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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

A Loved Life!!

One of the best weekends in long time.
It started off with a nice slow Saturday at work and then attending a very close friends birthday party. To which after a majority of people left and then was able to watch some MMA fights with these close friends. Mike was able to come later and it was a great ending to a good day.

Sunday Mike and I were able to sleep in then take the dogs on a nice long walk. We chatted with some neighbors then returned home to get ready for church. Sacrament was a nice surprise because our 12 year old nephew was asked to give a talk. He did such a great job. In reflecting you can really see what Christ meant when he said "be as a little child" for it is them that we should learn from to return to him. After sacrament we pulled our sister in-law aside and had a nice prayerful conversation about the possibility of them moving in temporally. We are doing fine financially but they are not. They have come across some struggles and have begun to drown. To help them in their efforts and to get them back on dry land. They are moving in next weekend. 3 adults 6 kids and an outdoor cat. ( we are brave!) in the end I think if we look at it. If family can't help you then who can.
After spending Sunday evening working out the sleeping arrangements and getting a storage unit for Dave and Erin. We ate dinner watched the F1 race. Everyone went home and Mike and I hit the sack.

Monday started out wonderful and couldn't have ended better. We woke up and again were able to take the dogs for a nice long walk. When returning home we sat in our (HUGE) backyard and talked about the next couple of days to prepare for the move of everyone in our home. It was at this point that it struck me. We have so many climbable trees in our backyard that we have never climbed ( it was always said that Mike and I would never grow up) to this I got up walked to a giant tree by our room and with Mike's help got in the tree and started to climb. After mike's several attempts to call me crazy... he finally caved told me to move over so he could join me :o) This was a sight to late 20's adults climbing trees. After jumping out of the tree (not getting very far) Mike responded that we could probably get higher in the pine tree on the other side of the yard. Of course I thought this was a brilliant idea and decided to join. Indeed we got higher and greatly disturbed our dogs for they kept circling the tree trying to get to us.
When finally coming down and returning to grown up things like going to the hardware store and cleaning the yard. We took a nice long nap, then about 4:30 prepared to go to our friends ( Howard and Dev's) home for Family Home Evening. With a wonderful meal (which we are always blessed with when going to their house) we had such a great time talking about the gospel and the blessing we have seen bless our lives. We have truly been grateful and in aw to see such a change in our greatest of friends to see them accept the gospel and see it's miracles of everyday.

After a wonderful evening with friends we chose to end it with family. Mike's family (part of the whole) ended up getting together for their own impromptu FHE ( family home evening) to which it is wonderful to see kids learn these simple yet valuable lessons.
I want to say Mike and I truly have a loved life and although there are hard times we are blessed!

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