Week in a nutshell

Monday, watched my friends kids. Ivan started his first day of teaching!!
Tuesday, Nat and her kids came over and helped me move things around in my house to get things ready for my preschool. It was fun hanging out with them :)
Wednesday, went to the FLOW rider in Mesa with the priest and laurels for mutual. It was so much fun!!!!
Thursday, Nat came over again to help with the house more..Gavin and Mary came over and I helped tutor him in math. Had a good visit with him!
Friday, I just went to town on cleaning the house so we could have an enjoyable weekend.
Saturday we had family time and had our neighbors over for a visit. Then we made home made ice cream and watched a movie together as a family!
Sunday we went to church, took a nap and then visited with mine and Ivan's families! Good day!

Missionary Work

Today was a great day. It stared off at 6:30 in the morning with gong to ward council~! Then church. The Elders that are serving in our ward spoke in Sacrament meeting along with a ward missionary and the ward mission leader. It was a great meeting. I love hearing peoples conversion stories. I love hearing about missionary work. Ironically, our YW lesson was on missionary work too. It was a good lesson and I really love my Laurels! I challenged them to push their comfort zone because we never really know who is interested in the gospel or the seeds we can plant! one of the best ways to share the gospel is to live it!
We came home, ate lunch and then we all took a three hour nap! Then headed to a friends family get together . Overall GREAT day!

Setting up Ivan's class

Today we had a good family day. We had spent the night with Gavin and Mary and went swimming again. We also went an ran errands to get things for Ivan's classroom. We then went to his classroom and set it up. He starts school on Monday. He is going to be teaching math to reg and sped students. I am excited for him:)

Fun Friday

Ivan had work. I hung out with a new friend and her kids! Its the tender mercies of the Lord that make life great. I have had a few close friends move away and another one to move next month and I was thinking that I was going to miss them since our kids always hung out. Well, at church I met a new friend and our kids are the same ages:) She and her boys come over and we hit it off so well, I know that the Lord allowed me to meet her and act upon it.
After work, we played Volleyball with Kyle, Bobbi and crew. Then we went night swimming with Gavin and Mary and our kiddos. Ivan and Gavin worked with Marlee on how to swim. She's getting so good!
We spent the night with them too!

Swimming

We went swimming with the Winters today. Marlee loves to swim on the first step that is shallow but won't venture out, which is good, but I would love for her to want to learn to swim. Josie is scared to jump in. She likes using floaters, but still wants to hang on to an adult. Hopefully once of these years I can afford swimming lessons for all of my kids! Brandtson loved the pool too. All of the swimming wore us out so we all got to take a nap! Then we hung out with the Stalder family, while Ivan finished up a big assignment he had for his class. That's pretty much our day! Good night:)

Back in Business

Well, I have five months of daily entries in a word document and pictures in Picassa that I just need to get it together and upload! I still have been journaling but for some reason the blog scared me and I felt overwhelmed, but I am over it :)

So I am starting up again! YEAH!!!!

So today was a super fun day. Watched my friends kids, then she watched mine. Made chocolate and strawberry custard with goats milk. We had a fun activity tonight for mutual. The girls milked a goat and then tried butter, cheese and ice cream all made from goats milk. It was pretty awesome!

Just an FYI:

• Goats milk is really good for you, its way better than the ultra pasteurized cow' milk that is full of hormones...Glad for this knowledge and can actually now say after a long time, that I AM GLAD WE HAVE GOATS!!!

Here is a quick family shot from Disney Land til I get it all back logged with pictures...