loved the kids. It was hard for me when they released me and found another job for me to do. Today I had the opportunity to go back and help out......and I loved every minute of it. The kids are so sweet and it just made me grateful not only to be helping in there today but for the two and a half years I spent working in the Primary with these wonderful children.

Fall Leaves

As I drove to work today I was pondering what I wanted to post about....what was I grateful for today? It is getting more difficult to come up with things...I don't want to keep posting about the usual things that one thinks of when one says they are grateful...about that time I drove by a shopping center with some trees with beautiful fall leaves on them...now I know for those of you who live where you have four seasons this may not seem like much but living in Southern California we don't have a lot of trees with leaves that turn color and they don't turn color until now, mid November. The trees I saw this morning were on fire with color...they were simply beautiful. Unfortunately I didn't have time to take a photo, nor did I have my camera with me. Then I remembered a simular tree, one that stood outside my father-in-laws hospital room, two years ago, shortly before he passed away. It was too was on fire with color. So today I am grateful for beautiful fall leaves....and my dear sweet father-in-law.....we miss you Daddy.

Our Sweet Riley

As I think back over this past year one of the things I am really grateful for is the fact that after Riley ran way, last March....we FOUND him! When he left it was just heartbreaking....we were all so sad...but what joy we felt when he returned. It was a huge testimony builder to all of us of the power of prayer. Everyone was praying for his safe return. I am so grateful our prayers were answered and Riley came home after 3 and a half days. So today, 8 months after he left I am grateful he is part of our family. He loves us unconditionally and is simply the best puppy ever! (most of the time anyway)

Finally!

I finally did it....I couldn't take it anymore.....I finally cleaned up the linen closet...4 shelves clean 1 more to go! Today I am grateful for an almost clean linen closet.

Online Friends

This last week with our internet being down for a couple of days it occured to me just how much I rely on the internet....I felt lost for 2 days without the internet. I don't know if my family understands that I call these wonderful women my friends and yet I have never met them. We chat online regularily, we share scrapbook pages, we know about each others kids...if only we weren't spread quite so far across the country we might actually get to meet in real life....today I am thankful for all of my online friends. Today's photo is a layout I scrapped a while back about my online buddies!

Why I Live Where I do

I think I am missing a day in my gratitude posting and after my walk today down at the beach I decided to post twice today. It's absolutely beautiful outside today....perfect weather in my book...the sun is shining, it's about 70 degrees, and oh yeah....it's NOVEMBER! I went to visit a friend of mine down by the beach....I couldn't pass up the chance to go for a walk so I grabbed my camera before I left the house and here's my favorite....well one of them anyway. I played with it in Picnik.com and made it kind of edgy and fun. Today besides being grateful for my husband's family.....I am also very grateful to live just 5 miles from the beach and have beautiful days like today that I can enjoy!

Gotta Love these Guys!

Almost 29 years ago I married into the best family ever! Cliff is one of 6 kids and I came from a family of just my sister and me! Needless to say that first Christmas we spent together as a family was a bit overwhelming for me. I was desperately trying to find quiet places to hide at my mother-in-laws house. Now of course I miss it when we don't get together with his family....I love all the craziness and the chaos....tho I must admit I have been known to still try and find that quiet place to hide...lol Today's photo is of just part of Cliff's Sister Sandi's family....just part of the Morgan Clan that I am grateful for. You guys are the BEST! Of course there are other family members that I am grateful for so stay tuned...For more family photos in the days ahead.