Lord's Hand in May 2009

5/31/09~ I have Sharing Time in Primary. It is my second time and it didn't go nearly as smooth as the first time. The kids were a bit rowdy and I think I had way too many scriptures. It's nice to learn what works and what does not.

5/30/09~ We planted Grandma Lovely's garden tonight. It was the perfect day for it; the cloud cover and the light rain it cooled all of us down and made the work fun.

5/29/09~ School's Out For The Summer!!!! We decided to celebrate with a boat trip. We invited Brook and his family to join us. Let's face it, fun is way more fun with more people. Big D was excited to see how the Yukon pulled the boat. He just had the tires rotated the day before and wanted to see how the Yukon did on the freeway again. We got to the top of the boat ramp and our drivers side front wheel came off and rolled into the lake. Needless to say we were pretty ticked, but relieved that no one was hurt.

5/27/09~ The girls had Passage Ceremony tonight. It's like a mini graduation for the next grade. I'm glad that we had our kids two years apart so we only have to go to Passage Ceremony every other year. They did a slide show at the end and after the sixth song started I leaned over to Big D and said, "Let's Go".

5/26/09~ I don't know if Big D just got tired of eight people in a mini van but we ended up stopping in Boise and purchasing a Yukon XL. It is pretty and Big D hasn't quit smiling.

5/25/09~ We are up in Washington for Kelly's wedding. She looked so beautiful and the wedding went off without a hitch, that is if you don't count an ER visit. Ken's oldest daughter, Savannah, got a little overwhelmed with everything and passed out. It was a good thing Lindsey was standing right next to her to catch her. They took her to the hospital and the doctor said she just had a panic attack. He let her out of the hospital for the wedding and then they had to take her back for observations. Other than that every thing was great.

5/24/09~ We went to Sacrament Meeting with Aunt Pat. It's nice that no matter where we go the church is the same. It's very comforting knowing that even on vacation you can feel a little piece of home. We got back to the hotel and the kids swam for four hours. I think I gave birth to water babies.

5/23/09~ Happy Birthday Kinnzi, she is now two years old and still thriving. We took her into the lady I bought her from to for her birthday. Kelly, the breeder, was so happy to see her and see how well she is doing. Kelly was really reluctant to sell us Kinnzi because we still had such small kids, which I don't blame her small kids can be rough. It was nice to go in and show her that we haven't hurt Kinnzi and in fact she is such a part of our family that we try and take her every where we go.
We left on our trip to Washington. Eight hours in a mini van full of eight people, lets hope we all survive the trip.

5/22/09~ Beaner had her Passages today, but I didn't get to go in with her. I let Big D go in since I got to go in with Bug. I bet she did great though, because just like with Bug, Beaner practiced with us a lot and every time she did better and better. I am so proud of my little ladies. What a lucky mom I am to have two beautiful and smart young ladies. They were both so relieved when passages were finally over, I don't blame them. I am really liking how this school teaches kids at a young age to public speak and learn to articulate themselves. Beaner is definitely gaining more confidence where in public school she was melting into the back ground.

5/21/09~ Bug had Passages today, which is where students stand up in front of a panel and present at least three projects they worked on through out the year. They kind of make it feel like if you don't do well on your Passages you won't make it to the next grade, but in reality if you are doing you Passages you've already made it. Bug did so good I was so proud of her. As we were walking out she confessed that she really didn't want me to go in with her because she was scared that if she messed up I'd be mad at her. How preposterous, I could never be made about some thing like that. She did the best she could and that is what I'm proud of. She practiced numerous time with Big D and I and she did even better than all those practices.

5/20/09~ Feeling much better today. We've had construction going on down our street for over a week now. The boys are in heaven. Today they were working right in front of our house so we had to get our pillows out for our bums to sit on the stoop and watch. The boys wanted to ride on the tractors so bad. I think one may grow up to play with really big toys.
We are initiating our summer of fun and activity. Our motto this summer is inspired from Dora on the movie "Finding Nemo". When Dora sings, "Just keep swimming, swimming" we've taken that and sing, "Just keep moving, moving". We've been trying to find fun things to do to stay active with our family. Big D has discovered Frisbee golf, which we've done a handful of times already. Tonight to change things up we went and played kickball and took a walk. I hope we keep this up all summer.

