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| Rachel Riley and Katie getting the drinks ready |
The week has flown by as everyone is busy with school stuff/playoffs etc. Monday we met with the insurance guy and started paperwork to get paid for our medical/motorcycle losses. From what I hear things go slowly...but at least we're started. I guess with medical you don't get paid until you decide you are done. Which for us should hopefully be within 4-6 weeks (make sure dad's knee is ok). But for people with major injuries it can be years... I never realized. What a pain!
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| Emma Christensen, Morgan Riley and Katie (Look how perfectly the table is arranged!) |
The girls had an etiquette dinner Wednesday night. The evening started at 5:45 p.m. with two boys, Preson and Tyne picking the girls up in a big red truck driven by one of the leaders. They came to the door with roses and opened the doors and helped them in the truck. I didn't get any pictures, boo. I thought of it too late! They went and had a speaker that told them rules of etiquette. They ate dinner with the boys and they had opportunities to try out what they were being taught. The boys had to go get food for the girls and bring it back and they learned about silverware and who knows what else. I think they learned some things and they had a nice evening.
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| Intense basketball game! |
Thursday the girls played ward basketball and their team won. They have a pretty good little team this year. Marlee came about 1/2 way through the game and watched the game with us. Afterward we had a super speedy dinner (pizza popover things and french fries) and then went to her alma mater Snow Canyon to watch a girls game for dad's work. It was Desert Hills vs. Snow Canyon and it was a pretty exciting game. It was for the region championship. Snow Canyon won (yeah!!! for Marlee's team). The girls enjoy hanging with Marlee. You might have to fight over her with them when you get home, haha!
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| Holly and the twins being silly |
Friday we enjoyed dinner at Casa Dona Maria's with Gma and Gpa. Good food, good company! The weather here is wonderful so we followed them home and borrowed their electric trimmer for the bushes. After dad went to work I went out and cut all of our roses and bushes in the yard. It took until it was pretty dark to finish. The girls came out and (joyfully -- NOT! haha) picked up what we could see of the debris. We filled all 3 trash cans. Uh-oh for the garbage this week!!! There was a reward for them...told them I'd take them to the temple when we were done.
So by 7:30 we headed over to the temple. I guess it was one of the busiest nights ever. Aunt Laura said we should come back because they had a soccer team or two ahead of us. Randy and Kay Phillips were working in the visitor's center so we took the opportunity to go get a tour and visit with them. It was fun! And they were pretty smart considering it was the first time they'd done that!!! (They worked doing that at Liberty jail and stuff so they know how to do it, they just have different stories to tell!)
We headed back over closer to 8:30 and the baptistery was still full. We stayed anyway. It was 9:30 before we all finally got dunked! Gma and Gpa went to DQ with us afterward and we didn't get home until 10:30 or 11. Late night!!!
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| Katie and April Moyes |
Aj came down for the weekend and he came in even later than that! I didn't see him until Saturday.
Saturday morning the girls volunteered at the Dog Town race. I think this might be 5 or 6 times they've done it. I'm pretty sure they've done it every year they've had the race! The weather was perfect and it was a lot of fun. They filled cups with water and Gatorade and then handed it out to the runners. We were the first station on the marathon/half marathon course so we started at 7 a.m. and were done by 9 a.m. Pretty quick and easy.
The rest of the day was pretty chill for us. The girls played and hung out. I worked on the yard some more. Aj had a fun adventure but I'll let him tell you about it! He has pictures and everything!!!! (lil roll-over in a razor -- don't worry, he's ok!)
Sunday morning Dad went to early morning meeting and I went on my early morning walk. When we came back we noticed there was mess all over the soccer fields. So we spent some time cleaning up litter. Linda found a whole trunk full of treasures...stroller, umbrella, jackets, blankets, shoes, bags. Can't believe how much stuff people just abandon!
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| Katie looking pretty while she plays ball |
While we were doing that Brother Clove called 8 a.m. at this point, and says he isn't feeling well and will I play the organ for sacrament. I had a meeting with the bishop at 8:30 to find out our new calling. So we hurried home, dressed, played the songs 1x through 1 verse each and then headed to church.
Dad and I are going to be Marriage and Family relations Sunday school team teachers. Once that class is done we'll teach parenting. I don't know if we'll do this 1X and be done or if this will just keep repeating itself. (Probably depends how good we are, haha!) I think each class is 6-8 weeks so total it's like 4 months commitment or something if it's just 1X through.
I got released as camp assistant (wah). So sad!!! Holly's first year this year!
Binder's blessed their baby today and we visited them after church and then came home and had meat rolls (put sweet pork in biscuits).
Katie made swig sugar cookies and they are SO DELICIOUS!!!!!
We had a wonderful meatball and rice meal at Gma and Gpas with Randy and Kay, Dallas, AJ & his friend Christian and us. Grandma had some scriptures that had love in them (for valentine's day) and we each read our scripture and then talked about what it meant to us. AJ taught us how to play warewolf (like Murder or one of those type games) too. Everyone just hung out and visited. Pretty chill evening.
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| Holly looking for some action in the game |
Aj's off early to Zion (8 mile hike to overlook point) and some other adventures today and then he'll go home later this evening. Hopefully he won't get caught up in too much traffic.
Dad has to work today so we'll just find some girl stuff to do today. Not sure what yet!
This week in Sunday school and RS they talked about adversity. They talked about how it can make us stronger and the Lord is there to help us along the way. There were many good thoughts and quotes but this one is promising!
Psalms 34: 19 The righteous person may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all;
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| Holly, Marlee and Katie after a fun night at Snow Canyon girls basketball game |
Katie was kind of concerned after her lesson -- she said she had a dream that someone died (she couldn't identify who, just someone she loved) and then we had lessons on adversity today. She wanted to know if the Lord was trying to tell her something. I told her I didn't know but that all of us must at some point deal with death and hardship and we never know when or where it will come from. And that at some point she will most certainly have to deal with adversity.
We talked about not worrying about what MIGHT happen since usually the hardships are things we never dreamed of. It's a hard thing to not stress and worry but I really feel like that is one of the tools of the devil. He cripples us while we think of what may be in our future and we waste valuable time and energy on the what if's instead of taking care of the what is!
So that's my thought for the week. Summed up: Don't worry, be happy!
Love you and look forward to hearing from you!!!! Hope you had a wonderful week! Did your package(s) arrive?
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| Dog Town Marathon Volunteer team |
XOXO mom
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