Today was a long day. There was a lot that happened today. Sarah had her ups and downs. She went on a walk with Jess when the rest of us were at Stake Conference. She came upstairs during Gus's presents, after getting a 2 hour nap. It took her a while to go to sleep tonight, but she is doing good.
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| Sarah playing with one of Gus's new toys. |
I have been tired today as well. There was a big storm yesterday, and it knocked the power out for ~30 minutes or so. There was thunder and lightning, which woke up Sarah a couple of times. After the power came back on, we found out that Annika's apartment in the basement had flooded. She is on the other side of the house from where we are staying the basement. My father, mother, Mary Ann and I were up until 2am using the shop vac to pull up the water, pulling up the carpet and getting rid of the wet pad underneath. It seems like these sort of things happen on Saturday evenings more than any other time of the week.
Stake Conference was today for my parent's stake. Elder Richard G. Scott came down from Salt Lake and presided over the conference. Jess was able to go to the adult session of the conference last night. I went to the general session today in the Alpine Tabernacle (I love that building). It was really good. One of the themes that I got out of conference is the need for us to be committed to action. When we get counsel from the Lord or from our priesthood leaders and we don't act on it, we lose some of our faith and our commitment to the gospel. It is only through action that we can keep the Holy Ghost with us and be guided to what the Lord has in store for us.
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| Gus's cakes |
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| One of Gus's new toys |
We celebrated Gus's birthday today. He will be one on Wednesday, but it is easier to have it on the weekend for people to make it. He got a few toys and clothes. One of our traditions is that on the first birthday, the child can have at the birthday cake. Well neither of our girls did much to their cakes, but Gus dove in and had handfuls of frosting. He would lick it off his hand. It was funny and I am sure he liked it a lot.
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| Gus chowing down on the cake |
We love you all and are grateful for the love and support you give us.
I love Sarah's food request's. They crack me up! It is great that you were able to celebrate Gus's birthday with family. We're looking forward to seeing what Van does with his cake next month!
ReplyDeleteI haven't even put all of them. The past two days, she has requested steak for at least 4 of the meals.
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