Update and GWL

I am freezing!!  We turned on the heat this week, but I still can not get warm.  I’m shivering as I type this.

I’ve been teaching preschool for the last 3 weeks.  One more time on Tuesday, and I’ll be done for the year!  Danielle, I’m doing a happy dance right now!!!

My kitchen floor is super duper dirty, but I refuse to mop it when I have preschool here on Tuesday, so it’ll just have to wait until Tuesday at 12:30pm.

Last week was parent-teacher conferences.  Both kids got rave reviews.  They both have excellent teachers, which I’m grateful for.  Josh’s teacher is doing a great job keeping him challenged.  He has his own math workbook with multiplication and division problems.  He’s loving math right now, and I’m glad she’s letting him run with it.  Andrew’s teacher says he’s a quiet boy but knows how to speak up when he has something to add to the discussion.  Both kids are great examples to their classmates.

Josh is continually growing in his testimony and in the gospel.  This has to be one of my favorite parts about being a parent.  A month or so ago, Josh couldn’t sleep because he was anxious about something.  His jaw was tight, and he just couldn’t relax.  I went upstairs with a Book of Mormon, and we sat together on the guest bed reading it.  It didn’t take long for peace to come into his heart and for his anxiety to go away.  We then said a prayer together.  I felt the Spirit very strongly and knew he did to, but felt I needed to help him identify it.  The next night in FHE I asked the kids if they had ever felt the spirit.  Josh piped up and said he thought he had the night before.  I was impressed with his ability to recognize that on his own.  I was reminded of two things: the Book of Mormon can bring so much peace into our lives and the spirit testifies of truth. 

Another experience:   This past Sunday Josh couldn’t find his church pants anywhere.  I looked in all the places I thought they could be, but we still couldn’t find them.  We decided to say a prayer and ask Heavenly Father to help us find them.  After a couple minutes passed, I had the thought to look in the toy bins, and there they were.  We had found them.  I know it’s a simple example, but it was a neat experience for Josh to have his prayer answered.  It’s just so fun to watch his testimony grow.

Darrin’s parents have been in England for 10 days now.  We have already seen tremendous blessings in our lives since they left.  We are proud of them and thankful for their decision to share the gospel!!

Soccer is almost over!!!!!!!  Josh has his last game tomorrow!  I’m so excited to have our evenings free again and to eat together as a family!!

Because the kids were out of school for a couple days last week, we decided to go to Washington and stay at the Great Wolf Lodge.

Our kids loved all the water slides and the wave pool.  We thought it was great family fun and will go again! 

 

Luke went trick or treating while the other kids finished swimming.

Wolf ears!!  How loud can you howl???

 

Favorites

Josh: loved being dumped on by the big bucket

Andrew: swimming and drinking hot chocolate

Luke: loved the little green slide and probably went on it 100 times until he went down head first and the lifeguard told him not to do that.  He started crying and that was the end of that.  lol.  The lifeguard felt really bad.  Luke is so tender hearted!

Dad:  the tornado

Mom:  having fun together as a family :)