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09/16/2007 | quinan |
Fresh & Easy
I can’t wait for the new mini-grocery store being built down the street (even though I haven’t ever seen one inside).
09/07/2007 | hugh | What's your favorite store?
Getting into shape and tryng not to stink
For my workout today I did Kick, Punch and Crunch I know kickboxing is suppose to be a great workout but I look and feel like a dweeb when i do it. I guess I am suppose to imagine I am hitting something. Hard for me to imagine.
Today Quinan and I went to Bath & Body Works to get some more glycerin soap. But we were met with bad news. They are only caring their glycerin soaps for their big sales. So they wont have any until January. Now what are we going to do for soap?
Well, Hugh is off to Scouts, Kennerley to YW and Jensen to Achievement Days so it is just Quinan and i. What should we do?
09/05/2007 | michele | Comment [1]
Quinan Kissing Twins During Sacrament Meeting
Quinan thinks the purpose of Sacrament Meeting is to play with any kids that are sitting anywhere around him. Today it was the Warnicks who have twin girls that are a year old. Quinan played and played with them. Stuck stickers on their hands, tried to choke them by feeding them pretzels, played peek a boo, one of the twins started the Indian war call so Quinan joined in on that, then the other twin joined in and it all ended with Quinan leaning over the bench (they sat behind us) and kissing the poor girls. I tried to whisper in Quinan’s ear that he needed to teach the babies how to be quiet, that kept him quite for a little bit but not long.
I survived teaching Primary. It was actually fun. It didn’t go as bad as I thought it would. It has been so long I thought I wouldn’t know how to hold their attention. Though I did discover during singing time that I don’t know the words to very many Primary songs. I am usually playing piano when I go to primary so I can probably play the songs for memory but I haven’t learned the words to very many.
I read in an Ensign article that an adult laughs 15 times a day and a kids laughs 400. Good thing I live with Hugh because I am pretty sure he makes me laugh more than 15 times a day.
What I listened to today:
Come, Come Ye Saints – Mormon Taberbacle Choir
High On The Mountain Top
I need Thee Every Hour
The Morning Breaks
Though Deepening Trials
Redeemer of Israel
Abide With Me; ‘Tis Eventide
The Spirit of God
O My Father
Love At Home
Faith In Every Footstep
Come, Come Ye Saints
Favorite today – The Spirit of God and Faith In Every Footstep. Loved the power of the songs today.
Consider The Lilies
For the Beauty of the Earth
O Holy Jesus
morning Has Broken
As the Bridegroom to His Chosen
I Sing the Mighty Power of God
He shall Feed His Flock
My Shepherd Will Supply Me Need
The Lord Bless You and Keep You
I’m Trying to Be Like Jesus
Rejoice the Lord is King
Jesus the Very Thought Is Sweet
Pilgrim’s Hymn
I Belived in Christ
God So Loved the World
This Is the Christ
For I Am Called by Thy Name
Consider the Lilies
Favorite today – I’m Trying to Be Like Jesus, This Is The Christ (in honor of President Faust) Consider the Lilies
09/02/2007 | michele | Comment [1]
Fun Family Saturday But Not Such A Good Saturday For Saturday Chores
This morning I got up early and went running. Well, not really so early – I left at about 7:00 and boy was it hot already!I can’t wait till it gets much colder. I like running in the cold and have to force myself to go when it is hot. Unfortunately I have discovered this summer that nothing keeps me slimmer than running.
As Hugh mentioned we went to Spring Preserve. It was just way to hot! I guess we shouldn’t have done the trails, stick to the buildings when it is so hot. I think today I just am really not liking the heat of Las Vegas. Most of the time it doesn’t really bother me to much but boy today it sure has. When we came home we all took a nap and even with the nap i still have never got my energy back. So I haven’t gotten much done today. Oh well.
The good news of this week is Quinan has only had 1 accident with potty training for the whole week!
Got a call at 6:30 asking to teach Jensen’s primary class tomorrow so i guess I should go look at that. I haven’t taught Primary for a really long time. Hugh said he wanted to do it with me so I guess we are going to team teach. Kind of wish we had more time to work on the lesson.
I am off and realizing that I need to learn how to put pictures on and also realizing that I need to take more pictures in general.
