Thought for Sunday

" I believe with all my heart that because God loves us there are some particularized challenges that he will deliver to each of us. He will customize the curriculum for each of us in order to teach us the things we most need to know. He will set before us in life what we need; not always what we like. And this will require us to accept with all our hearts the truth that there is divine design in each of our lives and that we have rendezvous to keep, individually and collectively....
       God gives to us the lessons we need most, not always the ones we think we need."

-Elder Neal A. Maxwell

and a picture of Lyla & Bracken as we walked to the house of a new family in our ward.  They invited us over for dinner. We've been social slackers, we should have invited the new people over for dinner but the time we have been home is digging out for the next time we leave! It was a nice dinner and fun to get to know them better.

Hayes's birthday is tomorrow!  He is so excited to open his presents, he has been carrying around his present from Grandma Niece and trying to guess what it is.  He also put the envelope from Mimi under his pillow so he could open it first thing in the morning. He told Bracken and me to wake him up as soon as we woke up, or he would wake us up if we woke up first.  Here is to hoping he doesn't wake up super early, it's going to be a fun day!