Easter 2016

U12 Girl's Indoor Champions

Personal Progress

Tonight I finished my Personal Progress!!! Three days late but that's alright (I set a goal to finish by Mallory's birthday). I need an interview with the bishop to finalize it all. Yeah!!

I really learned a lot about myself while working on Personal Progress! I I can't wait to start again. My 10-hour projects I chose were really life altering for me. Here is a list of my projects for each value:

Faith: Memorized "The Living Christ"

Divine Nature: Memorized "The Family: A Proclamation to the World"

Individual Worth: Worked on my blog

Knowledge: 40 Day General Conference Challenge October 2015

Choice and Accountability: Organizing Projects (house, girl's school papers, cleaning schedule)

Good Works: Five endowment sessions in five weeks with family names

Integrity: Keeping Christ in Christmas

Virtue: Reading the Book of Mormon again

Here is my overstuffed Personal Progress journal. It is filled with a lot of thoughts and things I learned. I found a really neat organizer someone had made which really helped me organize the things I needed to do to accomplish each goal. These pages sat on my dresser where I saw them every day to remind me of what I was doing and what I needed to focus on that day. I loved the little places to add a check mark if I accomplished the goal for the day. I wasn't perfect but I made great gains. 

Here is another sheet I folded and stuck in my journal-- I even stapled pages to it to record what I did each day to accomplish my goal!

I am looking forward to starting Personal Progress again with Mallory!

Utah United Home Game

Provo Temple Dedication

Happy Birthday Mallory!!

Laurel's Conference

Peterson March Birthday Dinner and Egg Hunt

Tonight, the girls and I were able to go to Leslie and Doug's for our monthly birthday dinner. (Scott had church meetings from 7 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. tonight so we went without him.) Doug smoked pork and they served pulled pork sandwiches-- it was delicious!!  We had our annual egg hunt and the kids all had a great time. We FaceTimed with my mom (she woke up at 3 am to talk to us) for about 2 hours. It was good to hear from them and the wonderful things they are doing in their mission. This past week was transfer week and they have a lot of things they are responsible for and they are doing an amazing work there!

Bishop's Social

Junior High Registration

My Diamond Wedding Ring Miracle

Wednesday was my first subbing day. I was called last week to see if I would sub for the PE teacher. It was really fun! I went to the school about 20 minutes early and had to set up (which took longer than I thought). Luckily, I had kindergarten first and they have a shortened PE Time. The game I was to play with them was a little complicated but I made it through the 25 minutes. One little girl was all worried because I had them line up at the wrong door and did a few things different than the normal PE teacher. The other kids just went with the flow and did what I asked. I had to explain several times that I wasn’t Coach Deaton and I was sorry I did things differently. After Kindergarten, I had to go outside for recess duty for about 45 minutes. I walked around and helped kids was all over the blacktop and the in the grass (there was another lady out there with me). Brittney came out to recess, so she came and gave me a hug and Hayley came out too. After recess duty, I had about an hour before my next assignment, so I really read through my lesson plan and had a better idea of how to run the next PE Classes after lunch.