5/19/09~ I was down all day with an ear ache. I don't know what's wrong but I feel like I'm two again. This is the second ear ache I've had in the last month. It was ticking me off to have to lay on a heat pad all day. I was so bored while my family went and played Frisbee golf. It's just not fare! I figured since I was feeling like I was two again...

5/18/09~ They are replacing the water main down the center of our street this week. Actually they've been doing it for two weeks now. Today Bear and I are sprawled out on a blanket watching all the tractors do their stuff. He is such a boy. He had to go in the backyard and get his bulldozer to play with in the dirt so he could be like all the contractors. He makes me smile.
Today at the gym I ran the equivalent of a 5k. I was so dead that afterward we tried to go lift weights and as soon as my friend said she was leaving I waited till she was out the door then I packed it in. Holy Cow my legs are so dead. I don't know how people do marathons. I have one friend who ran a 1/2 marathon when she turned thirty as a present to herself. Is she crazy? That's not a present, that's torture. Who knows maybe that the next stop on my crazy train.
5/17/09~ We were in a bit of a rush to get home from Salt Lake. I really wanted to make it in time for church at 1p.m. I'd missed the week before because I went to church with my mom for Mother's Day and I'm not going to be here next weekend because of my cousins wedding in Washington. I didn't want to leave the rest of the presidency high and dry for three weeks in a row. We were a bit late but we made it. Yeah!

5/16/09~ My mom, I and my cousin D all stayed at the hotel Brook and Andy were going to stay at for their honeymoon. My dad ended up getting the happy couple a lodge in Yellowstone and it was too late to cancel their hotel in Salt Lake. My mom, sisters, cousin and I all went down and paid for the room to help Brook and Andy out. It was a nice adventure.

5/15/09~ Brook and Andy got married today. Boy was it a long day for everyone. We started with Brook's endowments, which was so nice. I loved seeing him in the temple. You could tell he was a bit overwhelmed with it all though. It's okay he can go back as often as he'd like to get a handle on it all. We went right into the sealing room and watched them become husband and wife for all eternity, AWESOME. The open house was at my church building so I had the keys. I lost track of time and by the time I got back to the church tons of people were standing in the parking lot waiting for me to unlock the doors. Oops! After the open house me and my mom had an impromptu trip to Salt Lake City. Wow, what a long day. Thank you to everyone who helped with the clean up. I was a bit nervous at how long it was going to take me but it went really fast with so many hands. Thanks!

5/14/09~My cousin, D, came up for the wedding. She is such a life saver; Big D and I were wondering what we were going to do with our kids while we were in the temple. The day we started discussing one of us staying home she called and asked if she could stay with us and watch our kids. She must have been listening to the spirit.

5/13/09~ Ann is up for the wedding and she brought home my girls. I thought I wasn't going to see them until tomorrow morning but here they are. Oh, I missed them so much. I tried not to focus on them being gone so I didn't go crazy. But now that they are home I can't quit kissing and hugging and tickling them. I didn't realize how much I missed them until they got home.

5/12/09~ Yeah, it worked! I feel so much better today. I actually made it to the gym this morning after taking a week off. I still took it a bit easy, I only ran two miles and came home, but I feel great. The migraine I've had for a week is not there today. Apparently it climaxed yesterday and then left my head. OH THANK YOU!

I only have two more days until my girls come home. I am so excited!!! I've been talking to them on the phone almost every day but it's not the same as having them here. I want to hug them and have them be my snuggle buddy for at least an hour per child. I figure they owe me that much.
Big D and I got our grades, we both got all A's. We were so excited. This was an exceptionally tough semester for Big D. He didn't think he was going to get one A let alone two. I am so proud of him.

5/11/09~ I told myself that I had one more day to be sick and that's it. I am so sick and tired of being sick and tired. I've had the worse migraine today. I've been tempted to wear my sunglasses inside as well as outside. I was hoping this sickness was one of those ones that if you push yourself to get up and move around you'll feel better, but I might've been wrong. I took it easy and slept. It better work because tomorrow I am exorcising the demons.

