Ahh, the ups and downs of life....

Oh how I love the temple. Jake and I made it a goal of ours this year to make it at least once a month (although it should be more since we're surrounded by like, 15...but you gotta start somewhere right?). Anyway, luckily some friends of ours have the same goal for this year so we decided to do a temple swap once a month so we could each go and enjoy these temples.

I've had to deal with some family issues lately and people are worrying about the stress I'm under being pregnant so I thought that this temple visit I would focus thinking about my father and what he's going through and hopefully through this visit I can gain more peace and faith for my dad and for myself.

Isn't the Bountiful Temple gorgeous! I had to take a picture.

My dad has been faced with cancer, again, for the third time. He decided last week to go ahead with the same surgery he had just over a year ago to remove the cancer in his tongue. After only 15 months, his tongue cancer is back. But we all have faith that the Lord will take care of him. We just need to be sure and understand that what will happen is the Lord's will. I've come to terms with that and I think that's why I'm not as stressed as people may think. I know whatever happens, my dad is in a good place and I am so proud of him for the decisions he's made this past year. He truly is the perfect example of "it's never to late to change". We've had a lot of fun getting to know each other again these past two years and I wouldn't trade any of it for anything. I'm so grateful for this time we've had and hope to have many more years with my old papi :)

Look at that face! Lydia and I have had a lot of fun the past few weeks doing preschool together. This week was "Motor Skills" week so we've been using our hands a lot. She officially has her own pair of scissors which she thinks is the coolest thing in the world. You would have thought I gave her a million dollars. She would cut paper all day if I let her...funny kid.

Yesterday we learned how to make finger paints and she enjoyed the painting part of this activity over the making of the paints (what kid wouldn't :)

She was so dainty about it, dipping one finger in so carefully. Then all of her fingers went in on accident and she thought she was going to get in trouble for getting all messy. Of course not...the whole point of finger paints is to make a mess right? :)

Eventually the whole hand made it in and we made hand prints.

Another successful week of preschool.