The Continuous Atonement

This morning I was reading The Continuous Atonement by Brad Wilcox and I really like the chapter entitled He's Got us Covered. I want to quote from the book.... "The English word Atonement comes from the ancient Hebrew work Kaphar, which means to cover....through Jesus' sacrifice we are covered emotionally and spiritually. Jesus covers us (see Alma 7) when we feel worthless and inadequate. Jesus covers us when we feel lost and discouraged. Jesus covers us when we feel abused and hurt. Jesus covers us when we feel defenseless and abandoned. The Savior's message to us isn't only "Come unto me", but "Come as you are". He doesn't say, "Go get your act together and then come back when you fit the mold." He says, "Let's start right where you are, and go from there." In Arabic the verb meaning to atone is kafat, which means "to embrace". Not only can we be covered, helped, and comforted by the Savior, but we can be "encircled about eternally in the arms of his love".

We woke up this morning to snow! Yes, it is April 22. Yesterday I thought the hail was going to break my windshield.

I heard Ella jibbering this morning and went in to get her. She is always so happy in the morning!

More than the World

"Garden Walls" Mindy Gledhill

A productive Thursday

Ella got her nails painted last night by mommy and Hannah. She didn't really care about how they looked, she just wanted to grab the nail polish!

A beautiful spring afternoon looking off our back deck.

No, this is not a costume party......it's Hannah's 14th birthday party!

We celebrated Hannah's birthday party a few days earlier than April 3. She turns 14 years old this year and has already started talking about driving!!!! She has become a beautiful young lady! We had Kristen, Mark, Maddie, Jordan, Alexander, Grandpa Paulsen and John over for stuffed shells, garlic bread and molten lava cakes. Then we dyed easter eggs. Kristen had just had her eye surgery earlier that day and Jaycee and Hannah styled Jordans hair for him. Happy Birthday Hannah!

Tyler hams it up in his scout melodrama

Ella Walking

Josh gets asked to MORP

Sunday night Eden Chase decorated the front porch like a crime scene and left a sign that said "I'm dying to go to MORP with you". MORP is PROM spelled backwards. You can look her up on facebook. We are trying to think of a fun way to answer her.....any ideas?

Junior Prom 2010

Josh asked Jennie Naisbitt to prom. He wrote out on papers Will you go to prom with me and put them in cupcake batter and baked them. She said yes and then the planning started. Josh planned to whole night and had 7 other couples come with. We started with everyone coming to our house at 1 pm to pick teams for the Amazing Race Fremont Style. There were 4 groups of 4. The challenges were 1. Wrastle the loose chickens from our backyard and throw them back in the coop 2. Dig through a pot of spaghetti noodles for change (at Reeve's house) and go to Triple Stop to buy a drink while asking a stranger for a penny 3. Go to Grandpa Paulsens house and shoot cans off the fence with a beebee gun 4. Go to Lucas' house and label antlers and horns from different animals and then sing Jingle Bells on animal calls 5. Go to Kristens house and each person in the group had to eat either a sardine, baby food, a pepper or deviled ham 6. Go to Jeff's house and have their picture taken while shooting a basketball and finally when they thought they were done they had to go to the Primary presidents house and outrun a llama to get a colored bandanna that matched their team color. Of course we had snow and rain and wind, but the kids were troopers and had a blast. After the game they went home and got ready for the dance and then went to eat at Goodwood. After the dance they all came here to watch a movie. After the first group showed up our power went out! Chris found our generator and plugged it in so the kids could watch a movie. Josh took his date home at 2 am! It was a night to remember!

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