Tonight I watched a special about Randy Pausch. He was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and is most famous for a lecture he gave entitiled "The Last Lecture". He died on July 25th from pancreatic cancer. He knew that he was going to die, and yet he had an amazing attitude and out look on life. In his lecture he talks about childhood dreams and how to achieve them and about how to life our lives. One thing that stood out to me in his lecture is he says basically in life things happen and there is nothing we can do about it except we can decide if we are going to be an Eeyore or a Tiger. He talked about how he doesn't know how not to have fun. He had such spirit about him that to me just signifies the word Joy. Lately I have kind of been in self pity mode; wondering why certain trials have come my way. I mean Im good person right, everything should go smooth and perfect. And here is this great man, loving husband, and father of three small children, told he is not going to live and yet he does not go into self pity mode, he decides to share his story, his life and strength with the world. I hope I can have just a little bit of his courage to face my trails. I am so grateful for the Gospel in my life and for the knowledge that families are forever. Even though Gabe drives me crazy every now and then, I am so blest to know that we are married for all time and eternity I love him so much and don't know what I would do if I knew that our time together was coming to an end. Randy and his wife are a great example of love and companionship in the face of trials. I hope that everyone can learn something from Randy's story, his kids have an amazing father and I know one day they will truley understand the great effect he had on millions of lives.
"what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?"
Randy Pausch
I couldn't figure out how to post his video but here is youtube clip of part of his lecture and life. Be Inspired
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ-IxbiI8Ts
Also here is the whole lecture on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Bowling Night
I wish I was as good at real bowling as I am on the Wii. I am so good on the Nintendo one time I bowled 7 strikes in a row. In real life I'm lucky to break a hundred. Last night we went with a bunch of friends. It was really fun. I was cursed with always leaving 1 or 2 pins up each frame. The guys of course can throw the ball so fast that it doesn't matter which pin it hits they all seem to fall down. We have a lot of great friends here in Texas. What is really fun is all four guys in this picture were EFY counselors together and all but one of the couples met at EFY. Its nice to already have some friends when you move to a new place. We are very competitive so of course we had to make bowling a competition and see which couple could do the best. Gabe and I didn't come in last which is good, but I defiantly didn't contribute half of our score. Oh well it was lots of fun. And you can't beat that Monday night is dollar night at the bowling alley.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Happy Fourth of July
Well Gabe and I had a house full for the fourth. David, Gabe's brother got here on Thursday night after his eventful travels from Utah. Robin, Chris and their 3 cute kids came Friday afternoon, along with my in laws and Gabe's little sister. It was a lot of people hanging out in our little house, but it was a lot of fun. I did realize that our house is definitely not kid proof. One day when we have kids we are definitely going to have to put some things up a little higher. The only problem with that is then I won't be able to reach them oh well I can barely reach stuff now. We got to go to a few fireworks last night. We didn't see much because we parked in the wrong place. Oh well fireworks aren't has much fun now that I am older, too many cars and crowds. I do love the fourth of July though, I am so glad to be an American and live in this great Country, my gratitude for this has grown from our travels overseas. We are very lucky.Today we got to go to the Temple. It was really great being there with family. I wish I was with my family also. They are all in Utah together and It is sad being the only one not there. I wish I didn't have to work and had lots of money so I could fly there tomorrow. Maybe one day!
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