Walking Roo & Tuesday's Testimony

Roo is sad.  She wants to walk.

Yay!  Oh so proud of herself.

Practice makes perfect.

Mommy, look at me, I'm learning!!

A pink butterfly for her hair, just like her cake!  I'm so glad she can finally wear these now!!  I keep pulling clips off my sweetjane bow board and adding them to Allie's personal bow collection, haha!!

My Tuesday Testimony:
(Look for this every Tuesday now!  This is more for my children to read as they go through their lives, but I love to share it with anybody who will listen!!)

Life is good right now.
I mean, life is always good for me.....but I have just been even happier than usual lately.
I feel closer to and more in love with Nate than ever, and every day I wake up so excited to be a mother to my children.  I feel very focused towards our eternal goal of being together forever. 

I have been studying Doctrine & Covenants 76.  It discusses the Celestial Kingdom....what it will be like and what we must do and who we must be to qualify.  Study verses 50-70 if you'd like.  Powerful.  We can't be casual in our service to God.  In a talk given several years ago by my Stake President, he said, "Dedication to serving God is not related to convenience - but to testimony." - President Green 1/17/04.  I have never forgotten that statement.  I think about it often as I struggle through church with my squirmy kids, as I leave my quiet, relaxing evenings to go visiting teaching, as I think about adding children to our family, as I serve in my calling, as I think about my relationships with my family members and friends, as I plan temple trips with my husband......

I don't want to only serve the Lord and be a true member of His church when it's convenient for me.  Because if I choose that path, if I choose the easy way, the selfish way.....then I have failed, and the Adversary has won.  Something will always be in the way if I let it.  And I will not qualify for the Celestial Kingdom.  And that's not okay with me!!!  My husband is too hot....and my children are too cute to not be with them forever and ever.

I feel so close to my Heavenly Father and my Savior, and I feel their hand and guidance in my life.  I want nothing more than to return to "dwell in the presence of God and his Christ forever and ever" -Doctrine & Covenants 76:62.