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main skip to sidebar the cleggs sunday may 8 2011 soul surfer i am lagging on blogs and probably will only continue to do so life is too busy and who really reads this anyway but yesterday saturday i ran a half marathon in provo and as i got lost in the zone of my thoughts between miles 7 and 10 i decided i needed to post about something that happened this weekend as i ran i thought about what i will say and now that s all forgotten it was really poetic but nevertheless i will attempt to capture my thoughts so we spent friday night at my parents house in provo my family has been wanting to see the movie soul surfer together since before it came out it hits close to home for us on many fronts it is filmed in hawaii it s about surfing and it s about a girl bethany hamilton who got her arm bit off by a shark my sister haylee was born without one of her arms and shortly after this incident happened to bethany we spent a summer in hawaii haylee had quite a few people ask her if she was the girl who got her arm bit off anyway we got a babysitter for the boys and went friday night my bros weren t able to make it but spencer my mom my dad my sister haylee and i all went together i loved this movie i loved the clips of familiar places on the north shore turtle bay sharks cove i loved the surfing though i m not a very good surfer i sort of live vicariously through my sister angie and she has become quite the surfer so the surfing touched me too but above all i was touched by watching this girl learn to live without her arm because that is my sister haylee s every day life i watched her try to do every day things i know haylee struggles with things like cutting up fruit and putting a pony tail holder in your hair i forget about this trial for haylee i forget because she doesn t make a big deal of it like bethany she just gets on with her life and makes the most of it i forget she doesn t have an arm but as i sat through the movie i coudln t stop thinking about my beautiful sister who deals with this every day like bethany she must question how is this god s plan for me like bethany she must want to give up on her dreams because she cant do it with just one arm like bethany she must fear her future and want to look normal sometimes but also like bethany haylee is an inspiration an absolute inspiration to me you should see the talent this girl has in sewing she makes the cutest things and i am constantly a benefactor of her talent as she makes bath puppets finger puppets swimming suits etc for my kids and once again i forget that she is sewing with one arm imagine something as small as putting in a straight pin with one arm seriously how do you do it like bethany haylee has a quiet faith in god i know she relies on just as bethany did no one knows her trials i do not know what it s like to be without a limb but the lord knows the pain and haylee turns to him she has a goodness and a purity beyond anyone i know haylee has an amazing smile as i watched anna sophia robb the actress who played bethany and saw her smile at people her hope her faith and courage despite her challenge i was just reminded of haylee haylee is the same way life has not been easy to her and has dealt her so many challenges but she just keeps going she just keeps trying and she just keeps smiling her beautiful smile i cried through the whole movie i haven t cried that hard in years i literally could not stop crying it was one of those things where i had to sit and try to regain composure before i left the theatre and then the minute my dad asked me if i liked the movie i started to cry again but it wasn t a bad cry it was a cry because of the love i have for my sister the sudden understanding of her trials and the inspiration of her life recently my mom and i were talking about trials and i told her that life is not tragic because of trials it is beautiful in spite of and sometimes even because of them someday because of jesus s resurrection haylee will have a perfect arm but while in this life she endures the trial of a missing arm i am not going to say that her trial makes her life better but watching her and how she navigates this trial how she smiles despite trying times and how she doesn t give up sure brings more meaning and more beauty to my life i am so thankful for her life her beauty and her inspiration go see the movie posted by spencer erin parker and ben at 8 56 pm 9 comments sunday april 3 2011 thoughts on lds conference it was conference weekend the weekend where members of the lds faith get to listen to our leaders the 12 apostles and the prophet and his counselors give us direction and inspiration i love conference it s changed a bit as i ve become a mom it s much more chaotic and that s taken me some time to get used to but i m more accustomed now in fact i think i ve enjoyed this conference more than any other since i ve had children i ve enjoyed with my children instead of in spite of them i ve loved coloring and parker s comments ben running around and playing and climbing on me occasionally or coming to color or cuddling i have loved snuggling with penny and making her laugh i am less concerned about quiet and more concerned about the atmosphere and if my kids are enjoying it and we have it feels so good but beyond that i really have been so inspired i have found a few themes and of course don t know it it s just because they are things i ve been thinking about or if they truly have been themes but i have heard a lot about families i loved a talk yesterday morning about women it really made me feel the lord s love and the specialness of my calling as a woman i wrote this in a notebook i was taking notes on so many talks on children and women and now the song i know heavenly father loves me and it makes me cry my greatest role my most important priority right now is these children and my wonderful husband ben playing with tractor and bringing them to show me parker coloring his conference packet and counting words for treats penny sucking on her thumb and giving me a beautiful smile spencer s righteous leadership in our home i have also heard a lot of talks about testimony about how to gain a testimony about doubts about why people lose their testimony s and how to avoid that this is also so pertinent to my life lately as people close to me have doubted their testimony s which in turn always makes you think more about your own elder bednar spoke this morning about light and he talked about doubts he said that if we have doubted we are normal but that if we keep true to our covenants and nourish our testimony s daily we will be okay i have so found this that as i read and study and stay true to what i know the answers come they come in quiet but profound ways i hear his voice as i read my scriptures as i teach my children the gospel as i reach out to my neighbors i know he lives i m so grateful for the prophet and apostles and the leaders who spoke conference filled my soul posted by spencer erin parker and ben at 7 24 pm 3 comments saturday march 12 2011 a little late in coming so i m a little late on this news but ben s casts are off yay he got them off 2 1 2 weeks ago he screamed bloody murder while they sawed them off and was kind of afraid of his legs or something but i loved seeing his sweet little scrawny legs even though they really smelled he didn t walk for a week and i had to carry him everywhere he had actually gotten quite mobile with those casts but week 2 he started