Carnival......no not the cruise.

We love it when the carnival comes to town! Connor really enjoyed himself this time. Funny to see him trying to phsyc himself out of being afraid! He even got on the ferris wheel this time!

Spring School Picture

When Connor got off the bus today he toted with him a package of portraits.

I LOVE spring portraits!

Easter 2007

Ahhhh Easter.....a time of reflection, a time of rejoicing, a time of wonderment that we will all be resurected and have eternal life because of the Lord's plan.

Also a time of ........... plastic eggs, chocolate, colored hard boiled eggs and family dinner. I always love an excuse to gather the family together for food and visiting.

Connor is still not really into the easter egg hunt...perhaps because he doesn't have siblings to compete with. We took him to the Cornville Community Easter Egg Hunt (I am the web master for the Cornville Community Association so they invite my family to their events) and when the whistle blew he meandered around and pilfered all of 5 eggs and said he was done!!! YOU ARE KIDDING! At that age I would still be there hunting eggs mowing down kids in my path to chocolate bilss! Oh...uhhh....was that outloud? Anyhow...Connor had a wonderful day playing with goodies from his Easter Basket.

I hope your Easter was equally as special as mine!

In Memoriam....

Richard David Baldwin Sr.

"DaddyWaddy"

October, 8 1943 - March, 27 2002

My Dad wreaked of personality and charm! Was a hard worker and avid outdoorsman. Loved his children and his grandchildren very much.

We love you and miss you very much Dad!

The "Baldwin" sisters strike again....

My maiden name is "Baldwin", so growing up my sister and I were always refered to as "The Baldwin Sisters". If any of you remember "The Waltons" you will know these two fiesty ladies!

Shawna and I realized we have not done anything together for over 17 years so we left the kids and husbands home and took off for Mesquite, Nevada to visit some family. We have a grandmother whom we ADORE that was just placed in an assisted living home there, so we thought we would go check out her new digs.

To our surprise it was a NICE place and she LOVES it there....I don't EVER recall Grandma flirting with anyone (She has been a widow for about 30 years) but she turned me red going on with her rather handsome physical therapist! "You GO Grandma"!

Where would we be without our family?

The Lord works in mysterious ways...

A couple of months ago Scott and Connor went to do the grocery shopping at Wal-mart. After shopping Scott loaded Connor in his car seat and secured the bags in the back of the car. When taking the cart to the cart parking place (what a good man) he noticed a purse in one of the carts. Thinking to himself how suspicious he would look carrying a purse he picked it up and held it out for the world to see that he was NOT stealing it. Just as he was contemplating his dilemma...unloading a cranky, tired 4 year old and going back into the store...an older couple parked next to him. Scott, being a great judge of character, asked the couple if they would please turn the purse in to customer service and with that he left feeling good about doing the right thing.

On February first there was a letter to the editor it read:

EDITOR:

When I got home from shopping at Wal-Mart, I discovered I had left my purse in the shopping cart in the parking lot. Although I started praying non-stop, I still slipped into a panic mode.

When I called the store, I really didn't think I had any chance of seeing it again, and I started to make mental notes of all the phone calls I had to make.

And then, that precious voice finally came back on line and said: "Yes, we have it and it is locked securely in our safe!". Some honest and caring person had spotted it and taken it in to the store.

I thank this obviously well-raised, conscientious and honest person from the bottom of my heart. You are a credit to this age and I will be praying special blessings for you.

Clareen A. Barrett
Prescott Valley

When Scott read this he had a strong feeling he had to find the woman and tell her the comical story of her purse...if indeed this was the same purse. He found himself googling the woman's name and found her not hard to find as she is a local artist. He wrote and mailed her letter on Feb. 1st.

The night of Sunday, Feb. 4th I was not feeling very well and could not sleep so I was on the Internet at apx. midnight until 1:30am looking for a picture of Jesus with little children I could hang in Connor's room.......You will NEVER guess what happened the next day!!

Scott was outside waiting for Connor's bus when a woman pulled up in our drive...Scott waved because he thought it was my visiting teacher from church. When he realized it wasn't Sherry he walked to her car. The woman got out and introduced herself as Clareen Barrett!! She said she was in no financial situation to give Scott the reward he so deserved but said that she was awoken at 1am with a strong feeling that she needed to paint a picture of Christ with little children and give it to Scott for his son. When Scott brought the painting in and told me what she said I broke down and wept for I recognized then at that very moment when we are in tune with the spirit he truly CAN work through us to bless others!

A new room for Connor

Well it was time to totally re-do Connor's room. The walls were a dark brown color and it was a bit dreary for him. He LOVES Thomas the Train so we selected a lovely shade of Thomas the Train blue....WHOAAAA is it blue!! We also tore the carpet out and put down a wood floor! He loves sliding around on his tummy and feet....hmmm I may not every have to clean the floor in there...but there is the deal with the extra laundry after he does the cleaning with his cloths. Hehehe.

To start or not to start a blog.....

I am so not eloquent with the type written word....I'm a lousy speller, punctuationer, sentence writer etc. So if you can bare with all my short comings you may just enjoy this journey into my head (please take a friend...its not safe to go there alone).

Because I have been ill the past 2 and a half months I have had a lot of time to do nothing...but think...here are some of my musings:

Remember when you were just getting out on your own and you had to go to the laundry mat to wash your cloths...I hated that....I would wait until I had a MOUNTAIN of cloths to do before I went. I would sit there and think...."if I had my own washer and dryer I would NEVER have dirty cloths" ... Fast forward to present time....as I sit in my room surrounded by a MOUNTAIN of laundry I think..."if I only had a maid I would never have dirty laundry".



Why can't anyone on a Soap Opera have a happily ever after?

Why can't we all be married to Dr. Phil?

Why oh why is pizza the ONLY food you can have delivered?

Why does everyone else lose weight when they are sick?

And tell me again.....why does God give us trials?

I am eternally greatful to my husband for taking such good care of me and to my boys for always being able to make me smile.