{Me Thinks...}

Wow it feels like forever since I've done a me thinks watch out ha ha! We had a good weekend cold, snowy, homey..

We got to go to the temple and spend time with my family and Guy and his parents all the way from England who we love like family too, they are so fun and easy to talk to and we have lots of good laughs. 

It was a relaxing morning and so nice to see them again.

We got a few opportunities to teach the kids some important lessons in life along the way this weekend too..... 

things I think they will remember forever.. touching ones and gospel ones

We also watched the Christmas carol together, shoveled walks, made cookies, had a lot of laughs and the kids played outside lots, built snowmen and got cold and drank lots of candy can hot chocolate and toast! 

So they were happy we were happy!

 I seriously can't believe how big this boy is getting he is developing a little personality, he is so fun! and is getting a little feisty some days so cute!!  He has been a teething machine who handles it by sleeping like 5 hours at a time and still sleeps all night! He is the drooling king and loves to help me with everything like making cookies, while the boys shoveled we made cookies inside ...

{and a boy after my own ♥ loves cookie dough ha ha!} U should have seen him sneaking it out of the bowl!

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ME THINKS

Christmas and New years is such a great time of year to change bad habits, bad behavior, and self centered thinking that doesn't get us anywhere.

I've found myself lately wondering what makes people compare themselves so bad to this or that and to act so miserable like everything in life is against them, or use the littlest things for an excuse to make bad choices or decisions instead of being accountable for their own actions.

We are all individuals, all Children Of God all of us have special qualities and talents and to waste time comparing the things we don't have or what so and so has that I don't ......

is a waste of time, talent, energy, spirit and thought.

To give - and to serve others is truly what makes us a happier people.

It's sad to watch people become so bitter or obsessed with things that just don't matter. Instead of making the choice to be HAPPY with what we do have.

To make the best with what we have and to help ourselves and others around us to progress solely depends on what we do and how we act, think, and feel, and treat others.

See what a smile can do for someone or what a small act of service does.

Give of yourself this Season and all year through.

That's probably the best gift there is.

To Serve.

Not only does it feel good inside but it teaches your children what your really made of and isn't that one of the very most important things we can do for our children or those around us. Be an example & serve.

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others.

~Gordon B. Hinckley

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Miserable people think about their height, their weight, their hair, their car, their clothes, their nose. They live in a world of their own. They say things like, "But enough about me...what do you think about me?" They run their own 24-7 self-service station. Happy people know that the key to being happy is making others so. They see every new day as another opportunity to make the world a better place by making a difference to others. Miserable people think of others only when comparing themselves to them. And when they compare themselves to others, they become either vain or bitter, or more miserable.

~John Bytheway

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So remember 

in the Grinch's words 

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. 

What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
Dr. Seuss

ps **header graphic is Becky Higgins** 
 

 Have a great week..