La Familia Willardson: January 2009

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Kewpie Doll

Is it just us or does our son resemble a Kewpie doll?

We are so excited that Nash has hair! (kind of)

Today was a great day of church...I don't always say that...especially now that we have Nash...however, today was our ward conference and I really enjoyed it! To be honest I don't remember much from sacrament meeting besides a beautiful testimony shared by a mom in our ward. She expressed her love for her children, and how she recognized the love that Heavenly Father has for each one of us, not as a group but as individuals. This concept rang in my ears through out all the meetings. I am the Primary Secretary so I am most often running around doing stuff. However, today I took the time to sit and listen to the lessons being taught...each Sharing Time was about My Eternal Family. What a great theme for the children this year!

I always enjoy listening to the children's answers and comments. Most of the time I am holding in a laugh because of how funny they are. However, I noticed today that even the funny comments were sincere. The children really do have an opinion/testimony of their own, and that comes from teaching them not only in the home but in primary.

My friend Briana is our primary chorister (one of the hardest callings...in my opinion!) and I have to say she taught the plan of salvation beautifully today while teaching the song I Lived in Heaven. You know you are doing a great job when the children are asking for word clarification, because they wanted to know the meaning of the verse, or when you are sparking questions like "what is the veil?" Those are such great teaching moments and I think Briana answered them beautifully. I don't always feel the spirit in primary because I am too busy running around to listen for the small simple teachings. Today I am glad I did, because I realized how amazing our church is and how it brings us so much hope. Even our smallest children are learning how much our Heavenly Father loves us and how we belong to a HUGE Eternal Family. Our stake Primary President showed the children an equation today that I thought was great...

The First Presidency

Our own family

THE ETERNAL FAMILY

I loved that the Proclamation was added into the equation because it is such a great road map for us to use in our families. She also shared with our presidency later about when Jesus blessed the children in 3rd Nephi he didn't just bless them all as a group, he blessed each one of them individually. We are all special and unique, but we couldn't get to the celestial kingdom alone so an eternal family was provided, to help us on our way. I am so thankful for mine and for the knowledge and understanding I have of the gospel. Today, because I listened I was filled with a greater urgency to further my learning of the gospel so that I could be a part of the sharing and building of our Father in Heavens kingdom here on earth. For those of you who have read this all the way through thanks for listening to me, and remind me when I am complaining about life how blessed I truly am!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Family Outing to Disneyland!

The rotation Darin is in right now is AWESOME! He has Wednesday's and Friday's off! How did we get so lucky....SERIOUSLY! So since we have some days to hang out together we decided we need to get all of the SO-CAL we can get before we move away. So today we took another trip to Disneyland and spent the day in California Adventure....

Nash loved the Carousel...as most kids do. He was more into looking at himself (cross-eyed) in the shiny pole.

We were able to go on the NEW Toy Story ride....WHICH WAS AWESOME...one of our favorites now! There was hardly anyone in the park today so we went on Monsters Inc. (another favorite) several times!

It was a little weird going to Disneyland with a kid, we had to take turns on the rides. Darin cannot resist the roller coasters... especially when it is only a 10 minute wait....we also saw my cousin Misty P. and her boys on this ride while waiting to see Darin.

My manly man!

Isn't Disneyland the place where dreams come true?

To bad there is reality...

I can't wait for our next excursion! Nash is at a fun age, we hear a lot of laughs and squeals.!

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Background

What happened to "cutest blog on the block"? I wanted to change my background so I tried to go to there site and it wasn't there? Anyone know where to find cute backgrounds?

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Beach Days!

I love California for the fact that we have beautiful beaches! I am so sad Darin and I didn't take more advantage of living so close to the beach. Every time I go I want to own a beach house, just so I can run on the beach... weird I know but when I see all the runners on the beach I just want to run! haha.

A few Saturdays ago Nash and I took a trip to Newport Beach with some friends... the purpose was a photo shoot for little Addi who is turning 2 years old. Photographing Addi is so much fun because of her energy, we spend the whole time playing to get those fun candid shots! (if you want to see some of the shots...go to my photography blog...if you do not have access and want it let me know) We invited ReAnn and her kids to join us and it was a fun morning of playing in the sand and lounging on the beach! Thanks girls! We need to do some more of that before I move.

It is so fun taking pictures of Nash now that he can sit-up! He mostly just wanted to stuff his mouth with sand...whatelse are you supposed to do when you are 7 months old!