Blessed with Bounty

This year, we’ve been working so hard on keeping up our garden (and getting our hands pretty dirty) that it’s been hard to remember to take pictures of our harvest. We have had an ABUNDANCE of food including, zucchini, cucumber, onions, lettuce, carrots, and cherry tomatoes. We also enjoyed a few tomatoes, green peppers (just ripening now), and peas.

Though we are now down one chicken (the other “ran away”), our single little hen seems to be trying to make up for what is lost. Look what we found one morning for breakfast inside a particularly large egg.

Also, we feel blessed to be expecting another baby in our home, counting each member of our little family as a sacred gift from God. Cadence has been gearing up by cuddling and “putting to bed” his stuffed animals, with no encouragement at all from his parents. So cute!

Last, we feel so blessed to have a been able to listen to a prophet of God speak, President Thomas S. Monson at the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. What is a prophet of God, as God’s mouthpiece, saying today? Be grateful. Check out the entire talk by clicking on the hyperlink. It was a beautiful sermon and one I will be reading over and over again. We are grateful for his leadership and I know that by following the counsels of a prophet of God (ex: planting a garden, storing food, becoming self-reliant, & to multiply & replenish the earth), our family has been blessed with bounty!