Wonderful Sunday

 After Church I was craving something with Oreo's, I had one package of thirteen left and it sounded good with sweetened condensed milk. So I googled Oreo and sweetened condensed milk desert  and I found the yummiest recipe ever. Click Here! I didn't use tin foil and it worked just fine.

Hawaiian Princess played a piano solo piece today in sacrament meeting, it was a beautiful piece called love at home. It was a long piece that took a month or more to practice and it sounded beautiful. She was so nervous but she did great and lots of people came up afterwards to compliment her on her talent. 

Look who's fully Potty Trained!!

After just deciding one day to put him in underwear he's been doing so good and now he's fully potty trained, yes even at night he doesn't need a pull up or anything! He's doing so great and his comprehension is getting better and we are able to reason with him better without him throwing a major fit, but it also still depends on if he's tired or not because he won't reason with anyone if he's tired. We just love the progress this boy is making! Way to go JR!!

George Washington Challenge!

We decided as a family to take the George Washington Challenge....Go Here if you want to see what that's all about.

We have been wanting to work on "Ourselves" for a while now and so we printed off the monthly tracker for each of our four oldest children and Sloane and I. So for the next thirty days we will be working on Diligence and what it means to be diligent. The goal is to work on it for thirty days to form a habit and then we will be working on another important character trait. There are a few children that need these things more than others and honestly all of our family members can work on these things because non of us are perfect at any of these. So we are excited to get started and working on these things.

The Starting Point

• EVERY ACTION MUST BE DONE WITH THE RESPECT TOWAR OTHERS AROUND YOU.
• SHOW NO DELIGHT IN THE MISFORTUNE OF OTHERS, EVEN THOUGH HE BE YOUR ENEMY.
• BE NOT HASTY TO BELIEV FLYING REPORTS TO THE DISPARAGEMENT OF ANY.
• ASSOCIATE YOURSELF WITH MEN OF GOOD QUALITY.
• IF YOU ESTEEM YOUR OWN REPUTATION, TIS BETTER TO BE ALONE THEN IN BAD COMPANY.
• LET YOUR CONVERSATION BE WITHOUT MALICE OR ENVY.
• SPEAK NOT INFURIOUS WORDS NEITHER IN JEST OR EARNEST.
• ALWAYS STAND WHEN A LADY ENTERS YOUR CIRCLE OR STAND BEFORE THE TABLE.
• READ YOUR SCRIPTURES DAILY.
• IF ANYONE COMES TO SPEAK TO YOU WHILE SITTING, STAND, EVEN THOUGH HE WILL BE YOUR INFERIOR.
• HAVE A PICTURE OF SOMEONE YOU ADMIRE, WHEN HAVING A TOUGH DAY MOVE IT NEAR YOU.
• MAKE A GOAL EVERYDAY. WRITE AND PONDER IN THE MORNING, REVIEW YOUR SUCCESSES AND FAILURES AT THE END OF EACH DAY. 
• GATHER OTHERS TO SUPPORT HONESTY.
• ALWAYS LOOK A MAN IN THE EYE.
• ALWAYS HAVE A FIRM HANDSHAKE.
• PRAY FOR OTHERS.
• LOOK FOR WAYS TO SERVE OTHERS AT ALL TIMES.
• ALWAYS SAY WHAT YOU MEAN AND MEAN WHAT YOU SAY.
• BUILD TRUST THROUGH YOUR ACTIONS.
• DO NOT PARTAKE IN BASHING THE BIBLE.
• DO NOT FIGHT WITH THOSE WHO ARE NOT WILLING TO SEE ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE. WHEN IN BATTLE (ARGUMENT) REPEAT THE OTHER SIDE UNTIL THEY SAY YOU HAVE THEIR ARGUMENT.
• BUILD, NEVER DESTROY.
• ASPIRE TO INSPIRE.

The word needs to get out...

