Great Youth Activity

We had such a great combined young men/young women activity tonight. We met at the church and had our opening exercises (the Priests were in charge). Then they just invited anyone who wanted to to share their favorite scripture, tell why it was their favorite and express their testimony. It was awesome! It was a continual stream of youth the entire time. I'm so grateful to have such wonderful youth in the area we live in. It was especially great to hear Travis and Tyrel's favorite scriptures and why they liked them.

Lori's Favorite - 2 Ne 25:26
Travis' Favorite - Mosiah 4:30 - he talked about how you need to remember that others are always watching you and that you need to be a good example and make sure you are making wise choices so that you can be a good example
Tyrel's Favorite - 2 Ne 2:27 - he talked about how there are two paths to choose and you can choose misery or you can choose the right and have eternal life and happiness

Grateful for a son that can cook

Tyrel made dinner for us tonight. It was a good thing because I was busy finishing up work and Sean and I went to ward temple night tonight, so it was great to have a helper. He made a recipe he got in his foods class when the pork lady came in and talked with them. It was yummy along with his rice and he made green beans for a vegetable. Thanks Tyrel!

Family Night

I am so grateful for the Family Night program! I love the chance that it gives us once a week to spend time together as a family. We weren't too good at it when Travis and Tyrel were little, but sometime the year before Trevin was born, we set a goal to be better at it and I think we have only missed maybe a half dozen times since then. It is one goal we have been good at. We sometimes slack at family scripture study and family prayers, but we almost never miss family night and we are trying really hard to make the others good habits also. We have a rotation board and we all take turns. Sometimes our lessons are really really short, but sometimes, that's ok.


Haylee, Traci and I talked on New Years about maybe having a monthly Nielsen family Family Night with each of us taking a turn once a year and having a set week and those who can make it, can, and those who can't, we will miss them and hope to catch them the next time. So, I hope we can get that planned out and put together!

The Early Schedule

Today I'm grateful that we get the early schedule for church this year! I so love being able to get up and get the day started and then have the afternoon for naps, spending time together, making a good dinner, and eating lunch when it is really lunchtime. Don't tell, but Sean likes it for those same reasons, plus he gets to watch more football.

The only bad part is I don't have time to review my lesson on Sunday morning one extra time before I have to give it, but all the other benefits outweigh that one!

Goals for 2010

I'm going to do this a little differently. I used to set quite a few goals and I didn't achieve them all because there were too many. So every year I cut it down, and I still don't achieve them all. So, I picked different areas in my life, and I'm setting a lot of them again, but hopefully I can achieve some of them. I'm posting here and also on my desktop so I can see them every day. So you can all ask me how I'm doing on my goals to keep me held accountable and hopefully looking at them every day on my computer desktop will keep me reminded of what they are since I have no clue what goals I set for myself last year since I haven't looked at the list since probably last January right after Travis typed them up for me after our family night lesson.

Nothin But Net

Trevin started his basketball season today. His team is "The Magic" and they only have 6 kids on their team, so hopefully everyone shows up every time. They lost horribly, (14-37) but Trevin had fun. I'm grateful for his happy attitude even when he loses because no one likes to spend the weekend with someone who is a sore loser and is grouchy the rest of the day. He did great at defense and was good at keeping his arms up in the air. We need to work on his vertical leap but it was fun to watch them.
I'm also grateful for all the wonderful coaches all of my kids have had over the years. It is wonderful that there are people willing to put in time to help these kids so much.

We only have one basketball player this year which will make it easier on us trying to schedule our Saturday mornings, but I'm kind of sad to not be watching Travis and Tyrel play too. Tyrel starts conditioning for tryouts for soccer this month, so I'm sure we will still be plenty busy.

Welcome 2010!

We had everyone up again on New Years Day (plus Troy) to watch some football, visit and eat. I really need to get started on my New Years goals after all the eating that has been going on lately. We just snacked on leftover stuff from New Years Eve for lunch and then we made pizza's for dinner. They all thought I was insane for taking a picture of the pizza, but it was so pretty with all the colors and it tasted delightful! I'm grateful that we made this combo pizza instead of just a bunch of pepperoni pizzas like we normally do on a Friday night.

We made two pepperoni; one meat lovers with pepperoni, sausage and ham; a chicken alfredo; and two combination pizzas for a total of 6 pizzas. The combinations were the first ones gone I think. Pepperoni was all that we had leftovers of. It smelled good and tasted even better. We had sauce, cheese, green peppers, red onion, olives, pepperoni, mushrooms, sausage, and ham. SO SO Good. Thanks everyone for the help cooking and the fun times!

Kaiden stayed overnight with Trevin and we stayed up late playing games and listening to Kaiden giggle because he thought they were so fun and hadn't played most of them before. We played checkers, Jenga, Disney Scene It, Topple and Twister.