an answer to prayers

Church was so good today, I swear one of the sacrament talks was just for me. It was mostly about prayer and how prayers are not always answered the way we hope they will be, or as fast as we are wanting them to be answered. He read a quote about just that, it really touched me, I'm not sure who it was by but it read-"sometimes He calms the storm, and sometimes He lets the storm rage, and He calms the child". Isn't that awesome? I'm pretty sure He is calming me and not my storm, I'm not sure why, but at least I have the strength to get through each day. It's crazy how this talk was an answer to my prayers. I'm embarrassed to admit, but I have been feeling like what is the point in praying? It isn't changing anything and Jared is still not better. I'm all talk cause I have never stopped praying but I was thinking what's the point,and praying to know why my prayers can't be answered, which is awful to think that way. After the talk today it reiterated what I already knew, that my prayers are what's getting me through this mess and making me stronger, Jared may not be getting better as fast as we want but we will be stronger from all this in the end. In the talk he talked about how sometimes our prayers never being answered the way we want them to is our answer, and whatever we are going through is given to us so we can grow and become who he wants us to be. I guess he is wanting me to become a crazy lady! I'm just joking.

posin' for the camera!!!

So we went to disneyland back in June and I just posted the trip but I back dated it so my blog would go in somewhat of an order, for the purpose of making it into a book. There was some crazy funny pictures of Jared that I wanted everyone to see, since no one would be looking up stuff I blogged in June, I decide to post these pictures so you could get a good laugh! Jared knows where the cameras are on every ride and he trained my kids as well to pose for the camera. So check these out!

Jared is nuts! He took his shirt off and just went on the ride with a zip-up hoody so when it came time he could quickly un-zip the hoody and be shirtless. That isn't me behind him, it's some lady with her kid, she didn't realize until she got off the ride to look at her picture, she was dying laughing. There was literally a crowd around Jareds picture laughing hysterically and people were actually taking a picture of his picture cause the thought it was so funny. Jared said he nailed it, and there is no way he can ever top that! Even Krew and Jade did a pretty good job posing! Look at Jades tongue out, they are all so stinkin' funny.

labor day hike

On Labor Day we went hiking up at Red Rock with my cousins. Krew wore his Harry Potter glasses and a sweatband, when Stephen saw him he said "man why didn't you tell me we were dressing up?" Krew has the best personality he is so funny, just like his dad!Denise said it was a 20 min hike in to this waterfall, after an hour of hiking and still no sight of a waterfall in sight Jared had had it, he was so tired. Jared and Stephen were giving Denise the hardest time, it was pretty funny.He was barely up for a hike anyway, but figured he could manage 20 min. then rest to eat and go back. So we left with Violet, who was only wanting to be carried, and left our other kids with them. It was still fun just not what we expected. I love my cousins!

star student

In Ryders class every week there is a star student of the week, this means they get spotlighted and everyday they get to do something special like bring something for show and tell, bring their favorite book, and one day she had me write a letter to him telling him how special he is to us. He was so excited to fill out this poster and color it, then it gets put up in his class room for the week. In the part where it says"when I grow up" he put that he wants to be an art teacher, I thought that was so cute. Where it says "These are my hobbies" he put soccer, swimming, coloring, riding his bike, and reading. I'm so mad I didn't get a picture of him holding it, oh well.

picture day

So it has begun! What happened to my sweet little girl? She is already acting like a pre-teen! Very, very dramatic. She knew exactly what she wanted wear for picture day(and she wasn't caving) which was her favorite tank top ,with a shrug, with tights! not leggings but with tights, we told her no way since this is a shirt you need leggings not tights, I explained tights go under skirts or dresses, and that this would be immodest. She was insistent because her leggings aren't long enough and they would show part of her leg between the leggings and her boots, which she was not a fan of. I told her it didn't look bad and that last time I checked school pictures are just of your face. She was in tears, and was seriously flipping out over this. She stormed away from me and yelled"I just want to look my best mom!!" I couldn't hold in the laughter. Then she yelled"I'm not going to school tomorrow. I finally told Jared to go deal with her.

So I kid you not she came down in the morning with the leggings on and the tights over them, that's right over them! I said"What are you doing?" she said " I followed the rules! I have leggings on!" She was right, I told her it was a little funny but if she liked it whatever, I was so over fighting about it.

Here is the finished product, since it's all black you couldn't tell unless you were close up.

star wars mania!!!

So Jared has a serious star wars collection, he has about 6 huge bins stuffed with star wars parafinelia. Some of the figurines he has 3 of, so he decided to give a set to the kids, they were in heaven! They literally spent at least 4 hours going though stuff. Jared has been collecting since he was a kid, everything was still in its package, it's crazy how much he has. They loved ripping every last one open.

New couches and new pictures!!!

So we finally got new couches and I love them, plus they are super comfy(well we have had them for a month or 2 now). Jared said "I think we need a few more pillows! Don't you?" Of course he was kidding. It might be alot but I like it. We moved the old ones into the living room that was empty and the same week I got our family pictures back that we ordered on canvas'. Meghan Poort took these photos and I think they look great, she did an amazing job.