Valiant Faith

 I love this song:



At Girls Camp our Stake Camp Leader and her daughter sang this song. I fell in love with it and have listened to it over and over again! The more I listen to it the more I feel like it applies to me and my everyday life. I love the first line "Too many people are just sliding be and missing the meaning of life" HOW TRUE is this. I have told myself OVER AND OVER again that I need to relax a little. Life is too short to worry about the little things in life. Since I had kids I have tried to keep my house in a tidy order ALL of the time. Do you know how hard this is?? If you have kids I think it is possible... for a couple of minutes. I don't have time to clean all day or run around being the referee of the house. My kids will grown up too soon and I will soon wish they were little again!! If all I do is worry about me, I feel like I am missing the meaning of life!!! I want my family and my Savior to be the center of my life.

Another thing I have thought about is my own personal righteousness. I have asked myself many times if I feel like I am doing ALL I can do to please my Heavenly Father. I wonder if I have sufficient faith to make it through the rest of my life. I sometimes find excuses to not be the BEST me I can be. I have heard it said that if "we do not have time to read our scriptures and say our prayers everyday we are way more busy than God ever intended us to be." I am NOT busy and I still find that there are days when I haven't taken the time to converse with my Heavenly Father. Why give us that opportunity to grow closer to him and give our burdens to him???  I still forget or not take the time to search the scriptures. I know they can teach us so much.

I want to "follow him fearlessly all of my days" this is the end goal, this is the reason we are here and the REAL meaning in life. I don't want to be someone who lives the gospel "halfway"!! I want to be an example to my kids and know I did EVERYTHING I could do to teach them the ways of Christ!

 

Summer Fun Day #3

Because of the fire at the INL Ben had Wednesday off from work. We decided to spend that day as a family. We counted it as one of our Summer Fun Days. We went to the "Wolf to Woof" Display at the Idaho Museum. It was a lot of fun!! I really like the Discovery Kids Area, my kids had fun climbing through tubes, dressing up and just plain being kids.

The discovery kids area, the people there were so helpful and wanted us to have fun!

Ben thinks he is an elk..???

My little pioneer girl, isn't she so adorable!! I love the bonnet!

This is a pretend avalanche tunnel. The dog above is there to show what it would be like to be stuck in a tunnel and have an avalanche dog find you....my kids thought is was really cool!

The Temple--a MUST see, the pictures displayed there are amazing!

It is fun to see how my kids re-act to The Christus Statue. I believe that the more familiar they are with what we believe and what Christ did for us, the closer they will become to him. I can't wait for the day when I can be in the temple with all of my kids, what an amazing event that will be!

It was a great day!!! I am glad Ben was able to spend the day with us, we love spending time with Daddy and Grandma Sheri!!!

I am proud to be an American!!

I AM proud to be an American and to enjoy the freedoms I enjoy. I can think of so many things I am grateful for and the freedoms I enjoy because I live in America. Today I want to give a big shout out to my Brother-in-law Max. He left on Wednesday to serve in Afghanistan for the next 6 months. So while we are here enjoying our freedoms there are so many over there fighting to keep our freedoms. Max is in the Air force and recently graduated top in his class with a language degree. We are so proud of him and admire and love him. So not only THANK YOU to him, but to all of those men and women who are on Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq or wherever they may be. I know some of them haven't seen their families in months, maybe years, I know some of them are hurt badly, I know there are some who are missing or are prisoners of war and I know I could never bear to see the things the see and mostly I know MANY, MANY have died in their fight. We owe so much to them!!

Happy Independence Day!!