Wow, blessings galore.

Today was a fantastic start of the week! I started strong in getting more schoolwork done in one day than I have for a long time (still trying to catch up all of that Latin!), and I have also felt very lifted in other ways too.

Okay, to whoever will read this, I beg you to focus on this more than anything else: SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT. This is essential, especially for the day and age in which we live in. Have a REAL personal study, go to seminary, read/listen to general conference. Never miss an opportunity to feel the spirit strongly. We, as mortals, forget easily. The more you are reminded by the Holy Ghost the better.

Tonight we had a good time at FHE. The lesson tonight was about Baptism; we're excited for Gretel to be baptized next week. Afterwards I played some music and the kids danced. Henry got rolling once I started playing "You'll Be In My Heart" by Phil Collins on guitar. He started singing this rediculous parody that was something like, "Oh, my mom was an ape... she'll be in my heart..." Eventually I was laughing too hard to hold the strings down hard enough and I stopped playing. But he kept going, and eventually the melody turned into the Diego Theme Song and a zombie Tarzan teamed up with Diego and he went on and on like he often does. It seemed funny to me that he used the Diego song; that song has been my background music all day long!

I have this wild fantasy in my head that the Baxter family will stop at our house for a rest stop tomorrow on their vacation, but they haven't gotten back to me about it. :/ Hm... It would've been the first full-family get together. I can only imagine what might've happened: Henry throwing toy grenades and hyping up Caiden and Colton with his seemingly ENDLESS arsenal of weapons (he keeps "borrowing" them from all his homies), the little girls running around all over the place, and the older kids and parents attempting to have a decent conversation over it all... It'd be an encounter worth writing about.