to walk occasionally and now week 3 he s doing awesome he s so proud of himself walking loves that he can put on shoes and is really starting to keep up with parker better i love it he still has some pain and will cry out at night i think after being on them all day it hurts him or if i touch his feet in certain places he winces but i guess that s normal the doctors said his achilles tendon is still healing we have a check up in a few weeks and will wear the braces at night for 2 more years but we are on our way horray thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers oh and the day after we got the casts off we headed to disneyland i chose to go on the ferris wheel and didn t realize the wind would make it freezing we were all miserable parker said after we got off you chose wrong mom we went with bry and cailin my mom sadie and kc and all of us we had a great time sunday before everyone went home we went to church and then stopped at a park i love this pic of my mom don t her and penny look so much alike after disneyland i got to meet up with my two of my bff s from high school summer and megan summer just happened to be vacationing in san diego so she drove up to meet me in anaheim and we drove up to stay with megan in paso robles we had such a good time the kids played amazingly together and we just talked and talked and talked penny s getting so big love the rolls we weren t supposed to get ben s casts wet and since they don t fit in shoes it was a little hard to do snow activities but the day before we got them off it snowed and so i took him out and we made a snowman notice ben s bent knee duck footed stance doesn t that look annoying and miserable parker s been snowboarding quite a few times this year and is really starting to love it i ve been running with three kids in my chariot lately it s pretty sqooshy so i don t like to do it besides the fact that i m pushing over 80lbs but my elliptical broke so if i don t get up to exercise before spencer leaves at 7 20 than my only option is the chariot the kids are troopers and we usually get a treat or something fun they do look cute all snugly in there though posted by spencer erin parker and ben at 11 55 am 3 comments tuesday january 25 2011 ben s surgery ben had his surgery today they cut his achilles tendon and put him in casts so that when it grows back it will be lengthened and his feet will be in a better position it may not sounds fun but i was so grateful to have this surgery today i feel like i have witnessed a miracle i have been praying so so hard that this surgery would performed today we had to reschedule two weeks ago when he had a runny nose and every time we reschedule it means ben is recasted for an additional 2 3 weeks we have quarantined him the past two weeks but he still managed to get sick and i have just been praying so hard he would be well enough for the surgery even sunday it wasn t looking good but i have just felt at peace about it all i have prayed so hard and i have felt the lord would perform a miracle and he did ben slept horribly sunday night up all night crying like he was sick penny slept terribly too it was rough for all of us so monday we stayed home and did nothing and i just prayed and i felt comforted at 12 15 i put ben to sleep he slept for almost 4 hours he never sleeps like that and i just felt like the lord was healing him he was in bed last night by 8pm and slept soundly the whole night and woke when we got him up to go to shriners at 8am that really is something for ben parker was hacking up a lung all night penny was coughing like crazy but ben ben was okay i had a prayer in my heart the whole way to shriners hospital and all through admit that he wouldn t cough or indicate sickness and that he would pass the check ups of the doctors to get clearance for his surgery he did cough a couple of times but overall did really well no fever no runny nose no other signs of the sickness he d been battling for weeks the anesthesiologist checked his lungs and said he was good to go i was so relieved ben wasn t very happy to be at the hospital and was very suspicious of everything from blood pressure cuffs to finger heart rate monitors his favorite was no but we managed and the drugs they gave him kicked in quickly before i knew it he was a noodle it s always hard to see your little boy that way yet i just felt peaceful knowing this was a step to an end of the casts i hated them wheeling him away from me but i was so thankful at the same time we are on the ownhill now and i know a miracle has been performed to get us here we simply could not wear those casts longer i know that yesterday and last night as ben slept the lord was healing ben the lord has watched over us ben has to have his casts on for 4 weeks i was thinking it d be 3 so that s kind of a bummer but like i said we re at the end we have a firm date when they can come off and that feels so good ben is home and doing well and i am grateful excuse the picts they are from spencer s phone posted by spencer erin parker and ben at 8 14 pm 7 comments wednesday january 12 2011 recent picts first of all ben didn t get his surgery due to a runny nose and had to be recasted and the surgery pushed back 2 weeks pray he doesn t get sick and we can do this darn surgery get our last set of casts on and move on he has done really well but i have also noticed moments of sadness and frustration in his eyes jan 25th is our new date for surgery and feb 14th final casts come off cross your fingers and these two pictures are very dear to me the first one is ben playing with some toy story figures that a very thoughtful friend brought to me the first week ben was in casts she brought us dinner which was sweet enough but was also completely inspired to bring ben a huge gift of toy story figures they were meant for him for sure i really think the lord led her and i am so thankful ben was able to immerse himself in playing with those figures and just loved them still does but they were especially meaningful those first few weeks before he learned to get around with his casts on thank you cami the second picture is of ben s nursery teacher sister potter she broke her leg the same week ben got put in casts and we went to visit her the day after ben was put in casts i watched ben crawl up into her lap look at her leg also in a cast and feel understood and not so alone i got embarrassingly teary as she took the time to read him stories give him favorite treats and just dote on him he so needed it in the lds church sometimes being assigned to work in the nursery with the youngest kids is known as a death sentence but the nursery leaders in our ward do not have that attitude they really love those children they know them care about them and truly look after them and i am so so grateful we blessed penny the first sunday in december greg and his girlfriend kaylee bryant and penny parker s lego dragons he loves to make spencer pre eye corrective surgery temple square lights with grandma and grandpa atkinson the boys and snow men and ice caves ben precasts penny 3 1 2 monthes her new room with aunt angie s bumper pads and grandma a s redoing the rocking chair to match christmas at the cleggs the polar express with grammy and grandpa clegg gingerbread houses and christmas loot posted by spencer erin parker and ben at 8 27 pm 5 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom the cleggs spencer erin parker ben and penny spencer 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