An AMAZING day!!

Oh my....we have waited for this day for so long, and it's here. Everything was perfect!! The weather, the Temple, our Sealer was amazing!! I learned sooo much. It's really amazing how you can go and go and go to the Temple and everytime walk away learning something new. The spirit was so strong. I am so grateful to all the family and friends that were there to support us.

The other thing I find to be amazing is the stronger bond that I FEEL to my Eternal sweetie. It is an actual feeling, and I dont quite know how to put it in words. For those of you that did it right the first time, and have never experienced what it's like to be married civily and then go be Sealed, there is a definate difference. I loved J before the fact, but it is so much stronger now, I dont really even know that it's "love" that makes it stronger. But what I do know is that I really gained a stronger Testimony on the power of the Temple, and the fact that Families ARE Forever. It really makes me want to try so much harder to keep our kids close. My Family is a really big deal to me. And the fact that I get to have them forever...It's almost overwhelming! The strange thing is that even though my kids, and J's kids aren't sealed to us, I still feel that bond for eternity. I am the luckiest woman alive!! I have a great husband, great kids, and a Savior that loves me. Heavenly Father truely is aware of our needs, and answers every prayer! My heart is full....thank you again to everyone that has helped us along our way to be able to get to where we are now. I love you all!!

One week from today!

We are going to the Draper Temple April 17th.

I am really exctied! This last week is going to be hard though. The advisary has been pushing us very hard!! It was not an easy thing to get our date set, and everything in order. What a story that is...but I wish not to focus on that. Just the fact that everything is all set and we are very ready to go! Hopefully we wont have too many more hiccups in the road!

COMING SOON....

I know it has been forever since I have posted anything. Lots has happened, and there has been plenty to blog about. I just haven't done it! But this is just to exciting and I have to take a few to blog it!! J and I are going to be sealed in the Temple!! We received our papers to be able to go on Friday! Now we just need to contact the Temple and get our date set for sure! I'm so stoked and thought I would share the information!!

NOT IN THE MOOD!

I seriously have had the hardest time getting in the spirit of Christmas this year. I LOVE the season, and I've done all my shopping, had a great month...but for some reason I am just feeling so Scrooge like. Maybe it could have something to do with having a teenager that likes to pick on his brothers and sister, or maybe it's that my kids just like to pick on each other (teenage or not) and then whine or tattle when someone else does that same thing to them!! They like to cause me a lot of stress. I have earned EVERY gray hair I have!!

We had a great Anniversary weekend snowmobiling,

only to come home and find that the kids had stressed Lisa out to the max. I find out that about a foot of the lights on my house have gone out. Then tonight when I turned on the lights to my tree...this is what I get!

The whole center of my tree is out!! How pathetic!! Of course you can totally see it from the road because it's the center of the window too! What next? Oh wait...I really dont want to know!

Cant I just go back to Midway and enjoy the magical christmas feel with all the snow covered roads and trees.

With a pretty Christmas tree like this?

Oh wait, that would be asking to much! Well here's to a better tomorrow!

My First pair...

Oh my how this takes me back!! Michael was surprisingly excited to get his glasses. Although he didn't really understand why he needed them "when he could see just fine without them," or so he thought. His left eye is 20/60 and his right eye is 20/40...yeah sure he can see just fine!! When I pointed that out to him he said, "I can see just fine when I use both my eyes. It's only when I cover this one that I cant see." Oh the innocence of youth. I laughed my butt off when he said that, because he was so sincere! I guess at least he's grateful for what sight he does have! I explained to him that he doesn't realize it but, he only has been using his better eye to see. I still don't think that he fully understands that concept. However, he is handling it all very well. Me....I would've been in tears! Wait...I guess I was in tears PLENTY of times throughout my life! The ride home was fun...he kept taking his glasses down like in this picture above to make comparisons. He kept saying, "Wow! This is sooo cool!" While he had them down he looked ahead at the car in front of us, as he put them back on he said "Whoa!" When I asked what was going on he said, "When I put my glasses on that car looks so much closer." It was fun to hear and see his excitement as he realized what "depth perception" is. He continued to do this with several objects. It's going to take some getting used to but I think he'll do great!! I just hope that he wont be to rough on them. After all, he is my roughest, wildest boy.

I'm a flu fighter!

I took Kailey today to get her H1N1 vacination. She is so brave when it comes to shots. I've debated back and forth for a while now...should I....or shouldn't I? I obviously finally decided to just do it. I would feel HORRIBLE if she ended up getting sick and I could've prevented it. Now I just hope and pray that there are no long term effects to it that they might discover later. She's pretty good at keeping her hands clean, and not sneezing or coughing into them. You just never know where she might come in contact with it though, so I figured I'd better be safe, not sorry.

Leaves are falling all around....

Oh the joys of being a child, and the fun a massive pile of leaves bring. Monday night we decided that we needed to get our yard cleaned up before the storm hit. So for family night we raked our little hearts out. In the end, the work was well worth it. The kids had a blast playing in the pile we made. Being the brave little souls they are, they climbed the tree and did belly flops into the pile. It was that big!! That made me a little nervous but I wasn't about to still their thunder. Here are a few pics I captured during all the fun.

With a pile this big, who could resist a leaf fight!! What a fun time we had together! A memory we will always have....the HUGE pile of leaves that provided so much entertainment, and brought our family together in work and play.