I am just starting the post today by looking at what pictures I have from the week because otherwise I don't remember what we did. We sure do spend a lot of time at the park...especially since it's almost summer. The last couple weeks it has had to be in between in the rainstorms. We sure will miss the park in walking distance someday when we move!
Caliah loves getting dizzy on these spinny cups. I have to make her stop after going a couple times each direction when her eyes look like they are going to roll back in her head although she would do it all day if I let her. I have to distract her and make her "lose" them.
More park pictures, different day. Apparently I don't have any pictures of the boys because they are usually off playing some attack and hide game. I LOVE my boys but Heavenly Father really knew me and blessed me by giving me and girl to play at my pace.
Here the boys are going to the library. Going to the library is a special treat and we can usually spend a couple hours or more there. They have lots of activities...puzzles, learning games, ipads, and LEGOS!
This summer we are doing the reading program to read 10 hours to get a prize. I made a secret goal to read to my kids everyday for "as long as they want to" meaning, we sit down and read and keep going with more books until THEY decide they want to do something else, not me saying it's the last book. They usually go for 1/2 hour to and hour. That's my only goal for the summer. Sometimes I feel like as a mom I should be teaching them so much more. This is the one and only goal I felt inspired to make so here's to reading! Conley has been really into board games and card games lately too so almost every night is game night. He practices a lot of counting doing this. His top games now are Lost Cities, Avengers Monopoly, Star Wars Life, and Uno Attack. He is his best when he is playing a game and having a good time! It's worth it staying up till 11 pm after the other kids have gone to bed to play a game with him and see the smile on his face.
Caliah painted her picture this week! She is starting to want to do all the things her brothers do.
Today in church, Juan gave the 5th Sunday lesson on keeping the Sabbath Day Holy as a family. It originated from a training from the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve. The whole goal of the church is to have "multi-generational" families where we are baptized, endowed, sealed, have children, and then the cycle starts over. The cycle us typically broken between baptism and endowment and so it is key to have gospel teaching in the home. Keeping the Sabbath Day holy is foundational. I really enjoyed the teachings.
I am supposed to do a speaking part in a musical fireside tonight about my testimony of life before and after repentance. I still need to work on the wording but here's my jumbled thoughts. We all come to a time in our life when life really knocks us down. We've heard the advice, when life gets too hard to stand, kneel. But what happens before it gets too hard until we finally realize that become sufficiently humble? My thoughts are that I want to see change but I'm want to do it my way. Complete humility before God is the first step. When I submit my will to Heavenly Father and tell Him that I am willing to do anything He wants me to do if He will lift this burden from me. When I not only say, but also DO this, he not only lifts the burden, but gives me peace and wholeness that I could never imagine or create on my own. Repentance is REAL in my life when I have a grand feeling of gratitude for my Savior. I know that I can't do it without Him. He is the source of all good things in my life. He makes it possible for me to feel love.
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