What a smile!

Introducing

Here is a picture of my nephew. Of course, I think he is the cutest thing! Such a sweet boy. The other day I was listening to the radio and a song made me think of love and my family. It says "that's what you get when you let your heart win." Then there is also the quote: "sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart" unknown.

All I can say is SO TRUE!!

Baby Shane

My nephew is a month old now, as of the ninth of September. I can't believe that it has been a month already. I am sad that I cannot see him all of the time. He is such a sweet boy. He is always making little noises. My sister calls me on the phone and I can hear him in the background and it just makes me laugh. He is getting a little belly on him. He smiles now and he laughs a little. Who cares if it is gas or whatever. He is so cute! I know just a blog about my nephew. I am a proud aunt what can I say?! The funny thing is my older brother. He has learning disabilities and does not always understand things. The other day he told Shane's mom to put him the floor and "see what he can do." She did not know what to say to him because she did not want to call attention to it. Crawling is not going to come yet. Then again maybe Uncle Mike knows something the rest of us don't!
Shane got his pictures taken at one month. My sister is supposed to be sending me new pictures of the boy so I am looking forward to that. Having a baby in the family is so much fun!

4 Months To Go

I know... I know... No one wants to hear this but today is exactly four months and Christmas will be all over! It has bugged me before when people say stuff like that. It gets me to thinking though. Where has the summer gone? This weekend will be Labor Day! Wow! Time really flies. I may sound like an old person saying that but it is true! Time does fly. You can feel the change in the seasons. I love the change in seasons. I don't like the heat of the summer anyway. I do like having all the seasons though. That part is nice about Utah. I like winter with the snow for Christmas but after that it could go away. So I like the changes but just not for very long. Fall is definitely a favorite of mine. I like the crispness in the air and the pumpkins.
I have seen Christmas stuff at the stores. That is crazy. It is a great time of year though.

A person

I am a "person" now. I mean I became a Stampin' Up demonstrator. A man at work asked me a little while ago why I wasn't a person. I told him that I like to consider myself a person. He meant why didn't I sell Stampin' Up stuff since I have parties and love to make cards and love to scrapbook. My demonstrator friend Jennifer has been wondering this for a long time, 5 years, as well. She has been bugging me about it. Last week, I succumbed...
It will be fun though. It will be something new for me to try. I love to create things with paper and whatever. So it is just something else for me to try!

Examples to Me

Last Monday, my mom and I went to the Twin Falls Idaho Temple Open House. We went on our way seeing Shelly in the hospital. My mom has already gone twice with my other sisters and then when I said I wanted to that was all I needed to say. We went early on Monday morning. Being members of the church we take it for granted that people serve, but there was all those people being ushers, tour guides, and then there was the missionaries. We went on our tour and what a beautiful building. It is definitely the Lord's house.
They even had water and cookies after the tour at the stake center. This was a new thing to me. It was great though. More people serving and teaching. In the cultural hall I turned and my mom was hugging a sister missionary. I had no idea who the girl was. She just happens to be there every time that my mom has gone to the temple! Such love she shows to the members and everyone coming. I was very impressed with both my mom and the sister missionary.
My dad has even been a missionary. This is not something he does. It is just a little out of his comfort zone really. A man at his work had said that he would like to go to the temple open house. My dad told him that he would go with him anytime after work. Their boss heard that and he told them to take work time and just go. So that is what they did. My dad is a convert himself. What an example to me about what he does in his everyday work environment.
With temple open houses you usually need tickets to get in. Well with this one you did not need tickets. I guess another church in Twin Falls decided to snatch up all the tickets before the mormons could. So they just made it that anyone could come in at anytime. They welcomed anyone in with whatever attire they had. They even had some protestors and the members went out to them and gave them water and cookies!
One more story I heard from my sister's visiting teachers. One of the ladies said that her nephew is in the stake presidency in Paul, Idaho. They were serving at the time with the tours and a man came up wanting to go to the temple. He had driven all the way from Carthage, IL. He had gone to Nauvoo to go to the temple but since he was not a member he was not allowed in. They told him about the temple open house in Idaho and that anyone could go in. He went and really felt the spirit. He was just so intrigued with temples that he just drove to Idaho from Illinois. It made me think of stories from Church History or something. The Spirit is strong. It works in all different ways with people.

The Strongest Woman I Know

The strongest woman I know is my twin sister Shelly. Mothers are so strong. I knew that before but this past weekend taught me so much with eye witness experience!
Shane Kolby made it into the world on Saturday August 9, 2008 at 10:35 a.m. weighing 7 pounds 4 ounces and measuring at 20 inches long.
My sister went through so much to get him here. I kept telling her that she was brave and she was! To go through all of that, she is definitely brave. She threw up, she shook, she was hot, she was up and down. She had so many IVs that I told the anesthesiologist that she was not an entertainment center! She hung in there though. She was induced on Friday morning early and had a c-section on Saturday morning.
Once the doctor decided that Shelly had done enough and that a c-section was next, they told us that only one person could go in with her. My mom volunteered me. I was glad I was there. Shelly had so many things hooked to her that I just held her thumb. Then our little boy came. It was so fast. I heard the doctor say we have a baby and it's a boy. Words to change my life! What great words! I was crying and fogging up my glasses. Shelly then asks me if I am ok. She is the one having a baby and she asks me if I am ok!
I got to be the first one to hold him. That was awesome. The nurse put him in my arms and I got to show him to Shelly. Then while she was in recovery I went with the nurse to the nursery. Then with tears in my eyes I went and told my parents that we had a baby and that Shelly was ok. I took both grandma and grandpa to see their new grandbaby. It was cute to see my dad like that. He introduced himself to Shane. It was pretty cute.
Whenever Shane starts to cry and my mom is holding him, she just says "Now, now, let's not do that." I guess she thinks that is going to work.
Shane Kolby has some light brown reddish hair. It is neat to see him with Shelly. He knows his mama already and quiets right down for her. He loves feeding time but hates to be changed! He likes to sleep a lot right now and loves to have his hands by his face. I know not much different than most babies but he is my nephew and this is my blog, so I can write whatever!
Anyways, that is all for now!