Easter

So have you ever noticed that when one thing goes wrong..lots of things go wrong. But then comes the blessings in your life. Steve and I have been so blessed the last few years. We have 4 wonderful children who have been healthy, a wonderful home to live in, good cars, and awesome opportunities to serve the youth in our church. So for the last few years things had been going great and then bam!! all of a sudden we had health problems. You would think that somewhere along the way we would get down from being slammed with all of these health problems (Byron and RSV, me and cancer/surgery, and now all the family having nasty colds or flus, I have yet to figure out what they are). But instead it has brought us closer as a family, and we are more humbled and grateful then ever before. During my whole series of tests and the surgery I had many blessings and many things promised to me, and through it all I felt the prayers of many friends and family...and even people I didn't know (thanks to Janeen for submitting my family's name to the Temple Prayer List). And in the end I feel much stronger and more blessed because we were able to make it through it all.


Whenever I felt down or scared this scripture would pop into my head:"...peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes. Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands. (Doctrine & Covenants 121:7-9). What wonderful promises. This was the answer to Joseph Smith, and I know it comforted him...just like it has comforted me. I truly have been blessed...and thank you Angela for reminding me of how blessed I am. :)

Anyways, Easter was great. We had a fun easter egg hunt on Saturday with our kids and the Jensen cousins. Of course Byron found a ton of eggs, but Emily and Ben weren't too far behind him. And our cute little Tyson, well he just found the one or two and was happy sitting on the grass for 15 minutes or more playing with them and trying to figure out what they were. Then Sunday the kids found their easter baskets...to them it was just as exciting as Christmas.


Then on Monday we kept the kids home from school to take my mom to the airport and have a fun day as a family (we don't get to many of those days because Steve works Saturdays). We went to Salt Lake and walked all over Temple Square. The kids got to play dress up, color pictures, see pictures and artifacts of the prophets and pioneers, and Emily's favorite was playing with the babies. Then we went and saw the Joseph Smith movie...which was cool because the kids were pointing out things they remembered from church movies they had seen, or some of the artifacts they had just seen in the museum. It was a fun day being together as a family and having fun watching the kids climb and play with the water and the large golden statue of Moroni (at the Museum). I highly recommend taking your kids for a fun day at Temple Square if you ever get the chance...my kids had a blast!



Thanks to all of you for your prayers for our family! We really appreciate it, and know it made a difference. By the way at the Dr. on Monday he said the finding of the cancer was random, because they just picked a random spot to test...but we all know it was the Lord's hand guiding them.