There are rumors of a China Free Trade zone comming here in america, the first one they have said to be built will be in Boise. This is concerning because they will have no regulations at all. I had a dream about this about six months ago and didn't understand the dream at all but I was told to remember the dream. I was taken out into the dessert and I was shown this very large red metal looking like wearhouse out in the middle of nowhere and it had a large fence around it. On the out side it looked harmless, but then I was taken on the inside and I actually was so scared that I asked to be taken out of the dream. Now I know I don't normally share these kinds of things but go Here to read more about it. Also when I first heard about it you could google it on the internet and now there is very little to no information about it, that's scary if you ask me. The first article that I read on it had great information on it is no longer and it was the best article and is now been blacked out for a reason I'm sure, it said that they are planning on building 257 of these across the U. S. with no regulation, that's really scary!! Don't let this happen, let your congressmen governor ect. know that you don't want this and that this could be bad, we should not trust this at all even though they say it is harmless. Also go Here Wikipedia is blacked out to raise awarness about the congress is trying to control the internet, Piracy! Write your congressmen, Don't let this happen too!! People need to wake up folks and smell the dirt that being handled right under our noses!!

Too cute!

Aren't these cute!!?? I love these and think they would be fun for a wedding, baby shower, special birthday ect. They can hold fruit, cupcakes, truffles, cake pops ect. Go Here to see all your options! Love these!

They make me laugh

These hats with my three monkey's wearing them makes me laugh. What's too funny is the bus drivers laugh everytime they see my boys wearing them too! They are too cute with those precious faces in them! 

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I was thinking that I am so grateful for the gospel and my savior and the knowledge that I have that the veil is thin and we can if we put are hearts and minds to it can see the other side and see the angels attending to our needs. I was thinking of all the chaos happening in the world and all the uncertainty in the world even esp. in our own country, I am truly grateful that the one thing that I can count on is my faith. 

I was looking up definitions this morning on things like: 

Fascism and what it means, I keep hearing others talk about that word, well here's what it means and they are saying there are a lot in our country who believes in this sort of thing, I am not sure how anyone in their right mind could consider such things as this and other horrible things, but it's here, we are at war, good vs. evil and the question we should be asking our selves is are we going to be the ones jumping off the cliff with everyone else or are we going to be the one light on the hill for others to look to as an example?

Fascism promotes political violence and war as actions that create national regeneration, spirit and vitality.^[3][13] It views violence as a fact of life that is a necessary means to achieve human progress.^[14] It exalts militarism as providing positive transformation in society and providing spiritual renovation, education, instilling of a will to dominate in people's character and creating national comradeship through military service.^[15] Fascists commonly utilize paramilitary organizations for violent attacks on opponents or to overthrow a political system.^[16]

Goals for 2012

Don't you just love this time of year to reflect on how you did on last year's goal's and then make new ones? This year My goal is to become even closer to christ and gain even more faith, I did that last year but you can never have enough faith and you can always draw closer to christ. What I learned from doing those things is that even faced with the purest of evil, christ is right there to lift us up and guide us on an even greater path then we ever imagined, I am so grateful for all that I've learned last year and all the very spiritual experiences.

This year my goal's are to:

Exercise every day even if I am just walking on the treadmill for 20 min.
Read my scriptures and finish my goal of reading the New Testiment.
Take the time to read other good books, I've been so busy with babies the past two years I haven't had time to sit and really enjoy a good book and I did that this Christmas season, both Sloane and I read and it was so refreshing and nice!
Stay on my high protein/ heathy eating and once a month sweets.
Write in my journal at least once a week
Continue my goal of going to the temple at least twice a month
Continue to help my children gain a better understanding of the gospel and what it means to be a true disciple of the Lord and continue to help them understand and learn their gifts.
This one is a hard one but to let go of babylon even more, meaning: worldly things, ect. and stop burring my head in the sand! ( I have a testimony of this that you can help your husband let go too by your example, we are the examplar's in our home and it's up to us to stand for something!)

Wow that's a hefty list, but I have faith that one step at a time I can do them!