April 26, 2015
The month of April is already almost gone! I can hardly believe it. It has been a nice month. April is one of my very favorite months because
of my birthday!! I love birthdays. I’ll write about that a little later.
Saturday, the 18th we had a fun
day. Bryant had a basketball game at
8:00 in the morning. Karalee had two
friends from school come over to play later that morning. The boys got to go have a “boy cousin family
fun time” that afternoon at Brenda’s.
(The girl’s had a princess party earlier that week.) After the boy’s fun time, we had a family
BBQ. Brenda rented a giant waterslide
which was fun and we had yummy food. Annalyn’s
fiancé Tyler came and we got to visit with him again… Anna was there too. J They make a cute couple. I’m looking forward to their wedding which
will happen after Anna finishes her last semester at BYUI in August. Until then they get to have a long distance
relationship since Tyler lives here.
After the BBQ we had a pie party at Art’s home. It was good to visit with him again.
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| Chad took his assignment of making shave ice snow cones very seriously for the family BBQ. He likes lots of variety when it comes to snow cone flavors. |
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| It was a fast water slide!! |
Last Sunday Tilly gave a talk in Primary. She did a good job. Her subject was Joseph Smith translated the
Book of Mormon by the gift and power of God, which is quite a mouthful for such
a little sunbeam, but Chad helped her write a good little talk and she seemed
to have fun giving it. We had a
wonderful youth fireside in our backyard that evening. A couple in our ward shared their conversion
story and the bishop shared a recent experience where he was prompted to contact
a man he baptized on his mission and he was able to bring him comfort. Each of the experiences shared bore witness
to me that the Lord knows his children and that He will give promptings to
those who will listen to help His children here on the earth.
Monday was my 36th birthday!!! It was wonderful. Chad worked from home that morning so I
scheduled a ½ hour massage for myself while he watched the girls. I had credit at the chiropractor office where
there is also a masseuse because of a missed visit so the massage didn’t even
cost me anything extra. Then after
Marlee went to kindergarten, Tilly and I went to lunch with several of my
friends. My friend Kristen had asked me
several days before my birthday if she could set up a lunch date for me with
our friends. It was so nice of her. We went to Joe’s farmhouse grill. It was delicious as always. I am lucky to live amongst so many wonderful,
kind, fun people. Later that afternoon
Spencer had a soccer game. Then when
Chad got off work, our whole family went out to eat at Moreno’s Mexican Grill
which also counted as our FHE. Then we
came home and ate the ice cream cake Heather made for me. It was a nice day! I really appreciated the many nice texts and
Facebook well wishes that people sent me.
It meant a lot to me to be remembered.
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| The presents Chad ordered for me didn't come in time so he made this game for me to unscramble what my gifts were. |
Tuesday morning Marlee, Tilly and I went to visit
Puring before we went shopping at Walmart to get stuff for mutual. Puring was hospitalized again last Sunday
evening because she couldn’t breathe very well.
She is back home again now and feeling better. She still hasn’t been able to go to church
with us since she broke her leg though.
I hope she’ll get to go again with us.
After I dropped Marlee’s at school around noon I met my sisters who live
in this area at Zupa’s for another birthday lunch that Amy set up for me. I missed Jennifer Marie and Kami, but
understand that they are busy and couldn’t make it. Hopefully they’ll be able to make it to the
next birthday lunch. Thank you Amy for
setting that up for me!! That evening
for mutual, Brenda came and taught my laurels about vision boards and helped
each of them make one. When Bishop
Taylor saw the girls making them and I explained what we were doing he said,
“it makes sense, you have to create something spiritually before you can create
it physically.” Chad and I went back to
the church to play volleyball with a few friends just minutes after I got home
from mutual.
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| Bryant wrote this poem on Tuesday. I think it is great. |
Wednesday I registered Bryant, Karalee and Marlee
for school next year at the Ben Franklin grade school while the little girls
were at Grammy Days. Then I went to the
dentist.
Thursday my new visiting teachers, Jenny Reed and Kathy
Walker, came to visit me. It was nice to
be visited again. I haven’t had a visit
for a while. Spencer had a soccer game
that afternoon, Bryant had basketball practice and we made individual homemade
pizzas for dinner. I missed my niece
Keesa’s graduation party since I got started so late on dinner. I heard it was really cute though. So I was sorry I missed it. Congrats on finished your nursing degree
Keesa! That’s wonderful.
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| Tilly wanted a turn to help make pizzas too. |
Friday Chad took the day off work partly for my
birthday, and partly so he could take the boys to fathers and sons early that
afternoon instead of waiting until he got off work. Chad and I took turns doing initiatories at
the temple that morning and then my friend Chelsea watched my girls while Chad
and I went to top golf. Top golf is
FUN. We shared a yummy appetizer for
lunch while we golfed. The girls and I
had a fun girls night while the boys were away.
We were invited to go swimming at the Trogan’s, then we went out to eat
at chick-fil-a, then decided at the last minute to get a redbox movie and
treats at Walmart instead of going to the movie theater. I was sure glad we made that decision because
on the way home from Walmart Tilly threw up a LOT. I’m glad I didn’t have to deal with that at
the theater. We came home and got things
all cleaned up and Tilly went to bed early while the older girls and I watched
the movie. I pulled out my sewing
machine during the movie and fixed up some holes in Tilly’s booster seat cover
when it finished getting washed. I was
pretty proud of myself for being able to fix it instead of buying a new one. Poor Tilly is still feeling a little sick, but
is improving.
Yesterday I had camp kickoff all morning. Thankfully Brenda watched my girls and got
Marlee to her dress rehearsal. Yesterday
afternoon we relaxed around the house and the kids played with the
neighbors. During the evening we went to
Marlee’s Gilbert Youth Choir
concert. I was really impressed with the
concert. My friend Riki started the
choir and she is a very accomplished musician.
“In the account of that profound theophany,
the instruction came from Jesus. President
Joseph Fielding Smith said:
‘I would like to call your attention to one
little thing in the first vision of the Prophet Joseph Smith. It is very
significant, and Joseph Smith did not know it. If he had been perpetrating a
fraud, he would not have thought of it. You will recall in your reading that
the Father and the Son appeared, and the Father introduced the Son and told the
Prophet to hear the Son.
‘Now suppose the Prophet had come back from
the woods and had said the Father and the Son appeared to him, and the Father
said, ‘Joseph, what do you want?’ and when he asked the question and told him
what he wanted, the Father had answered him; then we would know that the story
of the Prophet could not be true.
‘All revelation comes through Jesus Christ.
I have not time to go into the scriptures and give references for that, but
that is the fact.’ (Answers to Gospel
Questions, 5 vols., Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1957–66, 1:16.)”
I was so excited to learn this and to share it with
my laurel’s class. In gospel doctrine we
learned that there were four times that Heavenly Father appeared or spoke to
the earth—The Savior’s baptism, when Jesus was Transfigured (see Matthew 17),
when Jesus appeared to the Nephites, and at Joseph Smith’s first vision. Each time he introduced Jesus as his son and
asked us to hear him. Pretty cool.
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| Like Marlee's earrings? |
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| Tilly wants me to hold her a lot while she is sick. I held her while I was writing this letter. |
Love,
Mindy
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