Happy Valentines Day!

Bread

Here is what I chose to do for relaxation this weekend. Mom thank you for the grain mill you gave me for my birthday I was finally able to use it for the first time... and I Love It!

Yummy Toast! it reminds me of the good old days growing up with home made bread.

Ball of Curious Workmanship

This year for our family scripture reading of the Book of Mormon I really wanted to make it special as it is most likely the last opportunity for our little family as it grows. So I set up a calendar with 2 chapters a day, Monday through Friday (the first -for individual reading and the second -for the family reading.) We read as a family with as many people as can be there and if they can not be there then they can keep up. On Saturday we can spend time in any of the scriptures and Sundays are set up for a family review.

I had found a fun booklet put together from one of the wards we have been in with some cute ideas and our review this week was about the Liahona. We discussed how important it is to follow the prophet and reviewed some great quotes from this last conference. I was so excited to share these balls of curious workmanship with the family all day today:) If anyone out there has more fun ideas for our scripture reading please email them my way!

Happy 17 th Birthday

We finally had a chance to sing Happy Birthday to Michael tonight. I really ought to stock up on some birthday candles. I used to always have some but when people use them for those of us that turn 40 and so on it really depletes the supply. For supper we had chilli and corn muffins...one of the cup cakes ended up without icing and with the corn muffins which made for a fun laugh. Michael said "these arn't corn muffins are they?" So when it came time for cake and ice cream people were concerned that they might find a corn muffin with icing on it.

Enthusiasm

Last Testimony Meeting Christopher shared his sweet testimony about his preparations for a mission. After church that day he was invited to go home teaching, speak in church and give a lesson. So today was his big day speaking as a companion speaker for another ward, and he has another opportunity in February as well. These are super opportunities in his preparation.

No Empty Chairs

Here is where Timothie was living one month ago. Having her back home with us for this season has been such a blessing. Having another female around is so nice. It makes me think of how each of our children fill such an important role in our eternal family, a part that no one else could ever fill.

Rub a Dub Dub

The last fishing adventure was very interesting... Two ladies were on the shore in the same area we were fishing were having all the luck that day and because they do not eat fish they gave them to us. Then there was the men you see in the picture. They seemed to be smiling for me to take the picture. Inovation in the name of fishing. Later that night a yummy fish fry and a new game called Bananagram.