STAKE CONFERENCE
Stake Conference was awesome, and I was totally geared up after the awesome meeting the night before, but I really didn't get to hear much of Elder Costa's talk. Which sort of bummed me out. I did enjoy the other talks- I think two of them were the Temple President and his wife. I loved her talk and the reminder that I need to make time for the temple. I was going to commit to going every week, but I've already screwed that up. But the girls want me to take them every other week, so we will be doing that- I can go do initiatory then... should be awesome. My kids keep me in line in so many areas. I really loved President Taylor's talk as well, and loved that the kids enjoyed his so much too- that is what they all talked about that evening when we were discussing what we'd learned. I thought that was cool. We did have a nice Sunday afternoon and evening as well. That doesn't happen every week. 5-7-17
LUNCH WITH EMILY
We finally got to go to lunch on Monday. We decided we needed the littles to be busy, so we went to Carl's Jr. I hope Emily wasn't mad that at the last minute I decided to just go with a Costa Vida salad instead of the Carl's Jr. food. I was totally craving it and the calories and stuff weren't even that bad, but I just couldn't get myself to do it. It's probably good too because my weight didn't move at all that week. Kind of a bummer, but I'm always glad when it doesn't go up. It's always fun to hang out with Emily. Three hours later Jack dragged me out of there :). Good times. 5-8-17
FHE
For FHE Nate was the lesson and he talked a lot about faith and then a little about forgiveness. His lesson was very meaningful to me and helped me make a few changes in my life. We were out of time to do our cool "Random Acts of Kindness" celebration activity that we had planned after finishing the Book of Mormon a couple nights earlier, but we will do it one of these Mondays. It's been pretty hectic with the girls and their Musical Theater class- can't wait til the extra rehearsals are over. We got some DQ for the treat. 5-8-17
BEES GAME WITH LUKEY
This was my third time going to the Bee's game field trip. Nate got to go with Bradley. I drove separately and found Luke a little after he was seated. Luckily he saved me a seat :). We had a lot of fun. I really enjoyed sitting next to the Luke and Clint comedy show. They are hilarious. And it seems to me that most of their humor happens accidentally :). They had me laughing the whole time. Fun boys. It was somewhat unfortunate that we had to sit in the sun the entire time, with the heat of no breeze, but we had a lot of fun. Luke got a mini pizza and some cotton candy :). 5-9-17
GRANDPA HATCH'S BIRTHDAY
We had our races at 4:30, Erika's game at 6:15, and then hurried as fast as we could to get up to Grandpa's by 7:30! It was a crazy busy afternoon. We had so much fun at Grandpa's though. He passed out souvenirs from his trip to everyone first- always like grandpa to give everyone else gifts on HIS birthday. We gave him our gifts and then the pizza, cake and ice cream followed. It was fun to have the Hatches there. And fun to see Steve again. Feels like the kids haven't seen him in forever! It was especially fun to watch grandpa shooting blow darts at his couch... and Steve! Hilarious. I got to show my dad our new car finally too. He liked the smell and was very complimentary on the ride to Rocket Park, but the rest of the evening he teased me about my delivery van. Typical :). I think he's just jealous. Fun times though. Need to get together more often. 5-9-17
PTA LUNCHEON
I didn't realize the luncheon was just that. For some reason I thought it was going to be a little bit of a meeting too. I don't know if I would have gone otherwise... but it was a really nice break and a good chance to visit with people. I need more practice with that. Natalie did a great job on the food and everything was really cute and fun. It made me a little nervous for our year to start, being handed the binder and stuff. All I can say is- we'll see how it goes. 5-10-17
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
The four littles and I have Wednesday nights to ourselves right now. And for the past couple weeks, I've tried to take advantage of that time with them. This week we spent part of our time taking Luke to scouts- we'd gotten the time mixed up- but the rest of the time we spent practicing batting in the front yard. It was so much fun! They all took turns and helped with catching and fielding the ball. I loved it! It's funny to go back to the younger four stage once in a while and remember what it was like with the first four- which in everyone's defense, they were much younger and closer in age- so of course it's different, but there really is an entirely different feel. Let's see, Charity was 5 when Luke was 1 1/2, so.... not the same as having two older than that. Anyway. They were super cute- I loved watching them help each other with batting technique. They're such good kids and listen so well when it's time to come in... just lots of fun. 5-10-17
COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY PTA 2017-2018
We had our first non-official meeting with our new board. It was necessary, but kind of disorganized. Jami and I still just don't know enough yet, but are required to make all these decisions already. so anyway. I think we're going to have a great board though- I loved everyone sharing their opinions. It was funny when Karen threw out my Movie Night idea :). Kinda funny. Should be an interesting year. 5-11-17
CHARITY'S AP TEST
Charity took her last AP test for the year. She got a little nervous the night before, but seemed pretty satisfied after. I'm so proud of all the work and time she's put into her AP classes this year. It took way more time and sacrifice than I ever imagined, but she did it! She's just so awesome. I'm so proud of her. I can't wait to see what this girl does with her life. She's really on a roll. 5-12-17
PONDS PARK FIELD TRIP WITH NOAH
Noah's class has been pen pal-ing with kids in a Windridge Elementary class all year. So this Friday they got to go meet those pen pals! I got to walk to the park with Noah and Nate brought the popsicles to the park while we were there. It was fun to see Noah so excited to meet someone new. It's so cool that kids can be so welcoming of new people and feel like best buds after some letters. What a cool activity- Mrs. Turnbow is the best! Bradley was on his bike riding field trip from the sewer and stopped by for lunch at the park- so that was fun for all of us to be there together :). It's crazy to think that this school year is almost over. Time is going too fast. 5-12-17
HALF-BAKED PRIMARY PARTY
I loved how Barbara put it when she called our planning of this party "half-baked". Things had really not gone according to plan- we never really advertised to the kids and hadn't gotten our flyers out when we'd planned, then the date had to be changed, so things were different there too... anyway- it was totally "half-baked", but we decided to carry on anyway. I really think it would have gone more smoothly if we'd had a beginning. And had more adults there. We decided to give the teachers a break and not make them come, but I think we really could have used some of them. The Wards were there, which was a HUGE blessing. I had planned on having Charity, Kelly and Bradley to help, but with all the confusion of schedules, Kelly's Lagoon day and Charity's meeting with her counselor- we just had Bradley. He was super helpful, but we were just lacking in the supervision department. It ended up working out just fine and I think the kids had a blast. We had them make little cards with questions about their moms and then put a hand print on a hot pad and then played some kickball outside and some played musical chairs inside and then we practiced our Mother's Day songs... it was nuts, but I think it was a success. The kids had fun. 5-12-17
MUSICAL THEATER
Charity and Kelly's Musical Theater class has taken over our lives. Or at least our schedule. You know you rely on your teens too much when you feel stifled because they have to be gone extra evenings. I've really missed my girls! It's been annoying! Lots of evening rehearsals, Saturday! Kelly had TWO of her EIGHT games this Saturday and had to miss the first one because of her 7 hour rehearsal! Luckily the teacher let her play her second one and they actually got done two hours early so Charity even saw the last little bit of her game, but UGH!! It was a total bummer. We are getting really excited for their play though! I can't wait to see it! 5-13-17
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