"Choose you this day whom ye will serve, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15

Saturday, August 15, 2020

Thinking about Homeschooling?

Do you know what your children are being taught? It is our God-given responsibility to teach our children truth. If we let someone else help educate our children, we still need to know what they are being taught. I love the way my parents did that. In 1983, I was a freshman in high school. My parents would review the books used for the classes to make sure they didn't go against our values. This particular year, our high school decided to switch out the traditional history class and use a different textbook which when reviewed, my parents felt was not in line with traditional family values. They protested and tried to get a traditional class to be offered. It wasn't. I was told by the high school I could not graduate if I didn't take that class. I asked my parents what I could do. They said, "don't graduate". The thought was shocking to me. But with time, I realized it wasn't the end of the world. My parents started homeschooling to teach their children truth - the values they wanted them to have. I started homeschooling as a sophomore and took the GED and ACT to get into college. Nathan and I have chosen to homeschool our children and have loved the opportunity of teaching and working with our children and just spending lots of time with them. It has been such a blessing in our lives.


Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Johnny is Engaged!

We are very excited and happy for Johnny.  God has led him to meet a wonderful young lady -Alexandria-  who will soon be his bride.  We are so pleased and grateful for this coming union.  :)







           Johnny and Alex had the opportunity of serving together in the Portland, Oregon Mission. 



I like this quote because it shows how important our family relationships are and how we must try our hardest to be successful in the home.

"Now is the time for each of us to work toward our personal conversion, toward becoming what our Heavenly Father desires us to become. As we do so, we should remember that our family relationships--even more than our Church callings--are the setting in which the most important part of that development can occur. The conversion we must achieve requires us to be a good husband and father or a good wife and mother. Being a successful Church leader is not enough. Exaltation is an eternal family experience, and it is our mortal family experiences that are best suited to prepare us for it. (Dallin H. Oaks, Ensign, Nov. 2000, pp. 32-34)

Thursday, July 11, 2019

Little Levi

We are having so much fun with our darling new Grandson!  He is such a sweet little boy!  xo