Shells new haircut!

Shell's new hair cut! She wanted bangs and shorter hair. I cut it myself, I thought it wasn't too bad. 

Conference.

Conference was great! We had the missionaries over for Sunday morning and afternoon, This is Elder Fullmer eating the entire bowl of popcorn!!  Elder Tukuafu is from Tonga and he's a great missionary with a great life story that has made him a great missionary. When he was eight his mom was eight months pregnant his father died, then two weeks later his little brother died. When he was in the MTC he didnt' know the english language and he was only in the MTC for three weeks and his mission pres. decided that he needed to get out in the mission field. He bore his testimony telling this story and he said that he wanted to go home and that he didn't want to look dumb teaching and not knowing the language. Then he bore his testimony that if you put your trust in the lord and sacrifice something, great blessings will come to you. So he decided to send his Tongan scriptures home to his mom and only read from his english ones, within four months he had learned the language! It was amazing! Then he said he thought his testimony was unshakable, and then four months into his mission, his uncle died and then he almost went home again. Then two months later his aunt died and then another aunt and another uncle! He has an amazing testimony that the lord will always be there for you and wants to bless you.
The missionaries have adopted us, they come over often and the kids love it!

We are going Private....

With all the weirdo's out there being able to get picture from blogs and information and such we are going private. If you want to keep viewing our blog please leave a comment with your email address so that I know who wants to keep up with us. Thanks and hope you will all understand, I know it's annoying to try to get on but it's a must that we do this.

Spring Break...

I love spring break. Every year we think of fun things to do... This year will be a little different because of two babies so not as much planned but we will still make it fun! I have two weeks to plan because they are in a different school but it's still fun!

This week we will be:

Going to Walmart to buy the new movie that my kids are excited for Tangled! We love that movie and let everyone pick out some yummy treats! Then we will go to the library on a day that has story time so the big kids can have fun going and choosing books while the littler kids can enjoy an hour of story time.  Then we will have a movie night with the yummy treats. My kids want friends over this week too, so we will do that too. So that's what we are doing for the first week of Spring Break.

Morn with those that morn

Sunday was so touching. The Sacrament meeting, because of all the horrible rumors that are flying around (media, ect.) about the man in our ward that was shot at week ago, the talks were perfect and the leaders instead of sweeping it all under the rug, they addressed it and it was perfect! The lesson in Sunday school was on Matthew Chapter 13 which was perfect again.  Relief Society was so touching and wonderful. The lesson was on Charity and it was so neat. The teacher had on display pictures of some of the sisters in our ward of their hands, touching scriptures, giving an I love you sign, doing pottery, playing the piano, ect. and then the lesson was wonderful. She talked about how her niece took her two month old baby to the ER because she was running a 104 temp. and was worried about her, but no family was around to help because she was in a different state and her husband was off to training in a different state. She was nursing and had been sitting in the ER for seven hours without food or water and was talking to her mom on the phone crying because she felt faint, and there was just way too many people in the ER for anyone to help. When she got off the phone and was still crying, this women with spiky hair and looked gothic came up to her and brought her a water bottle and said, "I heard you on the phone talking and thought that you might need this, " She thanked the women and then was in shock. She said she felt like she needed to repent because she had judge this family while she watched them come into the ER and thought that they were an interesting bunch. She said that she likened this story to the good Samaritan who no one liked and was looked down upon, she said that she thought this lady is the good Samaritan of our day.

 I had the opportunity to sit with my visiting teacher who just lost her husband a week ago and was so happy along with everyone else that she was there at church. I was so happy that I got to sit, give her a hug and talk to her a bit. When the lesson was over, during the closing song she was holding her baby when she started to cry, I felt the need to do something so I offered to hold her baby for her. Then because it was so touching, I started crying too and then I heard lots of other women crying, and then I got an overwhelming feeling of the spirit whisper to my heart that this is what it means to morn with those that morn. It was truly a touching moment that I will never forget.

Look what I caught him doing...

With his disabilities it has been hard predicting when to start potty training him. They put him on the potty at least once maybe more at preschool and lately I will just be walking by the bathroom and find him doing this, except he doesn't tell me he's doing this so it's always a surprise to see him. So I hurry and try to get his diaper off and then he's already gone, one of these days he will tell me he's on and try to catch him before he goes in his diaper, I hope! I think it's too cute that he's trying, way to go buddy!:)

We danced, did cartwheels, ect...

It was fun, we decided to kick up our heels and just have fun! We turned on some music and just danced the girls did cartwheels and the boys wrestled. It was fun just forgetting about everything and just having fun! We did that last night too, we get Netflix on the WII and we looked up the Cosby Show, do you remember that show? We were laughing so hard, the kids kept begging me to watch just one more and we ended up watching four episodes and we could have watched more but it was time for bed:( I forgot how wonderful that show really was, they take everyday simple things that happen in normal everyday lives and make it funny! It was a great reminder that we take life to serious sometimes:)