Duka: Happy Birthday Mom!

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Happy Birthday Mom!

Today is my mom's 45th birthday and she continues to be the best mom in the whole world! So Happy birthday Mom!

1 comment:

The VanderHoevens said...: Happy Birthday Pam!; July 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM

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Bucket List/Goals

Do an act of service everyday for one year
Go to the summer Olympics
Travel Europe by train
Start an Anti-Bully organization
Read a General Conference talk everyday for 3 months and blog about it
Go on an African Safari
Do the "Amazing Race"
Get better at couponing
Do FHE every Monday for one year
Go to the Ellen Degeneres show
Visit all 50 states (I think I've got 15 already)
Visit Bora Bora
Learn to play the piano
Volunteer at Saint Jude's Children's Hospital
Host a foriegn exchange student
Learn to surf
Run in a marathon with Landi
Go on a mission with Landi
Visit China
Surprise Landi with an Alaskan Cruise
Get a master's degree in Education
Go to a Michael Buble concert
Learn to sew
Ride a camel
Write a letter to the white house about education and what needs to happen
Attend General Conference in the conference center
Relearn to play the cello
Do a relay for life
Start a "Our Book of Thanks" book for every Thanksgiving
Wait at an airport for troops to come home to say "thank you" for fighting for our freedom
Attend a presidential inauguration
Start a daycare/preschool
Run in a 5k with Landi
Read all the books from a popular book list in one year
Start writing/sending letters and care packages to soldiers who are currently serving
Build a food storage/emergency kits
Visit Times Square on New Year's Eve/New Years
Go to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Study the scriptures everyday for one year
Do visiting teaching every month for a year
Take a picture of something exciting everyday for ine year and blog about it

Love

Falling in love is a powerful thing. There have doubtless been more books written, more movies made, more songs sung about love and falling in love than about any other topic. Finding a person to love is the ultimate treasure hunt. Falling in love, one person reflected, is finding "someone just right, someone you loved like the best pal you ever had and the worst crush you ever had." It can be so consuming that the desire to be with another becomes unrelenting, occupying your every thought, your every desire, your every minute of the day. It's intense. It's exhilarating. To fully portray the feeling on paper has always been elusive to even the most adept poets. To comprehend it, love has to be experienced. And oh, what a wonderful experience! He captures her heart, she captures his; there ia a mutual victory and surrendering for both.

"The Lord has ordained that we should marry," said President Gordon B. Hinckley, "that we shall love together in love and peace and harmony.... The time will come when you will fall in love. It will occupy all of your thoughts and be the stuff of which your dreams are made...You will know no greater happiness than that found in your home...The truest mark of your success in life will the quality of your marriage....This choice [of a companion] will be the most important of all the choices you make in your life."