november in review

at the beginningof november we were made into a new stake: henrys fork stake- we had some more good reminders of not letting our busy schedules keep us from the most important things, mainly the gospel-teaching our children and sharing it with others. i loved Elder Hammonds (he's my very nice dentist) talk about when he lived in Alaska and would watch the cariboo or deer migrate and the wolves would wait on the sides ready to pick on a weaker one on the fringe and he likened it to us and our own testimonies:are they strong enough to be in the middle of the pack or our we living the gospel on the fringe, where satan has more power over us...and he told the story of the girl in his class who was having a hard time taking out her second pair of earrings ( a question that had come up with kelsi earlier this year) anyways the girl attached her second pair of earrings to her test paper and wrote to Elder Hammond that she wouldn't be one of those whose testimonies was on the fringe.

we also had our presidential election this month-our first black president was elected, President Obama-this election was talked about alot and even my kids were into it, so when they learned that who i had voted for didn't get elected they were a little worried but i told them even though my opinions differ from President Obamas on some issues, i assured them that he was still a very good and inspiring man and we should always pray for all of our leaders.

For scouts we visited the museum and got to learn about indian heritage from Wesley, Two Eagles-i had to include this picture for kaden because it is his favorite now because this was when he still had his Harry Potter hair and if you look closely at the stick he is holding...it looks very magical- LUMOS!
and according to kaden you can't prove that magic doesn't exsist!
this is the only picture of koy's birthday-there is a reason, he got what i think was a clogged tear duct so his eye swelled up like quazimoto...plus it was a little (lot) busy with 10 little boys at our house but it was a happy birthday!
this is koy when he is about 5 months old-i thought i would write just a little about what i remember when he was born: kent had left to salt lake for a trade show for trendwest, i was feeding the dogs and running back into the house and my water broke-i of course am crying when i come into the house, yes that fast...i'm terrified of having babies. well kelsi asked me what the matter was and i said i just don't feel well. i went into the bathroom to think things over...in no time all the kids are outside the door because they know i never lock the bathroom and something must be wrong. i came out and called kent, he started his trip home and i prayed that this would be my longest delivery (that sounds crazy). i called diane to watch the kids and she appeared (seriously) in seconds,it seemed and she brought todd to watch the kids and she said she would go to the hospital with me-i was very happy to not be alone but also nervous, because i am not very brave and a big baby! when we got to the hospital i was not even dialated and the nurses wanted me to walk around and get my labor more started and i said my husband is not even here and once i start it goes fast-they still looked at me funny, even after i've had 3 kids? anyways i held off on the epidural for as long as i could and after i got one i did start progressing fast and they called my midwife, helene-i was a little nervous and i'm sure diane (what a lifesaver) was too and kent came right when i was to start pushing. my epidural was wearing off and they said the anesthialogist wasn't coming back around for another hour...so i panicked-i told helene that i couldn't do this and she assured me i could- i also remember telling her over and over he was stuck. but he did come out, i pushed for about 15 minutes-my whole labor was about 7 hours (my longest). i can remember the nurse said "wow, he has such a big cry!" little did we know we would hear that big cry lots...koy was a hard baby, a very hard baby! i read this quote in a magazine and cut it out: some of us don't get "easy " kids. we get the challenging ones. a little more is asked of us. no doubt someone upstairs believes we're up to the task. i have since realized that Heavenly Father knew just who to send me, i have often questioned why koy was so challenging for me and it just didn't seem fair...but about 2 years later i received an answer to my prayers, i needed to learn to ask for help-plain and simple, but not for me-i have a hard time asking others for help and i wouldn't have asked for help unless koy was so overwhelming for me. i had already been given kelsi to learn this lesson-failed! i had already been given brooke to learn this lesson-failed! then koy-i passed...i had to ask for help from alot of people: sometimes friends, sometimes family, sometimes my kids, sometimes kent, but mostly my Heavenly Father and he did help me! i love koy and have the efforts to prove it:)
we had a fun little girls retreat up at my friend tammie's cabin-it was lots of fun and very relaxing. kent is always so good at letting me have my breaks, i had bought the movie "kung fu panda" for the kids to watch while i was gone and this was the game they invented when i came home...
i love these kind of games!
we visited the nursing home and delivered some special turkeys-we were informed that we can't do this anymore without training. we will miss our older friends.
thanksgiving was pretty quiet at our house-well i take that back our house is never pretty quiet...we had yummy food-the best fried turkey ever, thanks to kent. i even hit the after thanksgiving day sales...it wasn't even that bad and that is from a non-shopper. then that night we put up our christmas tree-i love christmas!