Awesome Battle Wound

Call me insensitive, mean, or rough, but when one of my kids gets a big scrape, black eye, or big bruise I try to make it a "cool" thing instead of babying them and making it "seem" to hurt 10x more than it really does. You'd think I had all brothers? :-) And in my defense, I really have to act this way because Ella cannot go a day without getting hurt. Trust me, I'm NOT exaggerating!

The Catmull Family invited us over for family home evening last night. I went over early with the kids so that Evy could teach me how to make sticky buns. YUM!!! Leah taught her how to make them, and then she taught me for one of her YW Personal Progress 10 projects. What a great idea! And it was a lot of fun! Thank you Evy! Then we had dinner with them and family home evening. While we were getting the finishing touches on the sticky buns the kids were outside playing on the swing set.

Ella was on one of these:

And Cooper was running to show me how he could do "skin the cat" (it's a gymnastics move) on this:

Well, he ran right in front of Ella and BOOM! He took a swing right to the face. He was super brave and hardly cried. We came home and took a picture right away so he could see what he looked like. Today the kids in his class thought it was cool, and he had fun telling them what happened.

On another note...

Bishop Catmull gave the FHE lesson last night and talked about how our testimonies are like a seed, and the things you to need to give your seed/testimony so that it can grow. Then he helped the kids pot some seeds in their family room (brave man). Cooper and Ella have been very excited watching their seeds grow, and it's a great reminder to me of the things I need to do daily to help my testimony grow.

Thank you so much Catmull Family for a wonderful, fun, exciting evening! We really appreciate you inviting us into your home for dinner and family home evening. We love your family! You are so great!