My baby is a climber! Seriously, 
she’s always trying to climb into the bathtub, she’s going to fall in on her head one of these days. She loves to get into Annie’s rocking chair, and up on the hearth at Grandpa’s house. Who knows where she’ll go next!?
I am on a kick trying new recipes. We’ve had tomato soup, pumpkin muffins, ham & cheese crescents and lemon bars. The favorites were Baked Ziti and Chicken Bacon Parmesan Pasta. Seriously…delicious!
The ziti was her favorite.:)
(ignore the Christmas plate)
This last week we also had another ultrasound for Baby J., just to check his size and make sure he’s doing well. He’s a cute little booger.:) Right now he’s weighing in around 4 lbs. He’s measuring a little bit big, but not enough to worry about. Seriously, it feels like the kid is 3 feet long. I feel his little hands down at the bottom of my belly and I swear his feet are up in the middle of my chest! I am UNCOMFORTABLE!
Only 8 more weeks to go, if he goes all the way to November 26th. I just try to keep reminding myself that the girls both came 2 weeks early, which means I need to be ready in 6 weeks. BAHAHAHA…funny, huh?:)
This weekend was General Conference. As a mom of 2 little people, I’ve learned that, these days, I learn best in one-liners. I don’t get much out of regular church, just bits and pieces, here and there, so I went into conference listening for some good one-liners. These were some of my favorites.
General Relief Society Meeting
Dieter F. Uchtdorf“God is fully aware that you and I are not perfect. Let me add: God is also fully aware that the people you think are perfect are not.”
Saturday Morning Session
Barbara Thompson: “I didn’t keep a testimony through those times, the testimony kept me.”
Dieter F. Uchtdorf (LOVE HIM!):
“Compared to God, man is nothing. Yet, we are everything to God.”
“You could pile up the accumulated currency of the entire world and it could not buy a loaf of bread in the economy of heaven.”
“The Lord doesn’t care at all if we spend our days working in marble halls or stable stalls. He knows where we are, no matter how humble our circumstances. He will use in His own way and for His own holy purposes those who incline their hearts to Him.”
Saturday Afternoon Session
Neil L. Anderson (one of my favorite talks!):
“We declare that God’s commandment for His children to multiply and replenish the Earth remains in force. … We express deep gratitude for the enormous faith shown by husbands and wives, especially wives, in their willingness to have children. When to have a child and how many children to have are private decisions to be made between a husband and wife and the Lord. These are sacred decisions. Decisions that should be made with sincere prayer and acted on with great faith.”
“Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.”
“To a righteous father, there are no words sufficient to express the gratitude and love he feels for his wife’s incalculable gift of bearing and caring for their children.”
“Where is your faith?”
“If you are concerned about providing financially for a wife and family, may I assure you that there is no shame in a couple having to scrimp and save. It is generally during these challenging times that you will grow closer together that you will grow closer as you learn to sacrifice and make difficult decisions.” (from Pres. Monson)
Ian D. Ardern:
“Let us be as quick to kneel as we are to text.”
“Cyber acquaintances are no lasting substitute for real friends who can give an encouraging hug, pray for us, and seek out our best interest.”
“Our greatest happiness comes as we tune into the Lord and to those things which bring a lasting reward, rather than mindlessly tuning into countless hours of status updates, internet farming and catapulting angry birds at concrete walls. I urge each of us to take those things which rob us of precious time and determine to be their master, rather than allowing them through their addictive nature to be master over us.”
Sunday Morning Session
Henry B. Eyring:
“In one who is wholly converted, desire for things contrary to the gospel of Jesus Christ has actually died. And substituted therefor is a love of God with a fixed and controlling determination to keep His commandments.” (from Marion G. Romney)
Elaine S. Dalton (another of my favorites):
“The most important thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother. By the way you love her mother, you will teach your daughter about tenderness, loyalty, respect, compassion and devotion.
Your example will teach your daughter to value womanhood. You are showing her that she is a daughter of her Heavenly Father.”
“Be an active part of her life. If, in her teenage years, she should not come home from a date on time, go get her. She will resist and tell you you have ruined her social life, but she will inwardly know that you love her and that you care enough to be her guardian.”
You are not ordinary men. Because of your values in the premortal realms, you qualify to be leaders and to possess Priesthood power. There you exhibited exceeding faith and good works and you are here now to do the same.”
Thomas S. Monson:
“Our code of conduct is definitive. It is not negotiable.”
And…I pretty much missed the Sunday afternoon session. Mostly cause I was fighting with my kids. Sundays are never very good.
