Happy Valentine's Day

Today, it almost felt like any other day, since Derek and I celebrated V-day on Saturday. Alex had Joy School today and we made sugar cookies for all of his class mates. He came up to me when I was dropping him off and he asked, " mommy is it valstimes day?" My reply was, "yes, it is valentines day." Later, I called Derek to ask him a question and I heard voices in the back ground, so I asked him where he was.. His reply, "Don't worry about it" once he said that I knew exactly where he was, he was at the store to get me flowers. That sneaky man! He got home with tulips and another interesting looking flower. He said, "you always call me when I am getting you flowers, so I can never surprise you, how do you did that?" Alex then came up to him and said, " I gots a surprise for you... close your eyes". He handed Derek his cars and yelled surprise... "Now you gots me a surprise, Daddy?" Derek had Alex close his eyes, then Alex kept asking, "now, I can open my eyes?" over and over, until Derek said he could and then hand all his cars back. Alex then said, "yay, happy valstimes day!"

FHE

Yesterday, We had Family Home Evening. Most of the time it is so hard to get Alex to sit still or listen, but ever since we started Joy School back up, he is more willing the pay attention. The topic yesterday was "Prayer". The reason for this is because the other day Alex really wanted to play soccer more, but it was dinner time, so I told him may be if you pray for it Heavenly Father will let you play more after dinner. So, he prayed and asked, "Let me play more soccer today." unfortunately, we didn't get to play more soccer. So, the purpose of the lesson was to help Alex understand that answers don't always come right away, but they do always come, not always when we want them or how we want them, but they do always come. So, I then reminded Alex that we did get to play soccer the next day. He got really excited about praying after that and wanted to say a prayer right then. So, we let him. After the prayer we then said our testimonies; Alex gets up and says, "I like to bare my testimony, I know the Church is true, I thankful for prayer... amen"