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I will miss the summer.  It's bittersweet. Misson Beach  SanDiego. 

 

scooping up sand.  

my baby. (so growing up!) 

love this.

uh, my dress was too big. but yay! what a good day in my life!

Today was interesting at church. Kyle was playing the organ for sacrament meeting. It was fast and testimony meeting today.  A lot of my children's friends, those they had gone to school and preschool with were going up to bear their testimony's and they wanted to too. Aaron and Stephanie wanted to bear their testimonies. Being with out help, I told them no originally. I didn't want to make a scene (which our family always does anyway it seems) However, on the same account,  I didn't want to discourage him completely from doing this good thing he wanted to do.  I talked to Aaron about what he wanted to say and told him to wait until the next person finished and then to go up there. Then possibly sit by Daddy until it was time to bear his testimony.  Well, Aaron went up to bear his testimony. Dillon was being very rambunctious. I was out with him while Aaron bore his testimony, but I heard every word. It was sweet and simple. He bore testimony that he knew President Monson is our prophet. and more... Well, I came back into tell Aaron a good job. Stephanie still wanted to bear her tesimony. She asked me if she could and I told her no because I thought she needed help and I couldn't help her because Daddy wasn't there to help me.  At this point, Dillon threw a fit and needed to go out again.   Well  when I came back out with Dillon this time, much to my shock and horror and yet, calm defeat, I looked down at the empty seats where my children used to be. The people who were in front of me motioned forward. They were at the pulpit! (Aaron had decided that if Daddy wasn't there to help then he would help me then he would help me by helping Stephanie) I watched as my son whispered in my daughters ear a sweet testimony and then came reverently back down to sit with me. They did everything right.  OH my what a way to start the first church after a ward boundary changes. Also this was the first Sunday with a new bishopric.  But oh how I am grateful and it is at these strange and wonderful times that a mother sits back and marvels at the goodness of her children. And sits back and is so very grateful that they are mine.  It was a testimony again to me that my children are extraordinary. Extraordinarily, brave and stubborn and disobedient and they listen to each other more than they listen to me. But they are good little people. I am grateful and overwhelmed and humbled to know I will need a lot of God's help to raise these interesting and amazing and head strong Spirits of our Heavenly Father. That was sweet of Aaron to help her. And brave of both of them. That was just sacrament meeting. Lds meeting are 3 hours long on Sundays. That was the first hour where all the families meet together. That was the main highlight though.

Well, my youngest son is now 2.  Just a correction from my introduction.  We just got back from Lakeside, Az to visit my husbands side of the family. It was a basically a regular old family reunion. The only person missing was Dustin. We had lots of fun and I realized again how good I have it in life. I was up there most of the week by myself and then my husband joined me a day before we left.   It was so green and cloudy and, of course, cooler there. very pretty. However, we did get eaten by mosquitoes. :(   Next week marks the beginning of school for us.  Aaron will start 1st grade. amazing.  I am needing to get to bed so I can lead the music in church for ages 3-11 tommorrow. 

Just as a disclaimer: This blog will also be used for not so glorious things and every day life postings. I named it "it may not be a mountain high" after the LDS hymn #270; I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go. Correction: it's "mountain height" not "mountain high".   Meaning this blog may not be much, but I feel like I should do it.  Also my life is not something extravagant. It is something simple, and yet something special. I may not do too many amazing things "on a mountain height" as the hymn says, but I know that "My Lord will have need of me." in life, for my children and maybe for some other people too. It's amazing sometimes how far a person's seemingly insignificant, small example and life can reach. This is a way I can share.

Sometimes thoughts come into my mind. Special things. things that are meant to be shared. This is where I will write them.