David's Many Adventures

Having four active, little boys is an adventure.
One of our most adventurous spirits is David. He is five years old,
loves people, learning, music, art and sports and never
stops moving. Recently he has developed a love for
designing things. He loves to get involved in my latest crafty idea.
Recently when I was doing a project he asked what he could do.
I tossed him some scrapbooking supplies and
this is what he came up with all by himself:

I love this!
The "S" is for Sara and the "D" is for David. On the project
below I helped him only with the stitching on these letters.

David loves people, so I was surprised when he put up a huge fight
to go to the rest home to sing songs to old people for playgroup.
Fortunately, when we got there he fell in love with some precious
old ladies who were thrilled to have a sweet little kindergartner
telling them all about his class, sharing his artwork with them and
even giving them a hug and a kiss before he left. He has been
begging us to go back to the rest home ever since, especially
since I explained to him that those people there won't be
alive for too much longer. ( I wish so bad I had taken
my camera with me there).
David is so active, I get tired just watching him sometimes.
He is the guy to send on an errand in the neighborhood or to fetch
things for you around the house. A few weeks ago he wanted me to
take some "action shots" of him in his homemade BYU football jersey.

Last Friday David Broke a bone between his foot and leg.
It happened as he was trying to retrieve a basketball from
a two-tiered chair holder at the church. No one that was there
that night could believe he had broken a bone; he was completely
calm about the whole thing. The only real sign that he was in pain
is that he didn't want to walk on that leg.
He chose a Blue cast to show his cougar pride.

All day Saturday after he got his cast put on he couldn't put
pressure on that leg without collapsing. By the next day he was
walking on it and now he runs on it. Despite the awkward angle of the
cast, he has even figured out how to ride a bike! Today he asked me if he
could skateboard to a friend's house-not wanting another broken leg,
that is where I drew the line.

Now that David has a bad leg and a missing tooth
(that was taken out after an accident when he was a baby),
he is looking more and more like "Tiny Tim".
Stay tuned, I am sure that we will have many
more adventures to come with this one.

Happy Birthday Keller!

Our Little Keller Turned 4 on Tuesday February 16!

He has had a very eventful year.....

He endured poking and pricking, visits to 9 doctors,
an MRI, a fine needle aspirator test, medication, anesthesia
and 2 hospital trips to Primary Childrens' to remove
highly inflamed lymph nodes from his face.
His facial nerves suffered extreme trauma and
His little smile is subsequently uniquely his own.
He started preschool where he is the only boy
with 4 wonderful (and emotional) little girls He taught himself to ride a bike, started Primary and
is learning how to draw wonderful pictures.

He is a great photographer and takes pictures of everything
and everyone (most of the photos that are of Mom
were taken by Keller.) He is kind, loving,
extremely thankful and tender-hearted.

We love you so much Keller! We are so lucky to have you in our family!

Simple Changes

After putting away all the Christmas decor I decided it was a good time for a change (January is a good time for changing things, making goals and becoming better).

So I took everything off of my cream walls and decided to spruce things up in the living room. (having a one-year old baby, I was confined to working during his one-hour nap, or in the evening)

After I had finished painting one wall, I realized the color was not going to work for me (the undertones were fighting with the decor in the room. So I decided to alter the undertones by adding an antique wash.

The tones were now going well with the decor, but it was altogether too dark, I knew I needed to lightening things up a bit or I would feel like I was living in a cave...so I started all over......


Once I had found a color that was more dramatic than the cream, didn't fight with the other tones in the room and wasn't too dark I got even more ambitious and started moving everything around. I drug a table from my front entry into the living room and took this wall-hanging from the master bedroom. By then the room was so altered that my previous decor looked out of place....SO......
I put everything back exactly how it had been previously with the exception of the lovely new paint color. What did I learn?


Change is good. But sometimes we get so excited about improving ourselves that we try to do a complete makeover on our lives not realizing that sometimes simple changes can be way more powerful. How many times do we set unrealistic goals and then become discouraged at the pain of those unrealized expectations? If we make one simple change in our lives at a time (like becoming a better friend, reading scriptures more earnestly, praying more sincerely, serving more often or loving more deeply), we can feel the joy and beauty of that change without feeling completely overwhelmed by the pressure of taking it all on at once. So my resolve is to make simple changes more often and let the joy of that simple change fuel me to do better in more and more areas.

Honoring Ivan and Judy Keller on their 40 years of marriage

On December 29, 1969 Ivan and Judy Keller were married in the Logan, Utah Temple. 40 years, 10 children and 24 grandchildren later, they are still an amazing team. We love you and honor you for all you have sacrificed for us over the years.

Congratulations from your posterity, may you have many more wonderful years together:

The John and Stacey Thompson family (Preston not pictured here)
Nathan Keller

The Robert and Alison Williams family

The Jon and Tanya Keller family (Will and Leo pictured below)

The Derek and Sara Jensen family

Adam and Brittani Keller

The Andrew and Kim Ning Family (baby Tyler not pictured)Becky Keller

Dave and Micahleen Keller

and Christina Keller (on the right) serving a mission in Ft. Lauderdale, FL