Cub Scout Day Camp

Ethan had a great time today.  He had to get up early.  He had to be at the church at 6:30am, but he didn't mind.  He popped right up when I woke him up.  He was excited to go.  He came home with lots of stories about what he did.  He had a fun day!

Shoes and Bugs

We were cleaning upstairs, which wasn't really that messy.  I had all of the kids get their things.  Daniela had six pairs of shoes upstairs.  She has a bad habit of leaving things all over the house.

We found this bug behind the screen of the TV.  We have no idea how it got there.  It was gone later in the day.  We wanted to smash it, but we just couldn't get to it.

July 8, 2013

This morning we dropped Brandon and Ryan off at Timberline Scout Camp.  It is a Youth Leadership Training Camp.  I am so excited for Brandon to go.  I thought that it would be hard to leave him, but it wasn't.  He seemed excited and we know a couple of the leaders up there this week.  I hope that he has a great week!

July 7, 2013

I did something today that I seriously have not done in a long time.  I got up and bore my testimony in Fast and Testimony meeting.  I had decided a long time ago that I had to big of a fear to get up there. This had caused me to be “past feeling” of any promptings of the Spirit.  I knew I wasn't going to go up, so I never felt any promptings to go up.

A challenge from our Stake President at Youth Conference helped me to change. He challenged us to go home from Youth Conference and pick one thing to work on, some way that we could improve ourselves. I thought about it and I really want to work on recognizing how the Spirit speaks to me. I want to work on recognizing the Spirit and acting on the promptings that I receive. I think that the more that we follow the promptings of the Spirit, Heavenly Father knows that He can rely on us and we are blessed with more personal revelation. We need this in our lives. I just read a quote by President Packer that says, “ You won't survive spiritually, unless you know how to receive revelation.” I want this revelation in my life because I need it. The Spirit will prompt me about things that I can change and do better for myself and for my kids. I love my children and I want to do all I can to help them to grow spiritually. I need the help of the Spirit.

It is because of this goal that I bore my testimony. I was “past feeling” but because I wanted to make this change, Heavenly Father was already testing me. After many years, I felt the prompting of the Spirit to share my testimony. Actually I had felt it for a few days.  I had to do it.  I wanted to show Heavenly Father that this may not be easy for me, it is scary, but I love Him and I want to do what I need to, to receive this blessing.

July 6, 2013

We rarely go see movies in the theater, but this week we happened to see three movies in four days. We saw...

I liked them all.  I probably would not see The Lone Ranger again, but it was good one time.  I don't think that I would take the kids to see it.  The whole family went to see Epic and Despicable Me 2.  We liked them both.

July 5, 2013

Poor boy! He got hurt playing basketball today!

July 4, 2013

We had a really busy, but fun day.  We started the day off by going to a flag raising ceremony at the church.  We had a short speaker and a yummy breakfast.  A little later, Grant and I went over to his brother's house to help him work on his sprinklers.  This was a messy, but kind of fun job.  We got home in time to make some food to take over to his sister's house.  We went there to visit, swim in their pool, and to enjoy some good food.  Grant and I left the kids there and we went to the Stadium of Fire.  Thanks to his boss at work who bought us the tickets.  We ended up sitting on the field, so we had great view.  It was a lot of fun.  We got to see the Cirque du Soleil performers, Carly Rae Jepsen, Kelly Clarkson, and some awesome fireworks!

We came home to find out that Ethan was playing in the car with a glow stick.  He bent it and it broke and he got splattered with all of that liquid inside.  Some of the liquid flew in his eye and it really hurt him.  Thanks to Julie and Dave who were with him at the time.  They pulled the car over really quickly and poured some water into his eye.  It still was bothering him when we got home, but it felt better before he went to sleep.  We teased him that he was going to wake up and have a powerful glowing eye.