I decided I’d better eat my lunch before my next recess duty. I went into the Faculty Room (by myself) to eat and I had my phone so I could read my Conference Talk while I ate. I had just eaten the second bite of my sandwich when I looked down at my hand and noticed my diamond was no longer in my ring. There was nothing on my prongs! My heart just sank to my feet—I think I was in shock a little too! I hurried and put my sandwich back in my lunch bag and walked to the office to tell Bonnie (she is the assistant secretary and she is in our ward). She was talking to someone so I waited and my heart was just racing inside thinking of how was I going to find a little diamond—I had been all over the place—all over the playground and all over the grass. When Bonnie was done, I told her I just lost my diamond and my voice was totally cracking because I was on the verge of tears. She asked when the last time I noticed it and the last time I remembers was when I put it on this morning. The assistant principal came in and we started to look. I backtracked to the faculty room and searched under the table and to the door that lead outside. I went to the PE office to check under the desk where I had been sitting reading the lesson plans and couldn’t see anything. As I walked out of the office, I saw Mallory’s teacher, Ms. Ottley, in her classroom by herself. I walked in and told Ms. Ottley. She said, “You had better find a place to pray.”. I told her I had been praying in my mind ever since I saw it missing. Ms. Ottley told me she would have her class come and help me when they returned from computers. I decided to go outside and check the floor of my truck. I searched the pavement as I walked out and didn’t see anything. As I was walking outside, I heard Mr. Clough over the PA system make an announcement that a substitute had lost her wedding ring and for the kids to keep their eyes open and that there would be a reward in the office for anyone who found it. As I walked back in the school, I thought, I need to check my purse. I had been digging in my purse looking for my phone when I first got to the school. So I went back to the PE office and started looking through my purse. At the same time, I was trying to call Scott and work to let him know. While I was on hold and searching my purse, Ms. Ottley came in and said, “You need to look in your car and in your pockets.” I told her I had just come from the truck and she started rummaging through my coat pockets. I told her I hadn’t worn my coat yet so I started taking things out of my jacket pocket I had on. I had a dry erase marker and some magnets in my pocket and then I stuck my hand in my “Empty” pocket and felt a little hard stone and pulled out my diamond!!!! I couldn’t believe it!! Well, I could believe it because I was holding it in my hand!! I was very emotional as I hugged and thanked Ms. Ottley for her inspiration and help and for knowing where to look. It was about 10 minutes from the time I noticed my diamond gone until the time I pulled it out of my pocket. MIRACLES HAPPEN!! Meanwhile, I was still on hold waiting to talk to Scott. Trevor (a guy at work) came back on to tell me Scott was now with another customer and to see if he could call me back later. I told him to have Scott call me if he had a minute before 11:45. I hurried to the office to tell Bonnie and Mr. Clough that my diamond had been found in my pocket. I then went back to the PE office to say a prayer of gratitude to Heavenly Father for inspiring Ms. Ottley in helping me know where to look. I was right by Hayley’s class and I caught her eye and told her to come into the hall. She had no idea that the missing ring announcement had to do with me. I quickly told her the story and reminded her that Heavenly Father truly answers our simple prayers for things that are important to us. Ms. Ottley called Mallory out of computers too and I shared how Ms. Ottley helped answer my prayer.

I went into Ms. Ottley’s class again to thank her again. She told me how after I left her class the first time, she stopped and said a prayer. She said she had an image of a car and a pocket come into her mind. She told me she has lost many things over the years and she never hears a voice telling her where to look—she sees an image in her mind (she told me of an experience with a lost credit card and she saw a white lunch sack in her mind—the pharmacist had put her credit card in the white sack when picking up a prescription and the sack was in the garbage and she found it in the white sack in her garbage). Anyway, I thanked and thanked Ms. Ottley. I thanked her for being in tune and I thanked her for her spiritual gift because she has a spiritual gift. She then said something so profound (I have been thinking and pondering about this since Wednesday). She said, “Isn’t that why we go to church each Sunday, to partake of the Sacrament so we can ‘always have His Spirit to be with us’”? Wow! That is so true!! Ms. Ottley gave me a Ziploc bag to put my ring and diamond in.

Scott called me a few minutes later and was grateful to hear it had been found. I had about 7 minutes to hurry and eat my lunch before I needed to be outside for lunch recess.

The rest of the day subbing went really well. Mallory’s class came to PE as well as several neighbor kids (3^rd graders and 2^nd graders) that I knew.

After school, I took my ring and diamond to Aaron’s Jewelry to have them reset the diamond. I had absolutely no prongs on my ring—I need a whole new crown to hold my diamond. The lady at the jewelry store was amazed at my condensed version of my story—lucky is what she said – blessed and miraculous is what I said. It will take a week for them to fix my ring so I am wearing my pearl ring this week.

Online Classes

Baking and Aprons and Cake Decorating

My girls love to cook and bake! Mallory made cookies a few Sunday's ago.

Last Sunday she made and decorated a layer cake. She went to her friend, Morgan's, birthday party last week where they each decorated their own cake and brought home their own cake stand and apron! I am loving this stage!!

Sealings at the Ogden Temple