So a few weeks ago when I took the Young Women to the temple, I had a little revelation. It came after a series of problems I'd encountered in the dressing room, details nobody else wants to hear, and it has come back to me several times since. I can't help but think that it is a prompting from the Spirit. The words I heard were, "Christa, sometimes you take things too seriously." How true it is. So I've been trying to use this in my daily life. I'm learning that there are some things that we need to take seriously. Things that need to be pondered on and thought about really hard, but there are also MANY other things that should not. It's been interesting to turn that worry or concern off. To let myself just relax and feel my Heavenly Father's love. He really does love me. He knows me. He knows what is important to me and has given witness so many times through the things that are important to me. There are too many times, though, that I read into things. That I try to figure out Heavenly Father's ulterior motives or read His mind. Doesn't work. It's not really a good idea. It's time for me to just let things be and not figure out why. Not let them get to me. Not be so hard on myself. It is so nice to know that that's what Heavenly Father wants me to do as well. I feel relieved when I think about it. It was a huge blessing to have this in the back of my mind preparing for and while we were camping. Heavenly Father knew I was going to need it. 6-1-14
LIZARDS
We now have two pet lizards. I'm still not sure how I feel about it, but I'm trying to be flexible. Bradley and Noah had claimed them as theirs and once they had names, I knew my veto was not going to be effective (even if it did include not breaking the law). We got them home and after losing one of the lizards on the kitchen counter for a few minutes, found out that the plastic licorice container (that I still have no idea how it ended up camping with us) wasn't going to be enough, so the next day Nate took the boys and Charity to Petco to get some lizard home stuff. While they were there, because someone had left the lizards out in the backyard with only the ziploc bag lid on it, Buddy got a hold of one of them and actually ate it!! It was so strange. There was nothing the girls and I could do. For a minute I thought, 'and then there was one', and then the next minute, Bradley walked in with a small box carrying his NEW Leopard Gecko, "Spots". Along with the aquarium, heat lamp, crickets and meal worms. This was for real. And apparently I wasn't getting out of it :). Just kidding. Actually it is really fun to watch Bradley and Noah get all excited about them. I am fine with pets as long as I don't have to do anything with them, and lucky for me lizards are very low maintenance for now. I do love my kids :). 6-5-14
PLAYOFFS!
Luke's team made it to the playoffs! We're so happy for him. HE'S so happy for him :). More treats for Luke :). More games for me- I love watching baseball. I need to remember my camera! 6-5-14
SHERRY
On Friday I got to go see my good ol' friend Sherry. She made time out of her busy schedule to hang with her old friends, so we met up with her at the West Jordan park. Along with some of the old friends from our old ward. It's always so good to get together with those guys. The only thing that makes it feel like it's been a while is how old everyone's kids get. Other than that, feels like we just pick up where we left off. It's always nice. I miss Sherry, I wish she hadn't moved. I hope she moves back and finally makes Kaysville her home :). We'll see. Sherry is one of those people that my face hurts after we hang out. She's hilarious. It's nice that we are still able to keep in touch with them all. It makes me miss that time in our lives. The old Ridgecrest ward... such a good ward. I'm still waiting for Claire to plan our reunion :). HA! 6-6-14
KELLY'S WEARING EARRINGS
Kelly got her ears pierced on Saturday!! She's been wanting to do this for a couple years now. I told her way back when that if she saved up the money and was able to pay for it herself, that she could do it whenever she wanted. We never really picked an age. I'm not really sure what took her so long (and when I talk to her about it, she doesn't think it was that long ago :)), but she finally got up the nerve and had a fresh wad of birthday money, burning a hole in her pocket :). It was time! So she, her sisters and I all drove down to Station Park to get her ears pierced! We had a lot of fun! She was so brave, didn't even hardly flinch and not a single tear came out! I was so proud of her! I may have lost a few tears though, watching them poke holes in my perfect little Kelly :)- I'm kidding. She looks really pretty in them! I loved the ones she picked to have them pierce her with. Cute little white flowers with pink middles. She had enough money leftover to spoil herself with some more earrings as well. They give you 50% off all earrings when you get your ears pierced and since they were having a buy two get one half off, they gave her a buy one get TWO half off! Kinda cool. Basically some free earrings :). She had a lot of fun picking them out- it was fun to watch her sisters help her find the cutest ones too. Good stuff. She's holey now! 6-7-14
PLAYOFFS!
Luke's team made it to the playoffs! We're so happy for him. HE'S so happy for him :). More treats for Luke :). More games for me- I love watching baseball. I need to remember my camera! 6-5-14
SHERRY
On Friday I got to go see my good ol' friend Sherry. She made time out of her busy schedule to hang with her old friends, so we met up with her at the West Jordan park. Along with some of the old friends from our old ward. It's always so good to get together with those guys. The only thing that makes it feel like it's been a while is how old everyone's kids get. Other than that, feels like we just pick up where we left off. It's always nice. I miss Sherry, I wish she hadn't moved. I hope she moves back and finally makes Kaysville her home :). We'll see. Sherry is one of those people that my face hurts after we hang out. She's hilarious. It's nice that we are still able to keep in touch with them all. It makes me miss that time in our lives. The old Ridgecrest ward... such a good ward. I'm still waiting for Claire to plan our reunion :). HA! 6-6-14
KELLY'S WEARING EARRINGS
Kelly got her ears pierced on Saturday!! She's been wanting to do this for a couple years now. I told her way back when that if she saved up the money and was able to pay for it herself, that she could do it whenever she wanted. We never really picked an age. I'm not really sure what took her so long (and when I talk to her about it, she doesn't think it was that long ago :)), but she finally got up the nerve and had a fresh wad of birthday money, burning a hole in her pocket :). It was time! So she, her sisters and I all drove down to Station Park to get her ears pierced! We had a lot of fun! She was so brave, didn't even hardly flinch and not a single tear came out! I was so proud of her! I may have lost a few tears though, watching them poke holes in my perfect little Kelly :)- I'm kidding. She looks really pretty in them! I loved the ones she picked to have them pierce her with. Cute little white flowers with pink middles. She had enough money leftover to spoil herself with some more earrings as well. They give you 50% off all earrings when you get your ears pierced and since they were having a buy two get one half off, they gave her a buy one get TWO half off! Kinda cool. Basically some free earrings :). She had a lot of fun picking them out- it was fun to watch her sisters help her find the cutest ones too. Good stuff. She's holey now! 6-7-14
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