Diaper Cake

A friend of mine in the ward is having her first boy and all she asked for was diapers, because she got a lot of hand me downs from a friend of hers. So this is what I came up with, isn't it cute? My first diaper cake and I think it turned out pretty darn cute! It was actually really easy to make too!

She smiles!!!

Here's proof! She smiles and it's super cute, no one believed me until I showed them that she really does smile and wags her tail while she's smiling, smart dog! Yesterday we got her fixed and her shots up to date so we are excited! The kids taught her a new trick to, she now knows how to shake! We just love this silly dog, she's so sweet and I almost treat her like she's another one of my children, sheesh!

Dreams, Impressions and help from our Heavenly Father

Normally I when I have dreams they are usually not that significant but lately they have been life changing! I had a dream three weeks ago before we went to some friends house that I lost JR in the store and in the dream Sloane was checking out buying his stuff when we noticed that JR wasn't with us and a man had a hold of him and wouldn't give him back until I had proof that he was mine, well lucky for me I had a family picture on my IPhone and then he gave him back. Well...it almost happened just like that except the man didn't try to make me show proof but I was ready and willing just in case. I think in these crazy times you almost need to be ready for just such a time.  I also have been praying about how to deal with JR better to get him out of the habbit of closing down when he's trying to tell you something that is wrong, Then I had a dream about how to handle him and I've since been doing just what the dream told me to do and it has been working, I was also told in the dream to be consistant with it because that's how he learns. It's amazing how much the lord helps us. Then I have been worried about "other" things that I should get for my storage and the things that I have been worried about is sanitation, so I had a dream to get some White Vinagar. I use to use it to clean my hard wood floors and it is a great neutrilizer and disinfectant and it's cheap! I also had two more dreams on what to get and that is Tattler reusable canning lids. I also had a dream to get  U.S. History books because we all know they are trying to sanitize history. They are getting harder and harder to find too, I went into one books store and asked for the Real George Washington and they had one left and the guy working there told me that I was lucky because he thought that they were all gone, he says those books are super popular and getting harder to find. I also got the Real Benjamin Franklin ect.

I also got help from my Heavenly Father last week when I had the flu really bad, being pregnant and sick don't mix very well and it took a toll on my body. Sloane has been to busy to stay home and help and so my two girls (bless their hearts) stayed home one day and I stayed in bed all day while they played mommy all day long and I didn't have to get out of bed once, I know they had help that day because that never happens! I am so grateful! 

Then yesterday Violet was complaining of not feeling good and she didn't really show signs of sickness  and the impression I got right away was that she had phnomonia and my husband thought that is was something else and didn't believe it but I still couldn't put that out of my mind. Then last night she woke up in the middle of the night and said that it hurt to breathe in her ribs and had a fever, I just knew that she did have it. We don't have a doctor yet and so I prayed to know what to do. The thought came to me to call my dad who had it a lot when he was a kid and his mother used a home remedy. My grandma was a super smart lady and she was my favorite because she was so smart and so close to the spirit and used things like this and herbs to cure her family but most importantly her husband who was told before they got married that he would only have six months to live because of a heart condition that couldn't be reversed,  but he still felt like he should marry my grandma, and it's a good thing that he did because she got right on it and did research and found all the best herbs and he live to be 75 years of age and had five children. I think that's why I am so avid about herbs because of her and I've been so blessed to be able to help my family stay out of doctors offices. That remedy that she used on my dad you can find Here. I used it on Violet today, I put it on her back first for 20 min. and then I put it on her rib cage on her front side where her lungs are and immediately after I was done putting it on her front she said that her ribs didn't hurt anymore (it hurt just from breathing, she didn't cough that much) and that her soar throat was gone and  then she fell right to sleep and slept for an hour and then she got up and we put her in a hot bath for an hour or so and now she says she's feeling a lot better. I hope so because I am supper tired, being woken up two nights in a row and being pregnant and not getting a nap, I'm tired! The thin cloth that I was impressed to use was Sloane's old cotton garments, I put the paste in between two pieces of cloth and layed it on her, I also used Vaseline first on her skin to keep her from blistering because the dry mustard and flour makes a chemical agent that heats up and you don't want to burn the skin, I also took a wet wash cloth after doing the treatment and wiped off any access stuff that might have seeped through the cloth so that it wouldn't burn her skin.  I was skeptical at first but it really does work to draw out the gunk in the lungs. I love home remedies! I told my parents to write all the home remedies that they could remember down so that their posterity could benefit from them.

Fun Day At The Museum

 

We have the best museum, they had dinosaurs! Our boys loved it! They have so many things for the kids to do and look at! We came here for Christmas for the trees, Gingerbread houses and nativities and the kids loved it then too!

Ali & Christina - Love is Gonna Find You

These two cute girls are in our ward and they are living their dream of singing and sending a message through their music. They both have Cystic fibrosis, which is a serious disease of the lungs. They have been told all their life because of their disease that they could not sing and their mother teaches voice lessons and taught them how to sing and defied all odds. Our four oldest children are taking lessons from their mom, she is excellent and she sings beautifully her self. These girls started out on their road to fame two years ago by being in Americas Got Talent and made it all the way to the finals, which was very exciting. These girls are wonderfully spirited, you can feel it when you are around them that they have something extra special about them. Ali is so friendly she always wants to hold our baby sissy whenever she's in relief society with us she's the dark haired one and Christina, is so cute and friendly she's always waving when she sees us. These girls were meant to come at this time to bring to us a special message of hope and to never give up on your dreams.

Ward Valentine's dance

 Sloane and I agreed that is was the funnest ward party we've ever been too, I think is was because of the group that was there, because I didn't think anyone would participate or dance and everyone was dancing their hearts out and it didn't end until after nine and it started at seven! It was a blast, everyone was supposed to dress up from your favorite era and of course ours was the eighties hence the big boom box that Hawaiian Princess made for her dad, didn't she do a great job? She also bedazzled his white glove that he had to make it Michael Jacksonish.  She also braided my hair to make it poofy and waivy and I tried to do mall bangs but honestly I forgot how!  I also had pink eye shadow and bright lip stick. It was the best night we danced all night long and of course Sloane's sweet dance moves were a hit!

 My relief society pres. dressed in her era, she looks cute!

 They had great food with a chocolate fountain on both ends of the table, one white and one milk chocolate, Yummy! 

 Sloane was the game show host, he did a fabulous job too! We played two games, one was were they put the white boards all across the stage and then they put the girls on one side and boys on the other behind the white boards so you could only see their legs and then you had to guess which boy legs belonged to the girl legs, then we played the newlywed game. 

Oh man dancing was a riot these guys all know how to get down! The dj was awesome and did a great job of getting people out to dance, but their really wasn't any resistance.

Guthries came for a visit

 I usually never get pictures of their visit because we are too busy having fun, but I couldn't resist these funny pictures of little Sissy malling the poor Guthries baby! She acted like she knew him in Heaven and she hadn't seen him...well forever! It was too funny, she didn't want to let him go, and when we pulled her back away from him she would get a scowel on her face and then tap her pointer finger on her lips like she wanted to kiss him, it was so funny. Jenny and I agreed that we haven't seen a baby do that before.

One of the many kisses she gave him, poor baby!

 

He's mine! As she is pulling him away from Shell.

I've never seen a baby be so possesive like that before!