Chickens or Eagles?

We learned today that we are meant to make a difference.  We should soar like an eagle!


We learned about Paul from the scriptures today for Family Home Evening.  We learned how just one person can make a big difference.


This week we had some car trouble but we are thankful not to have broken down on the side of the road and feel very blessed that Ray was able to fix the car himself.  We also are pleased to have gotten the Christmas decorations all put up in the attic.


Have a great week!


The Yanda's

New Years post!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

 

Tonight for FHE we decided to set some new goals and we reviewed some old goals that we feel we are doing well on.

 

Family goals:

Work on doing better on our daily scripture study and daily morning prayer

Continue to work on having weekly FHE and continue with out daily evening prayers

 

Personal goals:

Stella and Mom decided to set a goal to work on Personal Progress each day for 30 minutes, Stella also has set a goal of working on home work right when getting home each day instead of playing ipad games

Cambria and Mom have set a goal to go over Cambria’s homework each day after school for 15 minutes

Kyle and Mom have set a goal to read together each day for 15 minutes – he has decided to give up 15 minutes of his play time to make this happen

 

We had a great visit with Allison’s sister Amber, nieces Natasha and Tatyana and great-niece Zoe over the holiday.  It was a full house but as Cambria says, “it was a BLAST”.

 

It’s really, really cold today.  Started the day at 14 degrees, yikes!

 

Stella would like everyone to know we had an “owlsome” Christmas!

Decorating for Christmas!

Tonight for FHE we are decorating the inside of the house for Christmas.  At least a little bit.  We are waiting for Grandma Candee to get home from California and put away her Thanksgiving decorations. :)

For Thanksgiving we had planned on going camping but at the last minute we decided the overnight temps were too low for tent camping.  However, we still camp cooked and did a fire outside and all the fun stuff of camping.  We just had a nice warm place to sleep at night.  The perfect combination. ;)

Almost New Year

This post is written by the entire Yanda family....

It's Family Home Evening night and we have just decided to commit to writing as a family on this blog once a week.

This past week we had a swim meet.  All three kids competed and did very well on their times.  Stella and I saw the second Hunger Games movie and it was REALLY good!!

We also cleared out the back yard last weekend and this weekend was really, really cold so it was a good thing we got it done last weekend!  We have enjoyed a weekend full of fires thanks to the Master Fire Lord Ray Yanda!  He even found a new use for an old CPAP machine.

 

Stella turns 12!!!

Stella started playing french horn this year in 6th grade. This is her dressed up before her first concert!

Wow!! How did that happen? I haven't blogged in welllllll over a year!! ooops! :)

Honestly, it was probably because I didn't have much to say. I've just been living life and the day to day. But, recently we've had some exciting events, so I thought to blog about them!

This entry is to pour out my feelings about Stella turning 12. It's soooo bitter sweet. Of course it's exciting. An age she gets to try and do so many new things. It's really a pivitol age for her at church. Today she started young womens. She did really well. She said she was really nervous, but then they had testimonies at the end and she decided to share her testimony and she said she felt FINE afterwards. Isn't that amazing? I'm so proud of her and happy that she has the gospel in her life and she has a testimony of it. Amazing!

We went BIG this year for her birthday. She got a few of her friends together early in December and Ray took them to play outdoor laser tag. It was at a paintball park but it was laser tag. They had a BLAST!!! We had pizza afterwards and she really enjoyed the whole night. Then we went on vacation.

I'll be posting about our vacation as soon as I can put it all together, but in a nutshell, on her 12th birthday Stella was at Universal Island of Adventure (aka Harry Potter Amusement Park)!!!

It was a looong car ride from Texas to Florida. Sometimes I spent my time taking pictures of my beautiful daughter Stella. :)

Stella is a HUGE Harry Potter fan so she was super excited to pick out her wand on her birthday! The sleeping picture is her on Christmas Eve! She's still my baby no matter what! She was sooo exhausted she went right to sleep. I had to snap a quick pic!

This AFTER she turned 12! We saw an almost instant transformation in how she carried herself. It's quite amusing, hahah! Such the diva! :D

Long story short, she lost her phone on the trip. She has been REALLY good with phone for over 3 years now. It happens. Luckily Ray and I had just upgraded and so she is now using my old iphone 3g.....yeah I know....LOL!

April 2010

Here are a few updates of things we did in April 2010!

Kyle got new flip flops to go with his swimsuit. We're gearing up for swim season! Woohoo!!!

Cambria got a new swimsuit and flip flops! She's ready to swim!

Stella also got a new swimsuit and flip flops! Look how she's all legs! haha! Sooo pretty Stella!

Cambria played a lot of soccer. She even scored the winning goal in the very first game! She's catching on and working on her endurance! Goooo Cambria!

(she's in the gold shirt behind the red players)

(she's #5 right in the middle of this picture)

We went to Kyle's Museum school open house. They just finished building the new Fort Worth Science and History Museum and they had the whole thing open for the museum school families that night. It was a blast! Our last open house as he only has a few weeks left and then goes onto Kindergarten in August. It's been a FANTASTIC program for both him and Cambria!

Cambria had her 1st grade musical at school. She was a monkey. She did AWESOME!

(the picture quality is not as good, but we had an amateur photographer that night - good job Stella!)

(Cambria is right in the middle with the yellow mask on her head)

(pretty blurry, but Cambria is the monkey in the middle with the rainbow on her brown shirt)

Here she as for her after picture! :D Cute monkey!

Easter 2010

I have been BAD about blogging! Ack!! I'm updating today though! :D
We had a good Easter this year!

The kids dyed eggs.

Grandma Candee gave Easter baskets. Grandpa and Grandma Yanda sent gift cards. Such lucky kids! They even got a visit from the Easter Bunny!!

They played with bubbles in Grandma Candee's backyard.

We had an easter egg hunt at Grandma Candee's house.

Like I said, a very good Easter! :D