Elementary School Play

Tonight was so rad! I love these teachers and kids

4H Pigaranza!

Peach #119

We are up to our knees in you know what, but we're loving these awesome pigs! Clancy choose to do market pigs for his 4H project. There are a lot of little things to do but overall he has been such a good caretaker. 

Smokey #120

Ola Ladies Club Tea Party

I attended my first ever tea party with the Ola Ladies Club. So exciting and so much fun visiting with these country ladies about all things important including 4h pig care, bear intruders, mice, local activities and events and of course kids and grand kids!

Family work day!

A much needed and wanted work day. We finished the porch and got one side of the yard full of manure and seeded! Can't wait for the full effect. 

The girls main job was to get rocks out of the yard.

Clancy poster contest

Clancy was super excited to enter a poster contest through Ola Elementary School. Hopefully his hard work will pay off.

Simple dress

I found an east dress pattern and actually sewed! It was so fun and fast!

Soccer coach

So this was my first season co-coaching with my husband. I'm a newbie to soccer but it has been an awesome learning experience. Soccer really has more strategy than first meets the eye.  We coached 3/4 graders. They started picking up their positions just the last two games. We only have seven on the field. Three mid-fielders, three defense, and a goalie.
The best drills were dribbling around cones, beating (having the kids race to get the ball), partner passing dribbling to the goal for a kick at the goalie and scrimmages with the older kids. Two games left!

Garden on the verge

It's been such a long spring. I've been so ready for planting season but patience is a virtue. They are started and will be ready for planting in our zone 6, the end of may (hopefully)!

New Family Weekly Chore Chart

Thanks to my awesome friend Amanda I was able to come up with a create a new weekly family chore chart/mini schedule. So exciting! Here is to beginning the summer organized so that we have more time to have fun!

So I have the chore chart and off to the side job specific chore checklist. I'm so excited to get my brain organized and a little help around the help with garden season coming along!

Pictures make me proud of my family!

Family Photos November 2016

This makes me fall in love with my family!

Love them all!

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Essential Oils

Essential oils are the optimal way to use "food" to heal our bodies.  I began my interest in holistic medicine about 5 years ago and have since gained a wealth of knowledge (I've still got lots more to learn).  My parents (all three of them) taught me about taking care of my body and not to be dependent on medicine. Basically using common sense to understand that I can control the health of my body; however, there is a place for modern technology and science in the medical field and am ever grateful for doctors and their work.

What my parents didn't have was the science behind our bodies and how much our thoughts (emotions) as well as our actions have an effect on our body.  Every thought we have in our brain has a physical or chemical make-up in our body.  Our thoughts or emotions produce a chemical which spurs many other reactions in our body such as hormones and have an effect on every function of our body from digestion to disease.  

My first introduction to holistic medicine was with herbs that you would grow or purchase and dry to put in a pol trice, tea, directly onto wounds or consume whole.  Essential oils is the simplified and intensified version of herbs.  SO EXCITING. For example one drop of peppermint oil is equal in potency to 13 or so cups of tea. So this food for healing!  Like my kids say, "Oil me up".

Lemon oil is great to add to your ice water.  Don't worry about keeping lemons around, when you can just add a drop when you need it.  Its great for your liver and blood! And as we all know citrus is very uplifting.  Its also a great cleaner-keeps things bright and shiny!

If you want more information, email me!

This is my Family Home Evening Board that I once had done and had to re-do because of the move.  I love my silhouette vinly cutter!

Mom on the RUN!

I have a good friend that has been encouraging me to start running or exercoising  and a few months ago I had met this lady
http://tuffmotherondarun.com/ (check out her blog she is awesome)
and decided that I needed to commit to some sort of exercise pattern.  And I did for about 3 weeks I worked out to the insanity videos and then I went on Christmas vacation and never got back into that routine.  I truly love exercising but have replaced my exercise morning time with scripture reading and piano practice.  I do go on bike rides with the kids and do kid stuff during the day hours and evening hours are spent with my husband so I can't do everything.  But after I get through my basic piano lessons I will be substituting every other day with exercise.  I am so excited!

Quote #5 March 2013

I first off want to apologize for my quote being late and this one is EXTREMELY long; however, I have a semi-good excuse.  Sunday was crazy and yesterday was my birthday.  Yes I am one more year beautiful!  LOL! 

 I have been thinking a lot about my relationship with my spouse recently.  Sometimes I think we are just work partners and we get lost in the everyday work of life and raising children but I began to pray and truly wanted to know how we could be more than that, wondering (pleading), “Is this what marriage and family really are? YIKES, I don’t think I’m going to make it!” As I was praying I told my Heavenly Father that I wanted to be Justin’s best friend, someone to play and laugh with and wanted to feel really loved by and to whom I can find ways to love him the way he needs to be loved and guess what, He totally answered my prayers!  I am literally amazed at how the spirit can work for both Justin and I, giving us needed information about the other and helping us to better become closer to God and to each other!

My quotes this month have been random but they have been about things pressing my mind and I just tested another of Heavenly Fathers principles: When you have a righteous desire (like having a closer relationship with your spouse) he will help you!

