Khalina – The Early Years

Back when Khalina was turning eight, I thought it would be great to have a slide show of all the pictures I had taken of her up until then.  I’d throw it on a DVD and we’d all sit around and enjoy seeing the first eight years of her life.  The problem was they were all from film and I needed to scan each of them one at a time – and we have many, many albums. I never finished the task (story of my life), but when mom asked for a couple of pictures the other night I figured why not toss the ones I did scan for everyone to enjoy.  I should note that it’s now four years later and my little girl is not so little anymore.  I can’t believe how fast the time has gone by.  It seems like just yesterday that we held her in our arms for the first time and now she’s already asking me to teach her how to drive.

So, click on the picture below, hit the slideshow button and get a little of the effect I was going for originally.  She’s beautiful and we love her dearly.

Pictures from the August trip are up

http://photos.shurtzfamily.net/f698518083

Carolyn, I'll push up a couple more family shots tonight so you have a little more to choose from.

 

A Few Words Here and There

From my journal, Sunday, March 27, 1977:

“Last Friday I went to a birthday party for Marie Munger.  We had hot dogs.  We had punch, potato salad, potato chips, cake, and ice cream.  There was a playhouse in Marie’s bedroom.  We ran races and hopped in the basement.

We went to Sunday School this morning and I went to my class.  We talked about Jesus.  We went to Fast & Testimony meeting.

We bought this journal on Saturday and today we started to write in it.

We went to Verdell & Joyce’s and I had come candy.”

I won’t bother to scan it, but if you took a look at this particular page in my journal you’d see that I drew a picture of a saw, probably some kind of jig saw.  I’m not really sure why, but it looks kind of cool.

I can’t say I wasn’t taught right.  Mom and dad did a great job of teaching me correct principles and giving me a push when I needed it.  I was taught very early on that writing in a journal is important and I only wish that I had somehow stayed in the habit over the years.  That first journal entry when I was four years old (in mom’s handwriting – thanks mom!) was not the last entry, but there are some pretty big gaps now that many years have gone by.

I’m getting old, but I hope it’s not too late to get going again.  One thing that has deterred my efforts over the years is the fact that I really don’t like to hand-write things any more.  I’d much rather sit in front of a computer and type it out.  I tried Word for a while and OneNote, but it just didn’t work the way I wanted it to.  Last week I learned about a web site that I looks like it has a lot of potential, www.ldsjournal.com.  It’s secure, put together really well, and seems to meet all of my needs.  They’re even working on the one feature that seals the deal, to be able to publish your entries into book form.  Anyway, I’m going to give it a shot and see if I can’t do better at keeping our family history.  The tools are in place and I’m excited to see how it works out.

I’m almost done, I promise

 

This is one cool kid!