family pictures

I think the only thing harder than family home evening is family pictures.  Trying to get everyone dressed and maintaining some sort of composer for a decent picture is near impossible.  Then the pictures come out with our family looking calm and collected as if to say this is how we are all the time, happy and well groomed!   Yes that is the irony of it all.   It is nonetheless, still a treasure to me, a captured moment of family togetherness.

This picture was actually not part of the 'shoot.'  Our photographer led us to a friends backyard to do all the picture taking.  When we got there I realized it was Leconte Stewart's old home!  This is the entrance to his studio, he was a famous kaysville artist whom I admire and I thought it was pretty neat and wanted our picture in front of it (even though "the lighting wasn't good").  She took the picture anyway and it turned out to be one I liked. (She called it the tourist shot). The 'real' pictures will come later.

Carson and his broccoli

Carson loves broccoli, he planted it in the spring and when it was ready to pick in the fall he ate it like an ice cream cone.

so sick

Little Carson came down with such a sickness.  His fever ran up to just under 104 Friday night when Wes was gone hiking the narrows.  It was 1:00 am when I wished I had the calm collective reassurance that Wes and the optional blessing can bring. Thankfully, Carson was able to sleep and his fever didn't get any higher.  Unless the fever gets to 104 and keeps them awake i don't like to use fever reducers and mess with the bodies natural defense against infection.  So it was a relief to see it falling on it's own.  Anyway, I decided to take him into the doctor the next day but there were a lot of people there with masks on getting flu shots and what not, and I just decided to turn around and go back home. There seems to be such an overload of hype on the H1N1 flu and the vaccine.  Is it really necessary for healthier individuals? Yeah, I can see the point for people with compromised immune systems like diabetics, obese persons, some babies etc, and they Should get it! ).  But how is the body supposed to create antibodies and immunities if we constantly bombard it with temporary vaccinations?  There are some people who are actually immune to this influenza because they have had it before, and gotten through it just fine.  The vaccines should be saved for those who really need it and can get it when they need it.

Is this one of those things that is okay to do because everyone else is doing it? That doctors and chemists are pushing because of the money they make from it?

 To me it seems like society has embraced the path of least resistance and instant gratification to a such point that when we begin to experience any pain we must have instant relief.  Don't we gain strength (in more ways than one), by going through some pain?  Have we lost trust in our bodies and spirits ability to heal without being completely reliant on western medicine?(Keeping in mind there are exceptions of course, and I mean more severe situations where death is a very probable outcome)

I'm not saying I think all vaccinations are bad--some are given for good reasons.  I just don't like the pressure of conforming to the status quo when I feel it really isn't necessary (or right).

So who knows, my kids may already be sick with the swine virus, and I pray daily for insight as to how to best deal with what illness may come our way.  If the sickness get worse, I plan on calling the doc and getting some antibiotics.  I hope anyone who gets this illness gets through it without alot of complications.

Recap: Weekend in PC, rode bikes all around, enjoyed Conference, and the Soccer game Real vs. Byu, (fun game, Real was faster, stronger and harrier than Byu, no surprise there!) Morgan can't wait till Halloween and  I can't wait to get over walking pneumonia. maybe I should just lie in bed all day.  oh that's a good one.