Friday Favorites

Today, I'm linking up with Narci, Erika and Andrea for Friday Favorites!

• Our St. Patrick's Day Parade! Fun fact: The Quad Cities St. Patrick Day Parade brags that it is the only St. Patrick's Day Parade that takes place in two different states. I don't know about you, but seeing a parade that starts in one state and ends in another was always on my bucket list ;) The guy behind us kept shouting to the floats, "Welcome to Iowa!!" haha

Jack LOVED the bear, and David did too, but David just showed his love differently by stalking the bear from a safe distance :)

 

•  My napping four-year-old! This doesn't happen very often but Jack almost always falls asleep if Spencer snuggles him on the couch while they watch animal documentaries on Netflix together :)

 

• Jeffrey R. Holland’s Speech from the Utah Coalition Against Pornography conference. Some of my favorite parts:

"Even though pornography increasingly comes with the generosity of the three “A”s—accessibility, affordability and anonymity—nevertheless, as addiction grows (or insatiable habit if you prefer that language) a person frequently takes increased risks to view it, such as accessing it at work or at home with family members nearby. This, of course, can lead to embarrassment, guilt, marital destruction, social ostracism, termination of employment and so forth but the viewer often feels out of control and unable to stop."

"If this moral plague could catch our imagination the way a medical epidemic does, we would be calling out every available member of the health care industry, every doctor and nurse and technician and orderly; we would have the attention of every father and mother, every grandparent and aunt and uncle asking what they could do; we would see educators and businessmen, lawyers and scientists, PTA organizations and welfare agencies lining up to send out flyers, to flood the airwaves, to give immunization shots at the local grocery store, to put up “Uncle Sam Wants You” posters in the post office, and to have night wardens with little tin helmets watching for danger the way Winston Churchill’s Londoners did during the Blitz of World War II. Yes, this ought to be seen like a public health crisis; like an infectious, fatal epidemic; like a moral plague on the body politic that is maiming the lives of our citizens. Frankly, until the sirens of a public-health war sound, I fear we will be wholly unsuccessful in this fight against the germ-invasion sweeping across our homeland"

"Let me conclude by offering the basis for the hope I have; it is hope of the highest kind. I have deep, personal feelings for the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ and the power of his redemption. I declare that force, that pull, that saving grace to be infinite and eternal in its reach, a force and a grace that will save us from all kinds of bondage and lift all kinds of burdens if we but permit it, if we but seek it, and allow it into our lives. When hope is gone and lives are shattered in a hundred different ways for a thousand different reasons, the reality of Christ’s redemptive, lifting, exalting power is still there. Against all odds and in spite of so much sin in the world, His promise is permanent, peaceful and everlasting."

•  Play dates at the park with friends! These kids spent ten minutes on the playground and over an hour digging for worms in the baseball field :) They got quite a nasty pile!

 

•  This crazy kid. Lipstick entertained him during Jack's tumbling class this week :)

 

• An Easter package from my parents! My kids got spoiled with bunnies and activities and Easter outfits. 

Painting the turtle rocks were their favorite (HOW DOES MY MOM FIND ALL THE TURTLE THINGS?!)
Waiting to paint his turtle with a turtle on his head :)

 

• This accidental text: (this is way TMI so read at your own risk but I sent this text to some close friends... AND THE WRONG NUMBER!!! We were laughing SO SO HARD!!!)

 

That poor poor person! hahaha I seriously cannot imagine getting a text like that from a random number - I think it was better than prank calling ;) Next time I'll stick to google, our nurse hotline, and an actual doctor ;) Hey, once I accidentally took a naked selfie and accidentally sent it to my mom so I'm aware that texting mishaps could always be worse!!!