Blessings

I had an experiences I wanted to share. It requires a tiny bit of setup first though.

A while back, Tammy introduced me to the book The Five Love Languages. Basically what I pulled from that book is that every one is an individual and if you really want to make a relationship work you need to figure out how the other person feels love. Well, one way that I really feel love is when a person takes care of little details for me. It makes me feel like they know me to the very last detail of myself.

Yesterday, I was not feeling to great. I'd been having trouble sleeping and I think I was getting a sinus infection. It was Sunday though, and I had to play in Relief Society and sacrament meeting. Relief Society is first and during the whole lesson I just really wanted to go home and sleep. I knew that I could make it through and play for sacrament, but I really didn't want to. So, at the end I finally got the courage to ask Sister Alger if she would cover for me in sacrament. Nothing special needed to happen for her to cover for me. I could have just loaned her my hymn book and everything would have been fine. But, she had brought her organ shoes and her hymn book and had thought to herself that morning, "I don't really need these. Why am I bringing them?" Like I said, that was not necessary, but it sure did help me feel like less of an idiot.

So, to bring it all together, that experience really helped me to feel like the Lord knows me as an individual. He knows my "love languages" and has been willing to show me individual love more than once this year. That experience didn't need to go that way, but it was just one small detail the Lord took care of to show that He loves little old me even if I am not perfect. And, if he loves me individually he most certainly loves all of you individually. Sometimes you just have to be able to recognize those experiences. And I guess it's not about blessings or lessons He can teach you, but just about Him showing that He loves you.

*Disclaimer: I am not a great writer at the best of times, but most especially not a great writer when I am talking about something emotional. So, I hope you get the point of my ramblings.

Testing

Testing, testing... Just checking to see if I can get my blog to work.

Kathryn

I had to do an assignment using Microsoft Photostory, and I have to say it's an awesome program! It's free to download and easy to use. You can even use it to burn a copy of the photostory onto DVD, so you can watch it anywhere. This video is mostly for Shane and Sarah. They just had so many pictures on their blog! If anyone else likes it and wants to send some pictures I will make one for them or just download photostory and make your own. Shane and Sarah if you like it I can email you a copy, even an editable copy. And yes, I know the song says Delilah, but I just like it so much.

Cody

Cody's OK! We got him back two days ago and he's doing great. He sure bounced back pretty fast!

Halloween

We got our one trick-or-treater this year, and we even advertised:



Also, here's the pumpkin Cam and I carved together. I scoop it out, and Cam carves it:



And my favorite part. Pumpkin seeds!