Things to Remember- week of 4-27-14

STAKE CONFERENCE
I LOVED this Stake Conference (or Regional Conference, or whatever it was called)!  It was broadcast from the Conference Center, so a pretty big deal.  We got to hear from several General Authorities, which is always awesome.  I loved the Spirit that was there.  The kids did good, that was nice.  Nate took care of Jack.  I sat there and enjoyed most of the meeting.  Well until I almost died.  I got the worst pain I've ever felt (outside of having a baby).  It was SO intense!!  I was ready to just leave, but I wanted to hear the rest of the last talk.  It was so crazy.  I was sweating and my head started pounding... it was really just awful. Then I realized I needed to go to the bathroom.  I passed a blood clot the size of a golf ball!!  It was SO GROSS!!! (sorry to my only reader, Emily- I have to document this stuff somewhere.)  I am still wondering what it was.  I'm hoping it's just that my uterus is humongous or something.  We'll see I guess.  Hopefully it wasn't something important.  I hate the thought of it being a miscarriage, which doesn't make much sense anyway.  I'd take a pregnancy test, but I"m too afraid of what it will say.  So anyway.  Kinda crazy.  The pain stopped shortly after I got home though, so that was a relief.  And I haven't had much pain or bleeding since then.  4-27-14

MOM AND SIMON
My Mom and Simon came over for dinner.  It was REALLY laid back and relaxed.  I think my house may have scared them, we didn't really clean up much.  It was a nice time though.  We showed them the kitties and talked about "Cuthroat Kitchen"... good times. 4-28-14

FHE GONE BAD
FHE this week went was not really what I would call a success.  It probably started with the Lacrosse game.  I had heard that one of my young women would be playing her last game (along with some of the other girls) that afternoon.  I thought it would be the perfect pre-dinner-FHE (we usually do it after, and I should know better than to try to shake things up with these guys- they don't do change without warning).  Well, that didn't fly with Bradley.  He had other plans for FHE (plans that changed a few times, but plans nonetheless :) ).  So we decided to go to the game AND do something else after dinner for FHE.  It wasn't the worst idea ever.  Just cramming a lot into one evening.  So anyway.  We all went to the Jr. High for the Lacrosse game.  It was a lot of fun.  I have never seen a girls Lacrosse game.  We ended up talking with one of the Young Men, Ben Smith, through most of it.  What a fun conversation that was!  I just love the Young Men and Young Women in this ward.  They're so fun.  He was there to watch "a cute girl" play.  He's hilarious.  ANyway.  So we couldn't help but stop and play on the school playground after that... which took up even more time.  I think we got home around 7:00.  We hurried and ate dinner, then we were off to the park for kickball.  It was a little chilly out for kickball at the park.  We had only played half of one inning (I don't think the boys team ever made it up to kick) when Nate twisted his ankle and totally toppled over on his way to tag someone on second base.  We ALL thought he was playing around.  It was a pretty graceful fall if you ask me.  We learned quickly that he wasn't faking it.  His poor ankle was already SO swollen!  I was worried.  Totally thought it was broken.  We ended our game, much to Bradley's dismay, and carried Nate home.  It was so sad.  The kids were so amazing though!  They were so sweet with him, everyone helped to get ice packs and pillows and propping up his feet... it was just really cool.  Nate doesn't get pampered too often.  So anyway.  Our evening was done for... along with Nate's week!  He was out for a few days.  Kind of a bummer.  Kind of not ;) (I enjoy his company even when he's laid up on the couch :) ).  4-29-14

BYE BYE
I put the ad on KSL for the kittens on Tuesday.  The first three went very quickly.  Only a few people stood me up, but people just came and left with one of our little babies.  It was hard!  Poor Noah, Tiger was the first one to go.  He was Noah's favorite. Lots of tears were shed for him.  Smokey was next.  We were sad to see her go too.  I have never charged anything for kittens before- I was a little surprised that people were paying for them.  I think it was a good idea though, of Liz's, to make sure we get people who are serious.  Makes sense.  And makes me money :).  Well, not really me because we decided since Kelly and Luke have done all the work with them, they should get it.  Minus a little for food.  But anyway, I think Elliot was next.  He was so cute.  Not the cuddliest.  The last two, Cozmo (slash millions of other names) and Pinky stayed with us one more night.  Then they left Wednesday afternoon, together, with a couple who were giving them as a birthday gift to someone.  I liked that they took two of them together... kitties have so much fun together.  Anyway.  I was definitely too attached to the little guys.  It was sad to say goodbye.  Now we just have a couple more weeks for the other batch to go.  I'm trying so hard not to like them, but they're so stinkin' cute!  4-30-14

