This kind of suprised me. Everyone tells me that Jessica looks just like me when I was that age. Either way she is a beautiful girl and I love her dearly. I think she looks like me, but has her dad's talents & smarts.
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Taylor is singing tonight with her CTR 8 class at the Great to be Eight Fireside that I am in charge of. She was practicing and I thought I would capture it on video for grandma & grandpa. Getting her to sing in front of other people is a miracle. She loves to sing, just as long as nobody is watching her. She let me tape her so I took the opportunity when I could. She is singing When I am Baptized. It is hard to hear her, she is so quiet.
Last night Jessica was in charge of our Family Home Evening. She chose a story out of the New Era to do her lesson on. It was about being an example. She gave Hunter the assingment to read it. He did not want to read and so Jessica told him he could sing a solo instead. I bet you can guess what Hunter did. Yep, he read the story. Next week Hunter is in charge and he told Jessica she will be singing a solo. Do you think that is going to happen? I don't think so. We all had a good time though talking about being an example. You never know who is watching you no matter where you are, or what sitiuation you are in. For example, Doug and I were in Arizona last summer for two days and ran into a man who used to be in our ward out here. There family had just moved to Arizona. Also, just a month earlier we went to our nephew's wedding in the Washington D.C. Temple, and I ran into someone who was in my ward growing up. I also shared a story with my children. When I was in High School, I was 16 years old at the time, the sister missionaries came and knocked on our door. I answered it. They were there to ask me if I would speak at Patricia's baptism, on baptism. I was shocked and floored. I did not even know this girl was taking the discussions, or was interested in the church. In fact, I really did not even know this girl. I knew her through school only. We were just acquaintances. The sister missionaries told me Patricia, her mother, and sister we going to be baptized in two weeks and Patricia wanted me to speak at her baptism. They had been going to the Spanish branch, because her mother only spoke spanish. I accepted the request, and asked the missionaries why she wanted me to give the talk, I didn't even know her that well. They said that Patricia requested that I give the talk, because I was such a good example to her. She would see me at school and wanted to have what I had. Which was the gospel. I don't remember how my talk went or much about that day, but I learned a very valuable lesson. You need to always live the gospel, because you never know who is watching. That is one of the best ways to share the gospel. I hope that my children learned something from Jessica's lesson and my story. They are good examples to me each day.
This past weekend I took the undertaking of making some freezer meals for our family. This time of year gets really busy for our family. With baseball starting and track practices & meets. Not to mention Doug traveling three times this month, twice to Arizona. There I am mixing some sloppy joe mix.
All together I made 2 lasagna's, 3 meatloaves, 1 black bean stew, 2 taco soups, 2 taco meat(for tacos), 2 sloppy joes, 1 spaghetti sauce with meat, and 2 chicken pot pies. I did this all in two hours. Of course I had help from Jessica and Doug. Here is the picture of it all. I cooked up a big pot of Turkey meat and seperated it into bowls then added the rest of the ingredients according to what I was making. For example I made extra spaghetti sauce with meat to make my lasagna also, then what was left over I put into a freezer bag for spaghetti. It will sure be worth my time, when we have really busy days and all I need to do is pull something out of the freezer and let it unthaw then cook it. I will not need to prepare, but maybe a few things. Like cook noodles for the sauce, or some corn bread to go with the soups. It will be a lot healthier than running through McDonald's or Taco Bell for a last minute meal.
