Sunday, March 23, 2014
Happy Sunday! We just had a bit of
a change up in our ward, we are moving to a new building and a new time of
10:00am. There has been a lot of growth
in our stake and they created a new ward today necessitating some building
changes and what not. Luckily we get to
keep Tuesdays, our current night, for mutual and we don’t have to change
buildings until Sunday, which means we get to hold our special New Beginnings program,
that is planned for this Tuesday, in our current building and we won’t have to
schedule a new building or anything like that.
Remember when I was Primary President and we had to change buildings the
week of our Primary program? I do. I think I cried that week. Oh well, that which does not kill us makes us
stronger right!
Last week our kids had a bit of stomach trouble. Bryant missed school Monday, Karalee missed Monday
and Tuesday, and Spencer missed Friday, which was a half day. Luckily Spencer felt better by Friday
afternoon and was able to go on his scout camp out that night. I think the dairy they’d been eating caught
up with them. I need to make sure they
take probiotics every day and then I don’t think they will have that kind of
trouble with dairy if they eat it in moderation.
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| My two sickies |
Tuesday I registered Marlee for Kindergarten. She’s so excited to start school with the big
kids this fall. I’m glad it’s only half
day kindergarten and that I’ll get to keep her at home most of the day
still. I made a big batch of cookies
that day for our combined YM YW mutual that night. The kids played crab soccer -- you play
soccer with several big light weight bouncy balls while doing the crab walk. It looked tiring, but fun. Thanks to Chad’s mom Brenda for coming to
babysit AND for bringing us a yummy
dinner since we started mutual an hour earlier than normal and Chad had to be
at work. She sure is kind and I love her
dearly. She is a great example of giving
meaningful, Christ-like service. I’m
extremely blessed to be her daughter-in-law.
Wednesday while the girls had Grammy Days I attended a session in the
Gilbert temple. It was very busy. Every single seat in the session was full. They had several women sit on the men’s
side. Since the Gilbert temple only
offers sessions every hour on the hour, except for in the early morning or
later in the evening, it’s a long wait if you don’t get in to the session you
were planning on. Thanks to Shannon for
watching my girls since I ended up being late for Grammy day pick up since the
session was so crowded. My sister Amy
had her baby on Wednesday and I got to go hold her that afternoon. They decided to name her Sally Ann which is
the nickname my dad used for me and my sisters when we were little so of course
I really love that name. I’m kind of sad
I didn’t think of using that name for my girls. Sally has made me an aunt for the 94th time--counting both mine and Chad's sides and my great nieces and nephews. Being an Aunt is one of my favorite roles in this life. (FYI this is my Mom and Dad's 67th grandchild. My Mom is still hoping for 33 more to give her 100 grandchildren. I don't think she'll reach that goal.)
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| The kids helped me plant our garden right after school on Wednesday. |
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| Cute little Sally |
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| Doesn't Spencer look so grown up in his football uniform! |
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| I had to take some pictures of Tilly's funny habit. She loves to rub people's arms. She does it anytime she's being held or is near someone or while she's being rocked to sleep. It's cute, except for when she doesn't sleep well and comes into our bed and wants to rub my arm all night. |
Thursday was a busy day. My van
battery died making it an even busier day.
Luckily my battery was still under warranty and I got a new one “for
FREEEEE.” (What movie does that quote come from? Comment
or reply with the correct answer and you will be in the running for a prize!) It took well over an hour to get it replaced
though. That afternoon I made a big
batch of rolls for our relief society dinner/activity that evening. Our getting to know you activity was really
fun. Each of the RS committee members
did a video interview of the ladies in our ward, they had several questions,
like what was your first car? what jobs
have you had? etc. and each lady chose two or three questions to answer then they
compiled and edited all the clips into a video.
We had some funny clips.
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| Our relief society is doing this scripture program in preparation for our June Relief Society activity. I'm looking forward to this program. I think it will bring "significant and subtle blessings" |
I’m back. We’ve had quite the
eventful evening. We had an “It’s great
to be 8” fireside with Karalee and just as it started we got a call from
Spencer letting us know that Tilly bit her tongue really bad while playing on
the trampoline with Spencer and Marlee.
Chad decided to go home and help.
