A big day at the Besnette household – Johnnie’s first big-wheel.

It’s our son Johnnie’s 3rd birthday today.  He is hanging out with his grandparents and auntie in Denver for the day, and on Saturday we will have his birthday party in our backyard.   He was in Copper Mountain last week where his grandparents took him on the big bouncy trampoline at the base of the mountain.    He also did the Georgetown loop train.

A Message by George Carlin: The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. …

My cousin Alan and his wife Iris made some big news this week after they were lost in the Grand Canyon for almost a week.  It didn’t look good for them but they were finally found alive – we are so thankful.  Here are some sites with the coverage: Video on Good Morning America: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=4962763 More news: http://origin.sltrib.com/news/ci_9398964 http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=4947636&page=2 http://video.aol.com/video-detail/missing-couple-found-in-grand-canyon/3885356575 http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2008/05/28/20080528hikersfound052808-CR.html http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2008/05/29/news/20080529_front_page_9.txt http://www.abc4.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=773c1099-2994-467d-af6f-3e779359356b http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080529/couple-missing-in-grand-canyon-found-safe.htm http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=4953906&page=2 http://www.kpho.com/news/16412410/detail.html?rss=pho&psp=news

Sometimes it takes us the better part of a lifetime to discover our life’s work, even though we may have been doing it our whole lives without necessarily realizing it. Our life’s work is not always what we do to make money, although we often think it should be, and sometimes this way of thinking prevents us from seeing clearly what it is. It may be the work of having children, caring …

This is scary and fascinating!

My friend Judy put up this great tutorial on here site for any guy (I say “guy” because it is usually the men who don’t have the art’s and crafts gene) who has ever had a problem making a bow for a gift.   Judy is super creative and has been making a really nice site for her gift baskets business.