How long is your church???

Apparently too long.....

Hey, we ARE still alive.

Well obviously I am not consistent. Shocked!! I know. So I must make my confession to right my wrong. I have just been too busy too write. Not to read but just to write.
-In my last blog you saw the mess that came with the wet weather. It is still not repaired but at least it's not wet anymore and the kids are playing in the empty bedroom.

-Then we took a trip to see the new Church Historical Library in Salt Lake City. It was neat. We saw how they recover and repair old, old, old books. And then they should us how they take they old photos that are cracked and "reprint" them. That was really interesting. Found out that my mom's great grandpa used the P.E.F (Perpetual Emigration Fund) to come from England.

-Went to the Raptors baseball game for the reading award the school got. That was way fun. To bad the team lost.
-Next I really got back into running. I ran 5 miles straight in one day. Only got two blisters from that run.
-Sariah did our Little Miss competition for our Cities Heritage days.
-More Baseball for both kids. With a threat of playoffs for William. But their team lost their last game.
-Talked my family into running a 5k with me. Beat my time by 23 seconds. (two siblings couldn't do it and dad just isn't a runner)
-My brothers 23 birthday.
-Joshua starting to walk more and more everyday.
-Playing the organ every week in church and the piano for the choir. (we need more people willing to use their talents!!!!!)
-Celebrated the fourth of July like everyone else. Pigging out on good food.
-Kids started swimming lessons.
-Painted the outside of our house. That was a big project that took two days. And I still have the accents to paint. I will post pictures when I get it all done.
-Just got a phone call. William's team did make the playoffs. Yippee more baseball!!!!!!!!!!

June 11, 2009

Today has just been one of those days. It started off good. I got in two miles today running (a little sore from yesterdays three miles). Had the neighbor girls over for the day and all the kids were getting along pretty good. Then lunch comes. Joshua is whiny and wants me to hold him. William and Sariah get into it. Sariah won't leave Will's room. So I count 5,4,3,2,......1, head down stairs and she has run into the T.V. room. I go to talk to her on the couch and my foot lands in a puddle of water.
Yep, the north side of our down stairs is squishy wet. That took care of the argument between Sariah and William because they now had alot of work to help me with. Come to find out our sump pump hasn't been working the whole time we have had this wet weather. (Six days) I called Aaron and told him what was going on. He can't come home from work, so I called my family to come to my rescue. They come and take the love seat and the entertainment center out for me. I love having my brothers come and rescue me, and my sisters boy friend. Then we pull the carpet up and I proceed to suck up alot of water. All while Joshua is crying and whining for me.
Then I needed to go and pick up Joshua's new birth certificate for a passport app.
Josh still wanting mommy.
Sariah had a Little Miss meeting to attend to. They got to make their own tye-dye t-shirts.
Come home and find Aaron doing the sink full of dishes. Joshua sees me and decides that he still wants me to pick him up and hold him.
Went back to the park to see if any of Sariah's softball team has come for pictures. Two did. No pictures were taken. At least her game was cancelled.
Came back and tried to air out the carpet more while Aaron went for pizza.
Joshua still crying and wanting me to hold him. So while we eat I hold him and realize he is running a fever.
Give him Tylenol.
Go back down stairs to help Aaron and realize Williams carpet needs to come up to. (10 year old boys don't keep their room too clean)
Still holding Josh.
Change the laundry.
Take Josh's temp. 102!
Family pray, time for bed. Lets pray for a better day tomorrow.
P.S. I did think about taking pictures of my brothers taking everything out. But the wet stuff over ruled my thinking. I have to post picture later of the mess.

Thunder and Lightning..... maybe something frightening

Well this week has already been a long one. And it is only Tuesday. The kids are home from school and I have got the two neighbor girls four days of the week. Then you have the four days of baseball games and to top it off. Josh came down with his first bout of 24 hour bug. Long night last night. And also today. I got to stay in my P.J. most of the day, until I had to get out of them for Sariah's baseball game.
William had practice tonight. Thankfully Josh finally decided to start to feel better this evening. Although it wasn't early enough to let me make dinner. I am really glad Aaron doesn't mind P.B. and J. once in a while.
Then my running partner called just as I walked in the front door and asked if I wanted to go out and run. Heck yeah. So we went and ran until the evening thunder storm pulled. I went about 2.3 miles and felt so good. Then it poured rain. That's O.k my back yard needs the water. We haven't been able to turn on the sprinklers yet. Two of the heads are broken. They should be fixed this weekend just in time for normal spring weather to return. And then yesterday week took out seven of our Aspen trees that had died since we have lived here. It was one of those things we kept saying to ourselves that we would get to and never did. Well it finally needed to be done. We took out three of them with our hands. They were rotted at the base. Aaron and I just pushed a little and down they went. I am so thankful that the kids hadn't thought of trying to play on them.

Now for the frightening part Josh goes in for his twelve month check up tomorrow. He gets feeling better just so he can get shots and feel horrible.

End of school drama.....

Today was the last day of school for Will and Sariah. Will was a little sad about it ending, and Sariah only cared about making sure she got to take her "Birthday treat" (we kept forgetting to take it the other three times in the year to celebrate). But she remembered and then forgot her teachers present. We took the kids to breakfast this morning to celebrate.
Then Josh and I sat and waited for the happy smiling kids to get off the bus. Sariah was happy but Will came off like a storm cloud about to explode. At the end of the school year each child gets a note telling them who their new teacher will be next year. Sariah is thrilled with her teacher , as am I. William was expecting to see the Advanced Learning Group teachers name. It wasn't their!!!! It was a regular teachers name.
Needless to say I was a storm cloud after that little announcment. So I called the Districts main number and the nice lady transferred my to a answering machine. I left a message. Then I had Will go and look for the paper that said he made it into the program, called that number. Got and answering machine. All I have ever gotten was a freakin answering machine everytime I call for a specific number. So I guess we will just have to wait until someone decided to listen to their messages and gets back to us. So this is going to be a long weekend. Enjoy the picture of the sunset.

How would you like this for a librarian?

This is a picture of our Librarian at the kids' school. She would put this costume on for our reading assemblies last year. The theme last year was something about finding treasure through reading or something like that. Well this year our school has been working on reading 1,855,000 minutes and Monday they announced that the school not only made the goal but surpassed it by 55,000 minutes. Now mind you that it the entire elementary. But the kids were really excited about that. Well this was also the last assemble for the principal since he is leaving at the end of the year. So "Capt. Jack" made an appearance again just for him. Capt. Jack also presented the school with their prize for completing their goal. Each kid get two tickets to the local baseball team game for this summer. By the way "he" arrived in that kayak on the floor carried by the four football players who helped give out four bikes that the kids also had to read for. She actually does a pretty good impersonation of him.

What I am supposed to be doing.....

I should be done writing a talk for the adult session of stake conference. I have had three weeks to do it. That's not to say that I haven't thought about it. Or heck even looked up things on the Internet, but actually writing things down is only about 15% done.

But instead of that I am mowing my lawn and fixing my lawnmower, food shopping, going out to lunch with my sisters. And a little more shopping trying to prepare for the upcoming canning season. And tonight we have a ward activity.

Since being in the Stake Primary Presidency, I have really tried to give talks that the spirit prompts me to talk about. And not to have per-say a written talk. It has been quite alright, only because I either just bore my testimony or talked about the scouting program. Or held up a picture that went along with that months primary theme.

Do you think that it would be o.k. to hold up pictures in Stake Conference?
Yeah your right, I would need a really big picture. Of course I don't remember seeing a picture on "Teaching our children to be self-reliant."
Yep, that is the theme of my talk. Good luck me.
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