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Here are the pictures from the last little while.  April was super busy for us.  Birthday for Reagan, she turned 8 and got baptized.  Basketball for Jaxon.  Easter and other stuff I cannot remember.  It was fun though.

 We went to SLC for spring break.  It was fun and exhausting all at the same time.  Rode the ferris wheel at Scheels and played there for awhile.

 Kids being silly.

Basketball with Jaxon

Bowling for Reagan's Birthday. 

Reagan's play The Lorax.  she gets nervous easily

 At the play with Brian's sisters kids

 Before the baptism

 Baptism Cousins

 Before baptism with Dad

It was a crazy and fun month.  We enjoyed it thoroughly.  Brooke went and saw Wicked with her mom.  Fun times and got some shopping in.  

Tender Mercies

I teach sunday school.  This month our focus is the Godhead.  The lesson I taught on Sunday was titled, "Learning to see Heavenly Father's hand in all things.  It got me thinking.  Do I recognize the hand of the Lord in my life? 

I have come to the conclusion that His hand is there everyday.  In different ways, but do we recognize it?  We get so involved in our world, the kids, work, laziness, whatever it is that we so often fail to recognize the so many blessing that God blesses us with.  For example, I asked Brian about what he felt were tender mercies in his life.  He said the kids.  He said that we were so very lucky to have the two children we have.  We struggle with infertility and instead of crying his own woes he found the tender mercy of our trial.  When he said that,  the light bulb suddenly went on in my brain.  He was right, that is such a huge tender mercy.  I am extremely grateful for my two children.  Although I fail to recognize that tender mercy sometimes because I get lost in my selfishness of wanting more children.  Can't I just love the ones I have.  Anyway.  Here are two videos that I showed in my class.

So the question is:

Have you recognized the Hand of the Lord today?  God loves us and he knows what we need and how to succor us.