Evvy's Blessing Reminder

Just a Reminder about Sunday. our sacrament meeting starts at one, and I will have seats saved in the front for everyone.
For dinner after here are the food reminders.
Cathy an Miriam Chicken
Jenny Spanish Rice
Jenn lettuce and tomatoes
Mom taco shells and chips
Alicia green salad
Nat dessert
Thanks Miriam

Just so you know...

Hey Family!

We just wanted to let you know that we're going to be in town for a while. I figure that most of you don't know when we're visiting...so here are the dates!

We'll be there on the 17th, Ammon will leave with the brothers on the 21st and then he'll leave for Moscow on the 26th and the kids and I will stay a little longer and fly out May 1st. Noah turns 3 on April 17th, so we're going to try to plan a little get together, maybe at the poolhouse...we'll let you know when and where. We know you're all busy, so don't worry about it if you can't come, we'll hopefully see everyone there at one time or another!

We can't wait to see you and sure love you all!

Love,
Ammon, Natalie, Noah, and Elizabeth

ps

the email I just got from me didn't have the attachment.  Will someone let me know if you got it and if not, I will send it again.
Thanks!

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wonderful talk...

So, Jordan sent me a copy of a talk Elder Glenn L. Pace gave at a BYU devotional a few weeks ago.  It is a beautiful talk on the divine nature and destiny of women--one that I think everyone should read.  It reinforces the beauty and importance of marriage and our individual, divine natures.
Anyway, I loved it and I wanted to share.

Love,
Mary

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Life...

Julia sent me these and I was laughing out loud.  Partly because they are funny, and partly because they are so true...:)
Love you guys!
 
Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.
 
Life is just a phase you're going through...you'll get over it.
 
There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.
 
You know, it's a long world.
 
Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.
 
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few
pits in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
 
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.  ~Will Rogers
 
No one is listening until you fart.  ~Author Unknown
 
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.  ~Aldous Huxley
 
He's turned his life around.  He used to be depressed and miserable.
Now he's miserable and depressed.  ~Harry Kalas, on Garry Maddox, 1981
 
Love your enemies.  It makes them so dang mad.  ~P.D. East
 
There's no such thing as fun for the whole family.  ~Jerry Seinfeld
 
When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a
football.  ~Author Unknown
 
Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.  ~Author Unknown
 
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.
That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile way and you have
their shoes.  ~Author Unknown
 
Duct tape is like the force.  It has a light side, a dark side, and it
holds the universe together.  ~Carl Zwanzig
 
I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people
die of natural causes.  ~Author Unknown
 
You can't have everything... where would you put it?  ~Steven Wright
 
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody.  Now I see that I should
have been more specific.  ~Jane Wagner, The Search For Intelligent
Life In The Universe, performed by Lily Tomlin
 

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addresses

Hello family,

I was just wondering if those family members who have moved recently or live away could send me their current address. (Ammon and Nat, Ardith and Aaron, Hyrum and Jenna, and Jordan P. down there at BYU.) I have most of them I think, but I want to make sure I have all the right info cause I'm trying to correctly update all the lists around here that are wrong. :)  Thank you much!

Love,
Mary

P.S. If you haven't seen the newest addition, Evvy, let me just say that she is SOOO CUTE!  I'm not biased or anything, but all Auntie prejudice put aside, she really is a doll.  Good work Miriam and Jordan. :)

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Evvy Rae Brown

Here is our new addition. Everything is going good, just thought you would want to see some pictures.

Fast Sunday Dinner Schedule 2010

Thought I would post this on our blog site for all to see:

Pitt Family Dinner Schedule 2010

February 7: Jenny/Cathy
March 7: Alicia/Jenn
Sat. April 3: Miriam/Cathy
May 2: Mom/Mary
June 6: Miriam/Jenn
No Dinner in July because of Hill Cumorah and Bear Lake
August 1st: Mom/Mary
Sept 5: Miriam/Cathy
Sat. Oct. 2: Alicia/Jenny
Thanksgiving Dinner on Thanksgiving Day in November
Sat. Dec. 4th Lydia Pitt's Baptism--Jenn in charge.

