2013!!!

I have tons of blogging to complete and I hope to catch up by the end of January:) We had a wonderful Holiday season and I have pictures galore!  Our Holiday was filled with wonderful memories with family, friends, and neighbors.  As Mike and I reflected on the past year we were humbled by all of the blessings the Lord has given us.  In particular, with the blessing of the Gospel and that we can be an Eternal Family.  Our blessings are countless and as we discussed the up-coming year of 2013 as a family we decided this year instead of setting numerous goals we would adopt a family motto.  We chose this as our motto:


 “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a singlebit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.” 
― Erma Bombeck

Mike and I fell in love with this quote.  We believe our job is to discover these talents and then act in faith and then we also need to share our talents with others.

We discussed with the boys that talent can be deciphered in many ways and that we each have been given special talents by our Heavenly Father and our job is learning and sharing our talents with our family and with others.  So here is a year to working on our talents individually and as a family.  We are praying that the Lord may guide us in this journey and we are excited for 2013.