Why Giving Matters

A few weeks ago we had Stake Conference. For the adult session on Saturday our Stake President showed a video of a talk by Arthur C. Brooks given at BYU earlier this year. I loved it and wanted to share it because I thought it was so good. Arthur Brooks is a social scientist specifically an economist studying about charity. He wanted to link money and giving together. He thought that once we had money we would give it away but rather found the opposite. Those who are charitable have more money. Not only that but he links charity to happiness and finds those most happy give the most. Surprisingly to me was that he is not a member of the church. Throughout his whole talk I thought he was. This talk is seriously amazing, it is well worth your time to listen to it. I hope you do:)
You can go to this website and watch or download his speech by clicking
here.

New Game

I swear everyday Annie learns something new. I showed her how to spin the rattle and she picked it right up and started doing it herself. She can also sit up without any support now.

Little Aggie

Halloween

We had a great Halloween this year. I went down to visit Derrick and Lucy Friday and Saturday. May and Annie are so fun, they are such entertainment. Saturday night we had a fun halloween party with friends. We decorated sugar cookies, played the candy bar game, and watched the movie Young Frankenstien. Thanks to all our friends who made the party great, even the Laytons who showed up two hours late but Justins costume was worth it. The best part was dressing up Annie, she is the cutest little lion.