{Slipping into Fall...}

 

Fires Heat and a long hot hot summer... 

SOO ready for fall and

Oh my heck here it is another month is slipping by but I made it a few weeks after school has started thats something;)  Things are back into routine and schedule and life is good & busy. But that's how we like it, if we can all work it out  together it flows but  kids going here and there its remembering the most important things in our home that makes it all go smoother.  Now if we could get past the pesky picking on each other and fighting we'd be sailing. Funny how many different stages and ages and things we all go through at different times but despite that its fascinating to watch personalities emerge and kids grow and learn which they are already do so well proud of each one. We all know life isn't easy but hoping they have the foundation to withstand what life has to through them.

So we did back to school shoots {the day before school I get much more cooperation that way;) it works for us:)

 

Happenings   

-football flag football tennis coach piano cubs yw ym basketball camp lots going on 

- subbing again this year excited for a few days here and there to get out of the house

-I need a get rich quick scheme to get back to England ha ha decided which direction to take with my jewelry making  

-Did I mention I'm in the nursery and still the enrichment leader ahh shot me now j/k nothing lasts forever and there are always lessons to learn for all callings

-hottest summer of my life! 3 months straight of heat so glad it finally cooled off!  Ready for pumpkin everything and boots cardis and sweaters! heck jeans and no sweating! Being able to function again!

- My front DECK and stairs are almost done its taken awhile but its going to be awesome and so much more welcoming so excited

-Everything costs so much more money these days ...taxes go up and bills go up but paychecks go down not sure how our government expects us all to live ...sucky world these days

-So much devastation worldwide in the past few weeks its been close to home with fires in Waterton threatening everything thankfully the rains snows and prayers of many were heard and it missed town thanks to our amazing fire fighters who are the heroes.... BUT it reminded me that we need to be more prepared and get things together. WHAT would you take if you only had an hour to get out?

-General Conf is coming up so excited our favorite times of the year!

 THOUGHTS

Oh my I love this crew! I just can't handle how big they are getting it goes by so so fast!

So here's to another year its crazy to look back through my blog and see the growth and fun and lessons we've learned along the way.. it may be sporadic posting these days but I love seeing the kids through the years and how far we've come. 

These kids are just so fun and they really all have such strong personalities dislikes, likes and talents, skills and mindsets. 

I love to watch them overcome and learn from their mistakes. I also love to see them watch others and the consequences of there actions and what there is to learn from it. They observe and see what is going on with clarity and sometimes call it like it is and I love that they notice the little things and big things and the impacts they have on lives. I love the great examples they have to learn from all around them and that they see what happiness and obedience can bring. Above all they all have goals and desires and are learning it takes effort.

and that....

"Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally,
it comes from what you do consistently."

"You have the potential to become anything to which you set your mind. You have a mind and a body and a spirit. With these three working together, you can walk the high road that leads to achievement and happiness. But this will require effort and sacrifice and faith."  President Gordon B. Hinckley.

 

and we are all learning and working on it together:) No matter how old we get we are still responsible for our choices, thoughts and actions and it takes work to stand alone and stand up and to stay on the path that will get them where we all want to be.  Thank goodness they are all stronger than me in the this day and age not sure I would have handled all that is thrown at them on the daily. I can hardly handle it as an adult. Poor Children but they are strong and they are loved and they KNOW and FEEL deeper than we ever did I believe that with all my heart!

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M e T h i n k s

Been thinking a lot about our place in life and where we fit in sometimes in this big race of life. I couldn't put it out of my mind how much we think we have to be perfect to live up to some standard we set for ourselves or compare with others lives .....that isn't entirely attainable for us, how we are all different but yet we all compare ourselves to this person or that and can't find the peace that we are ENOUGH that we can find peace if we realize what potential we have what we can do and be.

 Here's part of a talk 

by Patrica T. Holland you can read the rest here that puts it perfectly...

its so relevant for each and every one of us in this world we live in...

..."Surely there has not been another time in history when women have questioned their self-worth as harshly and critically as in the second half of the twentieth century. Many women are searching, almost frantically, as never before, for a sense of personal purpose and meaning; and many LDS women are searching, too, for eternal insight and meaning.

If I were Satan and wanted to destroy a society, I think I would stage a full-blown blitz on women. I would keep them so distraught and distracted that they would never find the calming strength and serenity for which we have always been known for.

Satan has effectively done that, catching us in the crunch of trying to be superhuman instead of striving to reach our unique, God-given potential within such diversity.

He tauntingly teases us that if we don’t have it all—fame, fortune, families, and fun, and have it all the time—we have been short-changed and are second-class citizens in the race of life.

As a sex we are struggling, our families are struggling, and our society is struggling. Drugs, divorce, family violence, and suicide are some of the ever-increasing side effects of our collective life in the express lane.

Too many of us are struggling and suffering, too many are running faster than they have strength, expecting too much of themselves.

 We must have the courage to be imperfect while striving for perfection.

We must not allow our own guilt, the feminist books, the talk-show hosts, or the whole media culture to sell us a bill of goods—or rather a bill of no goods. We can become so sidetracked in our compulsive search for identity and self-esteem that we really believe it can be found in having perfect figures or academic degrees or professional status or even absolute motherly success.
Yet, in so searching externally, we can be torn from our true internal, eternal selves. We often worry so much about pleasing and performing for others that we lose our uniqueness—that full and relaxed acceptance of one’s self as a person of worth and individuality. We become so frightened and insecure that we cannot be generous toward the diversity and individuality, and yes, problems, of our neighbors.
Too many women with these anxieties watch helplessly as their lives unravel from the very core that centers and sustains them.
Too many are like a ship at sea without sail or rudder, “tossed to and fro,” as the Apostle Paul said (see Eph. 4:14), until more and more of us are genuinely, rail- grabbingly seasick.

I believe we can find our steady footing and stilling of the soul by turning away from physical preoccupations, superwoman accomplishments, and endless popularity contests, and returning instead to the wholeness of our soul, that unity in our very being that balances the demanding and inevitable diversity of life.".....

 I hope we all know how awesome we all are because we aren't all the same 
we need to find our own individuality, our own strength, our own self worth and ultimately we can and will find peace in that, that it is ENOUGH..