Post number 100

Well I am feeling like I should have some amazing thing to say for post number 100, but I am not sure I do. I am back to the books and school. I'll save that for another post though.
What I have to say now is amazing to me, I am just not sure about you.

Here are some of my recent thoughts...
I have been learning something personal. It is that we are SAVED by GRACE, after all we can do. I already knew this but have been learning it with a little twist.
I am constantly worrying about if I am doing enough or if I am doing things the "right" way.
I want to go to heaven when I die and live with God and His Son Jesus Christ.
So I worry a lot about if I am going to be good enough.
Do I know enough?
Am I using what I know to the best of my abilities?
Am I living up to my potential?
Am I sharing what I have and what I know/believe enough?
Am I doing what Heavenly Father wants me to, so that I can go to Heaven?
Well the answer is, I don't know.
And frankly, I don't know if it matters.
God knows my heart. Jesus Christ died for Me.
(I am getting tears)
I believe that after all is said and done, the thing that matters most is our relationship with Jesus Christ.
He is our mediator with the Father, the Ultimate judge.
Jesus Christ paid the price for my sins. He paid for my weaknesses and shortcomings. I can be whole through him!
I think how it goes when we die is, we go to Jesus and he takes us to the Father. Or we go to the Father to be judged and he is about to rule us unworthy of Celestial glory and then Jesus Christ steps in and says, "this is my friend, "Dad", I paid the price for her(or him). Please let them in".
Are we a friend to Jesus?
Do we have a relationship with him? What kind of a relationship is it? Do we use the atonement and ask forgiveness of our sins?
He already suffered for us. Are we going to let it be in vain?
I hope how I have said this is not blasphemous. I hope if you are reading this you felt my heart and not just words. I know I still have so much to learn.
I hope this all makes sense.
I am thankful for Jesus Christ. I am thankful for the gospel that teaches me, or helps me remember what I once knew before I was born. I am thankful to know that through Jesus Christ I can be saved. I still need to do all I can do, but I don't think I need to worry about it so much. I feel the focus needs to be more on my relationship with Jesus Christ, our Savior, than on whether or not I am doing EVERYTHING Perfect. I am going to do my best to do what I believe is right, constantly asking for divine help. And then I am going to leave the rest up to my brother, friend, savior, and exemplar, Jesus Christ.
Thanks for stopping by the blog. :)

Party on Wayne, Party on...

This August (and probably everyone after it) has been one party after another...

At the first of the month we went to Mesa for my cousin Lauralie's wedding. We were there for 5 days.

The bride and the whole wedding were BEAUTIFUL...

While we were there we went to see the Tuitavuki's in Phoenix and went to church with them...

After all that, these are the only pictures I took as we were leaving... One of the best parts of the trip.

This is Lilly Ann

She is a twin to Layla Sandra
I miss these girls so much! They are the BEST. There is something very special about them.

I Love babies!!! The day after we got home we had a party in St. George to celebrate David and Joey's birthdays with friends and family there. We were able to swim in Dave's sisters pool, bbq hotdogs, and have costco cake. Yummy fun!

This is a shot of the Provo Party. We had three blow up water slides, and brownie cake for dessert.

I went very simple.
We did homemade and word of mouth invitations.

No games, no party favors, just water, slides, otter pops and yummy cake.

It was fun!
These are the rest of the Leishman cousins. They came to the Provo party.
Finally, towards the end of the season we got a shot of all of us at Seven Peaks.

Oh What fun!

Joey is 4...

Here is the Birthday boy JOEY!!!

This boy is so easy to please! I am so thankful for him! He is such a sweetheart!
Happy Birthday Wolverine!

He is constantly imagining he is a super hero... The last little while he has wanted to be wolverine... So with the money he got from his Aunties for his bday he bought this costume. We then got him the little figurine he is holding.

Joey is so brave and smart.

He had to get his blood drawn so it could be tested before he starts preschool. He did not even flinch. He closed his eyes and counted to 30. SMART and BRAVE for a barely 4 year old huh?

Love you Joey! Happy Birthday!

I am a Baby...

Yesterday was David's first day of First Grade.

(My battery was dead when I dropped him off so we took this picture after school.)

He is the youngest in his class as he has an August birthday and we chose to start him last year rather than wait for this year. He was ready. Now looking back I can not imagine if we would have had him wait. He is one of the biggest (tallest) kids in his first grade class, imagine if he were just starting Kindergarten...
He is so smart!
He reads one verse in the scriptures several times a week, with minimal help.
At back to school night his teacher sent home a spelling list. We went home, read over it once, and then I asked him to spell the words... he got them all right the first time around.

I love to look at those Big Brown eyes!

This is the second day of school.

Yesterday when I dropped him off I asked the teacher if I could come to the lunch room and eat with him... I had tears coming in my eyes... She said she would be with them the whole time and help them all eat, but I still wanted to go. I was worried my boy would "need" me. Ok, so I knew he wouldn't "need" me, I knew he would be all right without me, but I "needed" him. I needed him to stay my little baby. My first born. I needed him to need me. I was sad to realize he is growing up. I cried the whole way home. Sobbed.

I am so Proud of my David- how smart, friendly, handsome, helpful and neat he is. He is a Terrific Kid! I Love You David!

I guess I'll be ok if he doesn't need me at school...:)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID...

David Jr is 6!!!(I know this is not the best picture, sorry. I took it on my phone, on my way out the door to my internship.)

I got Jr. these balloons yesterday morning for his birthday. In response to this he said, "You are the best mom ever!"

That is how I used to feel when my mom would get me balloons on my birthday.

They are so bright and Happy!

He bought this outfit himself with the money his Auntie Chris and Auntie Jacquie gave him.

Legos star wars t-shirt, cuz he has played the game on the Xbox with his cousin Danny a lot this summer.

Good job Davey!

I love this little guy. He is the best son named David I have ever had! :)

The Races...

This Year for the 24th of July in Utah we went to Enterprise. This is something my family used to do every year when I was younger. It felt fun to carry on the tradition.
Here is David before his 24th of July race... He has a green shirt on and is about in the middle crouching down...

Here is Joey before his lil' race... He's wearing a Y shirt, and is with my lil' bro Ben. I got a better picture of him than of Jr...

There was a super cool money hunt in a home made swimming pool. The fire department was there spraying the kids too. The boys loved it!

They were able to buy snow cones with the money they collected... :)
Joey, David and Cousin Kade.
We went up to the Terry family ranch and had dinner with My Dad's side of the family... I thought this was a cool backdrop for a family photo, we weren't very prepared though! Here's Brendon, David, Danny, and Joey waiting for the left over fireworks from the 4th.

Big Dave and Buddy Brendon lighting fireworks, being pyros...

Take me out to the Ball Game...

Take me out to the crowd...

This is some of our little crowd at the Road Runners BaseBall game.

Daniel, Joey, David Jr., and Reggie the Road Runner.

Helaman, Shane, David Jr., Dave, Joey

The Mascots at these games are fun. They keep our kids entertained.