Our week

Eli taught FHE about Noah and the arch. His primary teacher made this for him and I'm grateful for teachers that are dedicated to serving the little primary children each week - especially my kids. :)

Eli gave a simple, powerful lesson and shared feelings from his heart. I cried! It's a wicked world, but the kids being born in this generation are strong and capable of standing for good.

 

While Eli was at preschool, Austin and I had a date to Focus on the Family. I have a similar picture of Eli this age in this same room!

  

Austin is in love with his new bed. But he insists on taking a nap in my bed. Oh well. At least he still naps even when I took his binky away - something I was terrified about! And we love going to Moms and Totes once a month. I work on family history and the little boys color pictures, play pioneer games and listen to pioneer stories.

        

  

Alex and her family drove down on Wednesday night to bring my mom to our house! She was here for a few days and helped watched the boys while Aaron and I had several dates. I love my mom. I'm sad I don't have a picture of her at my house. On Thursday I watched my friend's daughters and I loved snuggling this sweet baby. 

Thursday night Aaron had a promotional dinner that I was invited to. Aaron won Company Grade Officer of 2016 for USAFA! We're so proud of him and the hard work he does to provide for us and take care of us. This is Aaron's boss with all the medals from his squadron.  

              

Aaron wore this uniform when we got married and we spent the night reminiscing of our perfect wedding day. We're celebrating 5 years of marriage this year and I love being by Aaron's side. 

 

     

 

Every year I make a book for the boys on their birthday and every year I wonder if I should keep it up because it's a lot of work, but then I see them constantly looking at them and laughing about family memories - that's one reason I make them. I want them to always know we love them and we've made family time a priority. 

 

Crazy story. It was 76 degrees on Thursday and then a blizzard came that night. The base was closed so Aaron had the day off. On Saturday my parents ran to the temple and we offered the Honda since my dad had a big trailer on his pickup. The Honda started acting funny, but my parents were safe. Saturday night as my mom and I headed to the church for the Women's Conference via satellite, the Honda died!! Thankfully we were only 1.5 miles from home. Thankfully my dad was at our house so he could stay with the boys while Aaron came to rescue my mom and me. Strangers were so kind offering to help. We called a tow truck and a pink one should up to help us and turns out it was a belt. Aaron is working on it now and fingers crossed it's fixed!!

   

Sunday we were able to attend Cambry's baby blessing. Oh how great it is living close to family!!!