Day 6...Scripture Study Challenge

Day 6...

Scripture thought for the day:
"Jesus said unto him, if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believe." Mark 9:23

Thought for the day:
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident, they came by work."--Thomas Edison

Scripture Study: 2 Nephi 10-19

Scripture: mark and ponder 2 Nephi 11:17

Day 5...Scripture Challenge

Yesterday we read about the death of Ishmael and the many, many, many murmurings of Laman and Lemuel! I tell you what, those boys need to be smacked around! And then when Nephi broke his bow and couldn't hunt food...come on guys, use your brains...you are older than Nephi...they are so lazy! That's proven when Nephi is told to build the ship and they didn't want to help...it wasn't that they didn't believe...they were making excuses for their laziness! And how incredibly rude of them to tie Nephi up on the ship during that storm and put the lives of their families in danger...they had children and yet they were stubborn and wouldn't heed the words of Nephi! If I were them I'd be puttin on my lighting rods!

Alright, I know you've been waiting for...

Day 5...Dududu!

Scripture thought for the day:
"I the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say, but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise." D&C 82:10

Thought for the day:
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier--not that the nature of the thing has changed, but that our ability to do so has increased."--Heber J. Grant

Scripture Study: 2 Nephi 1-4

YAY!! We're into 2 Nephi now! Now we're movin!

Day 4...Scripture Study Challenge

So yesterday we read about Nephi being granted the visions of his father...he saw the tree of life and the restoration of the church and the revelations of John and the New Testament. It was awesome...Here's todays...

Day 4

Scripture thought for the day:
"But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut the door, pray to the Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." Matthew 6:6

Thought for the day:
"If you are going to leave footprints in the sands of time you must wear work shoes.
-LeGrande Richards

Scripture study: 1 Nephi 16-18
Scripture: mark and ponder 1 Nephi 17:3

Pictionary fun...

Last night was Hyrum's turn to plan Family Night...He did a great job! We played Pictionary and the kids had a lot of fun. We're trying hard to have Family Home Evening every week and for two weeks we have succeeded. Here's a little snipet of our fun...

Day 3...Scripture Study Challenge...

After reading of Laban's end and Lehi's vision of the tree of life and the vision of the coming Messiah I am ready to read on...

Day 3

Scripture thought for the day:
"Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie unto the Lord that he may watch over you in your sleep, and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day."-Alma 37:37

Thought for the day:
"If you believe you can or you believe you can't, you're right."-Eleanor Roosevelt

Scripture study: 1 Nephi 11-15

Scripture: mark and ponder 1 Nephi 14:1

Day 2...Scripture study challenge

Alright for those of you following along...here's the...

Scripture thought for the day:
"And they shall also teach their children to pray, and to walk uprightly before the Lord."
D&C 68:28

Thought for the day:
"I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun at noonday-not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else."-C.S. Lewis

Scripture Study: 1 Nephi 4-10
Scripture: (it got cut off by the copy machine so I don't have it) Sorry! :-)

30 Day Scripture Challenge...Feast Upon the Words of Christ...

Today is the beginning of our 30 day scripture challenge...

It's from relief society...but if anyone wants to do it too, I'll post the daily scripture and a couple of thoughts for the day...

Here's DAY 1...

Scripture thought for the day:
"...For if ye would hearken unto the Spirit which teacheth a man to pray ye would know that ye must pray; for the evil spirit teacheth not a man to pray, but teacheth him that he must not pray." 2 Nephi 32:8

Thought for the day:
"The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could be."
-John Grimes

Scripture study: Title page-1 Nephi 3
Scripture: mark and ponder 1 Nephi 2:19

I'm off on my scripture study quest...if you want let me know if you're doing it too by commenting...

Finally...the party is over!

That's right...I said it...FINALLY! :-) We celebrated Ginny's birthday today with the family and friends. It was fun, don't get me wrong...it just leaves me a nervous wreck by the end. To everyone who came...thank you for coming and especially for the help! Ginny had a lot of fun and that's all that matters! We started out with pizza...everyone must have been hungry because by the end we didn't have a single piece left and not even crumbs on the plates! Afterwards we played musical chairs and then pin the M on the M&M...

