My new Calling

At the beginning of the year I was called as the Beehive advisor in Young Womens. I was very excited for this calling. I teach a great group of girls and Michayla will be joining us at the end of March. We have decided to take the entire Young Womens group to Utah for the Young Women's broadcast at the end of March. We will be going to Utah for 4 days. The girls are very excited for this trip and so are the leaders. We thought it would be awesome for the girls to be in the conference center when our new Prophet, President Thomas S. Monson spoke to them for the first time as the Prophet. We are going to do baptisms for the dead in the Salt Lake Temple, go to the Spoken Word Sunday before we drive home, and we are planning other fun stuff while there. We are hoping to go down to BYU and catch a Volleyball game or something. Since that is Michayla's birthday weekend she is able to come with us and is looking forward to going too. I am also planning on going to Girls camp in July. That will be the longest I have ever been away from my kids since Kyle was born and in the hospital for 12 days. But I was able to see them during that time. Anyway, I am very excited to go though and I will be a 1st year leader so I will be with Michayla. She was excited about that when I told her.

The Company of Good Women

I recently read a book titled "Almost Sisters." It was a great book and I had a hard time putting it down. It's about how 3 strangers meet at BYU education week and become life long friends. I think I enjoyed the book a lot because it's about these 3 friends who live in 3 different states and manage to keep an amzing friendship going. We have that with our group of friends too I think. Like us they get together at least once a year to see each other. Now that we have some friends who've moved away we try to do the same. Well this book is a trilogy and right after I finished Almost Sisters I bought the second one, "Three Tickets to Peoria." Well now I've finished that one too and thought I could get the third one. I went online last night and to my surprise, the third one is not due out until Spring. AHHHH!! I am left hanging for a few months. If you haven't already read these books, I totally recommend them. These are great books and they mention in the books that it's hard to find really good close friendships, and to hold on to the ones you are able to find. I feel truly blessed to be surrounded by you great women and that I can call you my friends!

Happy Valentines Day!

Monday I went to the church bookstore to get a couple CDs and while I was there decided to look at a couple of books. One I found was perfect. It's called Traditions. It has at least 6 ideas for every single holiday to choose from. I've been trying to figure out traditions for our family for holidays because we don't have any and I wanted our kids to look forward to family holidays. So we started a new tradition this morning and I hope it sticks. Chris and I decided to use one of the ideas in the book. We woke up early and made Red pancakes, Heart shaped toast, and bacon for breakfast. This is a rare treat for our kids, they are used to having frozen waffles or cereal on a school day, so they were really excited when they woke up this morning. Happy Valentines Day to all.

Kyle and the Powers that be!!

I've been watching my friends son for about 6 weeks now and last week was a rollercoaster of sickness around our house. Friday I was in the shower and I thought I heard Chris get up and answer the door. Kyle came in to use the bathroom and I asked him if Tara came to drop off Ethan. He said "No, Tara's not coming today she's sick." I asked if Tara had called to say she was sick and he said "Tara just called me and she's sick and not coming today." So I got out of the shower and asked Chris if Tara had called and he said no. So I told him what Kyle told me. So we went ahead and got dressed and I came out to help get breakfast for the kids, Tyler was playing with a toy and it sounded like a knock on the door. Kyle said "Tara's here." I said "I thought Tara was sick?" I told him it was Tyler. A few minutes later there was a knock on the door. I said "maybe that's Tara." It was Tyler's ride to school. I came back in Kyle said "Tara?" I told him it was Sam. Kyles response was "See I told you Tara wasn't coming." In a very matter of fact tone. About 15 minutes later (an hour after Kyle told me Tara had called him) Tara called to say she was sick and I wouldn't be watching Ethan. I had to explain to her how Kyle was Psychic and had already told me! We all had a good laugh.

Our Anniversary

Wednesday January 30th was Chris and my 4th year Sealing anniversary and Saturday February 2nd was our 7th year Wedding anniversary. So to celebrate we went out Friday night. I planned the whole evening as a surprise to Chris. I made dinner reservations, booked the hotel (yes, with a jacuzzi tub), and bought movie tickets just in case. I hid clues and goodies around the house for Chris to do a fun scavenger hunt before we left. I made him a CD of love songs, then he had to go to one of my dresser drawers and collect the bubble bath and massage oil there, then he had to go to the mailbox and that's where the dinner plans were. We went to Ruth Chris, a steakhouse in Walnut Creek for dinner and we enjoyed a free dessert since we were celebrating our anniversary. Halfway through dinner I told Chris that his last clue was in his jacket pocket and he found the hotel key and movie tickets in case he wanted to go to a movie too. He didn't, once he found out there was a jacuzzi tub he wanted to go straight to the hotel. We did end up renting a movie off the T.V. at the hotel, we watched August Rush. It was a good movie. We had a great night out and enjoyed the peace of being able to talk without being interupted.