Sunday, June 22, 2014
2:00pm
It’s been a nice Sabbath Day. We made it all the way through sacrament
meeting without having to take a noisy child out! That hardly ever happens. Our kids are getting older. Maybe it’s time to have another baby. J
I’ve got to go take Spencer to his board of
review.
2:33pm
I’m back now.
Spencer is now a Star Scout!! I’m
so proud of him. He has completed 12
merit badges and has 4 others that are partially completed. Five of the twelve that he has completed were
done at our stake YM encampment last week.
It was so nice he could get so many of them done all in one week.
It’s been about three weeks since I’ve written. I gave a pretty thorough report about the
time I spent at girl’s camp, so I’ll start this report at June 9th. I took the kids to Big Surf that day. It was fun, but when we got back home I
realized that we forgot about the football camp that we signed Bryant up
for. Oops, he missed one day.
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| June 9th FHE |
Tuesday June 10th through the 14th
Spencer was at our stake’s young men encampment. We really missed him. On Thursday I asked Bryant to take the
kitchen garbage out and then I said, “since Spencer’s gone will you take the
big black garbage can out to the curb?”
After quite a while Bryant came back in and I said, “Did you have some
trouble?” He said, “Yes the garbage can
was so full I could hardly get it through the rocks, and then when I got to the
sidewalk it almost tipped over. Spencer
does a lot!” I was glad that he learned
to appreciate his big brother, and glad he learned how to do something hard.
Bryant had football camp at Benjamin Franklin and
basketball camp at Williams Field High School June 9th – 12th. He loved it!!
I put in a lot of time driving him to his events. Luckily I had some carpools so I didn’t have
to drive quite as much.
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| June 10th - I made a big batch of cookies to give out as thank you gifts. Tilly decided to help herself to some cookie dough. |
Wednesday the 11th I had a dentist
appointment. My teeth and gums look
good. Thankfully I managing my periodontal
disease well now, but my gums receded quite a bit before I got a good handle on
it.
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| June 12th - Movie night |
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| June 13th - Bryant made a nest for the kids to read in. |
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| We got some new markers for the summer and the girls have been coloring their hearts out. |
Saturday June 14th was a busy day. We did some yard work, I bottled chicken, the
kids had Grammy days at Lowe's and the splash pad, Bryant went to a birthday
party, Spencer came home from encampment, we went swimming at the Trogan’s and the
boys started taking care of their dog while they were on vacation for a few
days, I prepared a junior primary singing time lesson (I subbed for our
chorister who just had a baby), and I prepared a lesson for our Laurel
class. Whew! I was wiped out at the end
of the day.
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| Spencer was sure dirty when he came home. Five days without a shower = Gross |
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| I love sleeping babies. |
Last Sunday was Father’s day. I sure love Chad and am thankful that he is a
good father to our children. I wrote this
special post in honor of the three fathers who mean the most to me. We had a nice Father’s Day dinner at Shannon
and Aaron’s beautiful new home. It was
nice to spend time with Art and get to visit with him. I sure missed my Daddy though.
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| Chad opening his Father's Day gifts |
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| The kids brought the Trogan's dog over to play for awhile. They love dogs. Me, not so much. |
Last week was pretty low key. I piddled around the house doing different
odd jobs and stayed in my PJ’s until late in the afternoon almost every day. Late Monday afternoon we went swimming at the
Trogan’s since they let us use their pool while they were gone. Tuesday I trimmed
our flowers and sprayed our front porch and driveway. Then we went swimming at the Trogan’s again.
Tuesday night Bryant got his Bear in cub scouts and then I went out to dinner
with Karalee, my Mom, Crystal, Celeste and Ray.
They had been to the temple to go through with my nephew Jake. We missed going through the temple with Jake
so we could support Bryant at cub scouts.
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| June 16th, the girls playing house |
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| June 17th - Trimming the flowers down. Since we had such a mild winter without a hard freeze, I've had these same vinca flowers for over a year now. I've had to trim them back 3-4 times. |
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| June 17th - Bryant getting his Bear award |
Wednesday the girls had a special girl’s only Princess
Grammy days. Bryant and I went on a date
while the girls were all gone and Spencer was at basketball camp. We got him some new school clothes at Kohl’s
and then he got a Blizzard at DQ and I had a few bites. That night I had stake YW’s volleyball which
was fun. After volleyball was over I
took Spencer on his date. He wanted to
go to Cold Stone to get Chad a belated birthday present. So Spencer bought Chad some ice cream and I
bought Spencer some ice cream and they both shared a few bites with me.
Thursday was my Mom and Dad’s 55th
wedding anniversary. I called my Mom to
see how she was handling it. She was
sad, so I was sad with her. Thursday
evening Spencer and I went to the temple together. He did baptisms while I did initiatory. It was fun to go with him!
Friday I met Amy at Celeste’s house to swim. We swam all afternoon and had a great
time. That night the kids invited some
friends over to play basketball and eat pizza.
It was fun!
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| Karalee and her friends playing just dance on the wii. I love watching my kids play that game! |
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| Chad and I jumped in the pool with our girls with all our clothes on. They thought it was funny. I also posted a video of Chad jumping clear over the pool on Facebook. |
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| Chad's hairdo by Karalee. |
Last night Chad and I went out to eat at Blue32
sports grill. They have awesome taco’s al carbon. Then we went bowling. We both bowled pretty well. We each bowled over 100 on both games and we
each did better on our 2nd game than we did on our first game. I think it would be really fun to join a
bowling league sometime. After bowling
we went to Fry’s to get some stuff for Sunday dinner where we saw Wynn and Kami
and our friends Tyson and Angie Cook. It
was fun to bump into them and visit for a few minutes.
Tilly is still working on potty training. She doesn’t really like to go to the potty
and if I don’t remind her to go she has an accident. It’s been a slow process, but I’m not giving
up and I know she’ll get it eventually.
Once last week she came up to me grunting and said, “I’m not pooping.” I laughed and ran her to the bathroom. Luckily we made it in time.
Marlee has a loose tooth!! She’s getting so big. Karalee is developing into a beautiful young
lady. She and Tilly are usually the
first to wake up each morning and Karalee is a little mother hen and she takes
Tilly and plays quite games with her. It’s
so sweet.
Chad’s had a very stressful week at work. He came home on Thursday with a really stiff
neck from spending so many long hours at the computer. Lucky for him, I know a few tricks for
helping a sore neck now. I helped him do
some stretches and I massaged his neck for a long time while we watched a movie
on Thurs. night. He’s gotten a little
better each day. I tried to convince him
to go to the chiropractor, but he couldn’t leave work long enough to go.
To end today I’ll share a scripture that I’ve been
thinking about lately, “But, behold, the
judgments of God will overtake the wicked; and it is by the wicked that the
wicked are punished; for it is the wicked that stir up the hearts of the
children of men unto bloodshed” (Mormon 4:5). I’ve come to realized that if I get angry
with someone and try to get back at them then I become wicked. No matter what wrongs have been done to me, I
need to forgive and let the Lord’s judgments overtake the wicked. I don’t need to worry about seeking revenge
or getting even. My job is to love and
make peace and to forgive.
Love,
Mindy
