any ideas?

I am giving a lesson in RS in a couple of weeks on the 2nd Article of Faith. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas on how to do this? It is a hard one and I can't really come up with anything. Pass along all your knowledge. Thanks.

Bragging Rights

I just wanted to tell everyone that Brian and I filled out our March Madness Brackets and I won. YOOHOO!

Other news:

The weather is so nice today and yesterday. I spent some time out in my yard working to clean some stuff up and hopefully will get some lawn thatched today. I need to replace the lawn mower battery today and change the blades. I hope it starts after I do that. I love the springtime at least when it is nice outside.

Jaxon is full on crawling and has 2 teeth now. He puts everything in his mouth and can fit and entire golf ball in his mouth. He screeches which I don't love at all and Reagan only makes it worse. She growls at him and it makes him cry.

Reagan is into the tv and I really shouldn't let her watch as much but it helps me keep my sanity. She is very independent and super feisty. I know....the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Good things
1. reevaluating
2. conference
3. warm weather

It happened again

Jaxon slept two nights in a row all night long. It felt so nice but yet I am still tired. Today I am trying to get an order together for Alison's Pantry so if you need anything let me know. Hopefully my kids will be well for the rest of forever. I need to be cleaning and I just keep hoping that Brian will hire a maid but just scoffs when I say anything like it. Also I need to go get some buttons to finish off some sewing projects for Etsy. Hope they go well. Sounds like a pretty uneventful day. WE will see how that goes. I remembered the other thing from the last post. JAXON IS CRAWLING. YIKES! That means he can get anywhere and into anything. On the first kid you can't wait til they crawl and the second you dread it. The things first times don't know or understand. It is funny when you look back on it.

Good Things
1. Health
2. Warmth
3. Sewing

News

The most amazing thing happened the other night. Jaxon slept from 8:30 to 5:00 without any interuptions. It felt so nice. I am like a new woman. Have no fear it didn't happen last night though. 2 nights in a row is way too much to ask.

I got my hair colored and I really like it. I was supposed to post a picture but my camera has issues right now and so do I...not knowing how to use the camera.

I had one more thing to share but I can't remember it so it really must not have been news at all.

Good THings
1. Sleep
2. Good haircut and color
3. Feeding the missionaries

The New Mantra...hopefully

I have decided that my cup is currently half empty or spilled. When Reagan starts whining I tell her "if you are going to whine go sit on your bed" I need to take my own advice and go sit on my bed. I get so overwhelmed with everything negative that I really don't take the time to think of the good things. So this week I am going to try to have a half full cup and stop whining.

Good Things
1. roof over my head
2. Sisters
3. a nice soft bed to lay in

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Today is the day of green. Last night we had friends over for dinner and had Corned Beef and cabbage with potatoes and carrots. We had green jello too with green punch and green cupcakes and lime sherbet with 7up for dessert. Yummy. We talked about St. Patrick and then the 1st article of Faith. It was fun. So...what have had green today.


Another exciting thing is that is has been raining and the snow is almost gone. Reagan has some issues with not being able to play in the snow. I tell next Christmas she can. I am trying to tell her it is much more fun to play when it is warm and we can go swimming and jump on the trampoline and play on the swingset. You know all those fun summertime things. But she goes back to her sad face and say oh no the snow is all gone. The temperature has gotten slightly warmer but downstairs in our basement it still feels like winter because there is a significant lack of heat.

So all you out there with spring fever, it theoretically should be getting warmer and we should be able to go outside and ride bikes, plant flowers, and whatever else there is the dream about during the warm weather.

Happy Spring!

Good Things
1. Things to celebrate
2. Sleeping Boys
3. buying garden seeds

Slow Going

My 5K or anything workout has been slow this week. I started with a sore throat on Tuesday I think. We all have been sneezing and coughing but nothing big and then it happened. It got worse and worse until I finally went in to get swabbed today and yep it strep. So we are all on antibiotics. Let the healing begin. Reagan is on antibiotics because she has the worst ingown toenail I have ever seen. It is nasty. So I haven't quite got to the gym this week. I was up to about 6 minutes of running before I thought I was really going to die though. Slower than any training schedule. I don't really think I am much of a runner I would rather cycle but we will see where this gets me. I am really hoping any of it will make me lose weight. No luck so far. I guess I will have to work harder and sweat more. Yuck! You have to just love what having babies does to you.

Good Things:

1. Amoxicillin
2. My soft bed of which I don't spend near enough time on
3. Signs of spring