What's mine is yours

I posted this on Facebook and my thoughts turned to so many wonderful friends and family in my life who have lost a loved one. Then my thoughts turned to other things as well.

I have had two miscarriages. One was a few months after Kevin and I were married. I was devastated and worried that I wouldn't be able to carry a child. The second was after I had Andrew. I didn't know I was pregnant which I'm actually grateful for or it would have been harder emotionally. I'm not sure how far along I was as I hadn't started my cycle since I was nursing. I've never been so scared though. I'm guessing I was around four months since I had to deliver. I let my body take it's course and thought all was well until the next month. I was heading up to take a test at the university and as I ran up old main my pants became soaked in blood. I had to go to the ER, there was a lot of tissue left from the miscarriage.
So that came to my thoughts as well as our family.
It's not easy to have Kevin serve as the Bishop. Am I grateful that he is worthy? YES. Is it easy? It's getting easier but I still have my days. I thought of this song in terms of him leaving us on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and the other times things come up.  What's mine is Yours. He's Heavenly Fathers servant. My time is His time. He may be my Husband but he's his Son. He may be our kids Father but he is also the Ward Father. I love that the gospel can put an easier perspective on things. When you think of things in an eternal perspective, life gets brighter and easier. What's mine is yours!

Trip to Missouri

I'm amazed every time how well the kids do on the long drive to Missouri. It gets easier every time. This year Christmas seemed super easy since we did it all online to be shipped there. Here are some photos of the trip.

Jonathan's knuckles compared to Uncle Mike's. 

We all went to the theater together on Christmas Eve and all got sick eating too much popcorn. 

We went to the George Washington Carver museum. This guy was amazing and smart. He came up with a ton of different ways to use peanuts and sweet potatoes. He help farmers who's lands were sucked dry of nutrients because cotton.  They called him the plant doctor. I think the amazing part is that he was born a slave and had moved around so much living with people as he went to school. He was also very religious. 

Jacob turned six and Andrew turned 10 on the 30th. It was fun to celebrate with everyone.

Eating cake and ice cream :) ummmm

Their Lego cakes I made.

We got to see the Civil War Arena that Kevin's parents bought recently. It was really entertaining to see how competitive people can get at kart racing. We were surprised how fast they went. It's like  mini NASCAR.