8 Great Days: Day 4

Tonight Case received a hymn book as part of his "8 Great Days". We talked with him about the importance of music and how listening to good music will help him to feel the spirit. We discussed all the wonderful things we have been taught about the Savior through the primary songs he has learned over the years. I hope that as he grows older he will always remember the power of good music.

8 Great Days: Day 3

The Holy Ghost is like a warm blanket because he will comfort you when you need to make hard decisions in your life

8 Great Days: Day 2

Today, Case got "The 3 bears" gift to help remind him about the baptismal covenants he is about to make. We gave him gummy BEARS to remind him that after he gets baptized, he will BEAR witness to His name (D&C 18:21-25). The Teddy Grahams were a reminder to BEAR one anothers burdens (Mosiah 18:8). The BERRY gum was a reminder to Always BEAR your testimony.

This is what we do every other Friday night during the spring

The boys are doing swim team right now which means every other Friday night we have swim meets on the other side of the world! I love spring swim because there are not many kids that swim in the spring and the swim meets are not blazing hot!  They are about an hour long and all kids are usually happy by the end. This week the boys swam freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke.

Ledger has learned that he can look around while he swims to see how he is doing compared to the other kids.  It's hilarious! 

The real reason we are doing spring swim is because we talked Brody out of doing baseball this year.  It was just getting too competitive and aggressive for him.  He wanted to do swim team and we were thrilled.  He is a great little swimmer and loves doing it.  WIN WIN!!

Brody's best stroke is backstroke.  Oddly enough that was Jeremy's best stroke when he was a kid.

I had to laugh the other day when Case told us that his least favorite sport is swimming.  This is the kid who medaled every meet last summer and won high point swimmer for all of the 7 year old boys in the country club league.  He said it's not fast and aggressive enough for him.  

Swimming may not be his favorite sport but he is dang good at it and I hope he will stick with it for a few more years!

8 Great Days: Day 1

In 8 quick days, Case will be getting baptized. Jeremy and I wanted to do something special for him so we decided on doing an "8 Great Days" countdown. Today was Day 1 and we gave him a Baptism Memory Book. He will be able to start recording his thoughts, feeling and testimony in this book. Our hope is that he will always remember this special day and the covenants he will be making.