Romans 12: 21

21 Be not overcome of evil, but ^aovercome evil with good.


This is my theme scripture for the year, now the question for me to ponder is how do I overcome evil with good? What am I to do?

August has brought alot of going ons...

Early August went to 20 week ultra sound and found out we are having our 5th girl! 
The week after Richele went to the denist and had a 31/2 hour miserable ordeal to get some fillings and a molding for a crown.

next week preperations for school start or should I say continue for Justin

This week August 21,2012 the first day of school brings craziness and excitement, as well as lots of pressure on Justin and Richele.

Next weekend we are going to the Brigham city Temple open house for Labor day weekend, it will be a nice break.

 Beverly helping daddy decorate her birthday cake

 The finished product.

 She was party pooped out!

Chicken business

 skunk was fun!

 one of Richel's fav hens

This is the mean rooster don't really miss him. Our chickens were killed 2 weeks ago. 5 remain but we are giving them to a better home tonight will post pictures of them too.

Elegant Emma on her baptisim day!

5 more weeks!!!

Five more weeks until school is out, but will it really be a break?? Probably not Justin has lots of conferences to go to and we will probably really only have 2- 4 weeks of break, but still it is exciting. I wonder what this next year will bring...

J and R Gudmunson family doings: Looking Up

Look to God and Live, Pres. Monson

Life is good in Ferron Utah

I am so loving Spring! I know there is suppose to be a storm saturday and sunday but it can't last and the sun will come back Monday. We are getting the ground ready to plant our garden, Spring can only bring a new brightness of hope! There is only one semester left of school how great is that! :):):):):) c: C:

Looking Up

I had a rough day yesterday, but today is looking up, which reminds me of a quote by President Monson and   also a   book called "Look At the sky" by George Durrant  After our baby Jacob died I wrote this quote along with Families Are Forever and Trust in the Lord on our white board  in our kitchen to remind myself and my family that our baby Jacob is not lost to us, And also to remind us to of course Trust in the Lord; he knows best.  Even after the days where I  cry all day it seems and there have been a few, I just try to remind myself of those things and that things can only get better. Through this all it has brought my mom's death back fresh even though that was over 12 years ago, time lessons the heart ache but we will always miss those who have passed before us, I suppose the key is to try to always remember we will be with them again some day. " God be with us till we meet again, till we meet till we meet at Jesus feet."

update

We are doing well, Justin still struggles with getting enough sleep and trying to make it through his first year of teaching.  Richele has found peace through the knowledge of the plan of salvation,  to all the girls except Angelica its almost like our baby dying never happened, Erik however struggles a little, to have his only brother die was rough on him. All in all however we are doing good, and we all are so looking forward to this summer.  Which will be filled with work and a litle play, We are planting a garden for an army, but look forward to the canning at the end and enjoying the fruits of our labors.

losing our baby at 16 weeks

Our sadness has turned into peace and hope. we have had such a good experience with the passing of our baby. I feel the love and prayers of friends and family. after delivering our liitle boy, Iwas able to hold him and see his sweet liitle fingers and toes as well as his tiny little boy part. Seeing a fetus at 13-14 weeks gestation was a very neat experience it makes me appreciate my living children even more and the miracle each of them are. I am so grateful for this sweet experience I have gone through, it defiantly has brought me closer to my father in heaven and his son Jesus Christ. Life is precious!

We are all feeling very sad today at the loss of our baby.  I went to the dr. today for a routine check up only to find no heart beat, I was sent over to the hospital for an ultrasound, which confirmed our baby died 2 weeks ago, but I still haven't passed him. The ultra sound tech sent me back to the doctor and he and his staff were very supportive. He told me my options are to wait 2-3 weeks and let it happen naturally, to get a pill that aborts the baby or to have a d&C. I have another appointment Monday to discuss what we are going to do.

the spirit told me before I knew the baby had died  whathis name should be , Erik told me that he was very impressed what his middle name should be . Erik has had many spritual experiences from this and I believe Beverly knew all along. For the last 2 weeks any time Liz or I would talk to Beverly about the baby she would say we aren't going to have a baby or something to that effect.

Our Family is grateful to know that Families are Forever, we will have this sweet little boy again someday.

We Spent our Black Friday Hiking with some of Justin's Family who came to visit us for ThanksGiving! Here is some of the beauty we saw

More emotional then I thought.

Wow review my Thyriod happenings post, made me more emotional then I thought. Defiantly so grateful to my Father in Heaven for all he did for me then and continues to do for me and my family now. I know that God hears and answers our prayers, I am so thank to him and his son Jesus Christ for all they have done for me. So many miracles have been wrought on my behalf as well as my children's and Justin's We truly are very blessed!

Baby #6

Baby #6 is on the way and should arrive sometime at the begginning of august.  I have been feeling better then most of my other pregnancies, which has me convinced it must be a boy. With my four girls I threw up constantly it seemed, but this one I have only thrown up when I have waited to long to eat or when I get a wif of something yucky. I can't complain to much, although when I was pregnant with Erik, I think I only threw up twice, because of changing poopy diapers.  I am very excited to find out at the end of march whether we are having a boy or not! A healthy baby will make me happy no matter the sex. :)

Another one of my Favorite rooms, which I turned into two!

Some pictures of one of my favorite rooms in the house!

Our new Home

We moved in offically Aug 5, 2011 and absouloutly love it here!