Are you "Busy"?

So on Sunday when I went to my welfare meeting there was a wonderful spiritual thought shared that has stuck with me and has made me think about what I do with my time! Satan wants to distract us from gaining hold of our Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout our days! How could he do that?

1. Keeping us busy with nonessentials of life and by inventing innumerable schemes to occupy our minds.

2. Tempt us to spend, spend, spend and borrow, borrow, borrow!

3. Pursuade wives to work long hours and husbands to work even longer so we can afford our empty lifestyles!

4. Keep us from spending time with our children. As our families fragment, our homes will no longer be an escape!

5. Overstimulate our minds so we can't hear the still small voice.

6. Involve us in gossip and small talk at our church meetings so we leave with troubled consciences.

7. Keep us busy busy busy!

We will croud our lives with so many good causes that there will be no time left to seek power from our Heavenly Father! Without His guidance and counsel we will work off our own strength, sacrifice our health and families for the good of the cause of Satan!

I guess the question is, has Satan been successful at his scheme?

You be the judge! Does BUSY mean...

B= Being

U=Under

S=Satan's

Y=Yoke

This certainly made me take notice of the things I tend to occupy my mind and time! Can we honestly say that we are not "Busy"? Everyone of us is busy with life but are we putting effort in reaturning to our Heavenly Father by filling our lives with reading our scriptures, having Family Home Evening, praying sincerily, attending our church meetings faithfully, reading the lessons before our church meetings to go better prepared, giving service to those in need, etc. Are we "busy" doing the things we need to be to return to live with Him again or are we "busy" doing things that Satan is tempting us with?

I would encourage any of you that read this to be better! Don't be so "busy" with your lives that you are neglecting the one area that needs it the most... the Spiritual Side! I will work at this as well this week! Good Luck and Be sure to let me know how it is going!

Halloween 2009

He loved Halloween!

Brayden is spiderman! He was more than willing to put the mask on to try the costume on but when Halloween came around he didn't want to! He certainly acted the part of spiderman well!

For our ward trunk-or-treat Josh came up with this wonderful idea to go as Noah and build a boat! We built the boat and found the animals to keep with the theme. The costume went together quickly because we had about a half hour before it started!

Kaytlin enjoyed Halloween as well but tired easily and got distracted quickly! The boys were climbing trees and Kaytlin wanted to join in but I wouldn't allow her to. I just couldn't resist this picture though!

The first hour we took Brayden around trick or treating Kaytlin slept in the car! She was exhausted and slept like a baby in the warm car while Brayden and Brenda walked in the cold! After her nap though she was rearing to go!

Happy Halloween!

Our New Front DoorWe had a wonderful contractor from our ward come and help us put in our new front door! He willingly put it in for a soda and candy bar! It looks amazing and I absolutely love the built in blinds which are very easy to use!

I won't miss our old door at all! A few weeks ago we opened it and couldn't get it shut. The whole bottom part of the door had bent in so we had a nice draft coming in! With winter coming on we needed to get this taken care of!

It turned out great! We just have a little bit of work to do to get the trim put back up!