Thoughts on a Sunday at 12:09

- Start early, be steady- from reading the Ensign today. The story was about preparing early. I think we need to get up earlier so our scripture study isn't so rushed. Can I do it? I need to do it. It is going to be hard though. I am not a morning person, and I have a bunch of excuses why getting up is hard for me now (ok, I have one excuse who is an adorable girl with the initials SGL who likes midnight snacks... and another is a seminary going person who sleeps in the same room as me who pushes snooze about 10 times from 5 am to 5:45 am... again no full names here but he is also is cute and then we pray at 5:55 before he leaves for the day).



- Saving money for missions is important. We need to make this a priority.



- Tithing is not about money it is about trusting in the Lord. - Elder Payne



-Do yourself an eternal favor and go home and break your violent video games in half! - Elder Payne







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Stomach flu aftermath

This is a familiar sight...




But this is very rare indeed:

We had the stomach flu last week. Here is who got it really bad:

Jonah

Ethan

Janie Kate

Here is who got it kind of bad:

Curtis

Becky

Here is who didn't get it:

Eli

Sadie Grace

Curtis and Ethan were in Utah when Ethan started barfing... on Joel and Sara's sidewalk. The rest of us were home thankfully and had our buckets and beds which when you're sick there is no place like home, right? I am so grateful to feel like I can take care of everybody again! I am glad that Curtis and Ethan came home early, even though they missed a day of plans that they had in Utah. They made it to the BYU basketball game and watched Jimmer and had a great time. Ethan said: "I screamed as loud as I could and I couldn't even hear myself it was so loud!"

Sadie's sad sad diaper rash

Poor Sadie Grace had the worst case of diaper rash that I have ever witnessed before. It started out as a chapped little bottom because her skin was so pink at first that I couldn't tell that she had the first signs of diaper rash. I finally noticed it when Selena came to take her pictures and her little bum was up in the air! So I started treating it with aquaphor, thinking that if it was chapped then it would need some moisturizing. I am not sure histologically what happened after that, but tiny red blisters popped up everywhere, and then in the folds of her legs, the skin actually started to PEEL OFF. I had some major mom guilt because of it, but fortunately things are looking good, thanks to alot of creamy desitin and nightly baths and drying off in front of the space heater. Sadie loves to be warm, must run through the maternal side of the family!