family power

Dear family,

 I just wanted to say thank you for adding me to Caleb's fast yesterday.  As mom and dad suggested a family fast for Caleb, I remembered how much power comes from a united fast and how great it is to have such a big family to add their own individual power to that fast.  In thinking about all of this, I realized that I haven't accessed that power very much lately cause I didn't want to be a bother or burden.  However, I'm hoping all the combined faith will help.  By way of explanation (cause I don't know what mom told you)  I have been having a lot of problems with my eyes lately.  Long story short, they've formed what is like a callous on the eye and sometimes the callous grows so big that it covers the pupil.  I've had a lot of blurriness and other problems and there's not much I can do about it...which is why I thought of a family fast.  Also, I started a new medication not too long ago and I'd really like for it to help with the anxiety and depression.  So far I haven't noticed a difference either way, so mostly I just feel like I need some direction in finding something that will help.

Anyway, thank you again.  I love you all super much and I'm thankful to be your sister.

Love Always,
Mary Elizabeth Pitt Hess  

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Merry Christmas!

So, now it's 1:35pm on Christmas day and we are all still in our pj's. That is everyone except our baby, Lauren. She of course has to be in a "dance costume" every second of her life. Santa brought her little dance slippers in her stocking and she was such a sight to see wearing those, a full tutu costume that Melissa has grown out of and scootering around on her little pink princess scooter that I just finished assembling (Santa got too worn out last night to assemble it, and just wrapped it in the box). Spencer and McKay got golf clubs and a promise from Jerem that a few lessons come with that....here's looking to some fun father/son outings. We've all been playing Beetles Rock Band all morning that was a family gift and I have to admit that it's pretty fun. We've had to watch where we are walking though as the little boys got remote control cars and they are everywhere with them. With all the fun, relaxing, excitement of today, I'm glad we had a nice evening last night to talk about what Christmas is really all about.
(break for sledding at Grandma Pitt's.....and yes getting dressed finally)
We are all doing well. Rachel just made the Jr. high basketball team which she is sooo excited about. She also is still on a highly competitive soccer team which she plays goalie half of the time. She is such a great girl, and loving 7th grade in the big Jr. HIgh School. I'm not sure if I'm ready for her to grow up so fast, but it is so fun to see her grow and become such a wonderful young lady. Somewhere something happened right, and we feel so blessed to be her parents and let her be a good example to the rest of the bunch. She got her ears pierced this past fall and it's fun to see her liking pink and girly things now and keeping up with her Piano.
Spencer is so full of love. That kid has such a big heart. He enjoys soccer (most of the time) . He has started liking watching football and basketball maybe even as much as Jerem, so it's fun for the two of them to do together. He is often found out on our front lawn with his brothers and the other neighborhood kids playing football. He got a flag football kit for Christmas....hopefully the tackles won't be so rough now.
Melissa is so cute. She is always out to please. She has a love/hate relationship with her violin and practicing, but is getting pretty good after 4 years. She got a crocheted head band with a flower for Christmas with lessons from my friend to teach her how to make them. She is incredibly good with crafty things to do with her hands. She is the best singer on the Beatles Rock Band that we have played this morning. She tried soccer for the first time this year and is liking getting it all out on the soccer field.
Hunter is a cutie. He's been working hard on his tumbling, and can do some pretty amazing back flip/ twist things. He sure is a determined little guy. He also is enjoying soccer and started piano this past year. He can always find a way to crack us up, and we love him so much.
McKay is a bundle of energy and determination too. He loves to make booby traps and surprise you at every turn. He'll be 7 in a couple of weeks. He likes reading to me every day after school and also enjoys soccer and football. He's been begging me to take piano too, but I don't think I can keep up with another music lesson, but we'll see if I can just teach him a little here and there until summer.
Brigham can be found with a bandaid on his right thumb all of the time in efforts as he would say "so I won't be a beaver". Actually we are trying to help him stop sucking his thumb, and it's working as long as a bandaid is on there. He also doesn't want to look like a beaver. I sucked my thumb , so I'm incredibly nervous about him doing it too long, and am trying to help him now. He is soo cute. I love the little words and questions that he and Nathan come up with. They are loving their bikes and going to preschool with Mrs. Laurie. Brigham loves mopping our kitchen floor after dinner.
Nathan is also so cute. He is always buddy buddy with Lauren who loves him dearly most days. Nathan is also very articulate and corrects well anything miss-said by his two closest siblings. Like the other day Brigham said that if you are bad then you will get "uncle cool" (a term my brother Steve says is his nickname) for Christmas, and we all laughed, and Nathan quickly corrected him and said, "no that's a Lump of Coal". Nathan loves working with me to clean up and is good at being obedient. (usually if I can get one of the youngest three to come, then the others follow suit)
Lauren is pink pink pink. She loves all girly things. She shows us her "pingernails" every time Melissa paints them....which is often, yet holds her own with her big brothers. She is potty trained now...YES! I keep reminding her that she is Mama's baby and we both love it and snuggle on the rocking chair in her room as often as we can.
Phew...what a review. Jerem is doing great as always and is the super-glue that holds us together well. I am so grateful for him! He is always found rubbing my back of which I know he would love in return. He is wonderful at playing with the kids and doing the little things to help keep them happy. I have loved our talks about our lessons we have as we relish in the blessings of the gospel that we have.

