Good and Bad News

The good news is Anna can walk! Yay! She started last Thursday night. It is so cute. She is very pleased with herself or maybe she is just pleased with our reaction. Either way it is adorable. The bad news is the kids have been sick. Sam woke up early early early Sunday morning throwing up and then Anna started on Tuesday. When I woke up yesterday morning I felt like it was going to be my day which would have been a huge bummer. Chris stayed home from work Tuesday to help with the kids and he wouldn’t have been able to take another day off. But we had prayer and the Lord touched me. I don’t think I’ve ever been immediately healed like that before. What a blessing, God is so good. Today we are going to help my Mom get a new/used van. After her wreck she has decided that bigger is better. Her neck and back still hurt and she still has a headache. Please pray that God will heal her. In other news, Chris and I have been looking for a house. Our landlord raised the rent and we might as well be in a house for what we are paying. We will probably wait until after the assembly to get in to one. That is our chief financial concern right now. Well that is about all that we’ve been up to.

Sam???

That is what I wondered around the house saying in the middle of the night. Sam came into our room at some point crying and wanting to get into bed with us. We sent him back to his own bed but apparently he didn't like that option. A little while latter (I have no idea how long) Anna woke up. I went in to check on her and noticed Sam was not in his bed. So I decided it would probably be good to find Sam before I picked Anna up. Sometimes he relocates to one of the couches in the living room. He wasn't there. So I went back to the kid's room to see if I just overlooked him. I didn't, he wasn't under his bed or on the rocking chair or in the closet. So I checked our room. I thought maybe he had snuck in after all, maybe on Chris' side. No he wasn't there or on our floor. So I checked the locks on the front door just in case he made a break for it. He can unlock both locks but they were still locked, so I headed to the kitchen. He wasn't there either so I decided to check the basement. He wasn't in the laundry room or in the play room or in Chris' office on the couch. So I went back upstairs and checked the tub, mainly because it was the only place I hadn't checked. Then I checked our room again (he still wasn't there) and then went to check the kids room again. Anna was still crying and as she caught my attention I thought maybe just maybe my crazy little boy had climbed into his sister's crib. Sure enough there he was sound asleep and cuddled up in a little ball. I guess I should have gotten Anna before I went looking for Sam it would have saved a lot of time and stumbling around in the dark. So I picked him up, put him in his bed and finally took care of poor Anna. I guess he was cold and just needed someone to cuddle with.

Baptismal

We had a baptismal today. It was a really great blessing. God is so good to us.

Nathan Smith got baptised as well but I figured that Emilee might want to post those since he is the first one of her kiddos to get baptised.

My Mom

July 16th is my Mom's birthdayd so I put together some pictures for her. Please pray for my Mom. While we were in Wyoming this weekend she got into a car accident. Someone ran a red light and T-boned her. She is okay but I would appreciate your prayers. The other driver was going about 45 miles per hour and it is by God's mercy and grace that my Mom didn't get seriously injured. Times like these make people think about death. Thank you for your prayers she needs salvation.

Wyoming

We went to Wyoming this weekend for a visit with Chris' folks. It was really nice. It was a short trip though this time so we could make it back for the baptismal this afternoon. We left Saturday morning and got back in time for church at 2:00. But even though it was Short it was very nice. My niece Mikaela (Mike's daughter) was there too. Sam found the doggie door and kept going outside. Anna thought it was pretty great too.

Mr. Potato Head Extreme Makeover

Sam just likes to put whatever wherever when building Mr. Potato/Mrs. Potato head. This particular version had no arms or feet but it did have several mouths, noses, eyes, and one ear. Oh and a construction helmet so no one would mash him for being so freakishly ugly.

Anna is getting so big. One of these days she is going to walk. Maybe. She really likes to tease me and pretend like she is going to take more than one step.

Well, I'm off to bed. We are going to visit Chris' parents tomorrow and that means we are driving to Wyoming. Bye for now.

More Convention Pictures

Some Convention Pictures

Children's Chruch

How could I forget? Emilee and I were in charge of Children's Church one night. We did two puppet shows a cool craft and gave the kids light sticks before heading out on a candle hunt. There are no pictures of the craft because it was a little crazy in there. All in all we had lots of fun and the kids did too.

Hello Again

Okay, okay, I'll post. I don't have a good excuse for my sabbatical. I'm just a slacker. :) Well on to my report. The Saturday night before camp my traveling buddies Persephanie and Kristin came over and stayed the night. Sunday morning at 5:30 we were stuffed, literally, in the car and ready to go. We headed over to Jon and Em's and then followed them down to camp, kinda. Somewhere in NM we stopped for a bit and then they stopped for a bit, we kept missing each other but we finally caught up about an hour from camp.

Camp itself was so fun! I had the girls and my kids in my cabin with the added bonus of Sister Marcia. Our bathroom adjoined to the single girls. Yikes, what a combo. One night I scared Anita to death when I went around their side of the bathroom to tell them to quite down at about 2:30 a.m. or so. Another night Sister Marcia and I giggled into the late hours about our torture chambers (camp beds.) Sam managed to fall out of the bed a few times. One of the times Sister Sara was there and said that he sleepily told her no when she asked him if he wanted help. She said he wasn't even awake and he told her no. Ha! He must dream of saying no. Crazy kid.

So some other highlights from camp were Persephanie and Kristin getting saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost! Yay! I can't tell you how happy that makes me. Also I had lots of fun with the girls this year. :) However I'm not the fan of Sequence I use to be. Fruit Basket Upset is not a game to be played if you are over the age of twenty and wearing sandals. I don't know what I was thinking. Hmm what else??? I know there was lots more great stuff that happened at camp but lets move on to convention.









Convention is when I really started to miss Chris. Part of me wanted to go home and skip it. But, I'm glad I persevered because God was there and I love being in His presence even if I have to make several trips to the hallway with my children. For convention Persephanie and Kristin stayed with their Great Grandparents and I stayed with Sister Karen, Sister Dodie, and Sister Charlene. I was a little worried about the kids keeping them up but they did really well. I think Sister Karen fell in love with Sam. One morning he wandered over to her side of the bed and said please with his arms wide open signaling he wanted to be held. Could you die?

The Sunday night after convention I stayed with Sister Marcia and company and left early the next morning. The drive home was long. Did I mention I don't have air conditioning in my car? Yuck. But we got back and it is good to be home. It was so great seeing everyone and fellow shipping. It was really nice seeing Kathy and Angie who I haven't seen in years. I think we should have winter retreat. What do you think?

Finally

Sorry I didn’t mean to leave you in suspense for so long. I got busy packing for camp and didn’t have time to blog like I intended. The only picture that really needed explaining was the one of Sam driving. Chris let him sit on his lap and steer. Sam loved it so much! I was six the first time I got to steer. Sam is a lucky kid to start so early. Well, camp and convention were so good! I won’t promise to post about it more latter because I would hate to throw you all into suspense once more. I want you all to know I finally updated my devotion and praise blog!!! It’s about time. I’ve been working on this witnessing thing forever either directly or indirectly gathering information. But it is finally done so if you are interested in witnessing you can check out the packet that Tammy helped me with at devotionandpraise.blogspot.com