"You are not here to live a mediocre to average life; you are here to live an amazing life, a miraculous life. If it weren't for your challenges, there would be no miracles. You must do that which seems impossible, for it is only in the impossible that miracles are had." - author unknown, but very respected

Monday, August 24, 2009

Day of REST

Sunday was awesome. I can't say that I want to miss out on church every week (in fact, I don't think I'd survive long without that recharge), but having a day off from church (thanks to the temple dedication) was actually really nice. We spent the entire day.... resting. Ahhhhhh. It was so nice. I actually slept in until 11:00 (which, in my defense, I didn't get to bed until 5 am so.....) and then took another nap around noon and slept for another couple of hours. It was AWESOME!! I think that may be part of the reason why I am still up at 2:30 tonight..... my sweet husband needs to stop letting me sleep, no matter how enjoyable it is for him :) HA! jk. He loves me. We got to have Heidi over for dinner which was very nice, and then finished off the evening with our traditional Father's Blessings to start of the new school year. It was a great day.

Nate helped the kids make this tent. Charity gave me the official tour.... there were 4 doors, several rooms (sleeping room, sitting room, etc.), it was very intense. They played in it for quite a while..... fun Daddy.



you'll have to excuse the mess and the bad lighting.... it's life, but here's what it looked like on the inside, kind of.




On Saturday Nate took the kids to pick out some fish (I had promised the girls a while ago that we would get some fish and after fulfilling my every desire that afternoon, they earned the privilege) They were just going to get some gold fish, but these were just as good and will last longer, but since Luke went with an "orange fish" in mind, he insisted that he have an orange one. So for the time being, the red fish on the right..... it's orange (if anyone asks). Meet the newest members of the Maynes family.......


That's Swimmy Swimmer Maynes (the blue one, he's the girls') and Water Nathan Maynes (the "orange" one, he's the boys') I love how they gave them middle names :)


We're very prepared for them to die and the kids will tell you (almost first thing when they show them to you) "when they die, we're going to get some gold fish!" For some reason they find this thrilling :) And Kelly asks if they are dead almost every hour. Love the fish :) Hopefully they feel the love.

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