Prayers for Uncle Dan

This is my Uncle Dan. I am named after him. He is an amazing man. He is caring and loving and will do anything for you. Right now he is in the hospital awaiting a Quadruple Bi-pass surgery. He had some chest pain at the start of this week, he thought he must of over done it with the workout and so we went into see the doctor. They told him he had angina of the heart and now 4 days later he needs a major open heart surgery.

We need your prayers. Please ask your friends and family to pray for Uncle Dan. I am sure each of us has an "Uncle Dan" in our lives that we love and look up too.

We are going down to Hamilton tonight to see him. I will keep you updated of his progress. For now it is just a really big shock to our whole family.

Sometimes life

is just hard. Even as a member of the church. It really is just hard. It is hard to focus on every little thing that needs to be done.

Changing diapers upon diapers a day
Trying to start potty training
Washing faces, brushing teeth. making sure that the kids eat nutrious food
Making sure you are nursing your son enough
Oh. Saying morning prayers.
Cleaning house, doing laundry, thinking about lunch....
Running errands
Checking mail.... getting bills :(
Studying for life
Realizing you didn't get a job interview today even though you have applied for 32 jobs in 3 weeks and you are doing everything you can to learn everything you seemed to miss out on in school
Having bonding time
Making dinner
Bath time
Brushing teeth
Reading scriptures
Wait... Did I serve anyone today?
Saying prayers
Getting kids to sleep... rocking and rocking your sons for hours because he is overtired and you have no idea what else could be bothering him
Catching up with friends
Missing friends... A LOT
Still trying to potty train... Missing the toilet by 2 minutes and having to change a stinky diaper
Taking some time for you and your spouse
Worrying about the state of the world and what you kids have to grow up with
OH! and I need to write in my journal
Clean up the last of the dishes
Have a bath

Then miraclously, amazingly through all of the crap and I mean crap that seems to fall into our laps or that Satan every single day your 2 year old daughter offers this prayer:

"Dear Heavenly Father. Peas bless the scriptures, peas bless mummy and grandpa and Aunty Jenna and Daddy and Nanny. Thank you for band aids, Inmaname of Jesus Christ. Amen"

Any you realize that you are making a difference in someones world, that maybe and even if it is just a small someone in this world knows who you are, loves you and appreciates that you are in there world. You realize that Heavenly Father is so real, that he is aware of our weaknesses, our trials, our hardships and like the painting he is always right there, knocking on the door, hoping you will remember to invite him into your home and life each day so that he can make your burdens light.

 It is quite an amazing feeling knowing that we are not alone in this world. To know that we do not have to shoulder our burdens alone but that we can hand our yoke to him. I love the gospel and the reaffirmation that this gives to our lives. To know that while Satan is consistently trying to make us miserable like unto himself we don't have to be the natural man and allow him. We can be something better.

2 months old

Little Joe is 2 months old. He still loves to eat and sleep and is still my complacent little man who is happy being held or just lying on a blanket. He hasn't shown much change with his casts on. He is weighing in at 15 pounds. He is a very happy little boy who doesn't seem to mind the NZ Cold. He is cooing all the time and has rolled from his tummy to his back twice but of course we haven't been able to catch it. Anyways because I know you all just wanna see my beautiful little boy I will stop writing and you can check out the pictures below.

We blanked out his man bits but isn't his chest gorgeous??

Handsome boy in his church outfit having a nap.

Hanging out with his sister. She loves to lie next to him and sing songs to him. He is really patient with her :)

A day at the doctors getting his casts removed and then put back on. He is such a good little boy.

More sister time. When she has him she says " Daddy Cheese Please!" Meaning take our picture

Tummy time on the bean bag with Grandad Chadz