#4 Kid scripture

4. Read Moroni 10:8–17.  There are many spiritual blessings the Lord may give us; He gives us these blessings by the power of the Holy Ghost.  You just read about some of the spiritual gifts the Lord gives us.  Please name 3 of them.  Can you be grateful for these gifts?

Kid Scripture #3

3. Read Doctrine and Covenants 88:124; 89:7, 8, 9, 10–11, 12, 16–17. Please think about what you learned from these scriptures about how you can care for your body. Name three things you can do to take care of your body.

Kid scripture reading #2

2. Read 1 Corinthians 3:16  “What do we learn about our bodies from this scripture?”
Are you grateful for your bodies?

Kids scripture reading #1

I've been worried about my kids' personal scripture study for some time now.  How can you tell someone to just read the scriptures when they don't understand them?  I didn't really read my scriptures by myself until I was a teenager.  I've decided to issue a challenge to them.  Instead of more homework, but this being church homework instead of school home work.  It is a challenge, that sounds better than homework, right? I'm going to give them a little slip of paper with an assignment on it for them to read each night.  I had originally decided to do it by subject instead of reading in order.  But just tonight I decided to use the primary sharing time outline.  Since they are teaching by subject in primary each month, I could also teach about the same thing.  I feel really good about this idea.  I've also decided I'd write each assignment down here so I can keep track of it easily.

November's theme is We Are to Thank God in All Things.

“He commanded them that . . . every day they should give thanks to the Lord their God”

(Mosiah 18:23)

This is what I'll give to my kids:

1. This months primary theme is We are to Thank God in all things.
Read Mosiah chapter 18:23, what is it talking about?  Write down your answer and report at scripture study in the morning.

I think I'll try and catch up.  Even though I know there are not many people who look at my blog.  Everyone looks at facebook.  Plus I don't do anything uber cute or fun for people to look at it all the time.  That doesn't matter.  I haven't blogged mostly because I know my mom looked at my blog and she would bug me that I needed to post so she could look at it.  So when I did post then I would call her and tell her so she could look at it.  Thinking about blogging and not calling her to tell her about it makes me sad.   I think I'll call my dad and tell him.  

A year.

This has been quite a year.  I didn't realize how one event could effect someone for such a long period of time.  Having my mom die has taught me I need to be more compassionate.   I need to mourn with those who mourn.  I also need to find new ways to pull myself out of depression.  Yesterday in church we talked about Staying on the right side of the line,
The discussion we had reminded me of a time our RS president said she made a goal
to put God first.  Make God number 1.  After that lesson I took a dry eraser and wrote on the mirrors make God #1 all over the house.  Recently I've felt strongly that we need to do scripture study every day.  So we have been getting the kids up at 6:10 to read scriptures together on weekdays before Chris goes to work. It is going well.  It makes the mornings smoother for sure.  Plus the kids get started on their chores before school  which makes a huge difference.  I am realizing that I need to myself try to put God first in all things.  I can be a better wife and mother. 

A few thoughts on my Mother

My mom looked at my blog. She was always saying how I took my kids to do fun things. But I never thought it was very many things. I just take pictures when we do something fun. :) My mother passed away 2 days ago. It hurts to know I can't call her on the telephone. No one should loose their mother. I feel that we don't know our Heavenly Mother because we wouldn't want to be here on Earth without her. We must have forgotten her and the love for her because we needed to come get a body and be tested. I feel joy to know my mom is not hurting anymore, she is with her Mother, Sister and Father. She is meeting her mother-in-law and that makes my dad happy. She gets to have her daughter Kathleen, she has to be danging around in heaven singing with joy. A lot of my friends have had people close to them die this last few weeks. I decided that Heavenly Father has to be having a big missionary training for all of these new spirits into heaven. It is a miracle, it is just hard for us who are here still on earth waiting for our turn, missing out sweet ones who have gone on with out us. I love you mom I miss you already so much.

Judith Anne Greene Printy
(November 28, 1945 - January 23, 2012)

On Monday, January 23, at the age of 66, Judith Anne Greene Printy passed away peacefully in her home in West Valley City, Utah surrounded by her family.

She was born on November 28, 1945 in Albany, California to Max T. Greene and Bertha Mortensen. She was sealed to her loving husband, James R. Printy, on August 11, 1976 in the Oakland, California Temple. Judy graduated from Las Lomas High School in 1963 and from BYU with a Bachelor of Arts in 1972. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in many capacities throughout her life. She especially loved music-related callings. She served a mission for the church in the Western States Mission. She loved art and enjoyed drawing and painting. Her love of music was also an important part of her life and she never missed any event where her children or grandchildren were performing. She spent her life serving others and loved taking special care of her family.