Starting the book Fablehaven by Brandon Mull. Both of the girls have read it and really, really like it. i also have a friend that reads alot of books and she has loved it. Though I have to say the cover kind of freaks me out a bit.
09/02/2007 | michele | Comment
Springs Preserve
Today we recreated at Springs Preserve here in Las Vegas. The kids are pictured above waiting for the flash flood simulator to start. We had a great time hiking and exploring a few place we hadn’t visited before (and a few we had). The favorite was the sustainability center. Unfortunately it was pretty humid today with the high around 105°. We’ll probably wait to go back until the temperature cools down… possibly late September or mid October.
09/01/2007 | hugh | Have you heard of the Springs Preserve?
Butterfly net
One of the great things about working from home is spending windows of time with my kids. This morning while I was watering the garden I discovered caterpillars that appear to be moving on to their next stage. Quinan and I decided to capture it in an canning jar (my own childhood memories came flooding back).
Quinan disappeared for a minute and returned with a child’s play butterfly net. I didn’t think we could catch anything, but minutes later we had a moth that had landed on the squash and another that landed on the watermelon.
Here’s a picture of Quinan studying his catch after bringing it inside.
08/31/2007 | quinan | What is one of your favorite childhood memories? [3]
He Did Deliver Me
I liked this thought: “….the state of my “self” when not surrendered to the mind and will of the Lord
1 Nephi 10:6 Wherefore, all mankind were in a lost and in a fallen state, and ever would be save they should rely on this Redeemer. “
So, I was thinking anytime I feel lost, not comfortable, uneasy, etc. I need to check myself because I am probably not relying on the Lord.
Has anyone had experiences with this they would like to share?
08/31/2007 | michele | Comment
He Did Deliver Me
Below is a scripture with questions to think about.
“Alma 26:12 I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in HIS strength I can do all things.
We are bombarded with philosophies, programs, planners, commercials, products, and medications that promise personal power. Think back over your life and admit in writing some of these things that have lured you. Did they solve your problem? Did they improve your relationship with the Lord?”
As I was writing my list of things that have influenced my search for personal power one of those things was church programs. By church programs I was thinking Faith in God, Personal Progress, activities, Enrichment. As I was thinking about whether or not they solved my problems or improved my relationship with the Lord (or in the case of my daughters – am I approaching them working on Faith in God and Personal Progress in such a way and also in what I see in my calling do these programs work to solve problems and improve relationships in the lives of YW in our stake.) I think it is so easy to forget why we have these programs. I think they are suppose to do these things but it can get so easy to focus on just getting them done so they can be done, one more things to check off on our list of things to do. I also started to think about how many meeting, lessons, activites, etc I go to where the only mention of the Lord is in the prayer when they prayer is closed. Do we boast more of ourselves than of God when we do this? What do you think? It also makes me want to really think about how I approach these church programs for my family and callings.
08/31/2007 | michele | Comment
He Did Deliver Me
The first though Colleen Harrison discusses that i really liked is capturing. Capture is to get hold of something, really het hold of it and make it your own.
How to capture:
1.) IDENTIFY: If your source is in the form of written material, underline the words or phrases that stand out to you. If it’s in the form of a lecture, take notes as you listen. The goal is to note those single thoughts that stand out to you.
2.) COLLECT: Rewrite in a notebook the words, phrases, sentences or whatever you underlined into that notebook.
3.) CAPTURE: Now write all that comes into your mind about the thought or quote that you have previously copied into your notebook. Why is it important to you? How did you connect for you? What does it say to you? How do you see that it applies to your life?
I have been really good with the first 2 steps. But I bet my like of the 3rd step is what keeps me from actually being able to apply what i read. It is to easy for me to forget after a couple of days what I was suppose to be working on. So I am going to try this capture idea and see if I that helps me really be able to keep a thought, make an idea mine.
I also liked what the author had to say about capturing for her. “I often find that I have just naturally entered into a prayer mode somewhere during this process, writing prayerful thoughts, expressing myself directly to God. And in just as easy and simple a manner I nearly always find myself realizing that what I am hearing in my thoughts is the voice of the Lord, through the Holy Spirit’s mediation, speaking to my mind and heart.”