Raising Blessings

Last night I went to a “sweet swap” that our ward (church congregation) does on the 3rd sunday of each month. What we do is sign up if we want to join a group and then 3 or 4 families are put into groups and one of them hosts it. Everyone makes a dessert and we all [...]

Everyone loves to recieve gifts that show them that the person who gave it to them put a lot of thought into the gift. There is no better way to do that than to personalize a gift. At Visionbedding.com you can have a photo blanket custom made for you with your choice of up to [...]

We are into our second day of fall and the weather has changed a lot over the last few days here in South-Eastern Idaho. Two days ago we needed the air conditioning on and now it is time to turn the heating on. It is only 5 degrees Celsius right now(40 degrees Fahrenheit)!

A couple days ago I was organizing all of my daughter’s clothes, while doing that I got an idea for halloween costumes for them. My sister-in-law who lived in Hawaii for awhile gave me some of her daughter’s Hawaiian mumus. I think it would be so cute to dress the babies up as little Hawaiian [...]

Sariah is a very active girl. When she meets someone for the first time she acts very shy but then slowly warms up, however she doesn’t have a problem being left with babysitters or at the nursery at church. Sariah started nursery last sunday which I was excited about. Children need to be 18 months old to [...]

I went for a walk around our town a few days ago with my husband and daughters. The area we live in there are just apartments and town homes but we walked through the neighborhoods where there are a lot of really nice homes. One thing I noticed is that a lot of people have [...]

The Canadian dollar is now just about equal to the US dollar. I should have taken all of my money out of my canadian bank account this year instead of last year! My husband always laughs when he watches the Canadian news at my parents house because they are always comparing the Canadian dollar to [...]

Rebekah is 2 months old today and I had to go through Sariah’s old baby clothes and take out all the 3-6 month clothes and put away a lot of the newborn clothes. I just can’t believe how much bigger she is than Sariah was. Rebekah is a very happy baby she smiles and coo’s [...]