Well...all my friends are so good at this stuff...not me!

I feel so intimidated when I try to post....I don't have a clue how to add pics or make things pretty....It has almost been a year since I last posted....life is really good aroud here....I have much I could blog about and maybe...just maybe I will get around to updating someday....

Well I am not very good at this blogging, but found my blog again and will try a bit harder.....so life has been busy....but wonderful.....I spent today meeting some cyber friends from my board.....for lunch...both of them have the cutest babies.....Ahnah's Maren is 4 months old and BreeAnne's Lily is just a couple of weeks old. They are the cutest....and have the sweetest mom's. BreeAnne was the first cyber friend i met in person....and that was like 8 years ago.....and she now lives in my stake, but we don't see each other often enough...Elder Green is doing well...we are truly feeling the blessings of having a missionary.....well.....I am the single parent of 7 for tonight so I'd better get going....before they destroy my house.....

And it came to pass...

We were just challenged as a ward to read the Book of Mormon as a family this year....My kids were a bit sad as we were starting 3 Nephi, and now we are starting over again, but obedience won out....and we are busy trying to catch up with the reading schedule. (They started while we were off in Utah so we are 1 week behind!) That phrase...."and it came to pass" makes my boys giggle a bit....it is so common as we read.....and I have been thinking about it the past few days.....life is so filled with so many things....good things, hard things...but all of them came to pass....not to stay.....sometimes I am so grateful for that fact....you know....when things are tough or painful I am glad they are not to stay.....and often it feels like they stay too long, but other times....I am sad that things do not stay.....the joys we feel, the fun times when we actually get along as a family, the times my testimony is so strong.....why is it that they too must pass....I guess it is to keep us anxiously engaged...to keep us moving forward....if things came to stay....then we would get complacent and lazy....and that is not Heavenly Father's plan.....

anyway....I have no idea how to make this blog work....but hopefully I am going to figure it out....I hope to journal a few of my thoughts here....and share my life with my friends......