WARD CONFERENCE
I LOVED ward conference this time. I really enjoyed the Bishop's and Stake President's talks. They really hit close to home on some things I had been thinking and praying about recently. Things I've been struggling with and things I needed to be reminded of. It was nice. It's always good when that happens. Primary was somewhat relaxing with the Stake doing it all. It was just a nice day. The evening felt less relaxing, but it was fine. I had to finish making the cake for Great to Be 8. Kelly helped me with the little banner to put on it. It turned out pretty cute and got lots of compliments, so that was fun :). Both the Great to be 8 and Temple Preparation meetings went really well. It is nice to have those done. 1-21-18
FHE
For Family Night Charity taught us about some of the things she learned from the talks on Sunday. She did a great job. We watched Shrek the Musical in honor of Kelly trying out this week as our activity and then Brad gave us Scotcheroos for the treat. It was a nice evening, but definitely not as reverent or focused as we would have liked. Especially with Molly being her crazy, noisy self. She really isn't grasping reverence yet. She wanders around barking out orders and getting worked up pretty quickly when things don't go her way. IT's kind of hard. We're going back to the Naughty Spot and that's working pretty good. Hopefully we can get through to her soon :). She is two though, so we try to just be patient with her. Everyone is really sweet to her. I'm glad she has her sibs. They love her so much. IT's fun to see how much she loves them too. Putting Brad in time out was my favorite tonight :). He just let her drag him through the house :). 1-22-18
NOAH GOT HIS BEAR
We had our first real pack meeting with our new cub master. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised with how well it went! Not that I didn't think it would, it was just kind of refreshing almost to have new leadership. Minus that he asked me to do the dumb drum for the Arrow of Light. That was a few minutes of my life that I'll never get back. And pride. Whatever. Anyway, things went really well. I'm not sure how I feel about the cheer box, and him not using it- I wonder what he'll do in the future now that he knows. But I did enjoy not losing my hearing or making my headache worse. So Noah got his Bear! He's officially a Webelos. I am not sure how I feel about that! Somewhat relieved though, that he's almost done with cub scouts :). But it's a sign that he too is growing too fast!! Doesn't seem to matter what I say about not growing up, they all keep doing it! Noah has loved his bear leaders. I hope he has as much fun in the Webelos den. 1-23-18
ALANA'S
I got to go to Alana Smith's house to help stuff bears today. That was a LOT of fun. I really love Alana. She is such a fun person and so upbeat. I feel like she was inspired to tell me something her dad told her about how Satan's best shot at destroying a family is to attack the mom. Makes sense and isn't a new idea, but for some reason it hit me as very profound and something I needed to think about at the moment. She's just a cool person to be with. I can't believe she made 61 of those!! She's absolutely amazing. 1-25-18
ERIKA'S DATE WITH MOM AND DAD
We got to take Erika out to Applebee's in honor of her 8th birthday (a little late I know). It was such a nice time! I enjoy her company so much and love talking with her. She's such a fun girl. She was such a good listener and seemed to enjoy her time with us :). Love that girl. 1-25-18
BORIS AND THE BRIEFCASE
Nate and I got to go see Charity's play for the One Acts Festival. SO MUCH FUN!!! I LOVED it!! I had no idea what she had been working on for the past two months, but this just FAR surpassed anything I could have imagined them putting on. Very cool. Charity did amazing. I'm so proud of her and first of all her bravery to try out and get out there, but also her hard work. This was a LOT of work. She should be proud as well. We decided the kids needed to see this, so I brought the older 6 to see it for our FHE activity. Nate stayed home with Molly. They loved it too. Even Jack. He had decided to try not to laugh- "it was hard!!" HA! 1-26-18
CHINESE SUPERMARKET
My mom and Simon invited us to the Chinese Supermarket. It was pretty cool. Such an interesting experience. There were so many different things in the produce section which was cool. And lots of other random foods- "Fresh Pig's Blood" in big huge cubes that looked a lot like jello. Very weird. But I think I'm with Noah- he pointed out that we were like the only white people there. Kind of a different feeling being the minority. Now we know how Simon feels probably 90% of the time. We had to hurry home to get Nate off to work. 1-27-18
BIRTHDAY DATE WITH NOAH
I've decided to do the whole Date with Mom thing again as their special gift from me :). Noah and I went out on Saturday night after Brad's basketball game. I wish I had planned it a different night when we weren't so pressed for time, but we still had a blast. We ended up going to Seaquest at the Layton Hills Mall. Very cool place, we got to touch turtles, lizards, we got to hang out in the bird cages and feed them with birds flying all around us, we got to pet the stingrays, and a shark! and walk around and look at amazing sea life (and birds- BAH!). Noah loved it! It was a really fun time for the two of us. We went over to Tepanyaki for dinner. Unfortunately it was a 35 minute wait (and according to Noah's calculations we waited for 33 minutes!) and Noah was so hungry that I think this was more torture than it was worth. He was dying by the time they sat us and the whole time they were getting things ready and taking orders- we had a lot of people at our table who had special orders so it took even longer- he was so patient, and didn't want to complain, but he really was starving. Luckily, they did eventually come and cook our food- we loved it! So much fun! Then when we were done eating, the waitress brought out a bowl of ice cream for Noah, with a candle and we all sang to him, then this guy sitting next to him handed him a folded up $20 and wished him a happy birthday. PRETTY SWEET RIGHT?! I thought it was cool. This happened a couple years ago, a lady gave him $2, so I'm not sure what it is about Noah, but he just seems to put off this vibe that he deserves money :). It was an awesome night. I hope Noah enjoyed it. I'll have to post pictures I took on my phone. 1-27-18
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