It Came to Pass...

Last night we finished the Book of Mormon. This is our second year in a row successfully getting through a standard work (last year was New Testament).  I can't tell you what an accomplishment this is, although those of you with little kids probably understand.

I almost gave up this year. 

At one point Paul and James were rough housing and laughing (how DARE they, ha ha) and I quit. I thought, maybe when Paul starts acting his age and James is older and can sit still for longer than 3.2 seconds we'll try again.

For a week.

But then I realized that if I quit, I wasn't teaching James anything good. So we resumed with a different attitude and I'm so glad that we did.

Every night for the past month it has been James who has reminded us that it's time to read scriptures. He's been engaged by them! My little 3 year old has been listening and asking millions of questions about the scriptures. It makes our scripture study last at least twice as long, but I don't mind answering his questions like: 

What does 'it came to pass' mean?

Who is so and so?

Those guys were naughty, huh?

Why do they say 'it came to pass' so much?

And his constant repeating of what we read to try to understand the language of the scriptures.

We all would have missed out on so much if I had just quit because it was hard.  I know that there will probably be times when I feel like quitting again, but for right now I'm just grateful that we were able to finish it and we are so excited to start our Christmas advent tomorrow!

Fall

So...Autumn flew past quickly!  The last few months are sort of a blur. It seems like the bulk of our time has been spent applying for jobs, interviewing, and looking for more jobs to apply to. It's been harder than we anticipated. I thought for sure we'd have something lined up by now, but no such luck....yet. We fee fortunate that we still have a job after graduation, even though it's not the best.

We actually bought him an Iron Man costume this year, but he wanted me to make him a Captain America costume instead.

Anyway, we did manage to get out a little bit and have some fun. We took James to the Red Barn in Santaquin, Utah. We went on a hay ride, picked out some pumpkins and dug for treasure in a huge sand box (we didn't find anything).  

Later that week we went to Grandpa and Grandma Willardson's for some trick-or-treating with Lorelei. They were so cute and had so much fun together.

For Thanksgiving this year we went to my parent's house.  It was a lot of work, but just as good as always.  We spent the night on Wednesday so we could have plenty of time to cook. James had so much fun watching the Macy's Thanksgiving parade with family.

I honestly can't believe that Christmas is here!