Weekend Fun

This weekend went by way too fast haha i cant believe its already gone. We didnt do anything really out of the ordinary...weve or should i say spencer has been working really hard on our front and back yards. I really should have taken pictures of what they looked like when we moved in. It was COVERED in weeds and everything was dead...but we got the sprinklers up and working again and our winter grass is growing and things are looking SO much better! We do need to get a few different plants to replace a couple of dead ones and we are going to start working on a garden...which I am so excited about! One of our windows opens up to the side of our house which is just a block wall so i cant wait to open my window and look at a pretty garden! Were going to have tomatoe vines up the block with wooden boxes and lots more...i really cant wait!

Debbie was singing at a charitable event this weekend called "Hope Arising" that we went to. Preston was not nice so i had to hold him outside the whole time but i sat and visited with the mother of the women who put the thing together and she filled me in on what hope arising was all about. Her daughter lost 2 of her children and was really looking for some way she could help others so she wouldnt be thinking so much of herself and her losses. And someone took her to Africa to Ethiopia to show her how these people were living. These people have to walk miles everyday just to get water. Usually the children go and they leave very early in the morning with huge buckets, usually 2 kids to a bucket, with a stick through the handle so they can both carry it home. They go once in the morning and again at night and again it is miles away. The kids are tired from having to do this everyday so alot of them dont go to school or probably dont get alot out of school. Their hygiene is horrible because of this water problem and alot of people are dying. They cant have any kind of hospital or medical help because there would be no way to sanitize. Needless to say they need help. I know times are hard right now, were feeling it just like everyone else is but i dont know anyone who is living in those kind of situations. We are all so blessed. So if you would like please donate whatever you can to www.hopearising.org all they are asking for is a dollar so if you would like to donate but dont have a dollar to spare please let me know and i will gladly give it to you.

We had tithing settlement last night and the message he wanted to share was about how much our Heavenly Father loves us. How do we show him how much we love him? Keeping the Commandments and Serving others. There are so many in need of help right now and i hope we can all keep that in mind this holiday season!

On another note My mom and sister are going to show low this week! I seriously cant wait to see them! Ive always wanted to live in Utah but they were supposed to wait for me before they moved there! haha! Its hard to have my parents living far, im a mommy and daddys girl and i love spending lots of my time with my family so its been hard only seeing them once a month if im lucky. The move was definantly the best thing for them right now and i am glad they went but we do miss them a TON here in Arizona. I definantly cant live this far away from my family for forever so someday we will live close again and thats a promise!

Preston is definantly growing out of this swing...but he loves it soo much so i dont know what im going to do. :(

Me and Preston playing outside while daddy is working...

Spencer is fixing some leaks from our sprinklers...dang things...weve had so many problems with them.

Watching Daddy

Me and my lil boy...oh how i love him

Isnt he just the cutest?

This morning watching "your baby can read" haha he loves those videos...i wonder if they will really work?