We learned about the Utah Area Plan today in our special RS meeting today with the Stake President. And actually, he talked more about other things that I really loved and wrote about in my journal, but part of it was on this goal setting thing. So when we finished study time Sunday afternoon, we decided to brain storm and came up with some goals. So for the first category, we decided we would start doing "Dinner-time Props" to help our family members feel more love and more appreciated. So far this has been really cool- thanks, Kelly, for the cool idea! For the second category we decided we are going to invite a family over for FHE once a month! Might be a little over-zealous of a goal, but we're going to try. Starting with Pam Hooker hopefully. For the third one we decided to pick a family each month (particularly in the family, but in the neighborhood too) to serve and show love to. We are starting with the Websters this month. We've got a few fun ideas for a care package to send to them. Then the last one we decided to have a monthly temple day. I would really love to work up to getting our own names and stuff, but nobody seemed ready for that... we will see how this all goes! I'm really excited to be anxiously engaged in some new things that will strengthen our family and our faith and such. Everyone seemed really excited about it all too. 3-31-19
APRIL FOOLS AND FIRST DAY OF SPRING BREAK
So everyone has been so fun today! The boys ran around doing funny little pranks. I LOVED watching Jack get into this. He was so funny watching Noah and Luke toilet paper the girls' rooms. He was feeling the adrenaline and kept telling me how nervous he was and would run down to get away from the nervousness. It was hilarious! The girls were mostly good sports. Brad wrapped up all of the girls' make up in toilet paper also. Noah did all the traditional kitchen ones and Jack thought to switch the salt for sugar which ended up being pretty funny after I made Erika and Brad's eggs :). Funny kids. I'm glad they were having fun with it- I have been a slacker- but they made it cool.
I had to pick up groceries today and bribed the kids with Keva Juice if they came with me :). I met a "cousin" at Walmart, an old guy with the last name Hatch who also comes through the Ira Stearns Hatch line :). Kinda funny. And I got some of the new stretch cotton garments! Yay! Then we came home, unloaded the groceries, packed some sack lunches, and headed out to the baseball park with the Desmonds and Maughans (they joined us later!). It was a very fun afternoon! I loved it. WE had family night to look forward to, so I was okay with everyone just running around with friends, playing the wii, phone time, and naps :). It was a nice relaxing afternoon of laundry and marco polo :).
This was my tan line on my left arm after the park with our friends. Kinda lame, but also fun that the sun is out and shining!
Kelly had her last physical therapy appointment. They basically told us they don't want us to come in anymore :). Kind of funny. But she was symptom-less the whole time she was there, so I can see why. Kinda nice! Time to get cleared from Sports Medicine and go back to playing! 4-2-19
WONDERPARK
Kelly and I watched the storm clouds rolling in during her therapy appointment and decided it was the perfect day for a movie. Everyone voted and settled on Wonder Park. I was wishing they'd chose Dumbo, but it was nice that everyone was in agreement. We loaded everyone up, picked up Bridger, Clint and Owen and hurried off to Winco for treats! Then it was back down to Bountiful for the movie. We got there with enough time for everyone to play on the arcade games. Molly particularly loved the driving game. That is what she remembers from this trip to the movies :). We got a pretty funny video of her crazy driving. Kelly and I caught a preview of Dumbo while we were waiting- looks cute- we'll have to see that next. Wonder Park was pretty cute. The kids seemed okay with it. It wasn't anyone's favorite movie of course, but kept most of them entertained, including Molly who did REALLY WELL! I can't believe we're finally to the point where we can enjoy taking her to the movies! It's been a while. She did sit on my lap for the last 15ish minutes. She had really gotten into it and knew everyone's names and stuff- kinda cute. I was wishing Jack had laughed at more of this movie. Slightly disappointing. Overall, a fun afternoon activity. 4-2-19
Molly was hilarious on this game. Not sure I'm ready for her to start driving!
