Gratitude Remembered

Aside for moderate fatigue and morning sickness I have been feeling pretty good this week. I have to apologize for allowing myself to become so negative these past couple of months. I have been focusing on all the things that were going wrong and was failing to show the proper grateful attitude for the many, many blessings I enjoy in my life.

I am so grateful for the restored gospel and feel incredibly blessed to be a member of the Church or Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I am grateful for knowledge of where I came from and who I can aspire to be. I am so very eternally grateful for the atonement performed by the Savior that can redeem me from my faults, and sins. I am grateful for the overwhelming power of prayer. I have had innumerable prayers answered from  small and seeming insignificant ones to life changing help and guidance. 

I am so grateful for my wonderful and serving husband Tom. I am grateful for the modern technology that allows me to be so close to him even though he is so far away. I so am grateful that he cherishes me and loves me eternally. There is no one else in existence that I would rather spend eternity with. I know that I was guided to him by divine power and that I am so blessed to be his wife. I am still trying to figure out what I did to deserve such a wonderful man.

I am grateful for two beautiful daughters and for their fun personalities. I am so grateful for every happy moment they have. I am blessed to be so close to them and watch them as they grow and discover in pure wonder the miraculous word around them. 

I am so very grateful for the sealing power of God that seals me to my family. I know we can be together forever in immense happiness and joy if we but live up to the Lords simple commandments.

I am grateful for the health that I do have and for the ability to care for my daughters most of the time. It is a blessing to be so needed by someone and it bring some of the greatest forms of joy that can be found in this life. 

During this last general conference for the church President Thomas S. Monson gave a great talk entitled The Divine Gift of Gratitude. This would be a perfect time of year to read it with your families and enjoy the words of a living prophet.

I Am Greatful For A Bed

For the first couple of weeks we have been in Utah we have been sleeping on my mom and dad's couches. It has been nice to have all the help but we were ready for a little more space of our own. Mandy and Spencer are living in the apartment that we were in for the summer and they have an extra bedroom so we moved in with them for the rest of our time here. We were able to set up Chalyse's bed that was in storage and Spencer's parents let me borrow a bed from there house (Ellora is still in a play pen which she is used to because that what she had at home too). After we were all done, Chalyse was talking to Mandy and she said, "Mom has a bed and Ellora has a bed and Chalyse has a bed. That's great! That's Lovely!" I am glad that she is happy. It has been hard for the girls. When ever we are home in the evenings Ellora will ask to go, i think she wants to go home. Chalyse is often saying lets go home to my Daddy. I am glad that they like their Dad and their home so much.

Haha

Ellora has a new flu this week. She has had diarrhea for about 5 days, and threw up once or twice a night for 3 night s in a row. She seems to be feeling a lot better but of course today I am sick with the flu.

Alice and the Door Mouse

Here are the pictures that I took on Halloween. I didn't get any really good ones of Chalyse because the lighting was weird, or she had taken off parts of their costume. My mom took some pictures too so I will get them from her and post those as well. 

Bethany was Cindy Lou Who

Hats and Coats

 Ellora likes to go to the closet and try to pull down my parky. She loves to get on my back underneath it. I got it down and let the girls  cozy up in it.

 When Bethany lost all her hair everyone gave her hats. The "kids" enjoyed trying them all on.