The Keddington Chronicles, Together Forever since 1996: Congratulations Danaka

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Congratulations Danaka

We just wanted to tell Danaka CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Danaka is our niece, and she recently won the Hope of America Award at her school. This is a very difficult award to win that is obtained based on your involvement in the community, in school activities, and by the judging of an essay that has to be submitted with an application. Wow!!!! Sounds complicated for a 6th grader. Not only did Danaka go through all of this, but she won one of the very few awards given. We are so proud of you Danaka!!! This is a great accomplishment!!!! Good Job!!!

Danaka is involved in her school choir, band, safety patrol, and office aide (I'm sure I'm forgetting some things). She also takes tons of dance classes & has recently found a new passion, softball!!! Keep up all of the good work Dan!! We love you.

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We are the Keddingtons!!!

Josh is 37 years old, and works as a systems network administrator for a mortgage company. In March of 2008, he received his Bachelor's degree in Business Information systems!!! Josh is a great dad, and is so excited to finally have another man in the house since the birth of our little Chaz Man!!!We are thankful for his kindness and loving example, as well as the times he makes us laugh and laugh!!! Josh serves as a High Councilor in our Stake.

Angela is 35 years old, and graduated from Nursing School in May 2010. She still looks forward to her dream job in nursing. More importantly, she is so blessed to have her dream job at home being a mom to 2 great girls and a beautiful baby boy, and a wife to the nicest man in the world!!! She serves as a teacher in the Relief Society.

K'Lynn is 12 years old, and has recently had the fun experience of entering the YW program. She is a great student, works hard in school, loves to dance and sing, and is such a fun addition to our family!!!

Kandace is 8 years old, and had the great experience of becoming baptized a member of the church las summer. Kandace loves to read and is very good at it!!! She also goes to dance two days a week, and loves piano lessons. Kandace is always saying or doing something to make all of us laugh.

Our latest addiiton, Chaz, joined our family in April of 2011. He is a very loved baby with quite a few little mommies around him! He is a great sleeper, and already lets us feel of his special spirit by flashing big frequent toothless grins at us often. We feel so very blessed to have him in our little Keddington Family!!!

We hope to live in a way to bring others closer to our Savior, and to "Live simply, give more, and expect less"

Welcome to the Keddington Chronicles!!!!

Words to live by......

-“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. ”
-"To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises" -Ugo Betti
"Always try to be a little kinder than what is necesary"
"Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?"
"Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting the he's been robbed. The fact is that most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise....The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride". -President Hinckley-
"When People Care, Miracles Happen"
"Be kind, and be glad God is kind. It is a happy way to live" -Jeffrey R. Holland-
"If we help others, Heavenly Father will help us" Me :)
"With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure." Russell M. Nelson
-"Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down, resisting the impulse to become offended easily, accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they ruly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim over time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others" (Pres. Thomas S Monson)
-"Fear will not stop death, but it will take away life"
-"Don't cry because it's over.....Smile because it happened"
-"People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world."
"Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!" - Donald Gardner
"Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein
"Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect." - Margaret Mitchell
-"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars". E.M. Foster
"It's unwise to give advice when we should be applying it in our lives instead of trying to mold others with our words" -Me-
"Faith is when you close your eyes and open your heart"
"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being" -- William James
-"It's not about what you do or who you know.....It's always about who you golf with"
-"Don't waste your time trying to impress people who don't want to be impressed"
-"A finished work is a waste of time"
-"If women ruled the world, there wouldn't be war. There would just be a bunch of jealous countries not talking to eachother" :)
-"Never let an earthly circumstance disable you spiritually" Donald Halstrom of the seventy
-"It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice"
- "If you are helpless, he is not. If you are lost, he is not. If you don't know what to do next, he knows. It would take a miracle, you say? Well, if it takes a miracle, why not?" Boyd K Packer
-"Selfishness suffocates spiritual senses" Elder Hales
-"Women are Angels, and when someone breaks our wings....we simply continue to fly...on a broomstick. We are flexible like that"!!!!
-"Be nice to Nurses. They stop Doctors from accidentally killing you"
-"Plan ahead, then...take one day at a time" Me :)
-"Stay true in the dark, and humble in the spotlight" President Harold B Lee
-"Lifes difficulties are meant to make us better not bitter" John Huntsman
-"If you need a good Dr, ask for advice from your nurse"
-"Don't be afraid to try something new. Remember.... amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic"
-"If you see someone, and you're not sure if you know them or not, smile and wave anyway. It's better for a stranger to think that you're overly friendly, than for a friend to think that you're overly strange"
-"Life is a journey, not a destination"
-"If we are too busy to help someone in need, then we are TOO BUSY" Eric W. Kopischke of the quorum of the seventy
"Love doesn't divide, it multiplies"
"Success comes in cans, not in cannots"
"You can tell a person's true character by how they treat someone who has absolutely nothing to offer them"
"He who travels the road the best is the one who will make the road smoother for those who follow" -Unknown-
"A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. " Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
-"Tough times don't last, tough people do"
"God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs." Spencer W Kimball
"The harder I work, the more luck I seem to receive" -Thomas Jefferson-
"The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people" Leo Tolstoy
-"I wish to be up and doing. I wish to face each day with resolution and purpose. If in the process I should die on some distant strand while speaking to my friends in the church, it would be better than if I were to spend my days looking out languidly upon the world without purpose or design" -President Hinckley-
-To see is not always to believe, but we must always believe before we will see
-Happiness is a journey, not a destination
-If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else
-If our desire is to serve Heavenly Father, then his desire is to help us
-We should not discourage ourselves by comparing our weaknesses to someone else's strengths
-In order to obtain the greater things, we must maintain the simple things
-If you can't remove it, Improve it!!!
-“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. ”
-“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. ”

Funny Things Our Kids Say

We were giving the baby Mylicon. Kandace mistook the drug name for another medication, and said to Chaz: "Do you want some Morphine"???
Kandace fell asleep really early the other night. When she woke up, it was morning, but she thought it was still the night time. I had the T.V. on a BYU devotional. When she saw it, she replied: "Do these people really meet for these talks this late at night?"
Josh asks Kandace "Do you want to go on a walk?" Kandace's response: "Walks are for dogs".
Kandace heard the word "Cheapskate" on T.V. When using it later on, she said, "You're a cheapsteak"!
"Girls can't join the army. They don't have any armour" C/O Kandace