Yes it is true, we are already half way through October. I can't believe we are almost to Halloween and then Thanksgiving and then Christmas. My brother, Chris and his wife, Jannie just had a new little girl added to their family on October 3. Her name I Eliza and she is just adorable. I didn't get to see her when we went to Washington D.C. as she was born the day we had planned to see Chris and Jannie and of course they were a little busy that day. I am sure I will see her someday. Michael was super excited to have a new little cousin and is anxious to meet her as are all of my kids. I am so glad to be a mom to five wonderful kids and know soon enough I will have my own little grand kids running around and I will love it. We enjoyed our time in D.C. checking out all of the history that is so prevalent in that great city. We especially enjoyed the Ford Theater and seeing Lincoln's actual clothes he was wearing the night he was shot and the gun that shot him, it was a lot smaller than we expected. The Holocaust museum was very humbling and its amazing anyone could ever say that tragedy never happened, the proof is there and then some. I am amazed at the Spirit of those great men and women that put up with everything because of their beliefs in who they were and what they believed. I wonder if I would be strong enough to stand up for what I believe. I am so grateful for what so many of us take for granted when it comes to our freedom of religion. I love our country so much and am so grateful to the founding father's for all they did to ensure our freedoms. I hope my kids will remember all the great things they were able to see and do. I will have Michael and Nathan go next year sometime so they to can enjoy all we were able to see and do.
I started a new job yesterday and then had today off. I am a receptionist at a pediatrician's office in Plano, Texas. I work four days a week from 8-5 but am excited to be able to do more to help out our family. I think it will be a great place to work and I will be appreciated and paid for it as well. I am excited to have a new opportunity and hopefully this will help me to decide what direction I want to go while I am still able to work and help out. I realize how much Bob does going to work everyday and how lucky I am to have a husband who has done all he can to support us for so many years so I could be home with my kids during critical times. I am so grateful for older kids who will help teach and care for my younger kids so I can work. I realize as an adult all the sacrifices my own mom made for me and my siblings by working and being a full time mom as well. It surely takes a special person and family to be able to do both. Hopefully I can do as good as balancing as what she was able to do for me as a kid. Conference was very much needed and loved as it always is for me. I am grateful for modern revelation that we are so blessed to have to help us to make the decisions we need to make every day in an ever increasing world of unhappiness and unrest, we are so lucky to have leaders to lead us. Lots on my mind right now, but how grateful I am for the gospel of Jesus Christ that teaches us everything we need to know to return to our Heavenly Father and be with our families forever. After all the older I get the more I realize how important your family is, the most important thing and relationships you will ever have. We are truly blessed. Happy October, only a few weeks to go. I will update more later, if I haven't bored you enough as it is.....Love to the new niece, can't wait to meet you! Love to the missionary who has been out for nearly 11 months, where has the time gone? Only one more Christmas and he will be home, yippee!!
