Well, let's see. We went to the beach house for the weekend on Feb 22. It was lots of fun, Melissa and my mom came along, and Melissa brought her niece Ashley. We hung around, ate junk, went geo-caching, played on the beach. I ended up getting sick on the last day at the beach and am still dealing with the tail end of it. I have a horrible cough that won't go away!
So, other than being sick, not too much has happened to me. So, on to the family...
Becka made her very first basket in a basketball game on March 1st! She always does very well in practice, but gets nervous and flustered during games. Hooray Becka! Her last game is this Saturday and we will be starting spring soccer in a bit. The 4th grade is reading the book "The Giver" and even though I think it is a good book, I asked her teacher to let her do another assignment. 4th grade is WAY too young to read that book, imo. I will gladly let her read it when she is 13 or 14 if she wants to.
Jake is starting tee ball tomorrow. I am excited for him, but kind of ticked about the costs involved. We paid $85 to register and now we are getting all this info on extra things we have to purchase or donate to. ARGH! Makes me wonder what my 85 bucks was for! He is so excited about it. He and Steve have been out praticing catching every day for the past two weeks. Steve is going to help coach the team, so I think that will be lots of fun for them. He has lost 3 of his 4 front top teeth adn looks so darn adorable! I keep telling him that he is gonna have to start eating baby food if he loses any more!
Rachie, well, she is being her happy self. She cracks me up all the time! The whole potty training thing isn't very exciting to her. She likes to go potty, and asks to go, etc, but has no desire to try and stay dry. She does not want to wear undies. She would rather be in a diaper or naked. I am not gonna push it, I learned my lesson with Becka in that department. Lately she has become obsessed with her Little People play sets and will play with them for quite a while. She loves to play "People" with me. Poor baby has been sick along with me, so we have been having lots of snuggle time.
Steve is keeping busy with church stuff. He and I did get to go to a cool photography lighting seminar on Feb 28. He is so excited about the idea of us starting our own studio. He has bought 2 backdrops, a backdrop stand, and a screen thing to set the white balance on the camera. He really wants to buy the lights, but we can't afford that for quite a while. He also thinks he needs a new camera. Ugh! He has been practicing taking pictures of the kiddos, and they are almost always willing subjects.
Hey, I thought of something new about me. Amanda (my friend from Band of Moms) asked me to be on her CT (creative team) for the digital scrapbooking kits she designs. I was surprised and excited! I haven't made any layouts yet because of being sick, but am excited to get going.
OK, now I have to tell you about our FHE tonight. It was so hilarious! Jake was supposed to do the lesson, but he couldn't think of anything and didn't want to teach us what he learned in Sunday School. So Steve said that he would tell a story from the Book of Mormon if Jake (and the rest of us) would help act it out. He chose the story of Ammon. Jake was Ammon, Steve was both King Lamoni and a shepherd, I was another shepherd, Becka was all of the robbers, and Rachie was a sheep. If you know this story, I think you might be able to see where this is headed. The story starts with Jake walking up to Steve and asking to be a servant to him. Then he goes out to the fields to help the shepherds. Here comes Becka chasing Rachel across the family room (aka: scattering the flocks), Steve and I are trying to "protect" our flocks (well, ok, just one sheep isn't exactly a flock, but we were trying, right?) and Rachel is giggling and trying to get away from us. In comes Jake with his light saber (Ammon had a sword, so we improvised) and started chasing Becka around the couch yelling at her to stop so he can chop off her arms. He "smites" her arms off and then goes back to help the shepherds gather the flocks. Next is King Lamoni (Steve) standing on the fireplace with Becka in front of him. He has her by the arms and is waving them around like crazy and asking Ammon (Jake) why all these arms are all over the place. When he asked Jake how he was able to defend the sheep against all the robbers, Jake showed him his light saber. We had to prompt him to talk about the spirit, etc. Then Jake told King Lamoni that he should get baptized and be a Mormon. LOL! It was so dang funny. I ended up in a coughing fit because I was laughing so hard. I wish I had thought to video it. After we were done, we watched America's Funniest Home Videos and then put the kiddos to bed. It was lots of fun, and I bet Jake and Becka will remember more about that story.
Tomorrow is BOM day at Band of Moms. There are gonna be lots of fun games and things to do, I am looking forward to it.
My birthday is on Wednesday. I am actually excited about it, even though Steve will be gone. He has a team building activity thing after work, they are going paint balling, and then I think he is gonna go to Mutual. I wish he would stay home so we can go to dinner or something. He got me a Bamboo fun tablet that I am excited to use for digiscrapping. I will put a picture of what it is at the end of this post. Last night my mom had a birthday dinner for me at her house. One set of my grandparents came, so it was a nice quiet night with family. I am excited because my mom gave me a huge tray of daffodils that I can plant in the yard. Just have to keep those darn squirrels away from them! They ate all of my tulip bulbs. Melissa and Angie are taking me out for my birthday on Friday night. I can't decide between dinner and a movie or going to IKEA. I haven't ever been there without kids, so I am thinking of doing that! I think Steve is gonna take me out on Saturday night.
Tomorrow night is Enrichment, I am no longer the Enrichment leader, but I am on the committee. The new leader won't be there, so I have kind of taken over her part this time. It is a dinner and short presentation. I think it will be nice.
OK, so I just realized that it is after midnight and I have been writing everythign on here like it is still Monday. Sorry if that confused anyone. Gonna head off to bed now, have a great day all!
Here is my tablet:
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