* Memorial Day was on Monday. Dad had the day off and we spent ALL DAY working in the yard and doing chores! Of course August got to lounge on the couch because of his broken hand...
* Took August to the Hand Specialist and they put a hard cast on him. He'll be in it for 4-5 weeks. However he did get the "go ahead" to go back to work :)
* Mom had a Presidency Meeting
* Been working on Scouts... it has been a nightmare that the Scout office has no records on either August or Seth... we're trying to remedy that and get things taken care of. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the Court of Honor we were going to do for Seth during the Family Reunion will take place... Boo!
* Here's photos of all of our other activities this week!
Kids Say...
While going to the nursery to pick up seeds/starters for the garden, mom couldn't find the place and kept driving in circles. Here's what I heard from the backseat...
Aubrie: We're Lost! We need to call 911!
Lexi: 911 is for Emergencies
Aubrie: This IS an emergency! We're lost!
Spiritually Speaking...
Sometimes we don't know why things happen - especially when they are hard things. We've been struggling with getting our deposit back from the duplex that we moved out of in January. As far as we knew - we had dotted all of our "i's" and crossed all our "t's" and were anticipating (even needing) our deposit back. We've even been consciously praying as a family (for about 7-8 weeks now) to help us in getting our deposit back. The struggle ended this week - and not in our favor. In fact, not only were we now not getting our $2400 deposit back, but we were sent a bill for an additional $2700 (for breaking the lease). Unfortunately their paid representative hadn't been honest with us from the start. After I had a good cry about it (because let's face it - $5100 is A TON OF MONEY!!!) I then turned to my Heavenly Father in prayer and asked for comfort and understanding. I had several thoughts come to me that inevitably brought peace...
1) The thought came that had we stayed in the duplex, somehow we would have lost even more money! I'm not sure exactly if that would be that we'd find a different (more expensive) house to move into when the lease was up and over time, we'd spend much more than $5100 in additional rent costs (than what we're currently paying) or what but I had the feeling to be grateful it was only $5100!
2) I had the feeling to really look at the happiness our family has felt since being out here in our current place. It is night and day difference in our "happiness level" compared to the duplex. We all love it out here and I felt so sad to think that we'd still be in that small duplex.
3) Everyone is well, happy and HEALTHY (well, minus August's broken hand) but nothing life-threatening! It's was just money and how we have been blessed with so many things in this life and the health of our family being one of them!
Anyway, after my prayer, I just felt 10 times better and have been able to make it through that little hiccup of life! I'm so grateful that we can turn to prayer in our time of need (whether it be for inspiration, revelation or simply for comfort). Knowing Heavenly Father is always watching out for me, I can make it through anything!!
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