General Conference

Defend your beliefs with courtesy and compassion, but defend them
-Jeffrey R. Holland

Take up the joyful burden of discipleship
-Ronald A. Rasband

The world will not glide calmly to the second coming
Neil L. Andersen

Righteousness must be chosen
-Henry B. Eyring

Teach you children to have a personal internal filter that comes from a personal testimony of the savior.
-Linda S. Reeves

Words that can be firm in information can be soft in spirit
-W. Craig Zwick

You can feel peace in the midst of turmoil.  The gospel is not a weight, it is wings.
-Jean A. Stevens

Whoever you are and wherever you may be, you hold in your hands the happiness of more people than you can imagine.
-Henry B. Eyring

Blame keeps wounds open... only forgiveness heals.
-Thomas S. Monson

These are the days to stand strong as disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ
-Neil L. Andersen

Love is the very essence of the gospel.
-Thomas S. Monson

Choose to be grateful, no matter what
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Addictions are thin threads of repeated action that weave themselves into thick bonds of habit
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Let your faith show
-Russell M. Nelson

In the eyes of God, weather in the church or in the family, women and men are equal with different responsibilities
-Dallin H. Oaks

We meet with the hope that our future, no matter our history, can be better
-Donald L. Hallstrom

Agency is your power to become
-Randall L Ridd

The most important thing is to keep trying
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day.  It is an effort of once and for all
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Reaching out to rescue one another, under any condition, is an eternal measure of love
-Ronald A. Rasband

There seems to be something inside of us that resists endings.  It is because we are made of the stuff of the eternities.  Endings are not our destiny.  Endings in mortality are not endings at all.
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It is a characteristic of our age that if people want any Gods at all, they want them to be Gods who do not demand much, comfortable Gods and smooth Gods who not only dont rock the boat, but dont even row it.
-Jeffrey R. Holland

You will one day stand aside and look at your difficult times and you will realize that he was always there beside you
-Thomas S. Monson

Families are the treasure of heaven
-Neil L. Andersen

Road Tripping

So a few weeks back we took a little road trip.  Brad had a job interview all the way up in Winnemucca, NV, so we decided to make a fun little trip out of it.  

The people who Brad was interviewing with put us up in a hotel for a couple days.  Brad worked half a day at their clinic in Winnemucca and half a day in their clinic in Lovelock, they took us to a Basque restaurant and basically threw a wrench in everything we had been planning on with a couple of really good job offers.  But, all that is for another post, not this one.

We had kept the whole northern Nevada trip a secret from my family, because we thought that it would be fun to just drive up and surprise them.  It ended up working out perfectly, because Nathan and Kaitlin decided to go up to Idaho to celebrate Nathan graduating from LDSBC.  

We got to my parents house in the afternoon, just as they were all getting ready to eat.  It was such perfect timing, cause they were all together in the familyroom and kitchen and we just walked in the back door.  I so wish that I had been filming their reaction, because it was amazing!!  They were all so shocked and just stared at us for the longest time.  It made the whole trip worth it!!

So after the shock wore off a little, we ate delicious food and Nathan opened presents and we sang 'Happy Graduation' to Nathan and it was quite a party.

Then we went outside to play in the nice weather

Poor little Kaitlin was not feeling great, because of her lovely morning sickness, but it was SO fun talking babies with her!!!

Shawn looked like a super villain from a cartoon and it was awesome

Heather was so awesome and happy and I got some great video of her laughing and being crazy

We ate cheesecake, because I psychically told Kaitlin I was coming and that she needed to buy it.  We also had chips and salsa and brownies.  I know.  But we needed to fuel our game-filled night.  Well, really it was just us trying to understand how to play the game, 'Bang' and being super confused, because for some reason Jaden kept trying to kill Mom and Dad no matter who his character was.

Then things got a little bit crazy 

And everyone got to see a little bit more wild side of little Clarky.

Sunday meant that Nathan and Kaitlin had to be stupid and leave

But not before some awkward photo taking

And some more Bang

Then came the goodbyes

Always so sad.... and a little creepy

But we said good riddens to the Salt Lakeans and got to spend the rest of Sunday eating and looking at old pictures and watching old tv shows

And the boys making a big mess of course

The next morning we had to say some more goodbyes.  So glad that Mom and Dad let us crash their place for a few days!!  We love them all so much!!!

On our way home, we stopped in Salt Lake and saw Nathan and Kaitlin one last time.  We went to City Creek and Temple Square and Nathan's work and then we ate at Kneaders

We got to go see their new apartment and meet Lady and watched HIMYM and didnt want to leave, but we eventually forced ourselves to.

It was a wonderful week of driving and clown motels and cadbury eggs and confusing job interviews and surprising family and so much fun!!!