Salt Lake Temple lights

We wanted to go out to the Christmas lights at Temple Square and this is one of our only chances to go since we are leaving on Friday to go to Arizona for Christmas. We had a blast and as you can see they are absolutely beautiful.

This one makes a very nice background for your desktop on your computer.















This one makes a very nice background for your desktop on your computer.



Kiera could not resist making a snow angel, because earlier as you can see in the next picture I make one in shorts at our house. And yes, this is Kiera on the side of the road just outside of Temple Square acting like a little girl. I could not take a picture of Lacie because our camera was out of batteries but she had also made about three snow angels as well. Lacie was so funny the entire night she was throwing snow balls at us, it was so cute.

White early Chistmas

Nothing like waking up on Christmas to about 9 inches of snow. We wrote Santa and asked him to come early and bring the big things because we would not have room for everything when we came back from Arizona.





Lacie and Alexa got Playdough and craft tables. They played with them all day today.



Ashlyn got a rocking horse and at first was a little scared of it, but now she loves it. It is broken so we will have to have Santa bring us a new one that is not broken.



I got a set of golf clubs from the family (Santa allowed them to set it out with his gift), and I got an indoor putting machine that will eject the ball back if I make it in.



Kiera got black Airwalks, she has been wanting those for a few years now. I need to get a picture of her with them.

Inspiration given to Kiera regarding my Excel Class

I was taking 4 classes this semester: Spanish 102, Healthful Living, Public Speaking, and Excel. Excel was an open entry which means that I have until the last day of class to turn in all the work.
Well, about a week ago we noticed that I had been auto-withdrawn from Excel. I was in the middle of turning in all my finals at that time and was too swamped to think about it and so I had just accepted that I would have to just re-take it next semester. Well, Kiera was feeling just sick about it and so yesterday she called me at work at asked me to call real quick and leave a message with my teacher (she gave me her number) since she would most likely take a while to respond back. I am glad that she had me call right then because she answered. I explained how we noticed that I was auto-dropped from the class and that I would like to have a chance to still get a grade sine the deadline is not till tomorrow. She looked into it and found out that my end date was 11/10 and that the system had given me an extra month to complete it. I told her that I had seen emails that said that my end date was the 15th. Anyway she checked with another group (involved in grading) and said that if I could submit everything by 2:00 pm today that she would accept it. I told her that that was impossible since I was at work until 6:00 pm. She said that they were all going on vacation at 2:00 pm and that was the latest they would accept it. I told her that I could not do and then called Kiera to tell her the bad news. Kiera and I talked and I decided to just try. i left work, called my teacher, and raced home. I had not even opened my book yet. Once I got home around 10:30 am I opened my book and went to town. I was racing the clock. I am good with Excel and so I was not that worried until I found out that I had to use all their concepts data and spreadsheets. With the Lords help I was able to get everything turned in by about 1:45 pm and then she told me that there was a final as well. The final was a three hour final and luckily I was able to finish it in about 14 minutes. I called my teacher to report that I had finished the entire class at 1:59 pm. I could not believe it, I had finished an entire semester in 3 and half hours. To make things better I got a 96% in the class as well.

I am so glad to be married to such a spiritually powerful women. She is so in tune with the Spirit it is amazing. I am also so thankful to Heavenly Father for helping me to focus for those 3 1/2 hrs which is a feet in and of its self, but also to help me to finish on time. It is impossible to overlook His hand and I am indebted to Him for he blesses my life every single day. (He also helped me get a B in Spanish).

Opening Christmas Dresses

So great shall be his anguish

Mosiah 3:7
7 And lo, he shall ^asuffer ^btemptations, and pain of body, ^chunger, thirst, and fatigue, even more than man can ^dsuffer, except it be unto death; for behold, ^eblood cometh from every pore, so great shall be his ^fanguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people.

I think that it is very interesting, how it says "so great shall be his ^fanguish for the wickedness and the abominations of his people." It is more graphic than just saying he suffered for our sins. I can actually feel and sence his anguish for my wickedness and my abominations.

