Maggie is

a very sweet combination  border collie /Australian shepherd that is 6 weeks old.  If you pull up either breed she looks more like the border collie.  We were at the auction and a man came in with puppies in a cage and wanted to give them away.  I admit I am a sucker for cute, chubby puppies with soulful brown eyes.  I will get a picture on her soon.  I am still having trouble getting the computer to accept the pictures.  I don't know why.

Nathan , of course, is  in love with Maggie and she seems to like him a lot.  Nathan loves small animals.  Any kind of small animal. 

You can blame Glenn for the suspense.  He thought it would be fun to string it out but I decided one night is enough.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We have had a busy weekend so far.  This morning Nathan went to baseball practice - third one this week and then Glenn picked him up and brought him over to the Church for the Primary Activity.  The activity was fun - we did an activity to get the kids to know each other.  We called them "me in a bag" and they were supposed to bring things that identified them personally.  It was cute watching the kids share the things they enjoyed.  Next, we went into the cultural hall and split into two groups and either colored a block for our quilt or made cards/letters for our Missionaries.   At the end of those two activities we met together and played  a game where there was 6 boxes (islands) and the kids were to walk around the boxes to music and when the music stopped - they were to gather on the different islands.  The point to the game was that no one was to be left out - even if you had to squeeze closer and closer together.  They needed each individual holding on to the person beside them to survive on the island.  The kids enjoyed the games and as everyone left they received goodie bags with homemade treats.  We all had fun but the turn out was small.  I am not sure how to motivate the parents to bring the kids and not a single teacher showed up.  Big sigh!

 

My favorite place

 

 

 

 

 

Coloring the quilt.  Dalton and Mandy

Making the Missionary cards and letters

 

 

Going from island to island

 

 

 

 

 

We are heading out this afternoon and attending the adult session of Stake conference.  Asia, bless her little heart, is babysitting as I couldn't get anyone out here.

Introducing Maggie May Ball

An adorable  baby girl is coming to join our family.  Nathan and Mandy are very excited to have another girl join our family.  Pictures coming as soon as possible.

New Look to the Blog

Okay everyone this is actually Kathie. I am sneakily changing the look of the blog (after Mama requested my help for the background and putting the family picture in the title). So, I don't have pictures of every individual family within the Glenn Ball Family, but thought it would be fun to have a line up from Mandy to the Turpins. So, if you could email me a picture you like than that would be great. You should all have my email address if not then call, posting my email address here seems pretty dumb. I do have the pictures I took of Cyndi's family at Christmas that I will post and Bob sent me a nice family picture that I can scan in and put on, but I do not have one of the Turpins, Lowes, or the Leavitts! So, if you have one that you wouldn't mind sharing than I can get it up! THANKS!!!

Doctrine and Covenants

I have been reading the Doctrine and Covenants Commentary since the beginning of the year, which by the way seems like it's been a year and it's only February.  Anyway, something I read last night affected me.  In Section 6 verse 25 it reads "And, behold, I grant unto you a gift , if you desire of me, to translate, even as my servant Joseph", speaking to Oliver Cowdery. 

Down below that in my commentary is this - "This is a divine promise to Oliver Cowdery.  A great many records have been kept since the beginning of history, which are now hidden.  God was willing to make the contents of some of them known to the world through Oliver Cowder.   To man those records are lost, but to God, they are only "hidden", and He can bring their contents to light.  This promise would, undoubtedly, have been fulfilled, if Oliver Cowdery had remained faithful".

I had chills after reading that to know that if Oliver had stayed worthy we would have other knowledge that as of yet we don't have and also that I pray I have not done something that kept me from fulfilling something the Lord had granted me permission to do if only...

When I was Relief Society President,  my secretary was given this blessing as part of being set apart.  This is not verbatim but my memory several years later - That if she continued to be faithful and fulfill the responsibilities placed before her that her family would come into the full gospel. Her husband was a non-member and her daughter was less active and her son didn't come at all.  The last I heard of her - she and her husband were divorced, her daughter was not coming to church at all and her son had committed suicide.  What a sad ending to something that could have been wonderful.

Just my thoughts on an evening in February.