1972 Study Abroad Pictures

Near Mt. Vesuvius Lava Flow
Italy

Dead Sea
Israel

Near Lebanon Border
Israel

Northern Israel

Removing Wheat Chaff
Israel

Ceasarea
Israel

Glass Blowing
Israel

Lookout Tower
Israel

Nile River
Eygpt

Mike Engaged to Lynn Boyakin

Lynn Boyakin -- The Last Three Years 2009 from Michael Meservy on Vimeo.

Quote -- Albert Einstein

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. ~~ Albert Einstein

Quote -- Bruce R. McConkie

"Pure religion is a thing of the Spirit and not of the intellect alone, and its truths must be carried into the hearts of hearers by the power of the Spirit, otherwise the human soul is not changed . . . and the seeker after salvation does not become alive in Christ"

Bruce R. McConkie, Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, 3 vols. [1966-73], 2:318

The Growth Required to Return Home

“One’s life . . . cannot be both faith-filled and stress-free.”
“Therefore, how can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, ‘Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!’
“Real faith . . is required to endure this necessary but painful developmental process.”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell (1926-2004) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, “Lest Ye Be Wearied and Faint in Your Minds,” Ensign, May 1951 pg 88,90.

Sarah's Birthday 2010

Today was Sarah's birthday. This evening Brighton and Cara took her shopping for some clothes and after the shopping trip the family got together for some build your own crepes. A Sarah specialty and favorite. Desert consisted of Dad cooked brownie mix topped with candles and powdered sugar by Brighton. The candles were not edible but looked good while lit. Served with vanilla ice cream.

A fun evening was had by ALL

Brownies and Candles

Alexa, Sarah and Kaylee

Out go the candles
Alexa, Sarah, Kaylee and McKenzie

Sarah with her #1 and ONLY Dad

Jeff and Sadie

Brighton and Cara
with Jeff and Sadie in background

Alexa

McKenzie

Sarah and Kaylee

Quote - Douglas Adams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams

Great Music VIDEO

Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around The World from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

Quote -- Mark Twain

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
~~ Mark Twain

Quote -- Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
~~ Thomas Jefferson

Quote -- Albert Einstein

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
~~ Albert Einstein

Quote -- Henry David Thoreau

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau

Quote -- Albert Einstein

If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too.
~Albert Einstein

Keith Meservy Tribute

Quote -- Aristotle

"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event -- it is a habit." -- Aristotle

Quote -- Arnold Toynbee

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- Arnold Toynbee

Quote -- Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~~Bill Cosby

Quote -- Will Rogers

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Will Rogers

BRIGHTON's GRADUATION

An AMAZING Casket

First the VIEW
where the casket will be buried . . . .
the mountains are the Tetons.

The side with the name carved. . .
Larry Wilde

This is the back side but still very beautiful

This casket was done by the son of Larry Wilde who passed away this last week on the first anniversary of the passing of my father. . . Larry had fought the battle with cancer for the last year and was supposed to go a trip to Europe with his wife before his condition worsened recently. His funeral was a beautiful tribute to a wonderful, loved man. He leaves behind his wife (my cousin) and two wonderful sons. One is currently serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. . . .

Quote -- Peter McWilliams

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
~ Peter McWilliams

Quote -- Robert Heinlein

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
~ Robert Heinlein

Night at WICKED

On the way to eat at P.F. Changs before the show.

Guess where this is???

Does the chopsticks give it away?

Cara and Brighton
Brighton demonstrates her use of chopsticks

Sarah and Alyssa
Don't they look like they enjoy using chopsticks?

Ready for the show. . .
Sarah and Alyssa

Show Curtain ~~ sorry they would not let me take pictures of the show.

Dad, Cara and Brighton

Looking the other way
Cara, Brighton, Alyssa, Sarah

After the show outside of Capital Theatre
Cara is taking the picture

After the show at Sconecutter
as it was the only ice cream place
we could find open. . . .

Brighton's USU Interior Design Exhibit

Brighton's Exhibit

Debra and Brighton

Brighton

Debra and Brighton

Dad and Brighton

Jaynie, Brighton, Wendy

Exhibit

Brighton Designed Bar
at Student Center

Kaylee on the run. . . . .

Dinner after the Exhibit at the Bluebird Inn, Logan, UT
Sarah and I

Quotes -- Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Quote -- Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.
~ Albert Einstein

Quote -- Mhatma Gandhi

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Quote -- Peter Drucker

"Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future."
~ Peter Drucker