Ashlyn wants her food

We were feeding her in her high chair and left for one second and came back and she had got out. She up on the table helping herself to Daddy's food. She is so funny.

My Persuasive Speech for Public Speaking

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3807913880026014428

My Outline- http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfxzqmc4_43pdk76h

Hear His voice and know Him

My NT: Hear His voice and know Him

St John 10:2-5, 14-15
2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the ^asheep.

3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his ^avoice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and ^bleadeth them out.

4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they ^aknow his ^bvoice.

5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of ^astrangers.

14 I am the good ^ashepherd, and ^bknow my ^csheep, and am known of mine.

15 As the Father knoweth me, even so ^aknow I the Father: and I lay down my ^blife for the sheep.

I was pondering these scriptures and was given insight into the meaning of hearing and His voice and knowing His voice. This is revelation, and that is how we hear Him and know His voice. We must draw closer to the Lord and become more sensitive to the Spirit.

Lacie is growing up on me

Lacie did her own hair for me, Kiera told her that I love straight hair. She is getting so grown up on me.

From 2006-11-26

Flavor of what Judment day will be like

This morning I received a call to meet with the Stake President after church at 4:20 pm. It is hard to explain how I felt and some of the feeling that were going through my mind all day today. I did not feel worthy to meet with the Stake President and it cut me to the core, I felt as if to flee from this interview simply because of how I felt. I know that the way I felt was ridiculous and incorrect for the Lord will qualify whom ever he calls but still I went through this. I felt that I had a glimpse of what the unprepared would feel as they are preparing to interview or to stand before God and their Christ. It is not a feeling that I would recommend, and it came as a call to be better and draw closer to my Savior. I am committing today to make greater efforts to prepare myself and to bring others to prepare themselves as well.

The interview went good, but it was with the second counselor, the President and first counselor got called away on an emergency. It was an interview to get to know me better and I was not very sociable. I tend to have a hard time being sociable and know that I need to work on it especially after today.

This morning before church I felt impressed to give the Stake President my talk on Journey Toward Righteousness. So I told him about my feelings and gave this talk to the second counselor and he said that he would like to read it but that he will give it to the Stake President first and then ask to read it. I was glad that I did this, because back in Arizona when we attended Power Ranch ward I felt to send a copy to my Stake President and did not and always felt bad about it. So now I have acted and it feels great.

Idea for Home Teaching

Kiera and I were talking about Home Teaching and how it is hard to check up on your families because if you ask, "Is there anything we can do for you?" They will usually say no or we are doing great. As I was thinking about it I had a great thought and that was why not say, "We would like to at least do one thing for you this month, what can we do." I think that would provide a different response. Kiera suggested saying, "We would like to help your family in some way this month, how can we help. So I will be testing this out to see what kind of a response I get and then report back.

My Crazy A-Pashy

Ashlyn is getting so big. She is doing all kinds of funny things as seen below.

Here she is trying to feed her baby a bottle, I do not know how she figured this out because she has never taken a bottle before.


She is trying desperately to put this dress up shoe on.


And here she is just flat out cute.


Now she got tied of feeding her baby so she decide to try it herself.

The Lord answered my prayer

The Lord is truly involved in our lives. I find it amazing that even the simple prayers are answered as if they were very important. Today, we were all in the car and we stopped before getting out of the apartment parking lot to find Ashlyn's pacifier. It was no where to be found so we turned back to go up and get it. Well I could not find it anywhere, so I said a prayer. I searched the family room and nothing, but then I had a thought to check the toy box that was in the family room. Sure enough there stood a pacifier. It was not one that she liked that much, but it could do. I felt impressed to just look a little harder in the toy box and sure enough he favorite one was right there. I was overwhelmed with the love that my Father in Heaven has for me and my family.

Santa comes to Orem Mall

Kiera took the girls to see Santa (I was not there) with her friend and her two kids, Eden and Judd. Ashlyn was not very happy as you can see.

Faith Anne Coats was born yesterday

My dad called me just now to enform me that they were in Salt Lake and that they (him and Mom) were on their way to visit Grandma Young on their way to visit Kim's new baby. She weighed 7 lbs 9 oz.