Sunday April 24

It was a nice Sabbath day today :)

Cassi left early again for choir.

The rest of us got ready and got to church....almost on time.

Elsie didn't go to class, and I didn't push it, she just came with me and all was good.

After church we had lunch and Port read all afternoon!

He has been reading Magic Tree house books, and he is loving them :)

And he is doing so good with his reading!

And Madi and I took a little drive.

I had to her drive us to the middle school and practice some parking......with no other cars around :)

I think she is doing a great job, but the manual is going to take some more time....especially at stop lights that are on a hill!

Ha ha......

We did our General Conference talk thing early, because we knew the big girls had a fireside tonight.

We listened to Sister Durhams talk HERE.

It was a good one.

It was about living int his world that is ready to drag us down and how we can teach our children to recognize and feel the spirit in their lives.

Her three tips were to:

First, we can bring to our children’s attention when they are hearing and feeling the Spirit. 

Second, we can prepare our homes and our children to feel the still, small voice.

and

Third, we can help our children understand how the Spirit speaks to them.

It says 'our children' but I also think it applies to ourselves.

We need to know when the spirit is guiding us, we need to have a home where we can feel the spirit, and we need to understand how the spirit speaks to us!

I really enjoyed this talk, and it is worth listening to it, or reading it again!

Then I made dinner and the girls got ready.

We gave Gramps a call.

It was good to talk to him :)

And I found out that Dussy Boy has been teaching him how to use the iPad, and Gramps has been reading the blog!

Very proud of you Gramps!

I know this technology stuff is no fun to learn!!!!

But I also found out that is how Dustin hacked into my account!

Ha ha.....

Anyway, then Stacia invited us over for some dessert before the big kids went to the fireside.

Madi drive us there in the suburban.

She did really good.

Stacia had a few families over.

There is a new family that moved in our ward, so that was fun to get to know them too.

One of their kids is in Port's class at school, so we knew him.

But it was fun to get to know his family a little bit.

Before the big kids left, they had to go back to our house to take some pictures by the Lilacs :)

They are so pretty right now!

Then they left to the fireside and the rest of us stayed and talked.

It was a nice time.

We got home a bit late, but waited for the big girls to get home and got everyone into bed.....except for the big girls who stayed up late braiding hair!

I hope they all sleep good :)