- Friday and Saturday were honorary vacation days at our house :) We sat around and played with friends ALL DAY. It was so nice. I made myself not do laundry or anything on Friday (since it was technically still part of our vacation :) ) and since we had gotten home so late the night before, we slept in pretty late! It was wonderful! Saturday was supposed to be my big unpack/laundry/clean up from Friday day, but I was feeling really crappy from staying up all night with Erika. She seriously didn't go to sleep! I stayed up til about 5:00 with her and then I called it quits and left her with the tv for the last 4 hours of the night! It was horrible. She did the same thing Saturday night and 9:30 came REAL early that morning, for ALL OF US! Which was bad since it was Stake Conference and we were supposed to be there at 10:00. I was so impressed with us though, we got everyone up, fed, dressed and out the door by about 10:30. We walked to church thinking there wouldn't be anywhere to park, but I think a lot of the Stake must have gone to the conference center or something because our parking lot wasn't even full. I'm sure most of our ward walked too, since it's so close. Crazy stuff though. It was a really nice meeting (what we heard of it), we heard the end of the Sister Burton's talk and then Elder Holland's and President Uchtdorf's I loved the spirit that was there, and it was much needed after the long night and long day the day before. It was a good reminder to act on what we learn at church and not just to listen. Something I needed to be reminded of apparently. The rest of Sunday was really nice, I worked hard to keep Erika and myself up all day so that we could go to bed at a decent time and it must have paid off because she did! Thankfully.
- For FHE Monday night we went up to Rocket Park to play kickball. When we were singing our opening song (Erika's choice) she lead it Lukey style. Which means she got to speed us up or slow us down according to how fast her arm went and she totally loved it :) She kept giggling and covering her mouth :). Made me smile. I was SO happy with how well everyone played! Maybe it was the team choices, but everyone got along so well. We had Daddy and the girls vs. Mommy and the boys! I'm pretty sure we won :). Just kidding. I LOVED watching Noah kick and run! He looked like such a big boy! And Erika even took a few turns. She was adorable laughing and running as Bradley was "quickly" chasing her around the bases when she got her homerun. It was so cute of him to let her have that moment! And everyone cheered for her! I love it when everyone is like that. It was heavenly. Not every Family night goes that well (in fact RARELY does it) but I wanted to make mention of this one and be grateful :). It was a good day for everyone to be cheerful and get along. I think Nate and I needed the break from refereeing :).
We found out today that we will probably not be getting into a house before our baby comes. I feel completely devastated still and I think it will take some time for me to get used to the idea. I'm not sure what Heavenly Father's plan is, and it would be nice to know, but whatever it is, I just need to be more patient I think. He is always trying to help me, but it's still hard. I know I can do hard things and I will do my best. I can't always have my way.
- 2 years ago, around the same time of year, I was dropping Charity and Kelly off for one of their last days of school and when we pulled up we were shocked at what we saw! There were these amazing teepees all over the school lawn, and little tents/booths, a giant fish tank FULL of big fish! It looked SO FUN!!! I had to know what it was and found out it was Fourth Grade's Mountain Man Rendezvous. It was then that I began looking forward to the day when Charity would get to participate (and trust me, this means a lot considering I never wanted to start another year at that school again! only because I wanted my house :) ). Well, that day finally came!!!!! For some dumb reason, I didn't have my camera there, but Nate and I and Noah and Erika (and even Steve for a little part of the day) were all there, and we all had a total blast! I was working in the Archery booth for the first part of the day. Teaching the fourth graders how to use a bow and arrow. There were two other dads there, the one was a little on the stressy/ornery/letting a little power go a long way side, and frankly I'm not sure how I bit my tongue for 3 hours, but I did! and we survived :). I'm glad Nate was there with me to make me laugh and have some fun. Really, if it had been the day before, I probably would have just quit, the guy was ridiculous. But anyway! The kids had a blast! It was a lot of fun to see who could do it and how well. They had some fake animals out in the field for them to shoot, I thought that was even more fun that targets would have been. After the first half, we took down our Archery booth and had some dutch oven cooking for lunch. The rolls were my favorite! After lunch I realized I had only signed up for the first part of the day since Nate had to leave for work at 1:30. So I invited myself and Luke, Noah and Erika to be part of Charity's group and go around with them. It was SO FUN!! They had a tomahawk throw, a guy that taught about guns, a trading post with animal pelts, candle making, pie eating contest, panning for gold, a tug-o-war, SO much fun! Then at the end of the day the shot off a candy cannon and launched a couple bags of taffy out into the filed for the kids. That was pretty cool! It's just such a cool thing!! If I didn't want to get out of here and into our house so badly I'd say I'm looking forward to Kelly and the rest of the kids' turn to have this fun day, but I'm afraid I'm too anxious to find a home. It sure was neat though. I love that our school does these kinds of things. It really is a great school with so many fun traditions. Charity needs to continue this post and tell about the first part of her day when she caught a fish with her hands and gutted it, and made herself a "leather" possibles bag. They had so much fun!
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