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11/27/11 GINORMOUS box arrives from the Phillippines!

11/27/11 

Guess what?! Your GINORMOUS box arrived this week!  We haven't opened it yet because it is for Christmas but it is safe and sound here in our room!  Everybody was WAY excited to see it!  (How much did that cost to send??! -- I think sending you something that size would be over $200, maybe more!)  The little box I sent off last week was $60 and it was WAY smaller than that!  (Katie and Holly want to know if there is b-day presents in there that I need to find before Christmas?)

So things are good here.  Thanksgiving was beautiful.  The weather was up above 60 degrees and Jared and Family, Nick and Bree, Ben and Laura, Grandma & Gpa and our family ate at Aunt Laura's.  Everything was delicious.  The crowd wasn't too big -- we all fit on a long table or two in the back yard with the little boys at a smaller table.  It was nice.  We were down quite a few with Wendy and Eddy, Austin and family, and the whole Griffin crew not there.

Holly is turning 8 in about 2 weeks and she is super excited.  She can't get dunked until January 7 due to the Holiday season.  She just missed the December dunks and the January dunks are put off a week due to the new year.  But she is very happy to be getting baptized.  I think that will put her in Senior primary too.  Can you believe that???  All our kids are growing up!

Katie's birthday is the last day of school this year so she is super siked too.  Usually her birthday falls AFTER the break and she doesn't get to celebrate with her friends.  So we'll have to take treats to both classes this year -- on their birthdays!!!  Yeah!!!

Dallas and Bryce are already off to church getting the sacrament ready.  We played games last night and the night before and have had a nice time hanging with them.  I can't believe how grown up everybody is getting.
Are you still sick?  Holly is very concerned.  We have been praying for your speedy recovery and hoping you are back to yourself.  Are you wearing your mosquito repellant?  Do we need to get you some more?  You aren't super man you know!! Gotta take care of yourself!

I am teaching a lesson today in YW about loving yourself.  It is a good lesson.  I never really thought about loving myself as being something we should do.  Love your neighbor, as yourself...I always took that to mean I need to love others more.  This lessson talks about loving your neighbor, as WELL as yourself.  It says you can't really serve others until you love yourself.  If you are always beating yourself up and putting yourself down you are wasting precious time and energy belittling yourself and making yourself depressed you aren't helping others.  It kind of says to love yourself and extend yourself to others to help yourself grow and there will be more of you to love in the process.  Anyway it is a good lesson and I think I needed to read it for myself and others in my life.  Try to lift up some people around me that are struggling with their self worth.

So we got a 21 day plan today from our ward mission leader.  We write down some names and spend the next 21 days praying for them and reading some scriptures and they have promised us that someone will be touched by the spirit of our efforts.  So I will start that pretty quick. Our presidency already had a fast last month for our girls (inactive, nonmembers) and I will copy this and give it to my leaders and work on this with our presidency.

Time for church.  Gotta run.  XOXO mom.

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