Forever Family

I am feeling overwhelmed with gratitude today for our family! Today is Josh's birthday and my parents 29th anniversary. We went to the shooting range to celebrate! It was so much fun seeing every try it out. The guys had a little more experience then us ladies but we all did pretty good! I personally had fun but shooting is not something I see myself choosing to do on my birthday :-) but spending time as a family was my favorite part of the day. There is something special about family. Just feeling so comfortable around each other. Being able to completely be yourself and feeling so proud to be a member of our family. Poor tommy has been super sick but he woke up early to go shooting then went straight to work! Such a trooper! I hope he is doing okay tonight at work! 

Tonight was also our church's General Women's Broadcast. I would have loved to go watch it at the church building with all other sister but since tommy is working and babysitter choices are few I decided to watch it at home. Although I'm sure I didn't get quiet all I could have gotten from the meeting if I was at the building, I did really enjoy listening to out church leaders. They have so much wisdom and are so good at inspiring others. From this session what really stuck out to me was that I need to go to the temple more often and I need to serve my family more. I have been feeling really good about our temple attendance this year! Our goal (tommy and I) this year was to go once a month. It's September and so far we have gone 10 times. So we are above our goal and are determined to go three more times before the year is through. But I think on top of that couples goal I will make it my goal to go once more a month on my own. I know that if I can do this then I can receive more inspiration and motivation to be a disciple of Christ. 

I also have been feeling pretty good about my effort to serve. I pray for it everyday and I am finding little things that I can do to help others. Mainly it is babysitting and making food for other families in our ward. But right now that is what I'm able to do and so that's what I will try my hardest to do. But what I can be better at is helping serve our "extended" family. So our parents, grandparents, siblings ect. Sometimes it's easy for me to do things for other people but maybe not so much for my family. I can pray for opportunities to serve them and I know that I will recognize the moment. I think through this they will be able to better feel my love for them. 

Needless to say, it's been another great day!