Grate: 14

• good friends
• smiles
• reading books to little ones
• mopping the dining room floor
• friends for my children
• piano lessons
• yummy food
• sitting around the table with my family
• time spent cooking with my children
• Landon in a little pink apron
• cookie making
• clean kitchen counters
• husband
  

Grate: 13

• primary (also grateful the program is over.)
• husband
• Landon
• family
• scriptures
• a home cooked meal (especially when I'm the one cooking it.)
• good friends
• talents
• piano
• the gift of tomorrow
  

Grate: 12

I am grateful for my family. Not just my little family that all look like my husband and live with me in this little house (although I am always very most grateful for them.) But for my family that grew up with husband and I in our childhood homes. I am grateful for the values we learned there. I am grateful for the deep constant and consuming love we have for one another.

Sometimes that bond between siblings and parents isn't strong. I am grateful ours is. I love my family so much, and what more, I know every single member of my family (all the additional 9 of them) feels the exact same way. I love Brandon's family so much, as I know he does, and, believe it or not, I know they love us almost as much.

What a blessing to grow up in families that realizes what a blessing family is.

What a blessing to have parents who love each other and who show that love and respect to their children. Who teach the gospel by both word and deed. What a blessing to have a family rooted in service and love. You can't be much more blessed. And to think both Brandon and I grew up in such homes boggles my mind.

SO MANY BLESSINGS for two little people.

Grate: 11

• parents
• my country
• my freedoms
• brothers
• grandparents
• prayers of gratitude
• health
• muscles
• my body and the amazing blessing it is and all the things it can do
• my family's health and safety
• paint samples!!!
• laundry
• Christmas lights

As I said my prayers I fell asleep counting my blessings. The things that stuck out to me the most:
I am grateful I can feed my children. I'm grateful that even when the bank account is low there is food in the pantry, blankets for their beds, coats on their backs, and a roof over their heads.

What an immense blessing that is.

And how humbling it is to think on these blessings. They are of the most basic manner and so the most often forgotten for me. There is nothing in this world that means more to me than this family I have. To be able to provide for their most basic needs, to know that my children aren't going hungry or cold, and that they have a comfortable home to come home to, it is, in itself, such a powerful blessing.

Grate:10

• my brother's "surprise" visit. ;)
• good books
• community
• dinner
• library day with the boys
• my suburban started
• productivity
• new keyboard (so my computer works now!)
• my brothers in general
• family
  

Grate: 9

• a dishwasher
• prayer
• children
• early morning workouts
• baby Max
• family
• Uncle Clinton
• lava hot springs, McDonalds, and Costa Vida (family had a fun post-harvest trip)
• a clean house
• Christmas music
  

Grate: 8

• husband man and his patience, compassion, conviction, and love
• the look in my man's eyes when he looks at our children
• minor furniture adjustments
• good friends
• good books
• cute boys to distract me
• Kami's crayon pictures (today she drew one of Candace from Phineas and Ferb. She even narrated it "What was that? Are they up to something? They are busted. They are so busted." Phineas and Ferb made a water slide in the back yard FYI)
• having patience again
• service
• my primary calling
• one on one time with Landon
• the smell of fresh cut grass on a crisp fall afternoon
• hubby's work ethic
• extended family
• life
• music
• Cooper's excitement about the small things
• a warm bath with a good book
• rootbeer
• gratitude (makes for a fantastic day/week/month)
• the amazing girls I get to have in my home every week for piano lessons
• cleanliness
• warm blankets