Happy Mother's Day

This post is for all of the  dear Women in my life! Of which there are so many!

 I have not always liked Mother's day....sad to admit, I know.  There have been many times I have felt inadequate about my Mothering skills and lets face it, there are always Good Days and BAD, really Bad days in the journey of being a mother.  Although lately, I have had a new perspective about all of this and I am not dreading Mother's day at all.  The reason being is I have had a new insight.....big, I know.  

I have been pondering Motherhood and how much I love each one of my children and just what that means.  I can look at a picture of them and I get this crazy indescribable feeling of Love like nothing else I have ever experienced.  I remember when Zach was first born....I had such love for him it was just bubbling up inside of me.  It was different than the love I had for Jeff and when i tried to describe that to him, I'm not sure that I didn't offend him.  I mean, it really is a different kind of love.  It is one of the most beautiful gifts that God has given to us....this feeling of LOVE. So what  really got me thinking was,  do our children even comprehend or have the capacity to love us back that way? And then this is the big part.....Do I even comprehend how much our Heavenly Father Loves Me as his daughter? 

 I saw this quote the other day ...

So there you have it....straight from a Prophet of God.  I know that I have always known this but, for some reason it really has been confirmed to me.  If I can love my children with this indescribable love, then...I know, Heavenly Father loves me with an even greater love.

...it's Satan's plan for women to feel bad about Mother's Day, Motherhood, being a mother and all that goes along with it. I've decided that I will not allow him to have success.  I am choosing God's plan. I am Heavenly Father's Daughter and He Loves Me!!  He wants me to succeed and  be the woman only He knows I can be.  I found this video that gives me all the hope that I need to continue and be the Best Mother I can be.  So I say,"Bring on Mother's Day!!"

I hope you are as touched by this  as I was...get out  our your tissues.

I couldn't write a post with out a little shout out to my own Mother....Thank you for being my MOTHER.  I know you love ME and that is a beautiful gift that you have given to me.  I will cherish it because just like I can't understand how much Heavenly Father loves, I know you love me the same way.  Having my own children has helped me to realize just all that you give to me....your love, your sacrifice, your devotion.  I will try to do the same for my own children so that they can truly know what it feels like to be loved. I know I chose YOU....and don't forget ....YOU ARE HIS DAUGHTER too!!

LOVE LARITA

I have had this idea for a scrapbook for a while and made it yesterday. I love how easy it is and my new book will be here soon!

The book is a surprise for Ali. I hope it is something she will cherish forever.(Do you think my boys will be sad they don't have one?)

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Fall review

I thought I would add a few things before Christmas gets here.

This was Halloween....everyone but Ty in here because he went as his awesome self with Justin Beiber hair.






Zach and Ty had great Volleyball seasons.
This is Ty playing. He has a wicked serve! I think he really liked Volleyball this year.


Zach's team won Divisional and placed 3rd at Zones.



Check out the height of this Block...The kid next to him is 6"8.





Zach also came home from the Volleyball banquet for the Rocky view School Division with an ALL STAR award! His two friends were the MVP and All Star too. Way to go Zach!
I had to put this in here because this was one of Zach's greatest moments during Volleyball...I let him get a mullet!! He thought he was the coolest kid around and apparently so did all his friends.

Now volleyball is over and Basketball is in full swing.
This year I am coaching Ali and Carters Mini team and Ty's Middle school team! It should be a great year.

Rock Climbing 101

Well, what do you expect when there is an 8 foot wall in your back yard!

Avatar Ali!

At our Ward corn bust Ali got attacked by the young women....halfway having her face completely painted blue, one of them came over and asked if I minded that we were painting her face...I of course had no idea why they thought they needed to ask me! Then I saw her....and understood why she might have wanted to ask permission...she sure turned out cute!

Amazingly it all came off before we went to church the next day!

I have to say that is one talented young woman!

I love September!

I love September when everything is back in to the swing of things...it's always been one of my favorite times of year. And this year is no different even if I am in a cast. Oh yes, I said cast...again. But first things first.
School has started and I have kids in all three schools this year, and my baby has started Kindergarten! It is a great day for me, a LONG time in coming and I am really excited to move on to this next chapter of life(and it will be even better once I am out of the cast!)

Zach started Grade 10...and tryouts for Volleyball are already over. He finds out today if he made the team -which I am not really worried about. He is a great athlete. This should be a good year for him.


Tyler is starting Grade 8. The oldest in middle school. He loves being the big shot this year. He has already started running track...I tease him he isn't as fast because his hair is so long...time to cut it off!!


Ali started grade 5...The Big Middle School!! She is with Ty but I keep telling her just to avoid him in the hallways so he can't body check her into the lockers or pull her down the bleachers(I am definitely talking from experience!!) She is growing up fast.




Carter is in Grade 4 at Edwards. He is the oldest at the school this year and has one of Ali's old teachers. He loves going and I haven't been able to get him out of his new shoes!! Go Converse!




And now for my baby....he told me he was not going to be my baby anymore...I mean he goes to kindergarten!! Ethan....I have loved having him all to myself for so long but I am also happy that he wants to go to school...I'm not sad because he goes in the afternoon and I still get lots of snuggle time in the mornings.



Ok now a little update on the foot...I did have surgery on the 19th of August(Jeff's birthday) trying to repair the injury that I had last year. The cast for 3 months last winter never healed the tendons properly so they went in and took out an extra bone I had in my foot, re contoured another bone and then reattached the tendons... I am probably about a third of the way done healing now...I wish it were more but I am surviving and hopefully this will get me back on track.

This is my foot before with the inherited extra bone.


This is 3 weeks in.
I have 3 more weeks with no weight and then hopefully I will go into the aircast with slight weight bearing and out of that a couple weeks later! So realy, only 5-6 more weeks of crutches!

Joelle and Brandon's Wedding Day

So I've had all kinds of trouble trying to get this into movie format so you will just have to go to this link and watch it as a slide show. Just copy and paste it into your tool bar. Enjoy!

https://picasaweb.google.com/Laritabarfuss/JoelleAndBrandonSWeddingDay?authkey=Gv1sRgCN7ji5izuJ745wE