The Impact FHE Can Have On Children

On Monday night, we sat down together as a family and had family home evening. Kelli loves family home evening. We have a picture book of all the famous gospel paintings. This is how we have family home evening with Kelli. Right now we have been going through the Book of Mormon pictures. We were on the picture of Samuel the Lamanite. (You know the one of him on the tower and the Nephites were shooting arrows at him.) Well, we were telling Kelli the story of Samuel the Lamanite. After we were finished, Kelli wanted to say the prayer. In her prayer, she said, "please bless that no bad guys will come and shoot us." It's amazing how little things like a simple story can have such an impact on little kids.

Ultrasound

Here is a little profile picture of our baby boy. It's a little blurry. Ultrasounds are amazing. I am totally amazed how they can put an object up to your belly and you can see what is inside you.

It's A Boy!!!!

I probably should have mentioned this sooner. Yes, I am pregnant and I am having a boy! My due date is July 27th and I am 20 weeks along. Just thought I would finally get the word out to those of you who didn't know. Everything is going well.

Here is a lovely picture of my lovely belly starting to stick out.

Yoga Classes

I am starting to teach yoga at a different location in the Salt Lake Valley. I think it is a great deal, so I thought I would let all of you know.

The place that I am teaching at is called Far East Fitness. It is located at 3440 E Bengal Blvd (about 7800 South), in Salt Lake City. Most yoga classes are 12 dollars, but the cost at Far East is 10 dollars a class. If you buy a punch card for 10 yoga classes, it only costs 75 dollars. Also, your first class is free.

I teach a regular yoga class on Saturday mornings at 9:00. I will be starting a Prenatal and Postpartum yoga class on March 15th. The class will be held every Monday and Wednesday at 10:00 AM. Also, child care is provided. It's 3 dollars for 1 child and 2.50 for more than one child.

The prenatal and postpartum class is designed to relieve the aches and pains associated with pregnancy and will also help with morning sickness and early labor pains. The postpartum part is designed to help mother's bodies heal after child birth and to help get you back into shape.

Personally, I think this is a wonderful opportunity. I know many of you are mothers, and/or mothers to be. If you are interested, come and join my yoga classes. Also, I might start up another yoga class on Thursdays at 1:00 PM. If I can get a decent number, I will start that up as well. And remember, your first class is free, so if you would like to join, I would absolutely love it.

More Baby Fish

Two posts ago, I talked about Kelli's fish and how they had babies, and how they were getting bigger, and how they are super cute. Anyway, I had been noticing lately that the female fish was looking pretty fat. I thought, either she is eating a lot, or she is pregnant again. Sure enough, that fish WAS pregnant. She had her babies yesterday. Can you believe that! I have the most reproductive fish on the planet! So if anyone is interested in having some cute, black, tropical fish, let me know. I already have some takers for the first baby fish, but I am sure that these other baby fish will live and grow up as well. And I am sure that we will just keep on getting more and more baby fish.

Ski Trip

Every year, my side of the family goes on a ski trip. That is what we did last weekend. We all drove up to Powder Mountain. My parents rented a house for 3 nights. It was a blast. A lot of us spent Saturday and Monday skiing. The little kids spent a lot of time in the hot tub, sledding, watching movies, and just playing together.

On Saturday afternoon, Chris and I decided to try and teach Kelli how to ski. We rented some skis which were so cute, because they were so tiny, and put Kelli in them. She had been talking for a while that she wanted to learn how to ski. We tried it out for a little while and she did ok. Kelli skiing didn't last long before she said she was done. We would have tried a little more, but it snowed most of the time we were there, which isn't the greatest for kids if you want to try and teach them how to ski. But is sure is great for the adults. We love the powder! Here is a picture of Kelli all ready to go skiing.


On Saturday evening, I got this really cute picture of Kelli with all her cousins that are close to her age. They were goofing around on the couch, and I got these awesome pictures.


They have so much fun together. We spent the rest of the evening play Band Hero. It was a blast. Kelli has a really nice cousin who was willing to help her out with the drums.


After Band Hero, grandpa got all the grand kids together for a little story time. I don't know if any of you have heard of the story, "The Monster at the End of This Book?" My brothers and I loved it when we were all kids. My dad read this story to his grand daughters and boy did they love it too.

This next one is my favorite because they are all screaming.


On Sunday, we took pictures and also took the kids sledding right out behind the house where we were staying. Here is grandma and grandpa with all their grand children.



Our Family.
Sledding was a blast for the kids. All the guys built a louge in the back yard. The kids would fly down it and they loved it. It was pretty funny to watch.


Then, on Sunday night, all the kids put together a talent show. Some sang songs, some danced, others did tricks. It was pretty cute. They all opened up the program by singing Twinkle Twinkle Little star and doing actions with the song. This next picture is a little blurry.


Then Kelli sang I Am a Child of God for her talent. She did a really good job.



And for the grand finale of the talent show, the kids put on glow sticks and danced to Beyonce, Single Ladies. It was hilarious! Here are a few pictures of what it looked like. Kelli is the one with the red head.



Thanks everyone for such a fun trip. Thanks for all the yummy food and for a great time. It was wonderful to see all of you. Thanks especially to mom and dad for making it happen and for taking us skiing.

Kelli's fish

Kelli has some fish. She has 2 black fish, 2 orange colored fish and one algae fish. Back on Christmas eve, the 2 black fish had babies. These fish have live births. I was cleaning out the fish tank and I noticed a black floating thing. I thought, "that's gross, I better get rid of that." I looked closer and it was a baby fish. Chris and I noticed that one of the fish was having babies. And they were so tiny. I thought for sure they wouldn't make it. Usually the bigger fish will eat the baby fish. Anyway, there were 5 baby fish. It turns out that 4 of them are alive and getting big. One didn't make it. But it has been a lot of fun watching them grow. They have been living under the rocks for most of their life, now they swim around with all the other fish.


You can kind of see the baby fish in these pictures. It was kind of hard to get a good enough picture.