5/10/09~ Happy Mother's Day! My mother's day gift was my trip, and what a great one it was. Today I went to church with my mom and cooked dinner for my mother-in-law. I really should learn my lesson with cooking for my in-laws, every time something goes wrong; the food is under cooked, the ingredients didn't come together like they should, or like yesterday, I blow up a glass lid. I don't know if I just get nervous about cooking for them or what, but every time without exception something goes wrong. It's a good thing my mother-in-law is so gracious about all my disasters. She hasn't fired me from being her daughter-in-law yet.

5/9/09~ It's a good thing I came home early because I came down with what ever it was that Big D was suffering from the first of the week. I barely made it home. I stopped at the store and got some cold medicine, and I tried to find some that didn't say "may cause drowsiness". However, I had the darnest time keeping myself awake on the drive home. I had to pull over a couple times just to get up and get my blood pumping. I got home and went right to bed. I did pull myself out of bed to go to the bridal shower, but I seriously had my doubts on if I'd make it through.

5/8/09~ I decided to come home from SLC a day early. Andy is having a bridal shower tomorrow and no other sister from Brook's family can make it to the shower so I have to represent. Ann and I picked her out a great gift. When she opens her gift she will see a granny nightgown then the second layer will be a sexy nightie and Ann thought it was a little short and didn't like the idea that it didn't have any panties, so I found some floss panties and they will be on the third layer. I really think we out did ourselves. It will be a little awkward having her open it with my grandma sitting next to her.
I took the boys to Hogle Zoo before heading out of town. We had a great time wandering around seeing all the animals. Bud was excited to see the penguins, that's what he's been learning about in school. He was more excited to see the penguins then the bears or alligators. We ended our visit with a nice little train ride, ate some lunch, then got on the road home.

5/7/09~ I spent the day with my sisters, Marie had to work part of the day so Ann and I went and took her out to lunch. Then Ann and I went shopping, to the park, then more shopping, it was a good day. Bud and Bear got to go to the Build-a-Bear workshop. Bud got a turtle named Turtle Jack and Bear got a dog and named him Puppy Jo.
I heard from the girls they are having a great time. It's a bit hot in Florida but they are swimming a lot and having a great time with their cousin Lexxi.


5/6/09~ I took my final, I am done with school for the semester, YEAH! I love the end of a semester it's so freeing. I decided to reward myself, and since my girls were gone, I'd run away to Salt Lake and see my sisters. Bud and Bear would miss one day of school but I'm fine with that. We will have tons of fun.

5/5/09~ My babies left for Disney world today. I won't see them again until next week. What am I suppose to do until then? Wow, what am I going to do when all my kids actually move out and get lives of their own. I will be so lost. I will have to actually get a life of my own. Yeah right:)

5/4/09~ I finally admitted that I was a bit freaked out about my little girls going across the United States without me. I think any parent would. As a mother all I can think about is every thing that can go wrong and I will be stuck on the opposite side of the country. Big D sat all of us down yesterday and gave us father's blessings. This helped calm my nerves. I know they are going to have the time of their lives with Grandma Honey and Papa Guy, to be honest I'm a bit envious. This is an awesome opportunity for them, it's not like Big D and I could ever afford to take them. I'm glad they are going to have this experience that will last them a life time. Now we just have to get them packed.

5/3/09~ We had a family meeting over at Grandma Lovely's house. Brook gave us the good news that he and Andy will be able to get married in the temple. She finally got her letter from headquarters about her temple divorce from her first husband. This is great news for them, they were a bit discouraged thinking they might not be able to get sealed for a year. We also planned my mom's garden for this summer. We are going to do a big family garden and rotate weeding it again. It worked out pretty good last year.

5/2/09~ We decided to start our Spring cleaning. We only got the girls and boys bedrooms done, but it's a start. Of course, clean rooms are a magnet for the kids so all day they played in their rooms with their friends. Needless to say, I need to "Spring clean" them again. Ahhhhhh! I am fighting a losing battle here.

5/1/09~ Bud, Bear, and I went on a field trip with Bug. We went back to the park were we planted wild flowers. We checked on the progress of our flowers and planted another native plant. This time we planted a bush that was already growing. Bug's teacher encouraged the students to come back and check on their plants so they can watch them grow. Bud and Bear were very entertaining for the other students. I'm pretty sure I will be asked not to bring them again, they were a bit distracting.