Maybe you have had similar experiences, bad or good and have had the thought don’t I deserve something better…

“A good woman knows that she does not have enough time, energy, or opportunity to take care of all of the people or do all of the worthy things her heart yearns to do. Life is not calm for most women, and each day seems to require the accomplishment of a million things, most of which are important. A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to more time away from her responsibilities and that she deserves a life of greater ease and independence.But with personal revelation, she can prioritize correctly and navigate this life confidently.” Sis. Julie B Beck, And Upon thy Handmaids in Those Days will I pour out my Spirit.  (bold added)

I know that we, men and women, can receive the power of the Holy Ghost and have the gift of the Holy Ghost, which will enable us to do way more and understand more than we could do on our own.  I am grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ and the knowledge that we have of the life after this.  I love the last verse of the Hymn “If you could Hie to Kolob” but included all versus so you could enjoy!  Love you all and have a great week. There truly is no END!

LOVE YOU ALL!

I also wanted to thank those that responded and shared their thoughts and feelings, it was great to feel of your thoughts and lives as we don't get to see you all very often! Thanks for doing that!

 If you could Hie to Kolob Hymn #284

11.     If you could hie to Kolob

In the twinkling of an eye,

And then continue onward

With that same speed to fly,

Do you think that you could ever,

Through all eternity,

Find out the generation

Where Gods began to be?

2. Or see the grand beginning,

Where space did not extend?

Or view the last creation,

Where Gods and matter end?

Methinks the Spirit whispers,

"No man has found 'pure space,'

Nor seen the outside curtains,

Where nothing has a place."

3. The works of God continue,

And worlds and lives abound;

Improvement and progression

Have one eternal round.

There is no end to matter;

There is no end to space;

There is no end to spirit;

There is no end to race.

4. There is no end to virtue;

There is no end to might;

There is no end to wisdom;

There is no end to light.

There is no end to union;

There is no end to youth;

There is no end to priesthood;

There is no end to truth.

5. There is no end to glory;

There is no end to love;

There is no end to being;

There is no death above.

There is no end to glory;

There is no end to love;

There is no end to being;

There is no death above.

Orange Rhino Challenge

Okay all I am so doing great with this challenge.  I am a competitive person so that is why I think this is working for me.  I love not yelling and it makes me so much more of a happier person.
If you have issues with yelling at your family members read her blog its very inspiring...
http://theorangerhino.com/

The Orange Rhino Challenge

I'm am committing today to do this.  I don't expect perfection but I do expect a miracle and some change.  I will not yell anymore.  There has been weeks that I have gone with out but that is it and it is completely damaging to the spirit in my home and to the hearts of my awesome children as well as my sweet and loving husband.  I know that I can do this, I do it in front of people all day long and its time to show my children how to really learn and grow and be who I want to be.  I don't want to have a guilty feeling any longer.  Yes, I am motivated!  I'll keep you posted on my NO Yelling progress!  I too will be making a pretty big deal with the orange.

I home-school and so for our project today it will be "Go Orange"!!!!
This is the link to her website-she is amazing and brave and a genius for posting this stuff! Love it

http://theorangerhino.com/

GREAT ARTICLE: I’m Gay and I Oppose Same-Sex Marriage | Public Discourse

This is the most interesting article that I have ever read and I wish we could all be as open minded as he is.  The world would have alot less hate and alot more understanding and compromise!  Families are meant to have a mother and father..
I’m Gay and I Oppose Same-Sex Marriage | Public Discourse

Easter door hangers!

Thanks to my awesomely creative sister-in-law who shared her idea my kids got excited about making Easter door hangers.  It was another great opportunity to talk about Christ's Resurrection.  I love my little family.

Quote #4 March 2013

Quote #4 March 2013

Sometimes a person may feel like just giving up, that their little efforts are worthless or pointless.  And especially as parents life becomes so much more about them, than you, you may feel lost, or your relationship with your spouse-wait what relationship?  Well that’s where the resurrection comes in perfectly.  It may not feel perfectly and those days or weeks or months will come but perseverance is the key. Your relationship with the Savior will address all of these concerns and more…

 

“Therefore, whoso repenteth and cometh unto me as a little child, him will I receive, for of such is the kingdom of God. Behold, for such I have laid down my life, and have taken it up again; therefore repent, and come unto me ye ends of the earth, and be saved” (3 Nephi 9:21–22).

Quitters never win, and winners NEVER quit! As we base all of our mundane earthly tasks on a perfect and ever loving savior the imperfections around us will seem unimportant and life will begin revolving with peace at your center. 

I know that whatever our shortcomings are, as we rely on the atonement, we may or may not have something to repent of but we can use the enabling power of the atonement to love more fully, laugh more joyfully, heal old pains, and press forward with strength and endurance laying a pure foundation for those to come.  I love the gospel, its changes my sad weak heart and mind everyday.  Without it I would be so very lost and confused.  The temporary happiness from earthly pleasures only last so long.  Faith lasts forever!

I Love you all and I LOVE Life!

Aleah