Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Lesson Learned

Grandma, you left just in time.  It's COLD out there!
My car battery is giving me so many problems that it's just ridiculous!
It's SOOOOOOO cold!
My car won't start!!
SOOOOOO COLD!!!!!
Brenten comes to help me boost the car!
SOOOO COLD!!!!
The kids have stolen my mits and gloves (can't really blame them they had to spend the day at school).
SOOOOO COLD!!!!!
Frostbite.
LESSON LEARNED. . . . HIDE A SPARE PAIR OF GLOVES.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Amazing

That's all I can really say about it.
I am a spiritual person, but I rarely put that out in the open.  I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and although I live my life in accordance to my beliefs, I rarely talk about my feelings and convictions with other people.  Sometimes I think it makes me forget how strongly I DO believe in what I am taught at church.
Yesterday it hit me.  As I watched that beautiful golden statue of the Angel Moroni playing his trumpet being hoisted onto the beautiful temple that is being constructed the overwhelming spiritual convictions that I felt amazed me.  I couldn't believe how powerful it was to me to be standing in the freezing cold with my three youngest babies watching a statue being put on the temple and how important and life changing that felt to me.
It was amazing.
It was an experience I will never forget.
Seeing that beautiful statue reiterated to me that I DO believe in the teachings of my church and I AM a spiritual person and I LOVE that temple that is going to be located 3 blocks from my new house.
Amazing.