Hunker down and weather the "Storm"!

I have much to be thankful for as we all do. My little sister's blog said it so good I would recommend going there and reading it, I will add that I am thankful for my relief society president who asked me to teach last sunday on having faith through your trials. Then low and behold we are delt a couple...of trials. Justin got laid off the day before Thanksgiving. After the shock we took a breath and then had to smile, it was as if the Lord was saying, "Do you really belief all that stuff you just preached to all those ladies?" The blessing is that we could giggle because we have prepared the best we could for a situation like this. I am blessed by a man who worked so hard all this time so that in our time of need we have a small back up stash. Another blessing is that I have parents who taught me how to save, and heed the counsel of the prophet, so we have also put some food storage away. So now all we have to do is hunker down and weather the storm. Hopefully it will pass before the supplies run out. That is where faith comes in right? we have been paying our tithing so I say "we are doing all we can do." Now another deep breath and we play the "we shall see" game.

On another note here is a video of Taylor from a couple weeks ago of the kids making Taylor laugh. She is not quite 4 months old in this video. Pretty darn special. Thanksgiving morning we went and had breakfast with Andy and Rhonda, Kirk and Jill and Jill's brother Matt (one of Jacey's favorite guys)and the kids. After a delicious breakfast (thanks bytheway) we went down the hill to shoot guns. We brought the little stuff cause it's cheap to play with. We had a bunch of different 22's. THENNNN Andy's cousin came over (i think it was andy's cousin) he brought the fun stuff, a couple handguns a 38 or something and a 45I don't remember, all I remember is the AK47 that got brought out. I tell ya what. Going from shooting .22 rifles to an AK47 is quite an ear ringing shock. So here is a picture of me holding the AK47 that I actually did shoot. Jill had never shot a gun before that day and I had to laugh because she went from shooting a mild mannered .22 rifle to an obnoxiously loud and large AK47. Hahaha yeah I am still laughing. It was a really good time. Behind Justin you can see his cute new truck. I know trucks aren't supposed to be cute, so I guess I should say it's "cool". We got that in early Nov. now we all fit in there too. we know we are spoiled, is it spoiled if you are aware of how lucky we are?? Well there you have it. I didn't even get to Thanksgiving dinner which we spent at My mom and dads. It was a delightful feast of the much adored classics. Good food and good company, Taylor didn't get anything this time mostly because she was playing on the floor sooo content that I took advantage and just ate all by myself. YUMMM. I have to say I didn't used to be a fan of sweet potatos but they have become a new favorite of mine. As my little sister Amanda would say "that's a little piece of Heaven, right there". Happy Holidays Y'all we will be back soon.