CHURCH
Molly and I had the perfect excuses to go to church this Sunday! Charity was giving a talk in Sacrament Meeting and Noah was giving one in Primary. We didn't want to miss either of them! Molly did pretty good, just needed to be held the whole time, but really- not too much to complain about. Charity did a FANTASTIC job on her talk! I love that she was so excited to give a talk and that she wrote it all by herself. She really did a great job. She spoke about how we can chart our course using the Personal Progress Program. Charity and Kelly both have developed such strong testimonies of Personal Progress over the last couple of months with all the work they've been doing. It's really cool to witness as a mom. I love hearing about what they are accomplishing on their own. I'm so proud of them. Noah spoke about how when we keep the commandments we show Jesus that we love Him. He talked about a time he didn't want to go to church, but prayed about whether he should go or not, and decided he should go. He did a great job. I was proud of him. I was so glad we had some excuses to be there. I hate missing church. I got to go to YW too. We combined with the Mia Maids. It was a nice break too, since Molly wanted to go to Elder's Quorum instead. What a nice day!
We got a surprise visit from Steve and Jauslin the afternoon too, which was a fun little break in our day. It was pretty uneventful otherwise which was good since Nate was back at work. 9-13-15
2 WEEKS
Had my 2 week check up, Monday. As usual, everything looked good. I feel so blessed to heal so well all the time. I was thinking about it the other day and immediately felt like this was a result of my keeping my temple covenants. Specifically the covenants associated with my garments. Made me happy to think that I was being blessed for being faithful. 9-14-15
FHE
Erika was the lesson and did a rerun of her favorite lesson where we passed around the bean bag to say things we love about each other. It really is a good activity for our family. I love hearing the things everyone says about each other. She took a few minutes at the end to tell us that if we always do these things that we love about each other, we will have a "better life". Loved that. She's getting so grown up! We had popsicles for the treat and since our evening had gotten away from us while waiting for the frozen enchiladas to bake, we had to cut our four corners game short. Everyone was bummed. 9-14-15
2 WEEKS FOR MOLLY
Molly went in for her 2 week check up Tuesday. We were reminded just how perfectly healthy this little girl is! She only lost about 4 oz in the hospital and was back up to 7lbs 12oz at the doc! Pretty good growth! Everyone loved her skinny feet. And Dr. Tew was surprised at how well she liked laying on her tummy! She really is just so perfect. I love the miracle of that. Especially with how worried I was. Silly me. Her foot bled forever from the poke though! Only downside. 9-15-15
LIT CLUB
Bradley and Luke signed up for Mr. Flynn's Literary Club. They/ve been going to theyre meetings on Thursday mornings at 7:50am. I really didnt think this would last, but theyve been having a pretty good time with it. The coolest part was listening to Bradley teaching Luke how to write a poem :). Way cute. 9-16-15
TGIF
I loved Friday this week. I totally thought I was going to hate it because Nate accepted some overtime during the day. And when I'm planning on having my honey home, but have to let him go to work instead, it's not pretty ;). I'm kidding. It was for a good cause, I tried to be flexible. Lucky for me, though, Heidi was planning on coming to paint Erika's bed! I decided to turn the day into a hang out, by meeting Heidi for lunch first. That was fun. We met up at Costa Vida. Came home and I sat and watched Heidi do all the work on Erika's bed!! It was great! Good chatting time, nice and relaxing, really, it was the best. She didn't get it done, so I have another day of hanging out to look forward to :). I hope it's soon.
