This is our little family motto. When the girls are tempted to give up something before they really try, I tell them, "Oh, you must not be a Price, then, because Prices..." and they finish (sometimes with rolling eyes) "... don't give up."
My sister put a very simple phrase up on her wall in vinyl letters. It says "You can do hard things". Some things are not necessarily fun at first, but we can do them. Heavenly Father sent us to this earth to test us, and tests are sometimes hard. But He never gives us more than we can handle, and we CAN do hard things.
Well, she's the last of all her friends to learn, but Kortney now understands Aunt Tawnya's phrase a little bit more. Most of the time she's a little chicken, and I have to remind her that learning something new is always going to be hard at first, but it gets easier the more we work at it. She can now finally ride a bike. She learned on Emmrie's little bike because it doesn't have training wheels, and she can reach the ground when she's on the seat. So what finally did it? Well, it wasn't the hours of riding with tippy training wheels, or the back-breaking, muscle tightening, sweat-inducing determination of Mom running hunchbacked alongside her, holding her up by her seat a billion times up and down the sidewalk, never letting go because Kortney would turn back and freak out if I did, nor was it the constant motivational encouragement, "Come on, honey! I know you can do it!" No, all it took was watching her friend, Paige, take off one day on her own little two-wheeler, for Kortney to finally muster up the courage to really go for it. It took almost a whole day of coasting down the slope of the driveway, then adding peddles to that, then learning to steer while balancing and peddling all at the same time before she could ride the little bike all the way around the culdesac. But once she set her mind to it, she was determined to see it through. Once she finally got it down, I reminded her, "Kortney, you CAN do hard things!" When I ask how she finally did it, she likes to answer, "I DIDN'T give up!" She is so proud! And we're so proud of her! Way to go, cutie!
Here's a little clip of her when she was still a little wobbly (you can hear Rhett cheering her on at the end):
Kisses from Kali...
Swinging...
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Neil prepped all the kids with how to wave and show their "cute" faces, to get the most candy for their smiles, then sat back to wait for the parade. Oh, the excitement!.JPG)
Grandma and Grandpa Price on the porch 
