Cute Little Bugs

Easter

I loved having Easter over Conference Weekend. What a wonderful time to spend thinking about the Savior, His love, His life. Maybe I feel like this after every conference but it was soooo good and can I just say the music was AMAZING. So beautiful.

Stella getting excited over her basket. All the girls recieved tin banks in their baskets. The bank is divided into Tithing, Savings and Spending. This has been so helpul in tracking their money. And the little locks stop them from getting into the money and confusing what they paid tithing on.

Claire got the cutest little swim suit for her bitty baby - of coarse she would be grinning regardless!!

Elizabeth - always willing to share - grabbed some of her dollars as we sorted the money for the banks - wanting to give it to McCall who is saving for something from the AG Catalog. Elizabeth is so kind hearted, so loving, she just has such a big heart.

FONDUE

Two years ago...or so... McCall saved up and worked hard to earn money to buy the FAMILY a Fondue Pot for Christmas. 

We have all enjoyed the fruits of her labor!

(I don't know why she has no pants at the table???)



SERIOUS?

No == least you think we deserve the worst parent award == we do not feed our babes gooey rich chocolate... she is smiling over a yummy helping of PRUNES. I just had to throw in a picture of her eating too of course!

All "American Girls"

If we want to make sure our girls will like a gift we just make sure we open up an AMERICAN GIRL catalog -- a sure hit! Claire loves her bitty baby, Elizabeth & Call love their girls and doing their hair, going camping, sleeping over in their sleeping bags. Hours of good fun!

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I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard me cry.

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God; many shall see it, and fear, and trust in the Lord.

New Call

It will be an interesting couple of years to say the least...but thankfully I have a great husband, great family and I guess the Lord thinks we can handle it.

Aid

After seeing the destruction in Haiti we wanted to help. Knowing they need money was first in my mind but for a long time we’d been planning on putting together kits for FHE, I just hadn’t made it to Mandalay to pick up the supplies for the kits.
So after seeing such horrible pain and suffering I wanted to help and I wanted my girls to feel it with something “hands on” which they could feel and do.


On Friday Night, while Erik was in St. George, the girls and I spent part of the evening putting together Infant Kits for the Humanitarian Center.

McCall set everything out in the order it needed to go in the bag. And those wonderful little hands loaded everything inside.

We put together 5 infant kits that night…

And the next morning, on Saturday, we put together 10 hygiene kits. And after read the story of the Good Samaritan and talked about Temple covenants and giving “all that we have” so that our family can be eternal.
 
So for just a little over $100 we were able to have a wonderful time together learning the gospel of Jesus Christ through service.

We can’t leave out the help from this little one!

We still need to donate some money so that further help can be given to those beautiful people of Haiti. And I told Erik I want to adopt when Estelle is five or so.
Such a great weekend…

The Problem with Procrastination

Our household is faced with a dilemma.

Do we start over?

Do we leave off in 3rd Nephi?

Skip over 4th Nephi?

Mormon? Ether? Moroni?

We are enough behind that if we take the time to finish we will be behind for this year.

Usually we always finish early, was it last year that we went a week over?

We have put ourselves in a awful situation by missing our nightly reading one too many times.

We talked about Erik and I finishing it on our own but that will then put us behind in our personal study and you just can't do that with the Old Testament or you won't finish.

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How can we teach our 11/12 year old boys the Old Testament if we are not up to date with reading it?

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Yesterday we started over... I Nephi...

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This morning I went ahead with Genesis...

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I'm heartsick over those beloved books missed.

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And heart sick our girls won't read/hear them.

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Maybe I should take a day off and gobble them up.

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Can you take a day off with four small kids who are involved with an activity (dance,violin) on top of homework Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday? Oh, and Elizabeth has speech on Friday at 8am...

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But I don't drive to dance on Wed., so maybe I could spend the day reading.

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You see the spiral?

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You see what an awful situation we have placed ourselves in?

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This is the problem with procrastination!

I could just eat her...

She makes me want to have more&more&more... she is such a gift from God! What an angel she is. I love her, I love her, I love her.... I don't care about going out and date nights because it's just too soon that this favored stage will be gone and she will be grown! So I'll be happy with catching every moment and being her one and only!

A lot more eating then decorating...

Straw

I was left with hands red, buring, painful and blistered like this...

In my attempt to add some straw to this...

Note to self: wear gloves next time you try to shovel out the

snow-plowed

ice-packed

ridge of snow

from 6 neighbors drives & the mail box approach.

Ouch!

Thanksgiving Happiness

Hope yours was just as delightful!

A little peek...

Here's a little peek at what I'm working on for December. I want to have it done and the bags filled before Thanksgiving holiday so I can just enjoy the break. I can't wait for it... the girls are going to love it!!

Christmas time is coming soon...

Recieved the last package this week and got everyhthing to fill these ^ the other day... other then a couple other people I'm done! Yipee!!!

Ballet Performance

If you've discussed dance with me at all you'll know I'm not a huge fan of competitions. They take all day and it just seems like a waste of time... but I am all for the experience of getting up in front of people and performing which is why I love The Pointe. They are not competition crazy, competitions are secondary to instruction -- I am fully behind that.

We recently had a ballet showcase. It was simply amazing! Not only was the ballet a wonderful story, the dancers amazing, but it was at the Scera Theatre in Orem so for $8 you got a reserved seat YAY! All the danceres worked so hard to make the performance perfect! One lead part was filled by an Odessey dancer but the rest were filled by the Pointe's students and can I just say it was awesome!

Great job McCall... your grace and talent show in everything you do!