Tonight for family night we talked about a few symbols of Christmas. The evergreen tree representing eternal life and the lights on the tree symbolizes the light of Christ. I shared a few scriptures and we did a little Christmas tree craft. The boys had a lot of fun decorating their own tree. I hope that this holiday season that when they see a beautiful lit tree their thoughts might turn towards the Savior and the great gift he has all ready given us.
Donaven picked out his own outfit for crazy sock day. (An old pair of my socks from high school with the foot cut out.) He loved them and it was fun for me to see him get excited about school spirit.
What in the world am I doing up at 2:27 am you may be wondering? Well it is the only time I can really get things done and I might have accidently took a several hour nap with E this afternoon, (which resulted in me picking up D 30 min. late form school, but that’s another story) so I am not really all that tired.
It just so happens that my adorable niece is turning two and celebrating with a rainbow party this weekend. As soon as I saw this sweet little cloud tutorial here, I had to make it for her.
I think mine turned out ok and I really, really hope little Miss Evie like’s it!
This is our sweet friend baby Austin! His family invited us to participate in the Buddy Walk this weekend and we really enjoyed being apart of his team Austin's Texans! There were bouncy houses, balloons and lots of fun for everyone take a look.
The boys were even given medals upon completion of the mile long walk by none other than kind firefighters. How cool is that!
Hopefully next year Brandon will be able to join in on the fun with us.
Last Sunday Donaven received a brand spanking new pack of crayons and a conference packet from his primary leaders. His favorite part was that the crayons were boldly labeled Donaven’s Conference Crayons. He would proudly show them to me daily and we would talk about conference. He couldn’t wait to use them.
After a yummy breakfast of chocolate chip muffins, yogurt, bacon, and strawberries this morning; the time finally arrived to gather in the living room and tune in to conference as a family. It was so sweet to see Donaven carefully lay out his special crayons and begin to work on his packet. With each speaker we would talk about each one’s name and he would excitedly find their picture and color their tie. He also listened for key words that we had talked about before hand. The words he chose were; Jesus, Prayer, Faith, Temple, Honor, and Scriptures. He even shared his crayons with his brother to color a picture of the First Presidency.
Funny how a small thing like a box of crayons could bring about such eagerness in a 4 year old boy to participate and hear revelation from the General Authorities of the church. I am grateful to Donaven’s Primary leaders for influencing him for good, planting the seed of faith and enabling me to continue to cultivate it here at home.
At the end of Donaven’s packet their was a section to write down a goal based upon what was learned during conference. We decided to make a goal as a family and follow the prophets council to focus more on the good in the world and less on the negative.
We are going to start a sort of gratitude journal to record our blessings and good things that happen to us individually and as a family.
I so enjoyed the talks today and I am looking forward to hearing the others that I missed. I am grateful for the spirit that was felt in our home today and hope to continue to grow and learn form these inspired words given to us by the righteous leaders of our church.
What was your favorite part of conference that you got the most from?
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After the parade we headed over to one of our favorite community sponsored events, Touch-A-Truck.
We all had so much fun together until are fingers were almost frozen and even then it was a bit of a challenge to get my kiddos in the car to head home!
