A Week to Remember

Using Oliver Cowdery's infamous words, "These are days never to be forgotten." It is so nice to have a missionary in our home again.

This week has been packed full of so many things we wanted to do with Curly before he heads to the Provo MTC. He was set apart as a missionary on Tuesday and he started Home MTC on Wednesday morning. We used his spare hours to make another trip to the temple, and I took Baby Doll to the chiropractor for the 2nd time.

On Thursday morning, Curly, Dog Walker, and I used Curly's lunch break to do Initiatories at the temple. Baby Doll had a volleyball match in Riverton in the evening. She has had pain in her shoulder/ribs as a couple of them became misaligned, but she still played hard. I embarrassed her a bit by bringing a bag full of beans to snap during the game. Curly made dinner; bacon, egg, and cheese muffins. They were delicious. After that, we played volleyball at the church for an hour or so before we had to get Curly home for curfew.

On Friday, I ran my own errands, did laundry, groceries, all that stuff. In the evening, I made baked potatoes and meatloaf for everyone before we went to the temple with Princess and The Frog, Crafty and Craftsman. Afterward, we went to Nielsen's for ice cream.

On Saturday morning, I went to Skittles' football game. Curly and Scout came over when his meetings were finished. We worked on my repair list (things I want help with before he leaves), knocking off several big items. I turned a bowl of tomatoes into spaghetti sauce for the dinner he is making on Monday. I also hung out in the evening with Beauty and The Beast while Culy did their yard work. Beauty and I snapped my batch of beans on the porch. After a quick stop at Home Depot, Curly took me to Sonic for a drink and tots. Being his companion has some nice perks.

All through these days, I picked, snapped, and canned beans. Our total for the week is 25 quarts. I also replaced a zipper for K, cut out 7 little dresses, finished binding a quilt, embroidered names on the last 2 shirts for Curly, and probably a dozen other little things.

I am so tired. But I love watching Curly grow and change. Discussing scripture with him and going to the temple together are some of my favorite things. It has definitely been a week to remember.

Wordless Wednesday - So Happy for Skittles!

It's not quite wordless, but we are all so happy for Skittles and his decision to be baptized. They had a beautiful program. Taco did the baptizing and Gamer performed the confirmation. I did a really good job watching. 😉💕

Curly's Mission Farewell

Yesterday was Curly's Mission farewell. His talk was amazing and we had so many friends and family members there.

We served lunch and treats after sacrament meeting. Dog Walker was my photographer as usual.

As if that day weren't exciting enough...

Finished!!

I finally finished my chair project the night before Curly's mission farewell.

 What do you think?

Crazy how the light reflects off the shiny urethane. I promise the paint is all black.