Pink Night at Copper Hills

Baby Doll was so good at the game tonight!! I snapped a few pics for you. She is #33, remember? Long blond ponytail and pink shoes... 😀

 

Calling Elder Curly

First letter from the MTC in Provo:

Week 2 has been so fun, but so tiring. I got to the MTC on Wednesday afternoon. It was kinda sad but it was exciting to finally get here! 

Day 1: We just did a welcome meeting and mostly went over rules, procedures and where everything is. It was crazy to see all the people I knew on zoom IRL. 

Day 2: Was our first full day. We had a great first class, shout Sister C! Then went and did some baptisms and initatoroy. My comp Elder G baptized me. He is 10 inches shorter and 150 lbs lighter then me so it was hilarious. Even the name recorder guy was laughing. I confirmed him for a guy named I Won-bung. Let's just say it was a struggle to be reverent. Got to see some football boys to which was fun. 

Day 3: We had class in the morning and temple in the afternoon. We did sealings which was great! We had a little workshop about self reliance which was good. Having so much fun with the boys at night. I need to get more sleep though.

Day 4: We did temple in the morning. We did an endowment session. I may or may not have slept through half of it. It was really good though. We had afternoon class after, shout out Sister G! After class we played some volleyball with the district. I tore it up. 

Day 5: Sunday was so spiritual. We got to do church which was awesome and then we did this thing called Go and Do. We did an hour and a half straight of personal study and I got so much out of it. We then had a devosh with the GOATs president and Sister O! Our district review after was so spiritual and I felt the spirit so strong! Really cool stuff. 

Day 6: We had our first full day of classes. It was hard to stay locked in after so long of classes, but I'm learning a ton. Played some more volleyball and had some cool opportunities to do missionary work over the phone to people back at home. 

Day 7: It's P-Day!!! We have some service and then we are playing sand volleyball and have a devosh. It should be super hype! 

Don't worry the emails will be shorter once I'm in the field. 

Spiritual thought: 

Be like Sam! I have been reading in the Book of Mormon obviously, and I have been thinking about Nephi's brother Sam. He is so righteous but not over the top. He follows the commandments and the prophet but doesn't do anything crazy. I think Sam is someone in the scriptures we can all look up to because it seems like a realistic goal. 

2 Nephi 4: 11

"11 And after he had made an end of speaking unto them, he spake unto Sam, saying: Blessed art thou, and thy seed; for thou shalt inherit the land like unto thy brother Nephi. And thy seed shall be numbered with his seed; and thou shalt be even like unto thy brother, and thy seed like unto his seed; and thou shalt be blessed in all thy days."

-Elder C

Lots of Volleyball

Baby Doll has been playing so well for Bingham this year! She is permanently on the JV team now. Scout took some beautiful pics of her.

It was a great match!

Look What We Did!

You remember our big family party on Sunday? I saved this pic for today because not only does it show two of my favorite cuties, Baby Doll and Duchess, it also shows our pew.

Our friends at Little Miracles changed the fabric on our pew for us, but it was not a great match. 

Fast Forward to Sunday night. At 11:30pm, well after his curfew, Curly called me. He couldn’t fall asleep until he told me we needed to re-upholster the pew before he left. On Wednesday.

This seemed an impossible task with everything we still had to do.

Thankfully, we had some of the white leather left from the chairs and since it was the perfect size, we couldn't resist. Then I had to paint and seal all the wood pieces.

By Tuesday morning, everything was dry and ready for assembly.

Against all odds, we finished it on Tuesday night. It looks SO good.

This guy is awesome...

No, not Nugget... the guy on the pew.

Wordless Wednesday - And He's Off!!

 

September Family Party

Even though Curly's birthday was last month, we decided to theme this party around Curly's favorite dishes since this is the last one he will be able to attend for 2 years. All I had to do was make Crescent rolls from the little cans. He loves those! Easy for me.

We celebrated Princess and Crafty. Princess turns 30 on Thursday and she is finding it pretty stressful.

Right before the party, Curly and I went to his last Court of Honor. He received 3 merit badges and a fourth Eagle palm.

Scout and K made an amazing Swig Bar.

Dog Walker is my resident camera guy, so here are some more pics for you.

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...