Eternity

Back in October we had the wonderful chance to go see a good friend of ours be sealed to his wife and son for All Eternity in the Houston Temple! Doug and I were sealed there a little over 6 years ago! It was the first time we have been back since then, and I felt the spirit so strongly! Its such a wonderful blessing we have as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to be sealed for Eternity to our families!I'm so thankful for my little family and blessings we enjoy. I'm so extremely happy for my friend too!

It was such a sunny morning! We wanted a family picture, but no one could see, so this is what we got!

My sweet sister Beth came to stay with the kids while we were in the Temple! Thanks Bethy! After we wanted to do something fun for the kids. A friend of mine told me about this park there with a train! So after tons of traffic and fighting our way to this huge park, we got to ride this fun little train! The kids thought it was so fun! I thought it was a pretty fun day!

The Hack Job!

Okay the dreaded pictures of Emma's lovely hair cut!! Poor Clara was involved too! I haven't seen her new do, but I hear its cute! I'm pretty sure Coen learned his lesson. He got grounded from his favorite things, so lets hope this never happens again!! Love You Coen and Emma, please no more unscheduled hair cuts!!!

The hack job!!

At least if we need a mullet, Coen's our man!!

No he didn't use the plastic scissors!!

The after.....

Fixed!!! Yay, shes so cute, I just really loved her long hair!

Whirlwind.....

Well Hello!!! Its been a whirlwind of the last month! Ill tell you, so many times I just wanted to crawl in a hole! We have been really blessed in our lives so far and I think the Lord was trying to get me to realize how much worse life could be. I'm so thankful that its not worse, really, things could be so much worse! Anyway, here is a bit of whats been going on! So first, last month I was down visiting my mom and we were spending the night. At about 10:30 pm on a Wednesday night a drunk driver decided to plow into our van! It was a nightmare from then on for about 4 weeks! When all was said and done, we came out with 3 new car seats, a car seat stroller system, and a new van!! Oh and a ton of stress and headaches!!! Our new van is so nice though! We are really blessed! We have wonderful families too! Both Doug's parents and my mom were so great through all of it. They helped more than we could have ever asked for! We love you all! My mom is really great, she helped me out emotionally almost daily. I just had a really hard time understanding why good hard working honest people like ourselves could get so totally screwed over by other peoples careless mistakes! I guess its a lesson that's hard to learn! Anyway, now that I have written a book.... the other really big thing is one week after having our van smashed, Doug comes home and tells me he no longer has a job after two weeks. They have closed the Franklin Covey store where he has worked for 5 years! So we are currently unemployed!! Yay! More time with Doug, but not so much money! Oh well. So that's that!!!

Now on to my beautiful kids!!! We were at my moms one Sunday and took the kids bikes, it was beautiful outside!! So here are some pictures from that! I got the kids these totally cool hats!! love them!

These were another day at my moms, we have spent a lot of time there lately!! Anyway, Coen was helping my mom make cinnamon rolls (i think) and was having so much fun in the flour!!