I wanted to go, but I was the pianist so Chad thought I should stay and
he should go. Tilly calmed down for him
quickly and ate a popsicle. The cut is
pretty deep though and it makes me cringe when she sticks out her tongue and it
opens up. She’s been acting fine all
evening and has eaten a bowl of cereal for a snack and has been running around
playing with the kids. It’s nice that
tongues don’t need to be stitched up except for in extreme cases. Tonight we also got a call from Chad’s Dad Art,
who’ve we asked to be the Realtor on our rental house, letting us know we got
an offer on it today. It’s a good offer
which we will accept. I hope it will go
through and that we’ll be able to sell the house. We will have lost a lot of money on it, but
we sure gained a lot of experience. :) “Chalk
it up to experience.” (That’s what my
dad told me once when I called him crying about a bank fee that I got from a
silly mistake during my first year of college.) However, the price we were offered is more than we owe and will help us pay down the home
we are living in. I also just got a text from
Amy letting me know about her husband David’s new calling as a counselor in the
bishopric. Wow! He’ll be great. It’s sure been a busy night.
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| Tilly's cut tongue. Sorry for the blurry pic. |
Friday I spent over six hours working in the back yard. It was my annual spring cleanup. Lots of leaves had dropped over the winter
that needed to be raked up; I pulled out a bunch of crab grass that decided to
grow in our lawn. I tried to get all the
roots, but I’m afraid once you get crab grass it’s tough to get rid of. Trever, do you know any secrets since you’re
a landscaper?? Anyway, I love doing yard
work. This week when I went to the
temple I found out why. In the temple we
learn that taking care of your garden brings happiness and joy. It’s an eternal principle which brings
happiness.
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| Monday night the girls had a movie night and watched the old Disney cartoon "The Rescuers" with Chad while I went to a pampered Chef fundraiser party at my sister-in-law Jennifer's (Brandon's) house. |
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| Tilly has a new big girl bed. Our neighbor's gave us this toddler bed because their daughter out grew it. We took down our crib! Can you believe it? |
Yesterday I had a camp kickoff meeting in the morning and Bryant and
Spencer had football games. My meeting
was during Bryant’s game so I was sad to miss it. Last night Chad and I went out to dinner with
five other couples from our ward. It was
SO fun. We’ve sure made a lot of good
lifelong friends in this ward. We ate at
our friend’s favorite restaurant that was new to us called Thai Chili on the SE
corner of Val Vista and Baseline. It was
YUMMY. Then we all went over to Nielson’s
frozen custard for dessert and more visiting.
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| Watching Spencer's game |
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| Brothers are the best! I love this picture of my boys. They are great friends. |
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| Yesterday I was making myself a snack of apples and peanut butter when my kids pulled out some oreos for a little treat. I got the idea to try dipping an oreo in peanut butter. It is yummalicious!!! |
My quote for today is from a talk I posted a few
years ago. Since it is probably my
favorite talk of all time I’m quoting from it again. One of my Laurels used it in the lesson she
taught us today. (We have the girls take
turns teaching on the 4th Sunday of every month.) “I
have born-again Christian friends who say to me, ‘You Mormons are trying to earn your way to heaven.’ I say, ‘No, we are not earning heaven. We are
learning heaven. We are
preparing for it (see D&C 78:7). We are practicing for it.’ … the
more I understand this wonderful plan of redemption, the more I realize that in
the final judgment it will not be the unrepentant sinner begging Jesus, ‘Let me
stay.’ No, he will probably be saying, ‘Get me out of here!’ Knowing Christ’s
character, I believe that if anyone is going to be begging on that occasion, it
would probably be Jesus begging the unrepentant sinner, ‘Please, choose to
stay. Please, use my Atonement—not just to be cleansed but to be changed so that
you want to stay’” (Brad Wilcox, His Grace is Sufficient). You can listen to or read the full talk HERE. I’d recommend listening to it instead of
reading it since he is such a great speaker.
Love,
Mindy
1 comment:
I know, I know!! The first movie quote is from "Bedtime Stories"-Adam Sandler says it. I quote that all the time!
Also, I love all the pictures, except for the one of Tillie's tongue. Ouch--made me cringe, as well!
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