Conference Thoughts

 Today while I was running I realized I didn't say anything about conference. Honestly, I don't have as many thoughts as I used to...but I don't think that's conference's fault. It's more like I am not paying as much attention as I used to. The times I got the most out of conference this time around was when I was outside pushing the babies in the stroller and listening to conference on my phone. 

Here's some pics from in between conference sessions when we went walking outside.

Alice ALWAYS gets dressed up for General Conference and Sundays :)

Anyway, one thought I had today while I was running was that I should make social, physical, intellectual, and spiritual goals like the church has encouraged the youth to do. Maybe my physical goal would be using fitness pal like Dallas has (food is usually my greatest weakness...I can get myself to run no problem, but being aware of what and how much I'm eating is definitely something I could work on - also drinking more water). Maybe my intellectual goal could be reading 15 min/day or I guess piano could be intellectual? I will probably stick to something basic like scripture study for my spiritual goal...or maybe daily devotionals. That might be better at helping me take time to think, ponder, pray, instead of just whipping through the scriptures really fast. And lastly, social. I so want to be someone who thinks about others and serves. It definitely does not come to me naturally. I think about myself and my children...and that's about it. But I would really like to change that. So maybe one service/day. That could be calling or visiting someone, taking food to people, or looking up some legit service on justserve.org or something like that. 

Well, I guess I still didn't really say a lot about conference. But those were some of my thoughts while I was running today and those thoughts CAME from watching conference, so that counts, right? Also, today I ran while pushing Alice and Lucy. They really love coming running with me and while the weather is nice and Dallas is home and able to watch the other girls, I feel like I should take advantage of this opportunity. When I am just running by myself, I usually listen to podcasts. Currently I mostly listen to American HistoryTellers. I started to listen to my podcast today and then thought, "What am I doing? I have my girls with me! I should be spending time with them!" So I turned off the podcast and we listened to music and talked and looked for bunnies and squirrels and red, pink, and yellow leaves. I really do love running with my girls. I could spend a lot of time talking about that and maybe I will in a different post later on. 

Here's some pics of my running buddies after we got home from running. They were teaching the babies how to play with princesses. Which was adorable. 

Also! Emma ran into a friend from school today! This was especially exciting since school is virtual and she has only seen her friends on the computer and today we realized one of them lives RIGHT NEXT TO US! Emma was SO excited and has been talking about it ever since and cannot WAIT to play with her tomorrow. It is fun to see Emma growing up and being excited about spending time with friends. Tonight, after we put the kids to bed we heard Emma singing, "Pop-si-co" to her sisters. She had Alice and Lucy singing it with her and it was super cute. I love that our girls are so sweet and love each other so much.

The girlies painted rocks that Hannah and Preston gave them. They have been asking to do this for several days and were so glad to finally paint them today!