Find JOY in the JOURNEY!: Christmas Day!

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Christmas Day!

Merry Christmas

Christmas morning is always so much fun! Santa Claus has come but if they BELIEVE! The kids slept in until 7:15! It was great because I had not gotten but 2 hours of sleep sometime during the night. It was so fun to hear the kids talk about what Santa brought! I love this age of children!

This was the hit of the day until we put the charged battery in and it didn't work so Keith took it in three days late & now it is running non-stop! It's so great to have a huge front yard for her to ride up and down the green belt!

Santa Keith surprised mom with a new camera! I mean it was a surprise! I had no idea! I could hardly breath because I was so excited to open it! Thank you honey!!!!!

Shaylee's biggest hit was her new cherry backpack & her new big girl doll & her black/pink blow dryer. I am so glad someone thought about getting her the blow dryer...now I don't have to go searching for mine every morning. She is growing up too fast but it sure is fun!

We had a great day celebrating & playing games! We had Craig & Jana come over for lunch for biscuits & gravy! They were delicious! The cousins played and played before they made a long car ride up to St. Johns for Christmas. We had Christmas dinner with our neighbors & stuffed ourselves with great food! Keith put Rylan's airplane together & crashed it and it broke to pieces but they are not going to give up...someday they are going to be pro's at running that remote control airplane!

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"Parents who have surrendered the sweetest and smallest flowers from the family's garden need to remember our Heavenly Father. He has promised a special reward to those who now suffer in silence, who spend long days and longer nights through their trying times of bereavement. Our Creator has promised glory. He said, "For after much tribulation come the blessings. Wherefore the day cometh that ye shall be crowned with much glory; the hour is not yet, but nigh at hand." (D&C 58:4) That promised glory includes the blessing of reunion with each child who has left the family circle to help surviving members of the family to draw nearer to God. Those children still live and are a heritage to the Lord."
Russell M. Nelson

President John Taylor once said: "that the best explanation he could offer why so many little children among the Saints were called away, notwithstanding the great faith and power of the priesthood exercised to keep them here, was that they were bright and noble spirits who held important positions in the kingdom of God in the spirit world, from which they could not long be spared., They were given brief furloughs, long enough to come to earth, take upon themselves bodies of flesh and bone that they might be prepared for a resurrection to a kingdom of glory; and after a short experience in mortality were called back to resume important labors in a higher sphere."

Joseph F. Smith said:"Joseph Smith taught the doctrine that the infant child that was laid away in death would come up in the resurrection as a child; and pointing to the mother of a lifeless child, he said to her: ' You will have the joy, the pleasure, and satisfaction of nurturing this child, after its resurrection, until it reaches the full stature of its spirit.' There is restitution, there is growth, there is development, after the resurrection from death. I love this truth. It speaks volume of happiness, of joy and gratitude to my soul. Thank the Lord he has revealed these principles to us."