Success!!!

The Storage Shed is Empty!!!!! Yay!!! I can finally breathe and not worry about the darn thing. Sorry Michelle my bear wasn't in it. I was really hoping to find it.

Kindergarten Kisses!!!!

I forgot one major event today. I'm minding my own business driving home after picking the kids up from school, thinking about all I have to get done for the day and then I start listening to my children in the back seat. Jessica is talking about one of her friends at school and then she starts saying that he likes to kiss her! Okay Now they have my full attention and I say what do you mean he likes to kiss you. and she says he likes to kiss her a Lot. O my goodness hyperventilation time. What the heck do they let these kindergartners do and who the heck is the Cameron kid anyways. So I ask more questions and the more info I get the more I want to pull all my darling kids out of school and Home school!!! Well maybe not that but something. So I ask her to tell me what he does and she says that he kisses her. So we get home because the trip really isn't that long and I pull her up to my seat and I said show me and she kisses me on the cheek so really how bad can that be except my 5 year old daughter has gotten her first kiss in Kindergarten!!!!!!!! Sooooo I say is that all and she says no he kisses my hand. Okay so there is this little Don Juan at Cherokee Elementary going around kissing my daughters hand, arm and cheek. So I tell her that we don't kiss and she says well I kiss Daddy and I say well that's okay but we only kiss family She says oh we don't kiss at school and I am like no we don't kiss at school and you can't kiss anywhere else unless its family or your married. So what do ya think. Should I worry?!? Oh and it was really cute hearing Brandon do the big brother thing telling her that she should kick his but or slap him or something. YIKES

Ramblings of a good day!

Okay so today was an okay day. I am still trying to get rid of that crazy storage shed out front and did a little work in it. I made cookies for Krystal to take to her class to share because my darling little girl turned 9 on Monday. They had Mardi Gras break so she wasn't there so here I was at 6am making chocolate chip cookies. I was tired and added a little more flour than usual and didn't pat the cookies down the first time I made them and one of the kids (can't remember which but gosh there are so many it could have been them all LOL) said hey mom the cookies are poofy. Then David came home from Seminary and said Teresa what happened to the cookies and I was like so ready to scream! Well the rest of them turned out fine. I watched the time and took them out before they were brown and I had flattened them so they wouldn't look like little golf balls. Not my usual cookies but I saved them from utter destruction. and Hey they were eaten and loved!

Krystal: Well as I said her Birthday was Monday it was a really crazy day and the poor thing didn't get a party until 8pm and I forgot to take pictures. Sooooo, I am going to have to get her to pose with her gifts because I can't have no pictures for her 9th birthday she will forever think that she is the unloved child. Why is it always my poor Krystal that gets gypped.

I took Brandon to Karate today. He is doing great. I also took all the kids so that I could go straight to the "Reflections of Christ" exhibit after he was done. They all decided they had to use restroom while we were there. So much so that when Brandon asked his Sin say if he could use the restroom the Sin say joked about ours must be out at home!!! How embarrassing.

Took the kids to the exhibit. It was beautiful. Jessica kept asking questions about the pictures.
Jessica: Mommy why is Jesus bleeding?
Mom: Because the Roman Soldiers hurt him they didn't know what they were doing.
Jessica: Mommy why did they hurt Jesus?

How do you explain that to a 5 year old? I tried as best I could.
Jessica: Mommy is Jesus alive
Mom: Yes he was resurrected.
Jessica: When was he rected Mommy?
And the questions continued. You got to love the teaching moments.

Sounds spiritual and wonderful. Well all of this happened after I took Jared out to his Dad because he was running around like a crazy man inside the exhibit. Like I said ya gotta love it.

On the way home I began singing songs about the Savior. Oh how I love to sing. All in all it was a really great day.

