Journaling

- Monday night we went to Smith's to go on a mini-shopping spree (that's what it felt like) to get the things everyone's been needing for the last little while.  It was a very productive shopping trip.  Most of what we were looking for was on sale!  So that was nice.  I thought it was a lot of fun.  And that's saying a lot.

- The girls finally went to Activity days on Tuesday.  We've missed a bunch of them recently.  The annoying thing being that we simply forgot about it.  Not that we had anything better to do, because we didn't!  So frustrating.  But they did have a good time!  Frosted heart cookies.  They are always so happy when they come home.  I am sad for next month when they split up and Charity goes into the older group!  It will be fun for them to have something of their own I guess though.  And it's only a matter of time before Kelly moves up too.  2-12-13


-Wednesday was our honorary FHE.  Since the Jazz game we had wanted to go to was actually an away game, Nate just did a lesson.  It was a pretty fun one.  We all were assigned a part of a face to draw.  Noah had shown us how amazingly he can draw eyes earlier that day when he and I were making his "Valentimes box", so Nate asked him to draw an eye.  Luke was assigned the hair.  Bradley the ear.  Kelly an eye.  Charity the mouth.  I had the nose and Nate had the other ear.  We all placed our pictures together to make a face and realized that even though the face wasn't perfect, together, we had still made a pretty good face.  He likened this to our family.  We all play a certain role.  We were all put in this family for a reason and together, we make a pretty cool family.  We might look a little strange, or not be perfect, but this is OUR family and we make it the best.  I loved telling the kids about how important they are to our family.  How each one has a special responsibility and that Heavenly Father sent them to our family at the time that would be best for them and for our family.  It was neat.  I think the kids liked it.  Kelly wowed us with her fruit salad she had learned to make the day before at Activity days.  She sure latched onto that recipe and was so excited to share it with us!  It was really yummy.  Something for Kelly to add to her repetoir.  it was a nice evening.

- Friday evening, Nate and Charity worked on her History Fair Project.  We were all pretty tired, but I dragged everyone downstairs to clean up the Toy room with me!  It was a much quicker process with everyone's help!  I was offering excessive amounts of stars for help and since our Star Party was coming up, they were all very willing and able helpers!  I loved it!  That's big.