Great Conference and My testimony

I really love going to the Adult session of Stake Conference. It is the one of the most spiritual uplifting meetings of the year. We had a wonderful meeting. I love listening to the testimonies. One sister told of how she gained a testimony of the gospel in the midst of deep opposition. She stayed true to the Lord and eventually she was able to see her siblings return to our Savior. I know that our Heavenly Father loves us. I know that He sent His Son, Jesus Christ to Earth to make it possible for us to return home to be with them. Our Savior suffered in the Garden of Gethsemane for everyone of our sins the small ones and the big ones. He felt everyone of our pains. I know that because of Him I can repent of my sins and become clean and pure. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, that he truly saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christs in the sacred grove. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that the Bible is also the word of God as far as it is translated correctly. I know that President Thomas S. Monson is a prophet of God, that he speaks to our Father and that he is a prophet even as Moses of old. He gives us direction from our Heavenly Father. I know that gospel of Jesus Christ is here on the Earth and I am grateful to my parents for bringing this knowledge into my life.

David's Bones

Hmm, I always thought that David was a little bit of an exhibitionist. Now he has proven me right. He got his x-rays on disk and asked me to post them in my blog. Hehehe. Anyway these are his Feb 1 x-rays so his bones have been healing for about 2 weeks. If you look closely at the first one you can see all the fractures close to his ankle. Look closely at the second one and you can see the one up closer to his knee it is on the fibula (the smaller bone).

David's Accident

Okay, So most of you know about David's accident but I really want to blog about it so that I can have it in a book for future generations to look back and see. Sooo Here goes. January 15, 2010 I was having a normal morning. David and Alecia had woke up early and went to seminary. David teaches and Alecia is in 10th grade. David came home after dropping the students off at school and we did our morning family scripture study and prayers. After we were done I sent Brandon and Katie on there way to school and started to make lunch for the little ones. It was around 7:20 a.m when Katie and Brandon come running in screaming and crying. I heard Jessica, Daddy, Truck hit. So you can imagine my panic when I went outside and see David on the ground crying. I really thought that I had just lost my youngest daughter. I kept yelling where is Jessica? I couldn't see her anywhere and I was really getting scared when I saw her with the other kids. She was fine so I knew that it must be David who was hurt. So I went over and found out what had happened. He was in so much pain and I knew that there was nothing I could do so I held him in my arms and said a short prayer out loud that he would be okay and that he wouldn't be in pain. After that, He told me his leg was broken and that I needed to call 911. Well at this point I was way relieved that it was just a broken leg and not a dead member of my family, and me being the frugal person that I am, I asked David if he thought he could help me get him in the car and I would drive him to the hospital. Hmmm not such a good idea but hey I was thinking it would save us money. I asked David what had happened and he told me that he had been backing out when he remembered something he needed to get. He threw the car into park and jumped out. The car didn't go into park it was in reverse and the door knocked him down before he could get back in and fix the problem. Once he was knocked down the truck ran over his leg. When I realized how bad it was I made the call and they came lights and sirens blaring up to the house. Now you call for help and boy do they send help. I had two fire trucks, two police cars and an ambulance outside of my house. (One of our neighbors later on came over and asked if David was dead). Well at least we know if we need help it will come. They got David's shoe off and cut his pant leg so that they could splint it and got him in the ambulance. The kids were still having a major break down so I went in and prayed with them that they would be comforted and that David would not be in a lot of pain. Then I told them that they were staying home and went to get Alecia from school. I left the kids at home and went to the hospital to see what was going on. It looked like his ankle had been crushed so I was really having a hard time but kept praying that all would turn out okay. The missionaries came to the hospital and gave David a blessing. I know that it was a major help. I am so thankful that our Heavenly Father loves us so much and helps us went we are in need of His help. I am also very thankful that the priesthood power is here on the Earth so that we can use it in times of great need. I continued to pray and I know that the Lord was at work. When the Doctors and confounded you know that it is coming from above. David leg was indeed broken. In fact the doctors said that it was strange because these breaks generally need surgery. However because all the broken pieces were together then they would treat it conservatively. They kept him overnight and put a cast on it. I hoped to bring him home on Saturday but they kept him until Monday afternoon. We are still dealing with this but with the Lord's help we are getting through it.

David in the Hospital

David with Jared comforting him.

David with his foot in a cast

After several days of being without their Daddy the kids were very happy to see him.

Jessica with her Daddy!

Jared just being his cute self!

I'm Back!!!

