Tonight I enjoyed a wonderful evening of friendship as pageant friends gathered for dinner and then to attend the Mrs. Utah America Pageant at the Covey Center for the Arts in Provo. A good friend, Heidi Murray, was crowned the new Mrs. Utah America 2009. Her platform is a Voice for Autism. She will do such great things! It was so great to be with these wonderful women and to catch up on each others lives. My life is too blessed! So many great people surround me and inspire me continuously.
Today I had the opportunity to speak to members of the PIC (Partners For Infants and Children) Committee sponsored by the United Way. I was overwhelmed with the positive response and outpouring of ideas and desires to volunteer and help that followed. More e-mails came from the group as I arrived home.
One woman volunteered to solicit help from the the Regional PTA Representative to promote White Ribbon Week. Another individual wanted to pass along Child-Appropriate Resolution information to each of her children living in Utah Cities where resolutions have not been passed. One father in attendance was anxious to have a referral for internet filters. So many others were moved to action as well.
This has been the typical response I have found from fellow Utah citizens as I have been invited to speak on decency at various events. I’m grateful to be among such wonderful company!
As I head to Las Vegas next week to compete at the Mrs. United States Pageant, I look forward to promoting Decency to a national audience that I hope to find as receptive as the great citizens of Utah. Thank you for your support and for helping me to spread this message!
This family is very dear to us! Brigham was able to help reactivate them to the church while he served his mission in France. We were invited to attend the Temple wedding of their daughter Lucy on June 27th at the Logan Temple. It was a beautiful day of celebration and joyful reunion.
Happy Birthday Raya! Thanks for inviting us-we had SOOO MUCH FUN!!!!!!
Here I am with Steve Knudsen and his wife at the Rotary Meeting. He called me the day after the Deseret News article published a piece highlighting my platform with this quote:
“Up until this point, I was just a really passionate mom,” she said. “But does the Rotary want a really passionate mom to come speak? No, they want Mrs. Utah or someone with a title. People will listen if I have a title instead of just ‘mom,’ and already that’s the case.”
I was impressed with their group and grateful to be a part of their meeting. They were so gracious, so entertaining and so service oriented. I like their motto: SERVICE ABOVE SELF!
For Father’s Day, we went to the Asian Food Market and bought ingredients for some of Brigham’s favorite Sushi and Thai recipes. Then we watched you tube for instructions and had some fun results. Here are the sushi photos:
She is my constant helper. My little buddy. My sanity with crazy and wild boys. We missed her this past week while she was gone at “Gramp Camp”. So happy to have her back home with us. She still tears up each time someone mentions her “new baby brother”. Hopefully, she’ll come around by November 28th. I will miss this sweet 5 year old girl when she’s all grown up.
Professional photography by Marc Olivier, Take Out Photo
“My heart is ever at your service.”
–William Shakespeare
I was invited to be a judge for the Davis County Junior Miss Scholarship Program yesterday. It was a wonderful experience to see how well prepared and well-rounded these girls were. I wan’t familiar with this program prior to this invitation. Now I will recommend it to everyone who has teenage girls. These girls were so talented, poised, intelligent and fit! For fitness they performed a 5+ minute physical fitness routine complete with double time pushups. I would be thrilled if Abby participated in such a program in the future. These were high quality girls with direction, purpose and excellent training! I’d like to meet each of their mothers and get some tips! The judges were all so wonderful as well. It was an inspiring day of women seeking to improve themselves and their communities! The Provo Junior Miss Program will be in October, if any one is interested in that-I can connect you with the director.
I captured this today during our hour of “Silent Reading” time. Baby Brigham grabbed a board book and chose his tonka truck for his reading spot. Don’t let his sweet face fool you…. the tongue tells all…. just moments before the flash went off, he ripped the book and stuck out his tongue. That clenched fist is holding the evidence. That’s about as wild as this wonderful boy gets. He seems to be developing the sweetest disposition and inclination towards immediate obediance. We are enjoying his personality shining through in such exciting ways. He is our first child to be almost 100% obediant the first time we make a request. Don’t I sound like a proud mama?
Karmel