October

This October break my sisters and I were able to hang out at a fantastic cabin for a few days.  Great times.  The kiddos played hard and I read an entire book in two days (Goose Girl) - very relaxing.

 Who wouldn't love a game of "Red Rover, Red Rover" on a golf course as the sun is setting knowing that a warm bowl of chili will be ready once the sun has gone down?

 The sugar cube castles weren't as successful as I had hoped they would be.  Trial and error.  I think some of the kids had a sugar high though after "making" them.

 And on another note, I'm a genius of a mother.  Halloween is not my favorite holiday but I have two sisters who embrace it with their whole hearts.  I do a little bit here and there but this year I took it a little further and made my kiddos Halloween shirts.  Yes, I made these and they were a hit.  They took A LOT longer than I had planned so I will never make them again. The kids love wearing them and  I have to remind Charlie that wearing a shirt three times in the same week is a little over the top.  One of my shining moments.  Just don't expect them annually.

HAPPY OCTOBER!!

This morning during family scriptures we were reading 3 Nephi  14 in the Book of Mormon .  We were reading about the Nephites being taught by the Savior  and in vs. 13-14 it reads,

 13 Enter ye in at the ^astrait gate; for wide is the gate, and ^bbroad is the way, which leadeth to destruction, and many there be who go in thereat;

 14 Because strait is the ^agate, and ^bnarrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and ^cfew there be that find it.

I explained to the kiddos that to choose wickedness is a lot easier than to choose righteousness.  There are all sorts of ways to make bad choices and to head down the path of destruction.  But in order to choose eternal life there is only one way and that way is pretty exact.

Then we continued on with our scripture study.

Later on that morning I went to the school to work in a couple of the kids' classrooms.  I walked into Eli's kindergarten room and he gave me the best smile EVER!  (Which is pretty typical from Eli).  A minute later he came over to me with this drawing and said, "Remember what we learned this morning about lots of ways to be bad but only one way to be good."  He was able to draw something at school this morning and he chose to draw about something he learned from scriptures.  But not only that, he was listening and he understood.

That, my friends, is one of the rewards of being a mom!  And for me, one of the rewards of being Eli's mom!