Hope, Faith and Understanding and a little football.

To start out with the football game was awesome. We were really worried about the weather and if we were going to get rained on. It didn't start raining until after we got home. It was fun being at the game and just feeling the excitement there. The spot we picked to sit was mixed with both BYU and USU fans. It was so funny to listen to the fans make comments loud enough for everyone around them to hear. There were some highschool boys sitting behind us that didn't understand some of the calls made during the game, but they sure humored themselves in making fun of the "refs" and those calls that they didn't know. At the opening of the 2nd half Jim said all he was hoping for was that the Aggies would score on BYU and that Hall would get sacked. Well, any of you following BYU knows that the last two games they have played they have held the other team scoreless. Yes, the Aggies scored twice on BYU and Hall got sacked. I do like BYU and would clap when they scored, but when the Aggies scored, you knew who I was cheering for!

Hope, Faith and Understanding.....

As today has started out I am so thankful for the messages that were shared over this conference weekend. I am not one to vent to others (other than Jim) or to share my hardships, but today I need a place to let it out. I know we all have experienced times when things just seem to crash down on us and we wonder how we are supposed to make it through. I know that if we stay close to our Heavenly Father we will make it through. Right now I am struggling seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Mom and Dad left this morning after a great weekend, but also leaving us knowing that Mom has to have heart surgery again within the next couple of months. Then becoming frustrated with the job search for Jim and I know the pregnancy hormones aren't helping any, but that's where I am at this morning. Back in the spring Jim recieved a Priesthood Blessing from his dad. In the blessing Jim was told that something was going to happen that would try our faith. Hearing that we both were kinda curious as to what was going to happen. As our summer started, so many unexpected things happened that we struggled to deal with. With hearing the blessing that Jim recieved we knew we had to try even more to stay close and rely on Heavenly Father. In doing this, we have felt peace with everything. We know we will be taken care of, but we have no idea what is going to happen. Just when we think things are looking good it all gets pushed farther away from our reach and once again we are left wondering when the end of all of this is going to come. This is where I have found strength in many of the messages that were shared in Conference. Now I just need to use this strength and have Faith and believe in that peace that we have felt. I also need to rely on the atonement to pull us through these trials. I know the understanding may not come for awhile, but I have to have the Faith. I keep wondering why we have to go through all of this when we experienced the trial we did with Lexie, then I realize how easy things have been over the last year and a half and that we needed something to wake us up again and to keep pushing us to move forward and increase our knowledge and understanding of the gospel.

I am so thankful for my little family and the understanding they have of everything that is going on. I have been moved to tears many times by the little things my girls have done to help us through this time. We were at Sam's club on Saturday with Mom. Brindley saw the cheeseballs and I told her to go ahead and put them in the basket. Me, not even realizing what she was doing, before we even got to the end of the isle she had pulled out and counted her money and was giving it to me to pay for the cheese balls. I know she is only 8, but I also know she understands things alot more than I do sometimes. I thank Heavenly Father every day for Jim and my girls and no matter what happens we will always have each other.