On Friday my little brother Cody opened up his mission call! I can’t believe he’s old enough to be going on a mission but I’m very excited for him. Since missions are obviously a topic that gets discussed a lot around our house right now I wanted to make it the topic of a Family […]
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Some thoughts that I shared with my boys about September 11th. I highlight some of the lessons I learned from living through that day and what it was like for me that day.
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As I was playing on Pinterest a few months ago I came across an idea for a Family Home Evening lesson using Angry Birds as a way to teach children to control their emotions. Since I have little children and a smartphone, Angry Birds is obviously something that gets played A LOT in our household […]
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For those of you who might not know, I’m currently in the primary presidency of our ward. I’ve been emailing out printables to the parents of our primary children each month that have the theme and scripture for the month that they can print out and hang in their homes. Our biggest goal as a […]
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So it’s been awhile since I posted a High/Low and highs and lows seem to be describing my day today so, here we go… High: This morning Sam woke up early (as usual) and we came downstairs. After awhile I left him watching some Sid the Science Kid so that I could go take a […]
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The featured image on this post is of my son when he was a baby “feasting” on the words of Christ 😂 About a year ago I found a list of books on Facebook. There were 100 books in the list and it had some attention catching phrase like “The BBC thinks you’ll only have […]
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On Wednesday Hilary Rosen, a Democratic strategist, made a comment on CNN about Ann Romney saying that she “has actually never worked a day in her life,” referring to the fact that Ann has spent her adult life as a stay-at-home mom rather than as an employee of another corporation. While the Obama campaign has […]
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Over the last few days I’ve been reading in our New Testament reader to Sam about the last week of our Savior’s life, His atonement and resurrection. It has given me a chance to ponder on these events for myself and think again about what Christ’s life means to me. I had one quick thought […]
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I can’t believe that another General Conference has once again come and gone. The weekend went by far too quickly, particularly since I spent most of it sick and with a sick baby. I’m still fighting through the symptoms (although I think they’re allergy related now) and my baby still has a lot of congestion […]
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This weekend is one of my favorite holidays – General Conference. For those of you who aren’t members of my faith let me give you a little bit of background on what this is. We believe that our religion is a restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ during his ministry. That church […]
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Since I blacked out my site today in protest of the SOPA/PIPA bills in congress right now, and spent a good amount of time today linking to related pages on the subject, I figured I ought to write my own thoughts as well. Also to give a bit of an explanation of *what* it is […]
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I know I’m a little late to be just making my New Year’s resolutions, but I’d rather make them late than not at all. The New Year itself isn’t necessarily a magical time for making goals, just a good reminder to make some and to see how you did on the ones from the year […]
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Today was our ward’s fast and testimony meeting. As I was standing bouncing our baby during the sacrament I decided that I would like to get up and bear my testimony today. However, before the sacrament ended I had to take that baby out to feed him and the line on the stand never dwindled […]
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Today in Relief Society we had a lesson on Eternal Marriage. I love talking about this topic in the church because marriage is something that I think is often misconstrued in the media and the world. Our marriage relationships are of utmost importance and maintaining them is by far one of the most important things […]
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So I’m thinking of starting a project for a Christmas present for Daniel. I want to make him a quiet book for church. I’m thinking though to keep the project a little bit easier I would see if anyone else wanted to do it with me. If you’re interested here’s how I’m thinking it would […]
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My dad is a CPA, as such he taught me early on the importance of tracking your spending and reconciling all of your credit card statements etc. He and my mom always used Quicken to track all of their spending. I remember every month when my mom would get have to go through and make […]
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So I got this idea when I used to follow the $5 dinner blog. Every so often I have what I call “Leftover Awareness Month” (she calls it “Pantry Challenge”). Basically the idea is for a month (although sometimes just a week) I try to eat only what we have in the house and go […]
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Last night we had a little baby shower for my niece (yes, somehow I’m old enough to have a niece old enough to be a mom, weird huh?). While we were there I let her in on the secret of Amazon Mom. One of my sisters-in-law was so sad that I hadn’t told her about this […]
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So I’ve been meaning for a long time to write posts about things that I use in my life to make it easier/cheaper/healthier or in any way better. I finally have come up with a list of things to write about that’s so long that I could have a weekly post for 3 months before […]
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I just finished listening to The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. If you haven’t read it before and you’re someone who enjoys reading I highly recommend it. It’s an interesting story about a young man who grew up in Afghanistan when the Soviet Union invaded and took control of the country. He flees with his […]
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