Bucket List #95 and the Wash Tub

 My hair has been crazy since I had Kasen.  It all fell out, then little baby hairs grew back everywhere and it was curly about 1/2 way down my head, then straight!

 So, I decided to check off #95 from my bucket list and donate my hair!  Feels great since I can't donate blood, like I usually do, while I'm pregnant.

It's still been a good summer.

Playing in the backyard with cousins, eating ice cream cones.  Every time we tried to take him out of that truck he'd crawl back in.

 Last week we went to the splash pad in Springville with Ashely and Hazel.  It was the best idea ever!

Kasen loved it! He even tried putting his face down in the water like the bigger kids there were doing.

A couple times he got big squirts of water in the face and would come running to me, trying to catch his breath, but he just smiled after.

As part of my New Year's resolutions this year, I am reading a book!  It's called "Odds Are, You're Going to be Exalted" and I read something that made me feel better about a disagreement that Kyle and I have.

I believe that when a person dies that it is part of God's plan and their time to go.

Kyle believes that not all people die when they are meant to die.

As a police officers wife, I find much more hope in the thought that if Kyle were to die in the line of duty that it would be because he had finished his work on the earth.

This book I'm reading quotes Neal A. Maxwell saying that, 

"no righteous individual dies an untimely death."

and President Joseph Fielding Smith stated, 

"No righteous man or woman is taken before his or her time."

President Spencer W. Kimball wrote,

"I am confident that there is a time to die, but I believe also that many people die before their time because they are careless, abuse their bodies, take unnecessary chance, or expose themselves to hazards... I believe we may die prematurely through unrighteous living, but seldom exceed our time very much... God controls our lives... but gives us our agency.  We may... foolishly shorten or terminate them."

So, it turns out that we are both right and this gives us motivation to be extra righteous ;)

That section of the book was actually talking about infant mortality rates, which is another comforting thought.  All children that die before the age of accountability did so because such was the plan of God.  They are perfect, innocent and righteous.  Thus their death was not premature.  All of them have been exalted.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is so wonderful!

We've made a pretty strict budget while we save for our house.  Besides paying our car off (which means we have ZERO debt! Woo woo!) I also made a goal to start paying attention to sale prices at the grocery store and plan our meals according to those.  I'm happy to say that I ad matched 3 things when I went grocery shopping this week! haha It's a start...

I decided I can't take Kasen shopping anymore though.  He won't stay sitting down in the cart and dumps out all my bags of produce! Before I'm half way done shopping I don't care what the best deals are anymore!

Taking pictures of his cute face makes me forget his tornado ways for a while though.

We LOVE him!