Changes and changes

One consistent thing in life is that things change.  I have stopped trying to plan to much of life because I have learned that I am not in charge and the Lord will  put me where he wants me when he wants me to be there.  I have found that when I allow him to do this and I accept it, I am happy and at peace.

Mark was called to be second counselor to our Bishop.  It didn't come as to big of a surprise because we had recent changes occur in our family that would facilitate his service in this capacity.  You can read my previous posts .

Little Miracles (and some Big ones, too)

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And the Miracles keep coming.

We have been so blessed so, we both felt that all of these miraculous blessings from the Lord most definitely warranted our gratitude through service.

On the homeschool front we took several breaks and revisited some of the things we were doing and had a friend send us info on some curriculum that was offering a special.  I signed up for it.  It is curriculum through Latter-Day Learning.  Their curriculum is LDS based and combines the secular with LDS teachings.  It also takes a one room schoolhouse approach and provides different activities for the different ages of children from Pre-K to Middle school.

I am excited for it because I know I am going to learn something as well.

Valentine's Party

In February we had a Valentine's day party with cousins and friends instead of a field trip.  The girls had a great time preparing their party.

The girls grew the rock candy suckers for 2 weeks.  DeeDee made the cupcakes and we all dipped the vanilla wafers.

We played Valentine bingo, everyone made themselves a Valentine monster and we had fun playing a Valentine Madlibs.

I am thankful for Aunts and friends that helped us out with all of the kids and the clean up.

Everyone had a really fun time.