Reflections of Christ Exhibit

Here is the website. Go check it out
http://www.reflectionsofchrist.org/

Spiritual Highs

Last night we went to wonderful concert at church. Alex Boye (sp) a member of the Mormon Tabernacle choir and a few friends came to the church. They started the kick off of a wonderful art exhibit "Reflections of Christ". They first showed a documentary of the making of these photographs (Michelle you would love it!) It was so awesome. They put a lot of thought planning scripture study and prayer into these great representations of events in Christs life. I was very touched throughout this whole video presentation. I also enjoyed the music what an understatement! It was AWESOME. I just love to hear music at its best. They sang songs like Amazing Grace and Be still my Soul. OOOOO it just gave me goose bumps.

One of my favorite things was when Alex Boye talked about an experience he had. He is very charismatic. He told of meeting a girl whom he had known before. He off handedly asked her how she was and then was told after 2 hours. She told him of a life of very hard experiences, cutting her wrists, children from three men, and drug addictions. She came from a strong family who taught her the gospel and about Christ but she fell away. He didn't know what to tell her but he prayed really hard and felt that he should tell her to take him to her car and get in. So that is what they did. Then he felt inspired to ask to see her CD collection. When she showed him it was full of inappropriate music. He asked her to let him have her collection for a week. Very timidly and not wanting to she agreed. She called him two days later telling him that she had felt better than ever. Then he asked what we would be willing to give up for our Savior. Oh the spirit was so strong. There were definitely things in my life that I want to do better and I renewed my commitment to my Heavenly Father. So check our the church bookstores and look for the music, Dvd and book for the Reflections of Christ. I think there is also a web site if I find it I will post a link later.

Random thought

Okay so I have been watching the headlines of news and they are not promising. They tell us of a world that is falling apart financially, people who have no idea how to live properly, and then the really wicked who kill, rape and pillage for fun. So how in a time with so much chaos are we supposed to have a good life. The gospel teaches if ye are prepared we shall not fear. I may not be completely prepared but I do not worry to much. I turn of the t.v. and ignore the Internet headlines. I try to live the gospel, I am not perfect I still procrastinate and my house is by far not the cleanest in the world and I still have my problems with loving to read to an excess. However, I also know that my children are being taught the gospel principles that will help them in the world that they will lead. I know that they are gaining testimonies of our Savior Jesus Christ and they will be fine. So despite the bad press my life is good.

Procrastination in Progress

Okay, so I was supposed to get the storage unit empty yesterday. Well it didn't happen. I did however get a good amount done and threw away a ton of stuff. Who knew how much junk you can accumulate and think it is worth something!! Michelle, So far I have not found the bear and do not have much hope for finding it but the shed isn't empty yet so who knows it may be there somewhere. Anyway the kids had a good day today. They got to have their Valentines day party and they also had quarter day. (someone didn't plan to well because that is a lot of junk food coming home) I sent cookies to school with Jared and Jessica. Bethany got to go on a field trip to see Peter Pan. She was way excited about that. So its Friday again and David and I will get to go out for date night but we also want to do something tomorrow for Valentines day so we will try to keep it simple tonight.

Storage Unit Woes

Well life here is pretty dandy. I am trying to get the motivation up to clean out the portable storage shed. I have managed to do a little each day but I just don't want all that stuff back in the house. I mean really we've lived without it for the past5 months so do I really need to clutter up the house again. I can't even tell you what is left in it. I have gotten all the important stuff out. You know clothes pictures and dishes. So who in the world needs all those books and junk. However if I don't get all those books out David is going to have a Holy conniption cow fit. Ya you read that right sounds weird but Hey hes a book freak. I mean we have books that i would never read never want to read and can't imagine anyone ever wanting to read. Oh well I love him so I guess I can deal with his little idiosyncrasies. I know I have mine. Well I have to get it completely cleaned out by tommorrow night so that it can be picked up Friday. Having a personal storage unit it my front yard is conveniant but quite expensive and it is also very ugly.

So anyway that is what I will be up to all day tomorrow oh and I also have to get all the stuff ready for the kids Valentines parties at school. I have to make cookies and get cards and who knows what else. Why in the world do I procrastinate. I should have learned a long time ago that it never pays. However anytime there is something that needs to be done that I don't want to do I say oh it will wait until tomorrow. Oh well I guess I can't be perfect darn it LOL.