1) Mario graduated! His parents and both his sisters came into town for a few days for the festivities.
2) Lots of swimming! Whether it's at Seven Peaks or in a little kiddie pool on the patio, Dulce swims a lot!
3) Another trip to the aquarium with Niko in Draper.
4) My baby shower. Thanks to Shelby for help with the games and to lots of people for bringing food! It was fun to be with other great ladies/moms (and one husband - not Mario -...haha)
5) A few BBQS - the last one included roasted marshmallows which I was very, very happy about
6) We went to the Payson temple open house. Dulce was freaked out by the little booties they have you wear over yours shoes, so she got carried the whole way. I loved hearing her say "que bonito este templo!"
7) I'm getting bigger and bigger! (I'm currently 3 days away from 39 weeks and have plateaued now believe it or not.)
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| 30 weeks |
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| 35 weeks |
What Dulce is into now:
1) Drawing - she'll color whatever, but she likes adding facial features to faces I draw for her. She is quite the perfectionist though and if it doesn't come out quite right, she will either scribble over the whole drawing or erase the whole drawing if she has trouble erasing just the part she messed up on.
1) Drawing - she'll color whatever, but she likes adding facial features to faces I draw for her. She is quite the perfectionist though and if it doesn't come out quite right, she will either scribble over the whole drawing or erase the whole drawing if she has trouble erasing just the part she messed up on.
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| Dulce drew the red parts and told me that the girl is "muy mala" |
2) Pretending - she likes to pretend a LOT of things, but her favorites are assigning roles like mom, dad, bebe hermanita, or Peppa Pig, Daddy Pig, Mom Pig, and George pig, etc. She also likes to pretend she's going to the airport to visit los abuelos in Alabama.
3) Bebe hermanita - we talk a LOT about bebe hermanita and I think she's going to be a great helper!
3) Bebe hermanita - we talk a LOT about bebe hermanita and I think she's going to be a great helper!
4) Peppa pig - she likes to watch little episodes of this show and pretend we are characters from it.
5) Finding bugs - especially with dad, because I don't really like to...
6) Going to yard sales - we can go for an hour or two and she's out for a good hunt just like us! Her favorite purchases recently were a princess Ariel teapot and a hiking backpack (that she rides in).
Mario is happy to be graduated/done with homework and likes his new work! He's really into golfing in his free time. His birthday is tomorrow and this weekend we went to Texas Roadhouse (for the first time) and saw Jurassic World. Dulce and I have been making him a pinata, but Dulce didn't want to get her hands dirty so she mostly just watches me make it haha. It's the fluffiest shark pinata you've ever seen!
I'm no longer working at the gym and my last day for Teach For America was officially on Friday! Now I just nanny Mark a few days a week and Niko whenever I'm needed.
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| Mark and Dulce hanging out on the patio |
Young Women's is keeping me pretty busy and I feel really blessed to have such great counselors and advisors. I teach the Laurels and a few weeks ago we had a lesson on testimony and here are some quotes I liked from it:
- President Gordon B. Hinckley has told us, “Once having received that testimony, it becomes our obligation to bear record to others.”
- Brigham Young: “Many may think they haven’t any testimony to bear, but get them to stand up and they will find the Lord will give them utterance to many truths they had not thought of before. More people have obtained a testimony while standing up trying to bear it than down on their knees praying for it”
- Read John 7:17, then discuss this quote: President Howard W. Hunter taught, “Action is one of the chief foundations of personal testimony. The surest witness is that which comes firsthand out of personal experience.
- “. . . This, then, is the finest source of personal testimony. One knows because he has experienced”(Howard W. Hunter, Conference Report, April 1967, 115–16; emphasis added).
- “Nurtured through righteous living, [a] testimony of Jesus becomes the governing force in all that a person does. Furthermore, it is available to everyone, for ‘God is no respecter of persons’ (Acts 10:34). Acquiring such a testimony does not, however, come without personal effort. One must desire to know, study to learn, live to merit, and pray to receive. When so pursued in humility and faith, the knowledge comes, and with this knowledge comes both the sweet assurance that all will be well and the inner strength to make it so.” — Keith B. McMullin
- “While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph Smith’s vision before they gain testimonies. If we have unrealistic expectations of how, when, or where answers come, we risk missing the answers which come as quiet, reassuring feelings and thoughts that most often come after our prayers, while we are doing something else. These answers can be equally convincing and powerful. — Allan F. Packer
- “We should be patient in developing and strengthening our testimonies. Rather than expecting immediate or spectacular manifestations, though they will come when needed, we should pray for a testimony, study the scriptures, follow the counsel of our prophet and other Church leaders, and live the principles of the gospel. Our testimonies then will grow and mature naturally, perhaps imperceptibly at times, until they become driving forces in our lives. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
- Harold B. Lee,"A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam, it is something you have to recapture every day of your life."
- “To hold a testimony, one must bear it often and live worthy of it.” — Spencer W. Kimball
- “We need to both declare and live our testimonies.” — David A. Bednar
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