Gratitude

Last night as I was sitting in the D.C. Temple, I was reflecting on my many blessings. My heart was so full of gratitude, I was overcome with emotion. It was so wonderful to be there with Bart. I sure love that man. My thoughts went to my family and friends....both here and so many that are far away. I was missing everyone so much and I was needing to feel some lovin'...and I felt it. It was a fabulous night in the Temple. On the way home, traffic started getting heavy and all of a sudden, red brake lights were everywhere. The car next to us on the right was going so fast. He slammed on his brakes...screeching tires, burning rubber...and you could see he was going to slam into the car in front of him. He jerked the wheel to the left and I could see he was coming right for us. He was going to hit us right by my side view mirror. I instinctively screamed and huddled away from my door in the fetal position, waiting for expected crash. It never came. There was just quiet as we skidded to a stop. Bart and I were breathing quickly, staring at each other, not understanding what had happened. Somehow, that car never hit us. Angels surely lifted either him or us away from what could have been a horrible accident, with us right in the middle of it. As it happened, there was a bad accident...involving at least three other cars, but we weren't one of them. After taking a deep breath, we started off again. Heading home, safe and sound, to our five children. We couldn't believe it. A prayer of gratitude escaped our lips. We received a major blessing very quickly after leaving the Temple. We are incredibly grateful to a loving Heavenly Father who protected us. There is no other explanation.

We Love Snow!

We've been blessed to have some more snow, which the kids totally love! They had Monday and Tuesday off for MLK day and a teachers work day, then got snowed out yesterday. Lots of playing outside... sledding, building monster trucks, snowmen and castles in the snow and trying to build igloos. The weather was frigid yesterday, but that didn't deter the kids at all!

The Girlies

Cute girls in their heart shirts that Cole wanted me to buy them for Christmas..

Random Pics

Sadie with a favorite project

Enjoying peppermint/chocolate s'mores for FHE

Jayda holding up some school art

Kelsey and Makenna watching planes take off at a pre-school field trip to the airport (taking the metro there was super fun!)

Makenna

We love our sweet girl! She is growing up SO fast!

Dressing Up!

Kelsey spends 90% of her time in dress-up clothes. I love it!

Let it Snow

The kids loved the unexpected snow day!