Nicholas' Baptism Pictures

Nicholas was baptised today. In the family picture is my dh's mom and his step father.

TALK

I hate that dreaded word! I have not given one at church for a long time! The last one was right after the BOM challenge and I was asked to give a talk about The importance of the BOM, which was a really neat talk for me, so maybe this one will be the same? Anyways, last summer until October of this year my dh and I taught the marriage and family relations class put out by the church. This class is actually for anyone who is married or planning on getting married. Some people think that it is just for people with a troubled marriage, but that is really not true! There were so many useful things in the class that any marriage could benefit from hearing. So, now I just got to fiqure out what I want to say about it. I am planning on giving a brief overview of the class: what it is, who it is for, and even some of the topics it goes over. He asked for that in the talk but he also wants to know how it helped our marriage and what we got out of it. That is going to take a lot of thought. My dh wants me to talk about what it meant to me as a mother and he wants to talk about what it meant to him as a father and even go over a few principals that were taught about being a mother and a father. I really think that that is what it helped us with the most is being better parents. And by doing this, they get some small lesson about being parents. I actually kind of like that. I just hope that I will be able to talk. I have really been struggling with this cold. Anyways, better go get working on it. Thanks for listening to my thought process as I get ready to write this talk. Wish me luck.:)

My 7 year old and church

My 7 year old has really good friends at church. He has been crying for weeks because all of the "big" kids get to move up into the valiants class. There were no other babies born in our branch the year he was born. He was in nursery all alone the whole time, so all of the other kids are lots younger or several years older. He has been so upset. Well, he told us he refused to go to the "baby" class. During sacrament on Sunday one of the "big" kids got up and bore his testimony and talked about how they felt like they were leaving Nicholas behind and they included him in there testimony about becoming missionaries and how they wanted to be like Nicholas because he really wanted to be a missionary. He hoped Nicholas would continue to be such a good example to the "little" kids in the CTR class. This really helped Nicholas and was an answer to my prayers! He went to his class without a problem.