Captain Moroni & the Title of Liberty

At the beginning of this month we were privileged to watch General Conference in our living room.  I love being able to watch conference at home because it affords Dustin & I the time to watch, David to learn that there are sessions for 2 days - that he can watch with us or play in his room, and keeps Matthew on his schedule.  Mostly I really love the conference talks they are always so great - uplifting, educational, inspiring to do better and bring a wonderful spirit into our home.

This fall while listening I kept hearing these phrases that really resonated with me and really made me want to include them in our home.  Sunday morning I realized that these phrases reminded me a lot of Captain Moroni & the Title of Liberty (it's verses 10-37 if your curious)  I thought that these phrases would make a great Title of Liberty.

For Family Home Evening (FHE) the Monday after conference our lesson was about Captain Moroni & the Title of Liberty.  We started our family title of liberty but just plain got distracted.  I was very disappointed and had really wanted to make this a family affair instead of doing it all on my own.  The next Monday was our ward FHE so the following week when I asked Dustin what we should do for FHE he suggested we do the Title of Liberty lesson/activity again.  This was a great way for us to review the story with David and work on our title of liberty.  I shared some phrases that I really loved and wanted to include, David shared what he thought we should add - which really was in line with what we wanted the activity to be, Dustin shared some of this thoughts.  I spent a couple of days organizing our ideas and forming them into a flowing piece that we could display.

This past week while getting various art supplies for our 13 days of Halloween (more to follow on this) I found that the artist canvases were on sale for half off!  I grabbed one roughly the size we were wanting, it's a little skinnier, some spray paint that would coordinated with our upstairs and downstairs rooms and the adhesive vinyl.  I now had all of the supplies and just needed to pull out my cricut to get all those letters cut out!  With the cricut out and a few sample letters left over from another project I decided that I could just do a mock up.  Dustin pulled out his laptop with fancy programs and we did our initial mock up on the computer.  I have to say that I am really excited about this piece.  It will be a great piece of artwork in our home!

Here is the initial mock up

I still plan on cutting the letters out on paper and configuring them on the canvas.  Hopefully by next Sunday I can post the actual Hinton Family Title of Liberty displayed on the wall.

It's a bird, It's a bear...

...no it's David in a tree.
The other day I am taking care of the laundry, upstairs in my room because from there I can see and/or hear David playing outside.  I stop for a moment because I can hear him talking to our little neighbor girl, Brianna, but I don't see David anywhere!  I go outside to investigate further only to still hear him but not see him.  It's not until I had been outside for a few minutes that I realize David is up in the tree.  Not only is he in the tree, he is about 3/4 of the way up the tree which is about as tall as the building is sits infront of.  I couldn't believe that little monkey!

1st Day of School

August 24, 2010

David's perspective of Dustin's 1st day of school

September 8, 2010

David's 1st day of preschool

He was pretty excited to go and came home telling me, "This is the best school day ever!"

He also got to each lunch out of a lunch box when we got home.

Dustin is doing well this semester.  He told me about a week after he'd been in school that he finally felt like a graduate student instead of an undergrad working on his BFA thesis.  We've gotten into a groove and so our days run smoothly.  Dustin tried to keep the same schedule so that he doesn't get behind in his studio work and I can better anticipate when he will be home for dinner.

David is doing great!  He loves preschool, his teacher and loves to tell everyone who will listen the name of his school and his teacher.  This will be his first full week of school and he has been yelling at me for 45 minutes that he's ready to go.  Preschool doesn't start until 9am and he was ready at 8am....maybe I'll just go get him in the car now and we can wait there for a little while. :)

We have a CRAWLER!

Matthew started crawling the day before Kelly's wedding. Then we took a break for a week or so and had no interest in being on the floor. It slowly started to become what he wanted to do again. This is the result.  Matthew is more of a traditional crawler not the Mogli crawler that David was.  It's still super cute though.