Girls Day again!

Whew, what a busy day!  I set my alarm for 6:45 because there was a speed scrap at 7 am.  I did tell you I was addicted right?  It was a great way to start the day.  After it was over, I made breakfast for the family and then hurried and got my house chores done.  I didn't fnish laundry, but did get a couple of loads done and the kitchen and bathrooms cleaned as well as my bedroom.  Then, I took off for Salt Lake with Sharlynn and Traci.  Lisa was getting us into the 50-80% off Scholastic book sale.  So we met up with Lisa, Haylee and Carolyn and we spent 2 hours looking through the warehouse finding books.  We ended up with 2 boxes full between us all and then we got our picture taken with our stash and Clifford, the big red dog.  After the sale, we headed to Applebees for lunch.  It was so fun to visit and laugh and bond.  We really need to make this a monthly event.  It is so fun!  So, I did April, Lisa did May.  Who wants to volunteer for June? 

When I got back home, I caught up on my emails, did another load of laundry and then made kettle corn and watched Space Jam with Tyrel and Trevin.  Travis was gone with his friends making a movie.  He got home around 8:30. 

At about 9:30, our doorbell rang and on the doorstep was an invite for Travis to go to MORP.  He is really excited to go because he has gone to other dances with the same general group of girls and done other things with them before and they are a really fun bunch!  His date is just with one of them, but the big group will be similar to other times he has gone.  Anyway, he will have to work on his answer tomorrow, it's too late tonight to do anything.

Pictures to follow

Kick It

Trevin had another soccer game tonight.  He came really close to scoring 2 different goals.  He also got bowled over by a couple other players.  It looked like a really hard fall, but he jumped right back up and kept playing.

We kinda had book club tonight.  There were only 4 of us there and only 2 of us had read the book.  But, it was fun to get out with the girls and chit chat about various things.

I'm grateful that Spring soccer is almost over.  I've been freezing my behind off at the games this year.  There has only been one warm one.

I'm also glad that this week has been mostly warm.  Sean has been busy and that is good!

My cute nephew

Just wanted to show off this cute layout I made of my cute nephew.

Hope of America

Trevin's 5th Grade Hope of America concert was tonight.  We had to be there at 6:15 and it didn't start until 7:30.  It wasn't too bad, I took a book to read and Travis and Tyrel walked around the Marriott Center 7 or 8 times trying to find cute girls.  My favorite song was the very last one that they do with flashlights called "We Can Be A Light".  It chokes me up every time for some reason.  I didn't love the other entertainment they had this year so well.  They usually have dance groups that represent a lot of different cultures in between the songs that the kids sing, but this year it wasn't as diverse and I didn't care for it.  I would have been fine with just listening to the kids sing. 

It took us 1/2 hour to get out of the parking lot when it was over, not so fun..

Cleaning the Church is fun to do

For Family Home Evening tonight, we went and cleaned the church.  The Martin's were also there to help us along with Sister Ross.  Wow, Sister Ross has this calling of hers down to a fine science. There was no delay, she knew what she wanted everyone to do and she put us all to work right away.  Sean had to vacuum the floor and all the benches in the chapel to start with, then he mopped the kitchen and all the bathrooms.  My first job was to polish all the wood in the chapel, then I started vacuuming classrooms until I met up with Sister Martin who had started vacuuming classrooms on the other side.  The Primary room took me forever.  I know it's a big room, but it seemed 5 times bigger while I was vacuuming.  My last job was emptying all the garbages in all the classrooms. Sister Martins other job was to clean all the chalkboard trays.  Brother Martin vacuumed the overflow area and all the halls and foyers.  Travis' first job was to sweep the entire gym while Trevin dusted all the pianos, the organ, and all the artwork in the building.  Then both of them started cleaning all the windows.  They had to clean the entrances inside and out and then all the windows in the classroom doors.  Tyrel had lots of jobs.  He started with cleaning all the chalkboards in the building.  Then he put up all the chairs that weren't up so we could vacuum.  Next he cleaned all the metal plates that are in the doorways going into the gym.  He also swept out all of the entrances and the sidewalks at each entrance.  I know there were more, but I can't remember what they were, so I'll have to ask him next time I see him and update this.  They all worked hard and we were pretty much exhausted when we were done after two full hours.  I can't believe Sister Ross (who has to be in her 70s) does this twice a week.  It is her calling to organize cleaners, but she works right along side everyone on Saturday and Monday every week.  She is awesome.  She cleaned the kitchen and all the bathrooms as well as gave all of us jobs and instructions.  We came home and had banana splits for dessert, read our scriptures, said family prayer and went to bed.

Here I go again

Are you all sick of me bragging about Elder Reynolds yet?  Well, here I go again.  The missionaries came to our ward today with Wes, who was the appointment Travis went on with them the other night.  It was fast and testimony meeting and was a really good meeting.  Elder Reynolds bore his testimony and I wrote down this that he said, "Joy is not temporal, joy is spiritual and eternal."  Isn't that a great quote?!  I love it.  There were many more testimonies that were awesome and Wes even bore his testimony.  Our lesson in Young Women's was given by Lucia and it was on Sharing the Gospel, so it fit right in with everything in Sacrament meeting too.  I'm so glad Travis has had this experience and also all of the other youth in our ward that have shared their testimonies and been great examples to Wes.  It sounds like he is getting baptized on May 20th.  Our ward is awesome!

Old Enough To Shave

Last night, Tyrel decided he needed to shave, so he came up looking for some shaving cream. He did a pretty good job until the end, when he sneezed, and cut his lip.  Live and learn.....

Today we just did our regular Saturday house cleaning.  Trevin went to his cousing Kaiden's house for his birthday party.  Then we all went to Grandpa and Grandma Nielsen's for a BBQ.