Keeping the dream alive!

Keith is living the dream! He drove a nascar at 140 miles per hour yesturday in North Carolina at Lowes Motor Speedway! I talked to him on the phone just after he got done and he sounded so giddy. I miss him so much yet I am so thankful he got to go do something so fun for himself. He needed that. Jeff Gordan watch out!

Doesn't he look hot!

Feel the love!

Isaac is now down to every other day asking if we can go back to disneyworld. He tells everyone that we are moving there and we are going to live at disneyworld.

Thanks again mom and dad for an unbelievable dream come true. It was amazing. I long for that carefree feeling again. There are certain things or times that always stay with me when they make a great impact and this is one of them. My children will never be the same either. What a beautiful time for our family.

Influence

I love the strength in testimony when Sheri Dew is speaking. I love how enrapturing she can be when she speaks. She said something that really mad me think. She was speaking on our influence as righteous women in these latter days. She said we have more influence than we think. And then she said something so profound for me, she said "If we were to unleash the power of covenant keeping women we would change the world overnight". Simple, yet profound and oh so true. So I brought this message with me to the sisters in my ward. I think they were touched as much as I was about that statement.

So go make a difference in your world today!

Sweet Day Off

Yesturday was Mothers Day and I was feeling kind of low because for 2 days prior to that I was sick in bed. So I called everyone and told them dinner was off. I felt so bad that I had made these big plans to have everyone over and then I had to cancel on them. So I woke up Sunday morning praying that I would feel better and I didnt. I woke up and felt every muscle in my body ache. Yuck. But I did not want to call someone at the last minute to teach releif society for me. And Ashlee was speaking in sacrament. So I had Keith give me a blessing. It was so sweet. Only one little line about getting better was in it. The rest was about my calling and serving the women in my ward. It was clear to me that I needed to be there and still try and teach. I am so glad I went. Ashlee's talk was so amazing for a 10 year old. She did so good. She also sang with her achievement day girls and it was so beautiful it made me cry. My lesson in RS went well other than losing my voice every so often. And feeling week to the point of falling over. I think I was able to touch the sisters in my ward though. Sometimes I dont see the influence I have but I felt it in the blessing that I recieved that morning that I would influence someone this day. I came home and slept again still not feeling well. And my dearest sweetest mother in law made dinner for my family. That was the best mothers day gift ever! Here I was feeling so sad because I had offered to make her dinner and then had to cancel and she made dinner for me and had it delivered and everything. It was so beautiful and wonderful. I cried and cried. Thank you mom. I love you so much. You continue to amaze me every day. Thank you for being a big part of my miracle on Mothers Day.

Ps.... I think I might be sick every Mothers Day!

The Worlds Prophet

I had the wonderful opportunity to see and listen to our prophet this last Friday. What an amazing expeirience that was for me. I knew I was supossed to go to womens conferenc this year. Facing opposition in all forms leading all the way up to right before he entered the room. I knew that I was supposed to be right in the exact spot at that exact moment. Satan was working over time on trying to get me to not feel of the spirit while I whitnessed a propet of God speak.
You see change is hard for me and I almost did not go to womens conference this year because the person I normally go with was not able to go this year. So I thought how could I possibly go by myself and then I found out that another friend of mine was going and that they had extra room with them. I was so excited and yet sad for my friend who I go with every year. Anyway so I planned and arranged and all was well. The first day of the conference was wonderful and fabulous like always. I tried changing up my routine a bit and tried to make it to some classes that were outside of the Maryott center. whew I will never change that agian. Every year I just kind of stay put in the maryott center because I dont like to fight the crowds at these type of things. But this year I thought I would continue with my change it up motto. It was crazy. I did get in to see a class taught by Pres. Bott- Keith's mission President. He was amazing as usual and worth all the crazy pushy women I had to fight off to keep my place in line. So after all that I decided on Friday for all the classes I would just stay put in the Maryott center. I did. And let me tell you There is nothing like a Prophet of God coming to speak to bring out the worst in women. We all got up early in the morning got to BYU early and waited our turn to get in. We were in one of the lines and they let our line go in first and the women in the other line started booing because our door got opened first. I could not believe it. So we raced in and got good seats front and center 1 row back from the front. They were the best seats in the house. Eye contact with the prophet was guaranteed. I was so humbled and so excited at the same time. Anyway to make a long story short I stayed put all day long in those seats through every class which was wonderful. And I had to fight off freaky women all day. Including the women in front of us because they wanted their friends to sit by them they actually had the nerve to ask us to move over. And normally in that kind of situation I would have been so unconfrontational that I would have just left and found a different spot to sit in but I held my ground against the advesary that was in the form of a snotty women used to getting her way and said "NO". I had to sit there and watch through all my classes how they would whisper back and forth about me not moving and they would let their cell phones ring and they were reading books and being so loud and just really trying to disturb us so that we would have to move. They would hover over us and sit in the eisle and everything. I could not beleive the gall of these women. In between the classes I would get other women trying to take the seats that we all were sitting in and they would get really rude when I told them they were already taken and so on. Just a crazy time and this had never been my expierience for womens conference before. Usually I have sweet expeiriences with all the women I come into contact with. But there was a different feeling this year. It was electric in the air. And amidst all of that I had the sweet revelation that I was in the right place at the right time and That I was going to see a prophet of God and that satan was using every tactic to distract me. I did not yeild. And It was so wonderful....It was worth all of the heartache I went through to stay right there. My faith was strengthend and I was able to push through it and I got to see and make eye contact with the prophet. And earlier that day Sister Beck looked right at me and smiled too. I could feel her spirit talk to my spirit in that moment. I knew that she was a true servant of our Father in Heaven leading the relief society women of our church. Rolling forth the gospel in these latter days. One thing that Presedent Monson said in his talk was "find joy in the now". He said adversity is woven into the tapestry of our lives. Faith can help you endure your particular challenges. Challeges are nessesary for our growth and development and with enduring comes a willingness to press forward". And that is what I did that day. I pressed forward with faith and patience and the sweet rewards came. That day I felt like he was speaking right to me. I know he was speaking to all of us but that day the message was so clear to me. So strong and he spoke right to my heart. I am so thankful that a loving Father in heaven knows me.