Whatever happened to spring?
Hello again everyone! Just a couple weeks ago it was snowing and now without so much as a blink of an eye the temperatures are reaching the 90’s, what is up with that? Can’t we just have several weeks of sunny 60-70 degree weather with a few days of rain sprinkled about here and there? 90 is just too hot for me. As for our news, it seems to me that we always have our most eventful adventures on the weekend. I had a few things in my mind to write about yesterday and now I can’t remember. This past week we celebrated my grandma’s birthday and saw some of the extended family. I always enjoy getting together with my extended family.
Yesterday was a pretty full day. We got some groceries in the morning and then Brandon wanted to go to R.E.I. to buy some webbing for the gigantic Delta kite that he is going to build. Aiden hadn’t eaten much at his 2nd feeding so I had no idea when he might want to eat again. Nevertheless we went to R.E.I. and I took Aiden out of his car seat and walked around with him in the camping section pointing out various things to him and telling him what they were. He seemed pretty curious. After we paid I ended up feeding Aiden in the car and he still spaz ate. Well, we went to the bishop’s home for food and swimming after that. We took Aiden in the pool and he fussed a bit. I thought he didn’t like the change from air temperature to water temperature but it turned out that he just didn’t like the sun in his eyes. For him swimming wasn’t super exciting or super horrible. He just was like well I could take it or leave it. I even had Brandon dunk Aiden (which he ended up doing four times) and Aiden didn’t mind too much, he only fussed for a short moment and seemed a little surprised when he came up out of the water. One thing to mention is that there was a little bit of miscommunication regarding the procedure for dunking a baby, you see you are supposed to blow in their face before you dunk them so that they inhale and close their mouth and eyes. On the first dunk, Brandon neglected to do this. Luckily by some blessing Aiden did this anyway and wasn’t sputtering too much when he came up.
In the evening we were going to have some friends over for chicken cordon bleu but they ended up calling because they’d had a long day and wanted to reschedule. Which is understandable, we’d had a long day too. We still cooked the chicken cordon blue (see pics.) or should I say BRANDON cooked the cordon bleu. I probably could have done it but Brandon is much more talented in the fine art of cooking, plus I don’t really like to handle raw meat very much, especially chicken, so he did it. It was very tasty! Brandon did an excellent job. Aside from the cooking we spent a fairly quiet evening at home.
Today we had a dinner group with a couple of families in the ward and so we brought spice cake. It was really very easy, you just mix up a yellow cake as per the directions and add cloves, sugar, cinnamon, and all spice. The thing that made it extra delicious is that we made cream cheese frosting. It turned out delicious as well, Brandon decided to go the extra mile and turn it into a round cake. so there is tasty frosting goodness between the layers and on top. The more frosting the better I always say. 🙂 Anyway, it was really nice to spend a little bit of time talking with and getting to know more people in the ward.
Well, I guess that is our excitement for this week. Although I must mention that we have been reading Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites and I have really been enjoying it. The author has a fun style of writing and there are some parts that just make me laugh, partly I think because it reminds me of my early teenage years. It is also helping me to become more familiar with some of the characters from the Book of Mormon that I have read and learned about since I was tiny. Which reminds me of another thing that is sort of pertinent to nephites. Brandon and I were talking about survival and what not in the car the other day and the subject of bows and arrows came up. (Needless to say if we have to hunt, kill, and prepare our own meat I will be one hungry white girl, but that is another topic all together.) After talking about them for a bit I just felt like that would be a skill that I would actually want to learn. Even though I won’t ever actually use it for hunting. I just feel like it would be a way to further connect me with those who came before such as native americans, Nephites, and people who lived in biblical times.
Lastly I just want to mention that today in relief society I realized just how important prayer is in my life. We are taught to always have a prayer in our hearts and while I am not sure if I ALWAYS do, prayer is a pretty common occurence in my life. I pray for the help to find lost items, for our little garden to be strong and produce a good harvest, for strength in my trials, for peace, for help that Aiden might sleep longer, for help that I might fall asleep quickly, for the spirit to be here in my home, and many other things. The other night little Aiden woke up crying only after an hour of sleep. I didn’t know if he was hurting or scared. I just assumed scared because he had awoken pretty suddenly and was crying immediately. I tried to comfort him in his crib and it became apparent that he needed to be held. So I picked him up and he was still struggling to calm down. At that point I said a prayer, I prayed that Aiden would feel safe, secure and loved, that the spirit would be in his room, and that he would be able to fall back to sleep quickly. This calmed him and he did indeed fall back to sleep quickly. I guess what I mean to say is that today I realized that even though I feel like I very seldomly get answers to my prayers, just the simple act of saying prayers regularly and turning to prayer whenever I am struggling, Aiden or Brandon are in need, for answers, for guidance, or for anything else that I might be prompted to pray about does at the very least give me peace. It does help me to know that I am not alone and that Heavenly Father does know my needs and hear my prayers. So even when I don’t appear to get an answer or don’t get the answer I want, I still know that there is that direct line of communication with him, and that he is watching over us. I still trust that somehow someway everything will work out and get answered in it’s own due time, even if in certain moments it doesn’t seem like it will. I don’t know, I hope that I explained myself well enough to get my point accross. Prayer brings me peace and comfort just through the simple act of doing. So there you go. Have a good week everyone!