Yes, here I am blogging for like 300 times- wow! Here is an update for the weekend (from Sunday back). The organ playing went fine. The talk was fine (but MAN was I nervous). My dear neighbor and friend, Bugs, also spoke, and so we reassured each other that we were AWESOME. (Which of course we were). Teaching Sunday School was fine. We had a LOVELY birthday lunch:
(We mainly got it on camcorder - including a CUTE birthday interview with Ellie). There was a LOT of birthday cake consumed by the birthday girl (probably explains why the two of them ate EIGHT scrambled eggs for dinner between the two of them). Naps, playing outside, more cake, etc. Then everyone left (including Josh - working tonight and all week). Dinner, baths, Ellie collapses into bed. Ash and I are blogging. (She of the 3 hour nap). All good.
Saturday night we went to the drive-in and stayed for BOTH movies. Yes, and my girls did manage to stay awake until the END of the intermission. Then they started snoring - cute! It only rained a bit and yes, the van needs a MAJOR session with the S.hop-vac. Heather and Jason and Emma came for the weekend and were, of course, delightful guests. They even load the dishwasher! And are so fun to talk to (sorry all you people in church that were trying to listen as we (softly) chatted even more this morning). It is AWESOME having family close - growing up our closest cousins were a 9 hour car ride away and I am so glad that Ellie, Ash and Emma are such great friends.
(We mainly got it on camcorder - including a CUTE birthday interview with Ellie). There was a LOT of birthday cake consumed by the birthday girl (probably explains why the two of them ate EIGHT scrambled eggs for dinner between the two of them). Naps, playing outside, more cake, etc. Then everyone left (including Josh - working tonight and all week). Dinner, baths, Ellie collapses into bed. Ash and I are blogging. (She of the 3 hour nap). All good.
Saturday night we went to the drive-in and stayed for BOTH movies. Yes, and my girls did manage to stay awake until the END of the intermission. Then they started snoring - cute! It only rained a bit and yes, the van needs a MAJOR session with the S.hop-vac. Heather and Jason and Emma came for the weekend and were, of course, delightful guests. They even load the dishwasher! And are so fun to talk to (sorry all you people in church that were trying to listen as we (softly) chatted even more this morning). It is AWESOME having family close - growing up our closest cousins were a 9 hour car ride away and I am so glad that Ellie, Ash and Emma are such great friends.
We made and decorated the cake:
Josh and I had a GREAT water gun fight (yes, we all got water guns for the summer - the girls too! But it was a bit cold for them.) BUT we want to start our adoption paperwork again in June (just the paperwork part) so we need lots of pictures of us being cute. So Heather was here and wanted to practice and so we got some great 'action' shots of me and Josh playing:
Our little wet spectators watched:
Friday Josh said some magic words to me "Let's go have fun today." It was like...OK, let's just have fun! We went to the aquarium in Draper. Ellie got her own pass. You can't really see her expression here, but she was SO excited to have her own card.
We got some more shorts for the girls (with the potty-accidents, four-times-a-day clothes changes, summer/water weather, we needed MORE shorts) and shoes for Josh. Ah, shopping out in the real world. Thursday I substituted - and I want to clarify they were ACADEMIC questions I knew the answers to. Before students have asked things like "where is the disk for test 7?" and "what is the password to log onto this program?" I mean, how am I suppose to know stuff like that? (but now I have a whole list of passwords and stuff, so I am getting smarter).
Anyway, this week is looking pretty good. Tomorrow we have play school and Ellie has her well-child check up. Tuesday we are getting the car fixed and I get a rental car (wow?!). Thursday is our last little dance class. I get a new driver's license next month! (nice, now I will have my braces-picture for the next six years!) And it is my birthday month! Well have a great day and leave a comment!
Yes, you are thinking "some pictures are missing" - I can't get the pics off the camera card so you will have to wait for tomorrow.
