God's cake

My co-worker, Dick, shared this with me the other day. I really liked it, so I thought I'd pass it your way....

Sometimes we wonder, 'What did I do to deserve this?' or 'Why did God have to do this to me?' Here is a wonderful explanation! A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is going wrong, she's failing algebra, her boyfriend broke up with her and her best friend is moving away.

Meanwhile, her Mother is baking a cake and asks her daughter if she would like a snack, and the daughter says, 'Absolutely Mom, I love your cake.'

'Here, have some cooking oil,' her Mother offers.

'Yuck' says her daughter.
'How about a couple raw eggs?' 'Gross, Mom!'
'Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?'

'Mom, those are all yucky!'

To which the mother replies: 'Yes, all those things seem bad all by themselves. But when they are put together in the right way, they make a wonderfully delicious cake! '

God works the same way. Many times we wonder why He would let us go through such bad and difficult times. But God knows that when He puts these things all in His order, they always work for good! We just have to trust Him and, eventually, they will all make something wonderful!

God is crazy about you. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning.

Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart.

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.

I hope your day is a "piece of cake"!

Other pics from my time in Arizona

As if I have to prove that I actually have a life, I take pictures. It's just what I do. Here are some (okay, more than some...) from my fabulous trip to Arizona.

One of the things I REALLY wanted to do on my trip was take my nephews fishing. So we went to this beautiful lake not too far away from where they live. I had no idea it existed. And boy was it pretty. I love this photo of all of us.

Marc-Andre is pretty good at casting. He knows how to get the line out pretty far.

Luc had so much fun!

The Broussard bunch waiting for the hooks to be baited.

Photographic proof that Mary broke the law. Neither of us had a license, so only the kids were supposed to be fishing. *tisk*tisk*

I really like this one too. :)

At the end of the day, we still had a few minnows leftover. So the boys decided to throw them overboard. Before:

After:

We had no luck. That's pretty typical though...for me at least. But I was so glad to be able to go fishing with them! Had a blast!

On the way home, we decided to take a bunch of pictures of the beautiful scenery and then go check out this old ghost town.

Then on another wonderful outing, we decided to take the boys to the Arizona State Fair. It was a lot more expensive than we expected, so we just had the kids go on a couple of rides. But at least it was fun!

On our way there. Can you tell they were excited?!

We started with the car ride. Luc drove and was concentrating SO hard the whole time.

And then they went for a nice boat outing. This time, MA got to do the driving.

Then they rode the train. It was kind of lame. The boys even looked a little bored...and that's hard to do because they like trains. Oh well. haha

After the transportation rides, we decided to change things up a bit and let them do the obstacle course "ride". This was great because they could just run, climb, jump all over the place. They LOVED this one.

Later in the trip I decided to make cupcakes with them. It was my duty to show them some of the better parts of life. ;)

And then just some random shots:
Rob and Mathieu. Obviously father and son.
Playing on the airplane in Babies R Us
Don't they just make you happy? :)
I'm such a proud Aunt!

My newest little man

I went to Arizona several months ago (yeah I know. Told you I was really behind.) to meet my newest nephew, Mathieu Boyd. I'm so glad I got to go down there! He's so precious. :) I'm a very proud Aunt...even if I don't blog on time. haha

Let me introduce you.Mathieu is a big boy. We all called him "Super Chunk". And I sang a little diddy "Super Chunk, Super Chunk, he's super chunky." :) That boy knows how to eat!

But that's not all he likes. He also enjoys watching the ceiling fan,listening to his brothers play guitar to entertain him, and sleeping. Lots of sleeping.I also like to think he's a fan of his awesome Aunt Sarah.

And my favourite picture of the two of us to date:

He's just awesome! Of course, I also had a blast hanging out with my other two nephews, my sister and my bro-in-law. Lots and lots of fun. But that's to follow...

Once again, life is just too distracting.

When I am actually busy doing fun things that I want to blog about, I inevitably end up being too busy to actually blog about them. Vicious circle of life.

Maybe, just maybe, I will force myself to sit down long enough to knock out several blogs tonight. Do you think it will happen? No, neither do I. :) I'm really just shooting for one. But let's be optimistic and say that I will complete TWO....

4th of July festivities

Last year on the 4th, we stumbled on the last 5 minutes of a great concert in the park. So this year we decided to go to the whole concert. So we trekked out to the Ballard Locks and listened to the Seattle Civic Band play awesome patriotic music.

The view from my seat:

To the left -

To my right -

Then me - :)

Then Dad took our pic-

The band, with the awesome audience. They had fabulous cornet soloists. And, of course, they ended with one of my all time favourites: John Philip Sousa's 'Stars and Stripes Forever'

Then later we went to see the fireworks...obviously. :)

They weren't super close to us, but they were still really pretty.

Hope you all had a happy 4th of July!