Okay, so I have been away for a while but I'm back!!! Yippee!!! I have internet at home again. Oh boy I just don't know what to do. I am soooo excited that I can finally get back to my lovely blog and let all my dear friends know what is going on in my life.

Now as for what is going on, (as always it's very eventful) my darling husband id laid up in bed with his leg raised to a position above his heart. The only thing that he can do for himself is go to the bathroom. Hmmm He finally doesn't need me for that. Anyway, I went to Wal-mart today and bought a universal remote because he said he needed one or I would be it. Not that I don't just love being able to serve my husband but I can think of better things to do with my time than to be a remote. So now he can change the channel or turn the volume up. One less thing for me to do. I still have to get his food, water, and anything else that he can think of that he wants. OOO the joys of an invalid. No really it's not that bad but I really love to tease him. He has really been a wonderful patient and I am very impressed with how much he can get done from his bed. I really am thankful that Heavenly Father gave me such a wonderful man to spend my eternities. He has kept the faith and has turned to our Savior for the help that he needs. I truly am a blessed woman.

Okay, as I've said before life is really crazy!!! However, I am learning to thrive on crazy. I get so much more done when there is tons of stuff to do. Hmmmm!! I think something might be really wrong with that but since I'm not sure what it is I'll leave it as said. Lets see, for all of you who don't live here in this wonderful southern state that I live in you may not know that we had SNOW Friday night. Oh my, it was wonderful to see the kids getting excited and playing in the snow. They were able to make a small snowman, snow angels, and snow balls. It was really fun.

David and I went out Friday night in a winter wonderland and we enjoyed a wonderful meal at our favorite restaurant, thanks to a wonderful birthday present from my dear friend Michelle. Thank you Michelle, we ate lots of good food and yes we thought of you! LOL

Saturday, we all woke up to snow and hot chocolate. It was soo fun. However today it was in the 70's ahhhh do we have wacky weather or what! We went to Mom's and got a lot of fire wood for the fireplace. After that was over we came back home and got ready to go out on our annual girls night out. We went to Cains and had dinner and then to the theater to watch New Moon. It was very fun but they ran out of tickets and 3 of our group of 11 didn't get in. That was verrry irritating.

Sunday we went to church. Then came home and I finally got a much needed break and took a nap. I only woke up when our Home Teachers came over. Bro. Carpenter left us with a Christmas Tree that his wife Donna got from her sister for us. We set it up and then went to the church to watch the First Presidency Christmas devotional. Oh how I love to here the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing, especially the Christmas carols. The talks were all inspiring too.

Monday we had our annual Tree decorating party and had homemade pizza and chocolate chip cookies with root beer, eggnog and hot coco.

Tonight we are going to the high school to watch Alecia in her Christmas Concert. I can't wait I just love to see my children perform. I am also getting Alecia ready to leave for Disney on Thursday. I have and awesome family who helped to make it possible for her to take along some spending money. Thanks everyone.

Lots of Love
Teresa

Alford's in the news

A few weeks ago the principal at my children's elementary school asked me if I would be willing to let the local newspaper do an article on our family and I said yes. I was very busy getting my house straight and making dinner. Here is the address to the article written.
http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009911230316

This if for you Michelle!

Okay so I know that it has been a really loooong time since my last post. My only excuse is no Internet at the house and a veerrrry busy life. So last night we had people over for Family Home Evening. It was really fun. I made a pork roast, rice and gravy, green beans, salad and my super yummy delicious dinner rolls. We also had brownies for dessert but I didn't make those. They were still very good. Hmmmm that sounded a little conceited but I really didn't mean it that way:)
Anyway we had a couple of families over and the missionaries and had a really great time. My house was loud and everyone enjoyed themselves. When it came time for the lesson we sang Book of Mormon Stories with the Ammon verse (look it up if you can and then change "by fighting fearlessly" with by chopping of their arms and you will get the gist of what we sang) It was totally funny. Hmm story behind the story. When Russell, my baby brother was 3 I was 23 and was the Primary chorister. We were learning all the verses to Book of Mormon Stories and Russell new the story of Ammon. So when we got to this part he yelled out as loud as he could "by chopping off their arms" It was quite embarrassing at the time but it stuck and the kids love to sing that song. After our song David told the story of the Paper Cross. I wish I could do it justice on the Internet but you will just have to ask David to show it to you if you haven't seen it before. It was a very special night! WE had 13 children there and they were all quiet while David was telling the bulk of the story. Once he started asking questions they got loud again. I always find it amazing that David has such great knowledge of the gospel. I am truly a blessed woman.