Things to Remember Week of 5-28-17

CHARITY'S TALK
Charity spoke in Sacrament meeting today!  She spoke on the Spirit of Elijah and did such a great job!!  I loved it!  I am always so impressed with how well she presents when I know how nervous she is.  She didn't seem nervous at all.  And she did such a great job on writing her own talk.  I was so impressed with all that she had learned and taught us.  Very cool.  5-28-17

MEMORIAL DAY
Memorial Day started out right with a flag ceremony and breakfast with the ward over at Ponds Park.  This is a tradition the Ponds Park ward has had for a long time, so it was fun to participate in that.  The kids played on the playground the whole time while I visited mostly with Julia Worthen.  Mostly about school stuff.  I'm getting more and more nervous to be PTA President.  It was a fun morning though!  If Nate had not been working it would have been perfect :).
After that we picked up groceries and relaxed.  Then we paid Nana a little visit.  I just love thinking about her and giving her those few little minutes of a visit on Memorial day.  I feel like she appreciates it.  Steve had left some M&Ms so we helped ourselves to some of those :).  They still taste like hanging out with Nana :).  We took a few pictures, said goodbye, then headed up to the Taylor's house (finally got to see their new house!) for a BBQ with the fam.  This was a nice evening.  I talked mostly with Becky.  The kids were thoroughly entertained the entire time :).  I loved watching Molly with their little dog.  She is so fearless when it comes to animals.  Just like the rest of our kids I guess :).  And why shouldn't she be, she's got our giant black lab wrapped around her little finger 24/7.

LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL
The last week of school felt insane!  It felt like a whirlwind that started at the beginning of May and then went in slow motion for four weeks and then came to a screeching halt on June 2nd (or maybe the third since we were still doing Kelly's birthday party).  It was nuts!
Tuesday: I had produce.  This was one of the few times Jack and Molly have come with me, stayed and actually HELPED!  Like real help, not un-help.  It was nice to have their help because I needed to hurry.  Then we went and grabbed ice for Field day.  20 7lb bags of ice and then back to the store for 10 more.  Good thing we have this big delivery truck for hauling stuff like that!  It was nice of my mom to watch Jack and Molly so I could do that.  Made it a million times easier.  Luke had his field trip to Gailey Park which he loved!  He and Clint played together the whole time- I think they even played Badmitton?!  Fun stuff.  I wish we could have come and watched but I was home making cupcakes for Kelly's family party that night.  After school, we rushed up to South Ogden for our races and trophies!  Then we hurried back home to grab the cupcakes and went over to Gailey Park (yep, twice in one day for Luke) for Kelly's family party.   Then I crammed in a Presidency meeting that evening as well!!  We cleaned out the Primary closets!  Crazy day.  5-30-17

Wednesday: Field day!  Also known as the day I died of allergies!  I signed up to help set up, worked the volunteer table for a few minutes (still not sure why they needed me to do that), ran the dunk tank for the first half of the day, then ate my delicious Costa Vida salad courtesy of the PTA, then set up again, ran the dunk tank, then cleaned up afterwards.  It was a busy day!  I think I had 12,000 steps by 3:00!  The best part of the day was working with Emily.  We owned that dunk tank!  The sixth graders were a lot of fun too!  I loved that Bradley wanted to get dunked by his younger siblings and even came out during class so that Erika could :).  I love the bonds between some of my kids.  So cute.  I was dying from my allergies the entire day- several sneeze attacks and LOTS of itchiness in my eyes, but it wasn't until I got home that it really hit me.  I passed out on the couch and hardly did a thing for the rest of the evening.  It was SO BAD!!

Thursday: Charity's "Ditch Day" so I took them up to the temple.  I was going to try to do initiatories while I was there with them, but the wait was so long- I just don't think I would have made it.  After that I got to go help out at the 6th grade dance!!  It was so much fun!  I hope Brad wasn't too embarrassed by me, because I loved it.  He is definitely the most handsome boy in his grade.  And the sweetest :).  That night Kelly had her Lacrosse Banquet at her coach's house and Luke was her plus one there, which I thought was adorable :).  The rest of us went to Erika's softball game while Nate and the older three went to Mutual.