Our Arizona guests headed home this morning. They were so fun to have, and we will miss them, but hopefully they will come visit in the summer sometime. I’ll have another baby for them to meet by then anyway. Jacob was off of work today, so we decided to take the boys to the park for a couple hours and shoot their rocket launcher and fly helicopters. Bec, Jud, Sadie, Joe, Anthony, and Jaedyn met us at the park on Becca and Anthony’s side of town, but we didn’t mind driving since the boys got to play at the park with their cousins. They played on the playground for a little bit, and Easton ran into one of his friends from his class at school. He has run into Miguel a few times when we’ve been on a completely different side of town from where we live, so it’s always funny that we happen to see him. So he and Miguel played for a bit while the other kiddos played with each other. Jacob is really great about playing with the kids. He’s always the one playing games with them and wrestling and chasing them while we’re together in big groups. The rest of us adults sit around chatting with each other while he pays attention to the children, and I love that about him. Sadie and Jaedyn love to play with Jacob. I always appreciate how sweet he is and how much fun he really has playing with and entertaining them. It’s a good quality to have.
The kids had fun shooting the rockets off and flying the helicopters. They are so cute to watch, all the little cousins together. Sadie was so cute to watch because she could barely get the rocket to shoot a foot into the air.
Easton says Miguel is one of his best friends. They are funny to watch together too.
After the park we came home, and I started getting the Christmas decorations all put away. It’s great to have them up, but it’s always nice to de-clutter after Christmas is over and get my house back to normal. Everything feels so clean already. 2011 went by quickly, as all the years seem to now that I’m older. Tomorrow Easton is back to school. Christmas is over like it almost never happened, and the routine begins again. But I’m looking forward to it. And I’m looking forward to April when Mr. Logan will get out of my belly and start keeping me up all night instead.
For FHE tonight Jacob taught the lesson about planting a garden. It’s on my list for things to do this year, and we wanted to teach the boys the importance of helping in the family garden. They love to go out in the garden at both their grandparents’ houses here in Vegas so I know they will have so much fun as we start getting our yard ready. We don’t have much space since we don’t have a backyard and only have a small fenced in front yard, and we’re not even sure that the HOA will approve it. But it’s important and we want to do it, so that’s what we will do if we can get approval. If not we’ll just grow a bunch of things in flower pots on our porch. The HOA can’t stop us from doing that. They probably could, but we will grow something on our own, by golly. I’m excited for spring to come!
Also tonight, I am grateful for a husband that lives his life in a way that he can give me a blessing when I ask for it, and I know that he is in tune with the Spirit to say the words the Lord would have him say. I have been feeling a bit of anxiety lately, so I asked him for a blessing. It is comforting and reassuring to hear the power of the Lord through the words my sweet husband says as he puts his hands on my head and blesses me. He is such a good man – not perfect, but constantly striving, always climbing. He is there for me in ways I never imagined a husband could be, and not just in fun times or perfect times when all is well and life is problem free. I feel such peace in his arms. I find that when I am not feeling my best, when I am down about something, too critical of myself or feeling inadequate that he just has this way of making me feel like there is hope, and not just in the Lord, but in the spouse that sleeps next to me and lives his life beside me. His compassion and sensitivity to his wife surely must score him some serious points with Heavenly Father since dads love it when their daughters are taken care of. Now this does not mean that Jacob doesn’t bug me occasionally or that we agree on everything because he does and we certainly don’t. But we agree on the fact that we love the Lord and want to please Him, and that makes us better companions to each other. I love this man so much, and I can feel and see how much he loves me. It feels good to have that blessing in my life – to truly feel the warmth and depth of your spouse’s love is a blessing I do not take for granted.
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