Some of my favorite quotes come from Marvin J. Ashton. This was an excellent one for me in September - I think there's the potential for friendships to be tricky in this aspect. Certainly a friend should have my back and support me... but I'm grateful for my friends who, usually by example, challenge me to step up and be better.
I picked Chuck up from the airport and we went pretty much straight to ward temple night - we might have grabbed food first. It was really wonderful to spend the afternoon and evening with just him; we didn't talk tons while he was in Texas so this was a perfect way to catch up and connect.
Chuck and Carma got to tag along on Will's Cub Scout fishing field trip. Chuck and I are so torn - we want our kids to have the quintessential childhood experiences of going fishing.... but we really want to not participate in it at all haha. We have plans for my dad to jump in and take them fishing; we just need to let him know that haha ;).
Also I feel like Chuck prefaced taking every picture by instructing Will to look ponderous. Cutest little fisherman!!
Our brand new eleven-year-old said sayonara to Cub Scouts! He received his Webelos award, for which I extracted a nice extra long hug from him haha:
and he (and his awesome leaders! We love Sister Arters and Sister Cooper!!) went above and beyond and he earned his Arrow of Light as well:
Brother Murphy makes these beautiful wooden arrow of light boards for boys in our ward who earn that award and Clyde was so thrilled to have qualified! Our family loves that man so.
Love this so much. Faith is a choice. Doubt and fear are loud and demand attention, but faith is always there as an option that leads to peace.
Begrudgingly love this too. Love it because it's absolutely true. Begrudgingly because it rings in my head like a slight call to repentance sooo I better work on that haha.
Karlina and I went to the temple!!! Insta caption: Yay for getting back to my 'going to the temple every week' groove! Would YOU like to be pictured next to me in a #templeselfie 🛐🤳🏻🙋🏻😂?! Karlina highly recommends it, I even use the picture where your hair looks better than mine! If you'd ever like to hit up a session with me, let me know OR if you aren't (yet 😏😂) a temple recommend holder and/or Mormon, let's go to the Meridian Temple Open House together! Tickets will be available online starting September 25th- and you know I'll remind y'all again before that 😎. The temple open house is a free, open to the general public, no-pressure-to-convert chance to see a building that holds a dear place in my heart and learn what we do there and why. It's going to be great! 🙌🏼
Cute Carma interrupting scripture time and also following her little path to Cookie Wednesday at Janell's. Also pictured: Willy boy getting an award... of some kind... at Pack Meeting and a fun baby shower courtesy of the endless energy and dedication of one Judy Marsh. She is just such a fun lady!!
Some Sundays Carma is all about modeling her clothes and accessories, some Sundays she plops on the picnic table and you know that's as good as it's going to get haha:
And some Sundays she just knows how dang cute she is! This is one of Chuck's favorite dresses that she has.
And some Sundays she hugs the possibly not recently cleaned flag pole whilst wearing a darling white dress, ahhhh! Goof. Also cute bike riding boys!
I loved this quote from Elder Andersen:
aaaaand this one from Elder Weatherford Clayton, not to be confused with his brother. Sister Volkert knows this one. (Right, Sister Volkert?? Or did I mix them up again??) This principle is so so basic and yet so so misunderstood and forgotten.
Same principle here, said a different way by Elder Renlund. Redeemer of Israel is one of my favorite hymns and also one of Julia Otto's favorite hymns and if you get that reference you're awesome and I've probably lent you a book or two haha:
Cue the 'okay, but I wish He didn't trust me quite so much' line ;).
Yayyyyy Paulina came with us!! Emily and I were so excited. Also, how amazing is our unplanned wardrobe coordination? Oh I love these girls.
Another temple jaunt with bae. Such a good guy.
Oh my gosh, best facebook post ever! I've legit never been credited with having will power before, so this was a pretty momentous occasion!!!
Another momentous occasion: sweet Addie getting baptized! Jackers and I represented the Izatt clan and it was such a beautiful thing to witness. We love the Walkers and we love Addie!
Okay, some of the leaders from the Relief Society and the Young Women did a cute photo shoot at the conference center and my testimony grew three sizes haha. Doesn't this look like exactly what I would do if given free reign in the conference center?? Loved it, love them.
... and miraculously, Chuck still loves me even after I accidentally volunteered myself for a really big job and made him hold my hand the entire time haha. Our stake did a dinner for the Women's general session of conference broadcast and Chuck and I did allllll of the grocery shopping for cafe rio style salads to feed 200+ people. (Minus the pork! Blessedly that wasn't on us!) There were like six separate components/recipes (the cake, the dressings, the beans, the rice, etc) and some ingredients were in multiple recipes and we had to keep converting measurements from teaspoons to ounces and things got pretty tense haha.
But we did it! All the ingredients came home where I divvied them up according to recipe and then delivered them to ten women who made all of the actual finished products and then I showed up on Saturday to help dish and deliver the salads and it was so so fun! Shannon and Karlina joined me and we possibly had too much fun. Also no one ever let me sign up to do the shopping again for something like this. Ever. ;)
And then of course the broadcast itself was just perfect. Couple quick quotes:
I could legit listen to Sister Marriott all day... because of her wisdom AND her accent. She's the whole package.
Few pictures from the next day at church; I subbed in Clyde's class so I got a good view of my cute boys helping out in primary. Also Chuck being cute workin' in the clerks office and Clyde being cute reading to Carma and Sister Napier being cute letting me take a picture of her for the ward bulletin board:
And my mama being cute and sneaking in to my primary class so we could take a selfie together since we neglected to do so the previous night when we sat together at the broadcast! I love my pretty pretty mom!!
Something else I love: finishing a blog post and going to bed haha. Peace!
