New Things..

Well I know that it has been quite a while but we are doing great and having fun this Summer. I am not really ready for School to start as we are home schooling Amelia with the K12 curriculum but I figure Kindergarten is a great time to see if home schooling will work, and I figure if I can do it with a New born plus 4 kids I can probably handle it. Amelia has started to do puzzles like crazy. She loves mazes and puzzle games but now she really likes to put puzzles together. Her biggest size is 64 pieces but she flies through those so I guess it is on to 100 piece. Scott is my COMPUTER BOY!!!!!! We have 8 computers in our house and he always wants to be playing on one of them. He likes to play Unreal 3 with dad, Scooby-Doo, and Batman. I sometimes go crazy because when he gets stuck he calls and calls and calls for help. Then he asks me if I know how to play. If I give any indication that I have any ability whatsoever then I am in trouble because he informs me that I KNOW how to play. I am so thankful that Scott has two sisters to help mellow out his 'Boy' side. Nathan is walking and that is about all that he worries about right now. Then there is Raquel. I never really knew that people played the copycat game, and then I never realized that they could keep playing the copy cat game. Poor Amelia, she is Raquels hero and Raquel wants to be with her all the time. Copying everything Amelia says and does. They are cute together and Amelia is very patient and loving (most of the time). When I go to get Raquel from Nursury I will ask how she was. They always tell us that she was very good. But when we ask her how she was she responds with "I was BAD." She is a smart little girl!!




Well I will leave with a little story: For FHE last Monday I decided to focus on getting answers to our prayers. I want the kids to know and learn that they can pray and they will be heard and their prayers of faith will be answered. So we have been praying for opportunities to share the gospel. Now I know that there are other ways to get answers to prayer but this month in primary we are talking about missionary work so it just seemed to fit. Well, I took the kids to the park on Thursday and I left the keys in the car, I had no pockets. After about an hour of playing in the hot sun the kids were ready for a snack so we sat on the blanket to eat. There were some people over by the van and I asked Amelia if she would go and get the keys out for me. So she ran over and then ran back. "Where are they keys?" I asked. "In the Van," she said. "If you don't have the keys then what did you do?" "I locked the van instead." Oh great!!! I was not happy, here I was quite a ways from home, 11:30 in the morning, with 4 little kids and no one around. Amelia said "Mom will you say a prayer?" And in my frustration I told her that if she wanted to pray she could but I didn't want to. Well, she prayed. As we walked to the van a vehicle pulled up, the girl jumped out and grabbed a sippy cup that she had left. We were standing just a few feet away and I knew that this was the answer to Millie's prayer. Well, we called Newell (with her cell phone, mine was in the car) and he came and got us. But I am just so thankful for prayer and for the faith of my children. I know that without Millie's prayer I would have been walking a ways to get to a house to call for help (not a fun thing with little kids in tow). Motherhood teaches me so much, I am CONSTANTLY humbled!!!