After the games we did the cake (which was really a brownie...Ginny's choice). Though by the time we lit the candles Ginny had popped a piece of candy in her mouth and couldn't blow...so we waited....and she finally got enough wind through the food in her mouth to blow them out! It was funny...The brownie was good...it was made vegan with the exception of the m&m's so that the Hale's could partake too. After the cake/brownie she opened presents and got some really awesome stuff...She got a book of paper and some twist up crayons and a my little pony "incentive calender", Some really cute, cute clothes, a shopping cart with food, a little dolly in a purse, a barbie, a my little pony and a bucket of play-doh. Yes, play-doh...I got it for her so that when her brother and sister are at school she'll have something to do...she does love her play-doh!

Thanks to the family for coming again...you made is special!

And a very special thanks to The Hale family for coming...it was a blast! And thanks for helping with everything! We love you!

And special thanks to Pizza Hut for letting us come and invade their quiet restaraunt!

Happy 4th Birthday Ginevra Arwen!

I can't believe it's been 4 years since our little Ginny made her debute in the world! She has grown so much! It's amazing how fast they change too and you don't even realize it until you look back at pictures... Infact this is her one year ago! Her face has matured so much and not to mention she's two clothes sizes bigger this year!



This year will be such a fun year...we're only doing the one birthday but she's able to have friends from church at her party. We've invited, Abby, Wyatt, Marius, the Hale Family and of course the family...grandma and grandpa, the VanSkike's, and Holly and Michael too. It's going to be fun! Everyone will be filling up the back room at Pizza Hut and enjoying the M&M themed party! I'll post pictures on saturday after the party...

But last night was her official birthday so we celebrated at DQ and she got to pick anything she wanted off of the menu...the rest of the family only got to enjoy a plain ice cream cone...She chose a blue raspberry Arctic Rush! And her teeth were definately blue by the end of the evening! It was a fun night and we just want to say...HAPPY 4th BIRTHDAY GINNY!!!

The Family Blog...

Well, we've decided since our family and friends are so far away from us, we'd set up a blog to let everyone know what's going on in our Funtastic life!

The weather here has been icy cold! We haven't had much snow at all when the rest of the country has gotten pounded but the windchills have certainly reminded us that even without snow or ice, Jack Frost is still here!

Today however, it is nice...it makes us want the springtime so bad...even if it does come with the threat of being carried away to the land of Oz! Hey, we are just 30 minutes from the border of Kansas!

We're loving it here. We're hoping soon we can buy a piece of land and start our little Hobby Farm that we've (I've) been talking about!

Ginny turns the big 4 tomorrow! We all know what that means...trip to Dairy Queen where the birthday girl gets to pick what ever she wants on the menu and we just get a lousy cone while we watch her eat to her hearts content! Saturday we'll have a birthday party for her at Pizza Hut where the theme will be "M&M's" and there won't be a cake...but a giant M&M cookie!

Savannah and Hyrum are going on their 100th day of school in about two weeks! It's hard to believe that my kindergardener is almost a 1st grader and my 3rd grader almost in 4th! They grow up so fast!

We'll be signing Hyrum up for baseball soon and that means Rodeo time again! I can't wait! I plan on attending more this year...and not to mention we get in free in Fort Scott at the College where Ian works!

Our church callings are going good...I only have 1 and it's one that I do truly enjoy...Young Women! Ian's got 5 callings currently...they're planning on releasing him from at least 2...but for now he's the Boy Scout Assistant Leader, Family Search teacher, Elders Quorum 2nd councelor, Cub Scout Master, and Sunday School teacher for the 12-13 year olds! Crazy!

I'm excited about this blog...let's see how long I can keep it up faithfully! That's one of my goals for 2009, to be better organized and stick with things! LOL! We'll see if I can stick with that one!