Temple trip

Saturday, February 23

We finally made it to the temple to do some baptisms with Luke and M&M.  We had a day set aside a couple of weeks ago but then something came up with M&m and we had to put it off.  Then our temple closed for 2 weeks for some cleaning and the Draper Temple was closed the week before and overlapping one week.  So the Saturday before ours opened we drove over to my parents' house and dropped off the younger kids and then drove up to the Draper Temple with M&M and Luke.  We had had some snow off and on that morning and the parking lot at the temple was pretty snow covered.  When we got into the temple DH and I needed to go upstairs to get some family cards printed for the work we were going to do.  It was a neat experience seeing DH baptize first M&M and then Luke for some of our ancestors that we have done research on and found.  Then they all changed into dry clothes and DH was able to confirm them.  I'm glad that we were able to do that as a family and look forward to more opportunities as we find more family members that have not had their work done.  M&M and Luke each did 10 names and we still have a couple that we didn't do that day.

Lost, then found

On January 30th I had taken a couple of family history stories with me to my infusion so that I could type them up onto my ipad.  When I came home I remembered taking them out of my backpack and putting them down somewhere so that they wouldn't get smashed in my backpack.  It wasn't until the following week on February 7th that I went to look for the stories again so that I could finish typing them up and I couldn't find them anywhere.  I spent the next day and a half searching the house from top to bottom and even looking through the garbage and recycling cans outside several times and I still could not find them anywhere.  When DH came home from work on Thursday I told him the bad news and he was almost sick to his stomach that those stories may have been lost for good.  I am not sure where I got the stories - I think from my dad's sister who has quite a bit of family history info that I would love to get copies of.  I was more irritated with myself for losing them and I was pretty sure that someone in the family would have copies of them.  Finally in the middle of my cleaning up and going through papers I found some flute music of mine that I needed to put away and when I opened the drawer where I keep my flute stuff, there were the stories under some of my music.  I think what happened is that I had been practicing my flute the week before to prepare for a choir number for ward conference and when I cleaned up my bed that evening I accidentally grabbed the family history stories with my music and put them away together in the drawer.  I was so glad to have found them and I went and finished typing them up right away so that I would at least have another copy on my computer if they were to get misplaced again!

Kay talk

Last week I made some ham fried rice for dinner.  After we were finished eating, Kay saw some peas that had been left out on the counter that had been used in the fried rice.  Kay asked if she could eat them and I asked her if she liked them.  She said that she liked peas and then she said, "When you find peas in rice, it's like a hidden treasure!"

Kay talk

A couple of weeks ago I was doing some family history research and wanted to look up some locations in England on a map so that I could get an idea of how close a couple of towns are.  Kay came over and asked me what I was doing and I told her that this is where some of our ancestors lived.  She got all excited and wanted to see the houses where her ancestors were living.  I told her that the houses they lived in probably weren't there anymore and that our ancestors were dead.  Later that day when DH came home from work Kay went up to him and put her arm on his shoulder and said, "Dad, I'm sorry your ancestors died."

Kid talk

Some funny words that the kids say:

unicorner - this is what MJ calls a unicorn
Valentime's Day - Kitty, Kay and MJ all say this one
ganola - this is how Kay says granola

MJ talk

As MJ was eating some Cheerios the other day she said to me, "Look, they're swimming mama!"

This morning MJ came into my room while I was brushing my teeth and she said, "Are you brushing your teeth?"  I nodded my head that I was and she said, "Oh, very good.  Did you put your toothbrush on your toothpaste?"

Church basketball

M&M has been playing church basketball for the Young Women this year for our ward.  This is her first year doing it so it has been a steep learning curve for her.  I was able to watch part of her game yesterday.  Our ward's biggest problem is that we have a pretty young team and they are all pretty short.  M&M is the oldest and tallest one on the team...  They had some good ball handling skills while I was watching, they just had a hard time getting the ball in the basket and the other team was quite a bit taller.  I did see M&M score one basket though!

Bird sitting

While my parents were out of town for a week I offered to watch their bird (a parakeet) for them at our house.  So they brought Bluebell over on Luke's birthday and then took it back home when they came back last Sunday.  MJ would not leave that poor bird alone and we finally put some twist ties on all of the openings so that she couldn't open the cage and stick her hand or toys inside of it anymore.  After that things went a little more smoothly.  It was fun watching the bird do all kinds of acrobatics in its cage and listen to it sing.  It took Bluebell a few days to finally relax here but then she seemed to be back to her normal self.  The kids, especially Kay, were bummed when Bluebell had to go back home. When I was getting ready to leave for the airport to pick up my parents, Kay came out of her room and asked if I would cuddle with her in bed.  I told her that I had to go pick up Grandma and Grandpa at the airport and when she found out that they were going to take Bluebell back home with them she asked, "You mean Bluebell doesn't get to stay here forever?"  She is my child that would love to have any kind of pet and is constantly asking if we can get a cat or a dog!

Lounging around

Tuesday, February 5

I came downstairs to find the girls laying on the couch like this:

New calling

Sunday, February 4

Last week DH was called into the stake offices to be extended a release from his Ward Finance Clerk calling.  He has been a little bummed because he has really enjoyed that calling.  He has served there for a little over 4 years now.  I guess our new bishop felt that he had served there long enough and wanted to do some switching around.  Today DH was sustained as a family history consultant in the ward.  The bishop would like him to head up family history work in the ward and to teach a class on it during the Sunday School hour.  He is also supposed to help out with our ward Relief Society meeting in April.  The week after DH was sustained he was approached by several people in the ward wanting to know when his class was going to be starting up because they want to take it and are excited to get some help with their family history research.

I am a little bummed because I would love to help him out with that class but I really can't because of my calling in the primary presidency!