Last night for FHE we listed some of the blessings that we received in 2008. I'll share some with you:
2008 Blessings (in no particular order)
* Heather became pregnant with boy #3
* Darrell received a new job position at his employer
* Salem started Kindergarten
* We received new windows and paint for free
* Darrell and I were able to go on a vacation to DC for our anniversary
* Salem & Oaklen were able to have a fun time with their grandparents while Mom & Dad were on vacation.
* Salem played tee ball in the spring
* Heather established a cleaning routine in the home, and it's working
* Darrell was not badly hurt in his bike/car accident
* Salem & Oaklen got to have free lunch at the park almost every day this summer
* Salem learned how to read
* We received free clothes, toys, food, and other things throughout the year
* Heather has been perfecting her bread making skills
* We were able to sell our car and buy a mini van
* The family got to go on vacation to Delta, UT
* Salem learned how to tie his shoes
* Oaklen learned how to ride a tricycle
* Salem learned how to roller skate
* Salem was able to take swimming lessons
* Heather was called as Primary President
* The family has been healthy all year with only a few bruises
* Darrell has been able to go running almost every morning
* Salem made more friends
* Darrell and Heather received no traffic or speeding tickets
* Heather continues to save money at the grocery store with coupons & sales
* Darrell installed a fence so now we can more safely play in our back yard
* Oaklen received an orange garbage truck for Christmas (We asked him what he was blessed with and that's what he told us.)
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion
Today I got emotional...that's not an uncommon thing for me right now due to the pregnancy, but today I wanted to share the reason I got emotional.
We were doing our usual family home evening and Salem updated the FHE chart to assign himself to do the lesson and the scripture.
1. He read one verse of scripture; just like he usually does for his bedtime routine. He's getting better and better at reading the hard words every day.
2. For the lesson he got the children's Book of Mormon Stories and read to us the chapter about Nephi building the ship. I was a hesitant at first about him reading it since I figured I'd have to help him a lot and he'd get frustrated. I ended up only helping him with only 2 or 3 words and he read the rest himself! After the first few picture captions I just broke out in hysterical tears which quickly turned into a chuckling laugh because I pictured how ridiculous I must have been, yet I was laughing from being overjoyed.
Geez pregnancy does a lot of crazy stuff to you...but I am very proud of Salem for learning to read so well, good work!
We were doing our usual family home evening and Salem updated the FHE chart to assign himself to do the lesson and the scripture.
1. He read one verse of scripture; just like he usually does for his bedtime routine. He's getting better and better at reading the hard words every day.
2. For the lesson he got the children's Book of Mormon Stories and read to us the chapter about Nephi building the ship. I was a hesitant at first about him reading it since I figured I'd have to help him a lot and he'd get frustrated. I ended up only helping him with only 2 or 3 words and he read the rest himself! After the first few picture captions I just broke out in hysterical tears which quickly turned into a chuckling laugh because I pictured how ridiculous I must have been, yet I was laughing from being overjoyed.
Geez pregnancy does a lot of crazy stuff to you...but I am very proud of Salem for learning to read so well, good work!
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
For the Strength of Youth Pamphlet
Last night as we were getting ready for Family Home evening, Oaklen pulled the For the Strength of You Pamphlet out of the book shelf. He was looking through it and enjoyed viewing the pictures of Christ.
It made me remember hearing a lady in Stake Conference a few weeks ago talk about her family using that pamphlet in family home evening. They would read one section from it each week. I wanted to start doing that with my family and I'm glad that Oaklen reminded me.
Now we do the following:
Sing a Song
Say a Prayer
Read from the For the Strength of Youth Pamphlet
Read a scripture
Give a lesson
Say a Prayer
Do an activity
Have a treat (sometimes)
Last night for the activity we played musical chairs. Darrell got out his guitar and the rest of us danced around two cushioned blocks, it was fun.
It made me remember hearing a lady in Stake Conference a few weeks ago talk about her family using that pamphlet in family home evening. They would read one section from it each week. I wanted to start doing that with my family and I'm glad that Oaklen reminded me.
Now we do the following:
Sing a Song
Say a Prayer
Read from the For the Strength of Youth Pamphlet
Read a scripture
Give a lesson
Say a Prayer
Do an activity
Have a treat (sometimes)
Last night for the activity we played musical chairs. Darrell got out his guitar and the rest of us danced around two cushioned blocks, it was fun.
Monday, April 28, 2008
A checkered daze
Today was a daze for me and my family. We're all sick. Darrell stayed home from work and slept most of the day. Both boys threw up last night. I've got a cough, the sneezes and runny nose, but couldn't rest since I needed to take care of the rest of them. We stayed home all day and finally went out on the porch in the evening to blow bubbles and get rid of our cabin fever.
Salem stayed in his PJ's the whole day. I think that has been the first time for that. He is getting more interested in playing board games. We played "Guess Who?" and Checkers. Playing those games brought back some childhood memories of my sister, Holly, and I playing.
For the Guess Who game, Holly and I arranged all the people with similar features to be together so it was easier to find them. Then we figured out the best way to ask a question to get more people eliminated, like "Does your person have facial hair?" instead of "Does your person have a mustache?"
When we used to play Checkers, Holly would get so mad that I would never move my back row. :) Then finally we'd have a face off between her last king and my last king. We'd both go to a corner and just move back and forth and never go out on the playing field. We were both so stubborn! Speaking of stubborn, it was really difficult for me to play with Salem and not be as competitive as I would have liked. It killed me to let him jump me when I knew it could have been prevented. But, I guess that's what every parent goes through. I'm sure you've read a sappy Hallmark card, or listened to a high school graduation speech that says "Mom, thank you for letting me win at checkers when I was a kid and making me believe that I really did win." I'll have to ask my mom or brother if they ever "let" me win (probably.)
