General Conference

On Conference day, we had Rachel Judd and her son, Tyler, over so Sam and Tyler could play together. Tyler is 10 months old and tried to "play" with Sam.




















Rachel looking at our pictures from Hawaii and Jared watching Sam.






I loved President Eryings talk of unity. He talked about how we need to look for similarities in others who believe differently than us. He said that children of God have more similarities than differences. I think it is a call for us to love those of other faiths and to treat those differences with respect and love. He used the term of being a "peacemaker" when talking to other individuals, whether it being our spouses, family, friends, or nonmembers. I have seen many marriages decline due to the pride of one or both spouse always wanting to be right and never seeming to agree.
I thought he spoke to me on the criticizing of others. He said we should always speak good of one another. He said, "I can promise you a feeling of peace and joy when you speak generously of others... You will feel unity...it will be because the Lord will let you feel his appreciation for choosing to step away from the possibility of sowing seeds of disunity." I have felt both the feeling of peace come as I have spoken well of others and the feelings of regret and disunity as I have spoken unwell of others. I resolved to change my view and to always seek and look for the good in each one of us (including myself) and to be a "peacemaker."

Sam's bedroom

For those of you who haven't seen Sam's bedroom, here it is:

Sam loves being on the changing table.

He loves having his diaper changed.

(I just think he likes to be naked!)

This is the scary futon.

I am in the process of rotating out all of Sam's clothes.

It's a big ordeal with him constantly changing and growing!

And Jared got to decorate his room!

(The only room in the house he can hang up all of his airplane pictures!)

Organizing the pantry

So, I don't know about you, but I don't like organizing and I wait the last possible minute there is to do it. I have a sister who is 13 months older than I am and she would have loved the job. She inherited all the cleaning genes, while I got the ones that are, well, would-rather-have-fun-and-not-organize genes. Well, I decided today was the day to dig through the pantry. I was sick of not being able to enter the pantry and reaching from the door to get stuff.

So this is what it looked like before:

Little Sam was so good. He played in his bouncer.

...But then got tired through all this and decided to sleep.

I couldn't believe all the stuff I pulled out! I didn't think

it was possible to load it back into the pantry, but I was

excited to be halfway done!

I couldn't believe there was a floor underneath all that!

Well, here is the final product. Yeah!

Sam at 4 months

Today my work asked for their keys back, which means I officially don't have a job. (I am sure I could go back). It's hard to move on, but I wouldn't change my life for anything. Sam has been growing and changing. Here are some picutres to show just how great my life is and how cute he is getting

Joys, Fears, and Obsessions

3 Joys:
-renting a redbox movie, buying cheetos, and having a great date night with Jared
-Waking Sam up in the morning to see him with the biggest smile ever.
-Visiting new sites.

3 Fears:
-Getting in a car crash
-Getting really heavy
-being a failure in life

3 Obsessions
-Throwing Jared's stuff away (the saver, while I am the tosser) to have a clean house
-watching tv
- eating right-salads daily, having breakfast (which consists of a malt-o-meal type of gound flax, sesame, and pumpkin seeds blended with cottage cheese and applesauce)

Plane ride

Jared took us on a plane ride. The view was awesome! It was 1 hr long and we flew around the island. I felt the bumps and was pretty sick. Something was wrong with the plane. I made it safe! It was great.

Jared and I in Hawaii

These are just a few random shots of us