Monday June 15

Madi and I spent the morning shopping for girls camp stuff.

When we got home, Madi wanted to start painting the railing on the deck.

She wants that to be her summer project :)

I think it looks really great white!

She better stick to it ;)

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I took Elsie to PT today.

She wanted to take her Emmy blanket.

Worked out great...got her to do a lot of hard stuff :)

We put the blanket into the ball pit.

Then she walks across some lumpy matts, and stands on the side of the pit, then squats down and jumps (with help).

So it was fun for her to jump on her blankey :)

Then she did a basket ball thing.

She stands on a rocker board, and squats down to pick up a weighted ball, and throws it in a hoop, again with support help.

She thought it would be fun to lay blanket on the rocker board.

The next task was walking sideways on the balance beam, with a band on her ankles.

We didn't know how to incorporate the blanket......until Katie had an idea.

A turbin :)

She thought it was so funny....but it didn't last while on the beam.

But it was fun while it lasted.

She worked super hard today, it was awesome!

We stopped for pizza on the way home, per our usual ;)

And not too long after we got home, Emmy came!!!!!!

Yay!

We are so excited to have Emmy here!

Elsie has been asking all day.....well, all week, when Emmy would be here!

So we had dinner all together and hung out.

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Later on we had a FHE.

Port had another fun visual lesson.

Thanks to all his great primary leaders who give great lessons that he is excited about sharing with the family.

He had a jar with a quarter in it.

He shook it up.

He said that is how good we can hear the spirit when we are not distracted.

Then he put some water in the jar, that is the distractions of the world.

He shook it up again.

And explained that it is harder for us to hear the spirit when we are distracted.

I just loved it!

And Madi and Cassi also had something planned.

They were the ones who were supposed to do it.....but we let Port do it too, cause why not? 

They actually worked really well together.

They had two rocks, one was crumbly and one was solid.

When we are making the right choices, following the commandments and being kind to each other, then we are strong, our testimony is strong, like the hard rock.

And you can;t break it apart.

But if we aren't doing those things, then it is easy for Satan to crumble away our testimony.

They talked about how it is important for us to make the right choices, be kind, stay away from distractions, etc. so that we can have that strong testimony.

Because Satan wants nothing more than to break us down.

Make us feel worthless and no good.

But we can't let him win!!!!

We will be STRONG!

Then Emmy read us a special book....close to she and I's heart :)

It's called I wish I was sick too.

Our dad would read to us every night as kids.

This was one of the regular books.

It started with the line "Edward was sick......"

Well, my dad would start EVERY book with that line.

And that left a bunch of giggling girls saying "Daaaaad!!!"

Good memories.

I don't have a lot of memories as a kid.

But that, I do remember!

I am cursed with a very bad memory.....this is the very reason I blog every single day.

That way I won't ever forget!

Anyway....it was so fun for my kiddos to hear that same book that I so fondly remember :)

Of course, when Madi saw the characters were kitty's, she had to go get Maybelle.

I didn't let her stay in or long....

She wants to be a indoor cat so bad.

Everytime we open the door, she darts in.

Stinker!

Anyway.....so we are excited about having Emmy here!

Yay!