I cannot believe how fast 24 years has gone . . . .

Happy Birthday Sweet Girl

I am going to need a retreat . . . .

 

So you are wondering how I am doing since my babies left ? Not well !!!Missing them like crazy. My heart hurts. I have to stay busy so I am immersing myself in service, my primary calling, my job and my boys AND being the best long distance mom and grandma I can be. 

But seriously, look at this RS Retreat in a cabin in the woods. I am SOOOOOOOOOOO excited !!!

Something to think about . . .

 

In some reading I was doing I came across this. Let me be the first to say that I really need to work on this. And I wanted to create this sign and post it on my blog so that I would come back often and see it and be reminded what I needed to work on.

My Baby Boy is 14 . . . Not quite sure how that happened

If You Are Too Busy . . .

 

I love, love, love this quote !!! 

I wanted to print and frame it to put somewhere to remind myself.

So I used Memory Mixer to create one and I love how it turned out.

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Happy Happy Birthday to the best little brother . . . .

I need this reminder as I raise my family . . .

"Don't accommodate any degree of temptation. Prevent sin and avoid having to deal with its inevitable destruction. So, turn it off! Look away! Avoid it at all costs. Direct your thoughts in wholesome paths. Remember your covenants and be faithful in temple attendance."
—Dallin H. Oaks

The Positive Pledge . . .

I Really want to go . . . .

 

I think I need to go plead my case to my Biology Professor and see if he will let me take my final early. My friend just had her friend back out of going with her and it would cost me next to nothing. She really needs my help to help move her daughter out of her apartment.

Don't you think he would understand ?

The Benifits of Going into Nursing

 

So today while studying I got a confirmation on my heal condition and the more I studied it the more I have learned that it is probably going to be with me the rest of my life - 

so we had better become friends. Funny thing is that I thought I injured it during Zumba a few years ago and now I come to find out it is inherited. From who ? I am not sure. My dad may have had this, but may have thought it was related to his arthritis.

Now I am on a search for the perfect sandals.

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Just a little photo update on the lives of those I love . . . . These are just photo's of the littles. My big boys are not that cooperative. I am going to have to sneak photo's at baseball this week . . .

 

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Easter Sunday

What a wonderful service we had today on this beautiful Easter morning. Michelle D. gave an amazing talk and quoted the words of one of one of  my very favorite primary songs.  

A long time ago in a beautiful place,
Children were gathered ’round Jesus.
He blessed and taught as they felt of His love.
Each saw the tears on His face.

The love that He felt for His little ones
I know He feels for me.
I did not touch Him or sit on His knee,
Yet, Jesus is real to me.

I know He lives!

I will follow faithfully.

My heart I give to Him.
I know that my Savior loves me.

 

Now I am here in a beautiful place,
Learning the teachings of Jesus.
Parents and teachers will help guide the way,
Lighting my path ev’ry day.

Wrapped in the arms of my Savior’s love,
I feel His gentle touch.
Living each day, I will follow His way,
Home to my Father above.

 

I know He lives!
I will follow faithfully.
My heart I give to Him.
I know that my Savior loves me.

 

He is real to me. No I have never seen him or touched him. But I have felt the spirit. I have felt the spirit when I have studied his words. I know that the peace I feel when I fully live the Gospel of Jesus Christ is greater than any other feeling that I have ever had.

 I am just your average mom, who sometime gets so busy with life that I am guilty of neglecting the things that are truly important. I make mistakes, I make alot of mistakes. Each day I am learning and growing. And I am so grateful that each week I can partake of the sacrament and 

get a fresh start to a new week. 

I feel as though I have always had a testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But 8 years ago when I faced the death of my first true love, my dad, I felt a warmth that is indescribable.I know that I was the only person in the room with my dad and yet I know that the room was filled with the spirits of his loved ones who had gone before. They had come to bring him home. And it felt as though they had wrapped a warm blanket around me and filled me with their love. 

And I can testify to you that I heard a voice as my dad passed from this life. 

It was real. I don't know how else to describe it. But it is the concrete that will cement my testimony until I see my dad again.

And it said "Kristan, the Plan of Salvation is real, the gospel is true, and you will be with your dad again. Families can be forever. Just hold on. It will all be worth it" 

I really cannot fully explain the feelings I had on that day. But I do know that on this Easter Sunday I am reflecting on my relationship with my Savior, my older brother Jesus Christ. I am reflecting on the things that I was taught on that day 8 years ago and the progress I have made and the progress I have lacked since.

It is like I need to be reminded daily that the atonement is for everyone. 

And each day, even many times a day, I can get a do over.

I can continue to gain peace in this life and be washed clean from those things that weigh me down.

 I can get help with my challenges. 

 Jesus Christ brings hope to our lives. Because of Him, our past does not dictate our future. We can gain strength to overcome anything. As I taught my little primary kids today, he knows and he loves each and every one of us.

He is risen, and He guides and directs His church today!

 

Such a good reminder for me . . . .

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