Angela's experience in school has been okay thus far. It's been a few weeks into school and she has come home on a few occasions expressing incidents in school where classmates were not being very nice.  I also worried because every day she would tell me that during Recess she would play by herself. On Friday Angela came up to me and said something like, "I know why kids are being mean in school. I haven't gotten a blessing from daddy yet." Andrew had talked to Angela a few days prior and about giving her a Father's Blessing on the upcoming Sunday.

What happened on Sunday and the blessings that came from it is no short of a miracle. On Sunday all three girls received amazing blessings. In Angela's blessing, she was blessed to have fun in school. This week has been night and day in the difference in Angela's school experience. On Monday one of the first things she said to me when we got home after school pick-up was, "Today was the funnest day at school." She went onto tell me the complete opposite experiences she had had previous. She and her friends played a game where they were kittens during Recess. On Tuesday, she reported that during Recess they played that they were fish.

I talked with Ms. Xioa, Angela's teacher, today (which is Friday) and continued to be filled with gratitude for the power of the Priesthood. Ms. Xioa reported the the first two weeks Angela was pretty quiet, but since Monday she has seemed so happy and friendly at school. She smiled as she talked about Angela's big laugh.

How amazing is the power of Priesthood blessings. That my Angela's experience in school could change so dramatically over night. I know that we have a loving Heavenly Father who heard our prayers and answers our prayers. He loves us. He watches over us. He knows our heartaches. He blesses us. One of those blessings is the power of the Priesthood here on earth. I know it is the power of God.

Today our good friend's, the Masielos, invited the whole family to Lauren's (Angela's friend) birthday party. It was fun to see the girls with friends and doing some cool gymnastic moves.

Today for learning time, Emily and I took a cereal box and created an "Emily." We then made chocolate chip and sprinkled cookies with paper. On the opposite side of the chocolate chips and sprinkles, I wrote letters. Then, Emily "ate" the cookies while talking about the letters. It was a fun way to review letter sounds.

I love this secret santa business. It makes us all serve everyone. Emily busily has been making cards for people while they are at school. Careful, she is, not to write her name on the card so they don't know it's her :) Look at that beautiful handwriting! :)

I love our new learning corner we made in our home! It will bring lots of hours of fun. Angela gets home from school and goes straight to the Learning Corner and begins to teach her class. I love being Angela's student. I get to see what she learns about in school and see her be the amazing teacher she is. I love this girl! Carolyn also teaches just about every day. She teaches Emily and gives her homework to do. I love it. I also love that I have a fun environment to do learning time with my Emy when the older girls are in school.

 (I love that the Learning Corner allows room for all the girls to teach at the same time. Here are two of three teaching after school today).

On Saturday, I took Carolyn to play practice and left the younger cuties with Andrew. Andrew took pictures of the girls on the swings at the park and sent it to me. They were cute. Since then, Emily likes me to take pictures and send them to Andrew. Seriously, can you get any cuter than this girl?!

JUSTSERVE

Our family used the JUSTSERVE website for the first time to find a family project. It didn't really turn out like we wanted. The lady coordinating it wasn't around and it looked pretty clean. We found a park and cleaned it. We mostly played. Hopefully the next one will bring us more to do. But it was a start.

After that, we went to Chris' house (for the second weekend in a row) and watched the BYU/Texas game. BYU crushed them - which was a huge surprise. Great game and great company.