Survived by her husband James, children: Nephi; Miriam (Chris); Matt (Sarah); Ryan; Ben (Paloma); 8 grandchildren; sister Janet (Carlyle) Parker; and brother Ron (Susan) Greene. She was preceded in death by her parents Max and Bertha Greene; her sister Carol Rice, and her daughter Kathleen.

Viewings will be held on Thursday, Jan. 26 from 6:30-8:00pm and Friday, Jan. 27 from 10:00-11:00am at the LDS chapel located at 6755 West 3800 South in West Valley City. Funeral services will be held on Friday, Jan. 27 at 11:00am at the same chapel. Interment will be approximately at 3:00pm at the Brigham City Cemetery.

Special thanks to her Cancer doctor, Anna C. Beck, Community Nursing Services, and the loving members of the Hunter 12th Ward. The family has set up a website with images at goo.gl/GGowC

Cute

Sitting on the porch waiting for the bus to pick up Max for school. Sam is just plain cute.

Bear Lake

We had such a fun time at Bear Lake with the Howicks this summer. Here are a few pictures.

Ta da!

Chris got cheese balls from Stephen for his birthday. Boy was Sam excited. He grabbed them and went and put them on the floor, throwing his arms out he said, "Ta Da." He was so pleased with himself he did it over and over again. We were all in stitches laughing. It was quite entertaining.

Fathers Day, Chris' birthday.

On Sunday Fathers day we celebrated Chris' birthday and Fathers day. We had the Bairs over for a yummy dinner. I think Chris had a good time. :0) Usually when I point a camera at Chris he does a silly face. This time I was far enough away he didn't really notice or care. I'm pretty happy I got him smiling. He sure is handsome.

After the girls' dress rehearsal.

Mrs. Vietti

This year Audrey and Hailey had a super great teacher! I think they really got a lot out of their class this year. We'll miss you Mrs. Vietti.

Picnic at the park

Thursdays are dance day so we go back and forth a lot for taking our 4 girls to 3 different dance classes. So this Thursday we decided while Ruth was at dance we decided we'd run to the park and have a little picnic. Then after taking Audrey and Hailey and picking up Ruth we ran to a different park so she could play too. I love these days when we just do something simple and fun.

Epic Party

We decided to do a summer birthday party for our kids. We had two bounce houses, with water. It was so fun. Each of our kids invited 5-10 kids, we ate hot dogs, hamburgers and popsicles. I handed out squirt guns and bubbles. We played all day and man it was fun. Chris posted pictures to facebook so you'll need to look there.

Silly Sam

You can see in this picture Sam's top gums are swollen he fell and broke the little tendon in between his front two teeth. It made him so angry for almost 2 weeks. In this picture he was finally eating well again and feeling much better.




Hailey has recently decided she loves to take pictures. So with our permission she has taken lots of funny photos. Here are a few.

I made this vinyl for my kitchen, I love it! I'll have to take pictures of the other vinyl I have made. It is so fun. I love love love it!

Easter Guns

We started out with a clue in one of Audrey's egg. It lead all of the kids on a scavenger hunt. All around the house we ran and ran. Until they got to the dryer and inside was hiding these fun Nerf guns. We had a blast, literally, shooting each other. The rules, no shooting anyone without a gun and no shooting in the face.




We got the kids Nerf guns instead of new clothes for Easter this year. They have had lots of fun with them. I got to have my first Nerf battle. Max's gun beats everyone's. He loves it! Sam loves his too. He holds it up and says, "piew piew," in a tiny baby voice. I'll have to get it on video.

Easter

I see all my kids together and then I think that is a lot of kids. I love my lots of kids. :)
Eggtails


I get hairstyles from a few blogs. One had this hair do she called it eggtails. I thought it was hilarious, so we decided to give it a try. I did an egg for each of the girls too. Audrey's is suppose to look like a nest. We did a nice dinner at the church with the Bair's. The kids were able to run and play in the gym it was great! Sunday we did a yummy dinner with Printy's. After dinner we did an easter egg hunt for the kids in the front and for the adults in the back yard. Matt and Sarah were sneaky and put money in the adults eggs. Good times were had by all.

Dance

Our girls are really enjoying their dance classes. We take them to Wasatch Arts Studio. Here are the photos with their costumes. I was really impressed with the photographer, she accidentally didn't do one shoot of Audrey, because Hailey looks just like her. So she talked to me on the phone until we got it sorted out. She was really nice and did a great job with the photos and retouching. I was impressed. I guess after working with the Bairs, the best photographers in the world in my opinion, I thought I'd be disappointed with anyone else.