Raising Blessings

Monday Afternoon Rebekah began complaining of tummy pains and vomiting. She was acting completely normal though, running around with Sariah and tumbling off the couch. Just like she was before we learned that she had appendicitis. I went to walmart at midnight to get some anti-nasea medicine for her so she could get some sleep. [...]

Telus is one of Canada’s largest providers of home network services. They own a lot of cell towers and they also have a long list of charities they support. 480 to be exact. Telus is sponsoring the Walk To Cure Diabetes that my parents and little sisters will be taking part in. The walk takes [...]

JJ had his last final on Wednesday and he had the day off yesterday. We accomplished a lot! First we went to few insurance companies to compare insurance rates for car and home insurance as our car insurance policy ends today. We currently have State Farm for car and Allstate for home so we are [...]

Yesterday was Rebekah’s appointment with here surgeon at the Children’s hospital. Around the time we were leaving it started snowing very heavily. So the usual 1 hour drive took a lot longer and we were a little late for the appointment but we were supposed to be early so we could get the lab work [...]

Just a warning *** You may not want to read this post while eating*** Yesterday I took Rebekah to the DR’s because the pediatrician wanted to give her a check up since she had been throwing up for three days. He thinks it could be either a reaction to her antibiotics or some of the [...]

We had so much fun at Sariah’s 3rd birthday party on Saturday. There were a little over 20 people who showed up. For snacks we had fresh pineapple (4 for $5!) banana’s and JJ made cucumber rolls which turned out well. I made a daisy cake, I got the idea from the Kraft website, obviously [...]

It has been a great week so far. I finally got around to starting on my first ever quilt and we started on our first ever garden! We started the garden on Monday for family home evening (FHE). JJ started our FHE off by giving a lesson on seeds. He talked about things that grow [...]

Last night JJ’s youngest brother, Ryan flew into Salt Lake from Chattanooga because he had decided to serve a two year mission for the LDS church. Since we only live about 10 minutes away from the Missionary Training Center he was able to stay with us over night and we took him to the MTC [...]