GLOW PET
Erika has been saving up her money for the last few weeks, with the hope of buying a Glow pillow pet.  She finally had enough so we took her to pick one out!  She was so excited!  I'm so proud of her for being disciplined enough to save the money!  $20 isn't easy for a 4 year old to come up with!  She got a cute seal one.  So far it's name is Seal-y Cuddlebug.  4-31-14

"THIS IS A HAPPY DAY!"
Noah got to go to school in the morning twice this week!  He was SO thrilled about it!  He woke up and screamed out, "THIS IS A HAPPY DAY!" It was adorable.  Minus the waking up Jack part.  He had rehearsal and school performance on Thursday (which the big kids LOVED!  I was so happy they were so fun about it and made Noah feel all cool), and then the parent performance on Friday.  5-1-14

MONSTER CONCERT
Thursdays have been a little strange for us lately, kind of full.  It always works out okay and everything is spaced so that nothing gets skipped.  This week though... I screwed up ROYALLY!!  So we had to get Charity to her concert rehearsal at 4:00.  The thing that really messed up the whole evening was the location of her concert.  I was under the impression that it was at KJH.  I was wrong.  It was clear out in West Layton at Legacy Jr. High.  I really should have adjusted my plans when I learned this, but I didn't..  Bradley had to be to scouts and Luke had to be to his baseball game at 4:15.  Luke's game went late, so we didn't get done until 6:00 which is when Charity's concert was supposed to start.  I was freaking out.  I was so mad that I had screwed the evening up.  I wish so badly that I could go back and just ditch the game and go to the concert by myself.  Me and my need to have everyone at everything... so anyway.  We got to Legacy Jr. at about 6:28.  I walked into the school and heard, "And thank you to all of you parents.... Have a good night."  It was over!  UGH!!!  I had no idea it was really going to be only a half hour long.  I was so mad at myself.  Charity was all cheerful and I wanted to badly to tell her that I loved the concert and just pretend that I had been there.  She asked a few questions though, and it all had to come out.  I couldn't lie.  I felt (still do) so bad!  Her only cello concert.  So anyway.  Kind of depressing really.  We did get done with dinner in time for Charity to go to dodgeball.  It was a lot of fun to watch her (and Kelly :) ) play.  She has a lot of fun with that.  We went out to ice cream after dodgeball to celebrate the monster concert, Charity liked that :).  5-1-14

TGIF
Friday was another packed day... we had Noah's Kindergarten program at 9:00.  Then Playgroup at 10:00.  We left there around noon, came home and cleaned up a little, then took Charity her lunch and met up with Heidi at 1:00.  We had lunch at Bajio (fish tacos.... mmmmmmm), then came home and talked for the rest of the evening :).  It was a fun time for me and Heidi.  She gave me this really cute wreath that had to have taken her forever to make, it's so cute!  I need to find the perfect spot to hang it.  Charity and Kelly kept us all running the rest of the evening with Kelly and her friends' outing to Dairy Queen and Charity going to her Dare Boondocks day.  We had Heidi over for dinner, talked some more, and then said goodbye to Nate to work the mid.  I was still driving around at 10:40 at night picking people up and waiting for them to come home!  Fun day though.  5-2-14

ARBY'S, GARDENING,  POTATO SALAD
Becky and I went to the Stake Women's Conference thing together.  It was a really cool meeting.  I feel all motivated to memorize The Living Christ now.  I LOVED President Taylor's talk. She didn't like the way the salad looked, so we ditched the luncheon and had Arby's :).  Becky and I have had so much fun together lately.  It's been so nice.  I love that we are still friends.  I came home and worked in the yard a little.  Planted a bunch of seeds in our planter boxes finally.  I don't want to list all that we planted because I'm worried none of it will come up.  Call me a pessimist, but it's hard for me to believe we will actually have anything to show for all my hard work :).  I'm praying for them regularly :).  Hopefully whatever I lack in gardening skills, I can make up for in faith.  I do believe in miracles :).  Nate and I weeded the other side of the yard for a while too.  Getting things ready to plant some other stuff, possibly some raspberries and strawberries.  It was a relaxing day for the most part.  Even though I will be sore tomorrow.  Then I got busy making the potato salad (in honor of Pres. Taylor's talk) for dinner with the Widdisons!  I still can't believe I screwed up Friday's plans, but we had such a good time eating yummy Stuffed Peppers and potato salad, and talking together (about radars hA!).  It's really fun for me to be able to get our two families together and just hang out.  The kids did great and I got to hang out with my favorite cousin.  Good times.  Jack hugged Sarah goodbye too :).  Oh, and I taught Jack how to say banana. :)  5-3-14