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"the hardest thing to do is leaving your comfort zone. but you have to let go of the life you're familiar with and take the risk to live the life you dream about." - t. arigo

Gotta love um

This is what Ethan just said to me 2 minutes ago:

Mom, can I feel you muscles?

wow, mom your stronger then a super hero!

I say well its because moms are heroes..

No your not mom, your angles!!

Yesterday Sadie came over to where I was putting some pictures away and saw Ethan at Sadie's age and she said,

Oh Ethan, I love Ethan so much!

I thought it was so cute and so out of the blue.

Then she told me today that she loves cookie moster, big bird and elmo who are on her toilet seat. So lots of love out of her right now!

Quote of the week

"Our families need the peace of God in their lives, and if we can't
or won't invite the Lord into our lives, then our families become a
reflection of our own turmoil. Women are asked to be nurturers to
their families, but we must also be firm; we must be the hard rock
footings on which our homes can stand. Our families need us to
speak peace to them, just as the Lord speaks peace to us. Our
homes need to be places where our families and friends want to
be, where all who enter our homes can draw strength and courage
to face the challenges of living in an increasingly wicked world.
Our children need to hear us 'talk of Christ, . . .
rejoice in Christ, [and] preach of Christ' (2 Nephi 25:26) so that
they may know to what source they can look for the peace that
passeth all understanding' (Philippians 4:7)."
Kathleen H. Hughes

Quote for the week

"Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished
and honored in holiness.That union is not
merely between husband and wife; it embraces
a partnership with God (see Matt. 19:6)."

Russell M. Nelson

I know I put lots of quote on here but I love to be inspired and a good quote now and again does that to me! so here is one that I like!

"When we remember that each of us is literally a spirit son or daughter of God, we will not find it difficult to approach our Heavenly
Father in prayer. He appreciates the value of this raw material which we call life. 'Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God' (D&C 18:10). His pronouncement inspires purpose in our
lives."

Oh I need to write about how it is going with writing down the blessings I am getting daily! Well I have never felt so blessed! On the way to Preston our radio, CD player didn't work, we had to unplug the battery. So at a gas station a big truck pulled up next to us and we needed some pliers so after this lady was cooing through the window at Sadie, Erik decided to ask them if they have pliers that we could use? so the lady said yeah let me go ask my husband, well she came back with some new pliers and said, "Merry Christmas" and walked away, so we fixed our Radio and left her a pass along card with our appreciation on the back! Then in Preston we stoped at my brothers house  and Ethan sees this train that he just loves,well they told us that we could use the train and give it to Ethan for Christmas! That was such a blessing because we dont have money. Then I saw my friend Tracie and she gave me some boots, and a ton of clothes which just felt soooo good because we really didnt have much of a Christmas. We got money from a lot of family that we didn't expect! Then on the way home I stopped at my other friends Mandi's house in Boise and she gave me a huge sack of toys for Sadie, which was so great because our poor dead dog chewed them all up, so I had no baby toys!! 

I know that I am forgetting many things, but those were the few that stood out! I am so thankful for my Family and Friends I know that they have to be inspired, they really help us out a lot. I am thankful to know that the Lord looks after us and blesses us daily!

These, Our Little Ones

E. T. Sullivan once wrote these interesting words: “When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesn’t stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunderbolts. Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home and of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mother’s heart, and she puts it into the baby’s mind. And then God waits. The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies.”

And those babies, I should like to add, will become forces for good or ill, depending in large measure on how they are reared. The Lord, without equivocation, has declared, “I have commanded you to bring up your children in light and truth” (D&C 93:40). By President Gordon B. Hinckley