I love to hear Henry talk. He is learning to say some of the basic words around our house, such as apple, Oliver (from a library book), Oscar, Lily, Mama, Dada, and more. He even proudly shakes his head in one of the videos because he went number 2 on the toilet today.
This is a panoramic photo taken from Silver Lake in American Fork Canyon.
I just used this service to create a collage based on a flickr set for my twitter account. Here are the two photos I made.
We often feel like this type of sign is pointing directly to us and our children when we go to the store, bank, library, or… really anywhere in fact.
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Oscar invited friends over for his birthday party last weekend and had a great time. Grandma Scoville, Aunt Sarah, and Spencer and Jonene and the girls came as well. We had a lot of fun. Oscar had a great time.
The Darth Vader pinata to light saber relay racing to Luke, Luke, Vader (Marlene’s idea for Duck, Duck, Goose). We had lots of fun with the girls and boys that came. Thanks for making it a special day for Oscar.
Marlene took this photo. Isn’t it fabulous?
Martin Luther King Memorial at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. This is the National Civil Rights Museum.
I went to the museum this afternoon after the conference sessions I was required to go see. No pictures could be taken within the museum; thus my pictures of just of the outside of the museum.
We only had a 30 minute window to go see through the many exhibits of which I was sad to have to rush through but it only opened at 1pm tomorrow afternoon and we need to leave for Nashville tomorrow to catch our flight.
My favorite part of the self-guided tour was to see the bus replica on which Rosa Park’s refused to give up her seat to a white man that eventually had her arrested for disobeying the law (at least for the time). I didn’t know that she and Dr. King were associates. I don’t know if they were before or after her arrest.
I also found it interesting how much distance Dr. Martin Luther King went to publish his message of non-violence and peace throughout the South. He graduated with his PhD from Boston University at age 26 in philosophy and theology. There were sit-ins and protests throughout the South – from Birmingham, AL to Memphis, TN to Washington, DC. I’ve always assumed that he did this much work but I just haven’t studied it. Seeing the jail cells and the hard work, Dr. King’s suffering for an important cause reminds me of the suffering and pain that the LDS Saints experienced when they were in first starting in the 1800’s in Missouri and across the uncivilized territory toward the desert now known as Utah.
A couple of other items that struck me while in the museum. Dr. King was shot in the face by a bullet that went through his right cheek and then his jaw. It then hit his spinal cord and got lodged in his shoulder. Jesse Jackson was near him when he got shot standing on the balcony. He was in room 306 in the Lorraine Motel. Apparently this was a room that he stayed at often when he was in Memphis.
I was also particularly touched by a transcript provided of a conversation between Dr. King and his wife, Coretta King, while Dr. King was in prison. He inquired about the kids. They were courteous and kind to each other. There was much love, care, and appreciation.
Dr. King was an example to all of us about keeping his ideals high and speaking out for those things that need to be addressed. He was open, honest, and non-violent in his efforts to address serious problems such as labor and wages problems.
You can read more about his life on wikipedia.
Join forum discussion - (1) PostsI got a message from Marlene letting me know that a family that I hometeach invited me to go to the Stone Temple Pilots concert with them. Apparently they had someone bail out and I got a chance to go. It was pretty awesome. I could tell the crowd is mainly older (like me) and that the mosh pit wasn’t there nor much of the dancing that you’d maybe have seen in the old days.
About the concert: STP sounded fabulous. They great. I loved all the good music. They didn’t play any new music but the music was crisp and played with energy and enthusiasm. Scott Weiland is a bit weird. He seemed incredibly skinny. Probably due to the many years of drugs and wild living…
Here are a few pictures that I took from a distance. They don’t give justice to the show and it was with my camera phone.
You can listen to all their albums on imeem.com’s official Stone Temple Pilots site. All their old albums are there to stream for your listening pleasure.
The opening band was from Salt Lake City, UT. They were decent. Here is shot of the Royal Bliss.
I was reading about the band and the lead singer was paralyzed and has recovered to full ability to use his legs and he was dancing and jumping at the show. That is a pretty cool story.
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