HANNAH'S FAREWELL
We got up and out the door by 7:20!! Only 20 minutes later than planned. Which actually ended up being a good thing since we got there an hour early. Which was also okay because we got to hang out with the Idaho Mayneses for a minute before going to their church. We had a good, uneventful ride there. Talking with Becky, singing to EFY CD, I was crocheting, and a lot of people slept. It was fun really. I loved that Luke looked over at me and said, "I love long car rides even if we aren't going anywhere exciting." With a big smile on his face. Like mother like son. The farewell was great! Hannah did an amazing job on her talk. It is so fun for me that my girls have her to look up to and her example. She is such a cool girl and such a great example for them. I hope they realize that. We ended up staying at church for the full three hours- the kids all went to class like they should and the rest of us struggled to find a classroom that we all fit in and ended up just finding an empty room and visiting. That was actually kind of fun. RS was interesting. I loved sitting next to Jen and Meg. Comic relief for sure! And actually it made me feel like part of their family for a minute. Which I loved. We had potatoes at the house after and visited for a while- putting of going home probably- and then hugged everyone goodbye and left. The drive home was nice. It's always good quality time together. We got home around 7:00 but it felt more like 10:00. Then dropped the kids off and Nate and I took Becky home together. We were wasted! Went to bed. It's always weird when we miss our own ward- we don't do it very often, so it left us all feeling like the weekend shouldn't be over yet. Unfortunately Monday came! 12-10-17
FHE
Noah taught us about Faith. He used the object lesson with the pepper in the water and tapped it with soap on his finger- something about how we needed to have faith that that would happen. Very cool. Then he did the food coloring one too- about repentance. He did a great job! We ate some of the popcorn Grandma gave us for Christmas as Jack's treat and played "Never have I ever" for Erika's activity. Fun stuff. 12-11-17
STUMP CAKE
I was asked by a lady who apparently got my information from Heidi, to make a cake that looks like a stump and is Buffalo Plaid inside. Kinda weird at first, but I got really excited about the design and decided to run with it. The lady was pretty interesting and didn't seem all that excited about the cake until near the end. She threw in a couple of curve balls, changing the day and number of people it needed to feed and such at the last minute, but it all worked out! In fact, I was SO PLEASED with how it looked!! I was pretty proud of myself actually :). I need to post pictures. The cool thing about this cake is that I told the woman $50 for the cake. Then I told her I would be able to deliver it after all for a small fee of $60. She asked me if the cake was still $80 and I was shocked that she'd missed that, but told her, "I was only planning on $60 but if you want to pay me $80 I won't stop you :). I was TOTALLY KIDDING. Well, come to find out she actually venmoed me a wopping $125!!!! For a cake!!! I was pretty happy about it after asking her if that had been a mistake and her reassuring me that she was happy to pay that. Made me feel awesome even though she hadn't even seen the cake yet :). So then when I was delivering the cake to her mansion in the Bountiful Bench, I felt better about accepting the $125 :). 12-15-17
LUMINARIAS
For the Union Party this year they paid for all of us to go to Thanksgiving Point and see the "Luminaria" display. It was pretty magnificent! We loved the huge field of programmed lights that made pictures and stuff to music. Then all the fun smells that we could smell throughout- pretty cool! Then the beautiful Light of the World exhibit was another favorite. So coo!! Such a beautiful place! It was FREEZING while we were there though- not Molly's favorite, or Jack's. But we survived. We stopped at Mo' Betta's on the way home. mmmmmmm. 12-15-17
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