After the bed, we got ready to go to the State Fair! Nate had a meeting with his family so we were planning on meeting him at the fair. Instead, he dropped his car off at his work and we picked him up there. We had a great time! The kids always love the FFA thing for kids, to learn how farms work. Jack was skeptical, but as soon as he saw the free (or should I say "$1.00") fruit snacks, he was happy :). I'm glad they're still so easily pleased. The big kids kind of escorted Jack around. He looked like royalty. I will have to get my pictures from my phone from the whole night. We headed over to the Fine Arts building to catch a glimpse at Kelly and Noah's work displayed there. The coolest thing happened, as we were walking up to Kelly's we could hear a little girl getting all excited announcing all the different princesses, and of course, she was standing there, in front of Kelly's picture, with her Dad, totally admiring it! It was so fun!! We all walked up quietly and tried not to interrupt, just enjoying the fan-dom. What a fun thing for Kelly :). Noah's was harder to find, but we found it- he did a great job, and it was really just fun to see them all get so into it. I think we'll have even more participants next year. We loved seeing Annie's! She always wins and her drawings always look like photographs. I don't know how she does it! Val Kilmer this year. Looked amazing. We were able to meet up with Heidi and John for a few minutes after eating our corn dogs and curly fries. It was so funny that we'd both planned on going that night. We were bummed that their friends hadn't cancelled, we had to share them with their friends. But we enjoyed the few minutes we got with them. Or in the words of Kelly, "So they were with us for like five minutes?" Thinking they'd come just to hang with us :). Bradley tried to beat the sit-ups record at the Air Force booth, came close, getting 51 in one minute (holy moly!) just 10 shy of beating it. Then he attempted a pull-up :). I wonder how many boys his age/size can do pull-ups? Then everyone tried to out plank each other. Fun stuff. Everyone checked out the Creative Arts building while I sat outside and fed Molly. Kelly loves seeing the doll houses. After that, it was onto the animals! I am so glad we didn't skip them this year, Jack was in heaven!! Even when it was just goat after goat, he kept pointing out all the goats, getting all excited about each one, it was adorable. I loved his enthusiasm :). He REALLY loved all the baby animals. He got to pet a little chick, a little goat, and baby calf as well. It was so fun. He didn't want to leave. I really need to take that kid to the zoo. He'd love it. I think Luke and Noah got into the baby animals as well. They disappeared most of the time we were in there. We tried so hard to find me a new diaper bag (that one I got a few years ago was so perfect), but no such luck. I don't want anything too big. Molly stayed pretty content in the sling hanging from me the entire time. Too bad I hadn't read all the warnings on the sling- apparently she's too young/small for it... oops. She did well though. I will say, I was nervous about her and adjusted her position a lot. So I guess we'll put it away for a while, get it out when she meets the age and weight requirements. Nate had to carry Jack on his shoulders a lot of the evening, thanks to my forgetting the stroller. That was a bummer. But overall, I think we did good! Everyone seemed happy and we got lots of cheers when we asked if they had any fun in the car :). It was about 9:30 when I decided to put the kabosh on the evening. I was EXHAUSTED!!! And in need of nourishment that wasn't deep fried. I felt bad cutting it kind of short, but it was time to go. We let the kids have a movie night once we got home, but I don't think ANYONE lasted through the whole movie. I liked how Nate described it- looked like a bomb had gone off in our family room, when we got up to go to bed in the middle of the night. Everyone sprawled out every which way all over the floor and couch. Kind of funny. Molly kept me up most of the night nursing so I got to hear each person as they came up to bed. Funny stuff. Good times! 9-18-15
FAMILY HISTORY
Charity and Kelly were asked to help with indexing at our Stake Family History Open House. Nate decided to take everyone and they al ended up staying for about three hours!! I guess there wasn't a whole lot of indexing, but even the littlest ones had fun with the journaling. Molly and I stayed home (for Molly's sake, I would have LOVED to go learn how to get names for the temple!) caught up on some z's. 9-19-15
THE PARK
We needed to get out Saturday night, so we grabbed some pizza and headed off to the park! Everyone had so much fun! I was so glad. It was easy fun. They were all getting along so well, I was so happy. I loved that they were so welcoming to other kids with their game of freeze tag. I loved watching Erika take a new girl over to her "big brother" to ask for permission for her to play along. Cute stuff. It was a nice evening. 9-19-15
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