July 17th 2011

Tonight was nice. During family home evening Madison started asking some questions and we found out that she thought angels had wings and flew around. We talked a lot about angels and about our spirits. She also had questions about something said in a lesson at church about Jesus owning us. We explained that he paid for our sins but that we didn't think he would want us to think of it as he "owns us" but that he wants us with him. He paid for our sins and wants us to repent and use the gift he gave us. It was a very good family home evening. The spirit was very strong. She also wanted to know about revelations and visions and who should receive them. I told her about different instances when we had received promptings for our own family. All the children enjoyed our talk and felt the spirit. Jaxon said that before we had Ava he would count all of us to see if one of us was missing and would feel like someone was missing. It was a great night.

This past 13 days Grace and Megan came to stay. We had a lot of fun with them. The kids have started Karate and Gymnastics and love it. Tomorrow I am taking Greta and Madison out on a date. I can't wait it is going to so much fun to take my two girls out. Wil is so excited that Andrew brought him a snake over that they found. Now he has a baby gopher snake and Jaxon has a large one (that just laid eggs...they are sooo excited). Jaxon also got a water dragon and loves it. They have so much fun with their animals.