This is a bookmark my coworkers fashioned for me from a piece of legal-pad paper, their tender love, and the sweat of their respective brows. They also regularly referenced my “Mormon metro card.” (temple recommend)

Worth noting:
· Deena began sketching the Salt Lake Temple with pencil and blue pen. She completed the middle and left portions. Then, she wrote to the right: “And the Lord, on the seventh day, saw everything was good. Man, good, land, good, water good—Mormon good. And he was pleased.”
· I wanted William to have a part in finishing the temple, but Deena hadn’t left him any room, what with her paragraph-writing escapade to the right. So, he did the only reasonable thing and used a black pen to draw the portion of the temple that would usually appear on the righthand side on the left.
· William added the “Mormons only!” flag and the giant “AMEN.”
· I adore this bookmark.

I am still proofing pictures of when Alton was born, and the days afterward. He’s now eight days old, and the most perfect little human being I’ve ever held in my arms, at least in the past week or so. I’ve gone over thrice to photograph him, and have plans to go a few more times this week. The moments, they are fleeting, and I cannot express to you the massive blessing it is to be a part of his life.

I ran across this photo last night and had to edit it out of turn and share it before the hospital pictures. I’m a rebel like that.

I love this kid.

alton perryn.
9 july 2007, 2:24 p.m.
6 lbs 14 oz, 19 inches

pure everything.