TEMPLE TUESDAY NIGHT FOR THE BIG KIDS- CRAFT NIGHT FOR THE LITTLES
Nate and the older four went to the temple for mutual Tuesday night. The rest of us went to Bennion Craft and found some fun painting projects to keep us busy. Noah got a clipboard and a little box. Erika got an E. Jack got a J. Molly got an M and a little bird house. Turned out to be a lot of fun for all of us. 4-2-19
After our painting project, we turned on a movie and as soon as Kelly walked in, Molly, who had been all cuddled up with me on the couch, jumped up and ran up the stairs in excitement to show Kelly what she had painted. Unfortunately, she missed a step and fell right on her chin on the top step. She was crying and we were all trying to console her, not realizing how serious it was and then the blood started to flow! I caught a glimpse of her chin and KNEW it was going to be an instacare night with stitches. I feel like Heavenly Father blessed me with the ability to pull myself out of the almost sleep I was in and jump into action. Kelly kindly offered to come along. So she, Molly and I drove off to the new Instacare (I've decided that the reason these things are happening at night is because I found the new Instacare... wish I'd kept my eyes closed!). They were really awesome again, at the front desk, but I feel like everyone else in that place is subpar. Molly got three stickers, three suckers, and then at the end three stitches! It was a long wait, a lot of crying, lots of watching Spirit Riding Free, and a lot of convincing Molly that she could be brave enough and get an ice cream cone at the end. She did pretty good with MOST of it all. She didn't love the litocane gel part, and was giggling during the rinsing it off part :). So we got a little bit of everything for her. They had to hold her head still for the stitches and I held her hands and talked to her. She was actually really good for this. The second stitch hurt a little and she cried, but for the most part... That was when Kelly brought up the ice cream cone again. It was 11:30 at night! But we couldn't not! We stopped at McD's and ended up waiting in their drive thru for THIRTY MINUTES!!! For two cones and a small fry!!! It was RIDICULOUS!!! Molly almost fell asleep. So we got home around midnight and put everyone to bed. Long night, but nice that everything was taken care of thanks to Charity and Brad here at home. Molly was a brave little chick. I'm glad she is okay. Fun Spring Break stuff. 4-2-19
I had this idea back when I was going to make Spring Break Family Week, but then kept it anyway when things changed. The kids seemed to really love it! I've had several of them ask if we can do it again sometime. Charity and Jack struggled to choose an activity, but since Jack likes to ride his scooter and Charity likes to walk Buddy, they agreed on a walk to the Ponds and around the neighborhood. It was so cold they ended up going and getting some hot chocolate after as well. We dropped Luke and Noah and Brad and Erika off at Boondocks for their dates. They all had a good time. I think they did some laser tag and bowling and then checked out the stack of cards I sent them with and found lots of extra tickets and money to play with. They all seemed to have a good time. Kelly and Molly changed plans from Hobby Lobby to PetSmart at the last minute and we dropped them off there. Nate and I took advantage of the time alone and went over to the World Market which we've both never been in yet. Fun store. We got a cute pic of Kelly and Molly at Harmons having Gelato. I was so happy that everyone took advantage of this opportunity and made the most of it. Fun stuff. 4-3-19
THURSDAY WAS MUSEUM OF CURIOSITY
We had a fun plan for Thursday! We drove down to Thanksgiving Point and had some lunch at J. Dawgs (great place for our family to eat! Even Nate got something!). Then headed over to the Museum of Curiosity. I was really excited about this since we've spent the last five years (funny, we thought it had only been a few) saying we would go back there some day. Well, the nagging paid off and we went. Only problem was that most of the kids had pretty much outgrown the place :). We still played there for almost four hours and had a great time, I was just really surprised at how much stuff was more for the littles. Everyone picked a buddy. Charity and Molly ran around together, I loved watching Charity squeeze herself through the jungle gym, all in the name of having fun with her little sister. She was a good sport the whole time, even braving the "Darkneth" a few times for Molly. Molly seemed to love the place! It was right at her level really. She found a lot to do and enjoyed most of it. The water room was a lot of fun for those two- minus Charity getting drenched unexpectedly. Brad and Jack were buddies the whole time and it was fun to see them going around together. Especially on the rope bridges above us. They were so cute. Brad was so nice to slow the crowd down for Jack to have the bridge all to himself. He was nervous at first, but got really brave by the end. These two are fun friends. Luke and Noah were buddies again and I really did not get to see much of them the entire time we were there. Not til the end when they joined us at the foam blocks. They were a little disappointed with how grown up they were for everything, but didn't seem to stop them from keeping themselves entertained for hours! They've been good friends lately too. Erika and Kelly were buddies. They went around through Kidopolis and had some fun in there, making their own cartoon and stuff. I wish I'd been able to watch them more- they were kind of too cool for most of it, but had fun. They caught up with us in the Jungle room and Erika was able to be a little girl for part of it too :). I think the crowning moment there was Nate in the block pit with all the kids- trying to distract the two little obnoxious boys who were knocking everyone's towers over. I got a cool slow-mo video of their giant wall and everyone knocking it over. That was pretty fun! Nate gets the gold sticker for being the funnest parent there :). It was a long drive home, everyone was pretty wiped out. But we stopped at Costco so everyone could pick out treats for conference. It was a nice evening with everyone. 4-4-19
I guess I should have given everyone the heads up on my plan for Friday, but I didn't really have one. It ended up being an entertain yourself day. Not anyone's favorite for some reason! They were probably getting too used to me coming up with all the fun. They played with their friends a little. It was cold and wet which didn't help, but it was a nice day. I think we had a movie night as well. 4-5-19
CONFERENCE
I LOVED conference this year! It was so awesome! Everyone stayed focused and took notes or colored through all four sessions! It made it so nice! I loved the talks and felt so many new things while I was watching. I need to remember it all and use it! We went up to Ruth's for the Priesthood Session. Ran and got some Costa Vida after taking a picture and saying goodbye to the men. Then sat around and visited for the rest of the time. It was a nice relaxing evening. I liked it. We brought Jen's book shelf home with us- this will help us a ton in our DIY closet venture for the boys' room. 4-6-19
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