Since it was Monday we did a quick family home evening. Salem went downstairs to get the FHE tree (chart telling you who does what.) Salem and Oaklen pretty much did the whole thing and Darrell and I just laid there on the futon and listened between coughs and sneezes. Oaklen chose the Sunbeam song, of course. He loves to jump and say the word "beam" and "him" at the appropriate times. Salem's lesson was on eating healthy food. He thought that it was a good topic since we were sick. He said "Heavenly Father told me that I'll get better today if I eat lots of feel good food." For the activity we played "doctor" with our medical kit. It's actually fun since you can really hear your "heartbeep" (as Salem says) in the toy stethoscope. My brother always liked to listen to mine to hear my little heart murmur. Bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum, SSSS, bum-bum...
We had air popped popcorn for the snack and knowing from my previous post, Oaklen dumped almost the whole jar of popcorn kernels on the floor. What a turkey! :) I always think about my friend Kristy when I make popcorn. She gave me the blue glass canister that I use to store the popcorn kernels.
Now they're all in bed and it's time for me to do the same. I couldn't go to bed without writing this blog post, otherwise I would have been thinking about it all night. It seems like I always have a blog post going in my head. It's actually fun to have a narrative of my life. Sometimes I'm able to write them down, other times they'll just be stored away into Heather's memory. Speaking of memory...I remember Kathleen in Jr. High told me that I was an elephant. I didn't quite understand, then she explained that I have a memory like an elephant.
Salem stayed in his PJ's the whole day. I think that has been the first time for that. He is getting more interested in playing board games. We played "Guess Who?" and Checkers. Playing those games brought back some childhood memories of my sister, Holly, and I playing.
For the Guess Who game, Holly and I arranged all the people with similar features to be together so it was easier to find them. Then we figured out the best way to ask a question to get more people eliminated, like "Does your person have facial hair?" instead of "Does your person have a mustache?"
When we used to play Checkers, Holly would get so mad that I would never move my back row. :) Then finally we'd have a face off between her last king and my last king. We'd both go to a corner and just move back and forth and never go out on the playing field. We were both so stubborn! Speaking of stubborn, it was really difficult for me to play with Salem and not be as competitive as I would have liked. It killed me to let him jump me when I knew it could have been prevented. But, I guess that's what every parent goes through. I'm sure you've read a sappy Hallmark card, or listened to a high school graduation speech that says "Mom, thank you for letting me win at checkers when I was a kid and making me believe that I really did win." I'll have to ask my mom or brother if they ever "let" me win (probably.)
Since it was Monday we did a quick family home evening. Salem went downstairs to get the FHE tree (chart telling you who does what.) Salem and Oaklen pretty much did the whole thing and Darrell and I just laid there on the futon and listened between coughs and sneezes. Oaklen chose the Sunbeam song, of course. He loves to jump and say the word "beam" and "him" at the appropriate times. Salem's lesson was on eating healthy food. He thought that it was a good topic since we were sick. He said "Heavenly Father told me that I'll get better today if I eat lots of feel good food." For the activity we played "doctor" with our medical kit. It's actually fun since you can really hear your "heartbeep" (as Salem says) in the toy stethoscope. My brother always liked to listen to mine to hear my little heart murmur. Bum-bum, bum-bum, bum-bum, SSSS, bum-bum...
We had air popped popcorn for the snack and knowing from my previous post, Oaklen dumped almost the whole jar of popcorn kernels on the floor. What a turkey! :) I always think about my friend Kristy when I make popcorn. She gave me the blue glass canister that I use to store the popcorn kernels.
Now they're all in bed and it's time for me to do the same. I couldn't go to bed without writing this blog post, otherwise I would have been thinking about it all night. It seems like I always have a blog post going in my head. It's actually fun to have a narrative of my life. Sometimes I'm able to write them down, other times they'll just be stored away into Heather's memory. Speaking of memory...I remember Kathleen in Jr. High told me that I was an elephant. I didn't quite understand, then she explained that I have a memory like an elephant.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Homemade star show
Salem did the activity tonight for family home evening. We got a flash light and a vegetable steamer (cooking pot with holes on the bottom.) We went into our bedroom, turned off the light and put a blanket on the window to make it extra dark.
We laid on the bed and he turned on the flashlight and shined it through the vegetable steamer. It made a pretty cool star show on the ceiling for Oaklen, Darrell and me. Afterward I showed them a few shadow images like the classic shadow dog and butterfly.
Good times...
We laid on the bed and he turned on the flashlight and shined it through the vegetable steamer. It made a pretty cool star show on the ceiling for Oaklen, Darrell and me. Afterward I showed them a few shadow images like the classic shadow dog and butterfly.
Good times...
Friday, March 14, 2008
Salem's Samuel
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Salem did the lesson for family home evening on Monday, it was about Samuel the Lamanite prophesying to the Nephites about the coming of the savior. He used his legos to build a wall, his pirate men were the Nephites, a village man was Nephi and an action figure was Samuel the Lamanite.He did a good job and told us the story. He ended with bearing his testimony that the "iwall was really strong and that Heavenly Father protected Samuel the Lamanite." Later Oaklen and Salem played with the pieces for the activity.
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Salem helped me make cinnamon bread for the treat.
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Monday, January 7, 2008
Good treats at my house...
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My small little family had family home evening tonight. Christa, my sister-in-law gave us a cute book for FHE from Gordon B. Hinckley's teachings. Today's lesson was on love. Salem is a very good listener and he answers the questions correctly, I'm so proud! Oaklen seems to understand that we're doing something. He's starting to fold his arms when we pray.
Salem got to choose the treat for tonight, guess what he chose? TOFU! Delicious...
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