I love keeping things as organized as possible and making yummy things to eat for meals (in between that I try to keep up on laundry, look for a little bit bigger home close by, make movies or do photography, study for lessons I teach for church, read to my kidos, nag them a little to do what they need to do, run car pools, check over homework, practice the piano and violin with the kids, watch games my kids are playing in, put bandaids on owies, put out figurative fires, sometimes practice the piano or violin myself, a little cleaning and even excercising) You know....being a Mom.

We have loved being around all of you this Christmas time and are as grateful as ever for such a wonderful family and support.

love, Jerem and Cathy

Becoming Perfect

As I was running on the treadmill this morning listening to one of Pres. Eyring's conference talks from last conference, the thought came to me that I needed to share it with you all. So that is what I'm doing. The paragraphs below are just an excerpt from that talk which speaks about how we can ensure there are no empty chairs in the life to come.

Talk to you all soon!
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In many of our homes, there are the words "Our Family Can Be Together Forever." There is a gravestone near my home of a mother and grandmother. She and her husband were sealed in the temple of God to each other and to their posterity for time and all eternity. The inscription on the gravestone reads, "Please, no empty chairs." She asked for that inscription because she knew that whether the family will be together depends on the choices each family member makes. The word "please" is there because neither God nor she can compel another to choose happiness. And there is Satan, who wants misery, not happiness, in families in this life and in the next.

My hope is to suggest some choices which may seem difficult but that would assure you that you have qualified for there to be no empty chairs in your family in the world to come.

First, I give counsel to husbands and wives. Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion.

Now, here is my counsel to children. The Lord gave you a commandment with a promise: "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." It is the only one of the Ten Commandments with a promise. ...In every case, even if your life is not lengthened, its quality will be improved simply by remembering your parents with honor.

For all of us it may be hard to see in our lives an increasing power to love and to see ourselves becoming more like the Savior, our perfect example. You have felt it in your family when you asked the pardon of your spouse or forgave a child for some mistake or disobedience. These moments will come more often as you try to do the things you know Jesus would do. Because of His Atonement for you, your childlike obedience will bring a feeling of love of the Savior for you and your love for Him. That is one of the gifts that is promised to His faithful disciples. And this gift can come not only to you alone but also to the loving members of your family. The promise was given in 3 Nephi: "And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children."8

I hope you will go out today looking for opportunities to do as He did and to love as He loves. I can promise you the peace that you felt as a child will come to you often and it will linger with you. The promise is true that He made to His disciples: "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you." (Pres. Eyring, General Conference Oct 2009)

Pitt Adult Christmas Party

Its that time of year again our annual Pitt Christmas Dinner
Here are the details for you all

December Tuesday 22nd
Dinner starts at 6:30pm
Reservations at the Biaggi's (located in the gateway SLC)

After we will be going to Jenny and Jasons for Dessert,
Present exchange, and to watch the 2009 PP movie.

We are sorry we are going to miss Ardi and Aaron and
Hyrum and Jenna. Hopefully everyone else can make it