Pictures For Daddy

This past week it rained, and then the temperature really dropped. In the morning, the girls wanted to go outside and I told them to bundle up because it was cold out. It was 52 degrees. Which, in our defense, is cold for us desert dwellers. It just cracked me up that they were dressed up for snow and ice. I texted Jonathan at the hospital and told him about our girls being dressed for the artic, and he responded that I should take pictures, because it is so funny. Our girls don't know what weather is. ☺

And then Jonathan gave the girls some Halloween candy that turned their tongues black. He thought it was so funny that he lined them up and had me take a picture with their tongues out. It's this kind of thing that makes Dads so great. I would have just told them to go brush their teeth.  

And on a personal note, I got my Young Women Recognition Award this week! When I was a Young Women, I finished my Personal Progress right before I left YW. Back then, you got 4 necklaces, one for each age and a big necklace when you finished all the Personal Progress. I got all 4 necklaces in one Sunday because I put off the program. Then my mom became  YW President in our ward and that all changed. She strongly encouraged me to work on Personal Progress.  And I am so glad I got my award as a Young Women.

And I have been a YW leader for a long time (5 years: 2 years in MO, and 3 years here in AZ). The whole time I have been a leader, I have been encouraged to do the YW Personal Progress Program. But it's easy not to do it. I was busy with work, and then acquiring babies, then raising babies, etc. And since I felt like I put my heart as well as my time into my calling, I didn't feel about not doing it. But I got to a spot in my life where I realized that I could do the program and I really wanted to do the program. Now, let me say, I did the modified program for the leaders. And I think it's awesome that the Church recognizes that as leaders, we do 10 hour projects ALL the time so they modify the program for us.   

I have been working on my Personal Progress just about every day for the past three months, and it felt so good to be done and get my necklace! I felt like I had really accomplished something big in my life. I do have a testimony of Personal Progress and I am going to strongly encourage my girls to do the program too. Even better, I'll do it with them and get another necklace to add to my collection ☺!