My Little Pumpkins

I love fall. I love the crispness in the air. I love how I don't immediately start sweating when I walk outside...in reality, its the only season I go outside. Fall is a beautiful season.

Steven and I were able to take the boys to the pumpkin patch. Landon loved pulling the wagon all around the field of orange. Kaison loved teething on all the gorgeous pumpkins. We picked out one large pumpkin for cooking and 2 baby pumpkins for our little snuggle bunnies.

For Family Home Evening tonight, we used our Nursery Manual to teach Landon about Heavenly Father and his plan for us. It is difficult to get him to focus for long, but he enjoys singing 'I am a Child of God'. He sings so beautifully and he loves to sing songs about the gospel. Recently, he has been walking around the house singing 'I Love to See the Temple'. It brings joy to my heart when I hear his angelic voice sing beautiful songs. What a sweet spirit.

After we did our lesson, we took our pumpkin and dissected it. Landon was excited to see the inside of a pumpkin. He carefully pulled out the strings and made the funniest faces. Landon was grossed out by the texture. We carefully picked out all the seeds and Steven put the pumpkin in the oven.  Steven wants to make pumpkin cheesecake. DELICIOUS!!! I can't wait for him to make this pumpkin treat.

Eternal Families

I was reminded this week of my gratitude for a loving Heavenly Father, a Father that has a plan for us during this life and the next. I feel extremely blessed to know that families are forever. After attending a funeral service for a wife and mother of 7 children, I thought of my own parents and how much I love them and their testimony of the gospel. So much of what was said about this good and faithful sister in the gospel is true of my parents. Gratitude. One thing that stood out at the service was how they could imagine that Spirits were lined up around the block to be one of the children born into that wonderful family. I feel the same way about my own family. I am grateful for the time my parents spent teaching us, taking us to church, making us pray together and read scriptures as a family, even if sometimes, we did it with a grumble. The testimony of my parents was strong and immovable, they knew how it important it was for us to have a personal relationship with our Savior and our Father in Heaven and they did all in their power to give us opportunities to love, serve, and grow. Because of them and their faithful parenting, I was raised in the gospel and have a testimony of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I was born of goodly (and Godly, for that matter) parents. I know that through our Savior, we are able to be sealed to our families for time and all eternity, and if we live righteously, we will be able to see our loved ones that have gone beyond the veil. I say this in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.