Random Picture Update

As I was driving to a RS meeting the other day, I looked in the rearview mirror, and saw the most amazing sunset.  Desert sunsets can blow my mind, they are so bright and colorful.  I love them.  So, I snapped a pic...don't worry, no cars were harmed during the making of this picture. 

Madeline is working on her photography skills.  She picks up the camera, and goes to town taking pictures of things around the house.  This time, it was me.....REALLY CLOSE.   Maybe a little too close, but she is learning!

The kids had their piano recital the other day.  Elizabeth was super nervous...she came home from school excited and scared, and ready to go.  The kids did great, and I love watching their skills grow! 

Yep, it was St. Patricks day...we celebrated it by making all our food green. And, in so doing, made me not want to eat any of the food.  Apparently, green eggs just don't seem that awesome. 

The other day, I needed to get to work.  The sewing kind of work.  So, I went directly to my room, and started working.  I didn't tell anyone what I was doing, I just went there...trying to be quiet and anonymous.

Magically, the kids could sense my need to accomplish something.  They all joined forces and came to do their own sewing or crafting in the sewing room.  We spent the afternoon together sewing and helping, and enjoying the day together.  I wasn't as amazingly productive as I dreamed I could be, but we did have fun together, and maybe I can pass a few little skills on to my beloved little monkeys.

We've had a fun month.  Life is pretty great.  

Sacrifices..

It has been awhile now that Noah and Mitchell started sharing a room.  This has totally changed Mitchell's night time routine.  For the longest time, Mitchell would stay up all night in his closet reading.  We would go in to check on him before we went to bed, and find him in a crazy position on the floor.

Now that he shares a room with Noah, he has to go to our bed to read.  He stays in there, and reads and reads, and he still falls asleep....but now we have to move him.  We all have to make sacrifices!  Right now he is reading The Lord of the Rings, I wonder what kinds of dreams he is having.

Good Morning

Bj wanted to create some fun memories for our kids.  So, a few Saturday's ago he woke us all up at 6:15 or so...and we all went out on the patio cover to watch the sun rise.  He made us all hot chocolate, and we enjoyed the quiet of the morning.

This little guy was super cute, and super fun.  But after a few minutes, he got bored of sitting happily in my lap, and he had to be up and around.  

Um, should I put this picture on the internet for all to see?  Probably not.  But, we all had so much fun being snuggled together, I had to share the moment.

This little kid had a super fun time, joking around and being wild.

And, Madeline was a PURE DELIGHT!

Good Morning Tucson!

Index it...

Today we had stake conference (well, we had it last night too), and our stake has set a goal to index 1 million names by the end of the year.  That is a pretty lofty goal...that means at least 1000 members of our stake need to participate, and each index 1000 names.  With that kind goal, it means we all have to get involved.  Luckily, I have a great husband.  When I get overwhelmed by more and more things on my list of things to do, he just gets to work.

So, today after church, we went to work.  We logged on, went through the beginning tutorials, and got to work.  It really was much easier than I thought it was going to be.  Simply reading through scanned records, and typing in those names to the database.  The church has made it as simple as possible, thank goodness!

We also got our kids involved.  They each got their own account for lds.org, and signed up to be indexers.  They have spent much of the night adding names, and it has been fun for me to hear them talking about birthday's, name choices, funny county names, etc..  I have been proven wrong (yet again), indexing will be easy for our family to do, and hopefully it will continue to be a fun activity for our kids.

Want to learn more?  Want to help in the effort?  Here's how:

1.  get an LDS.org account user name and password.  You will need your membership number!

2.  To begin indexing go to familysearchindexing.org, and click on Get Started.  Follow the instructions to download the FamilySearch Indexing program.  After installation, click on FamilySearch Indexing icon to begin.

Try it out!