Thankful Thursday

1. Eric Carle - love him, love his books, LOVE his artwork.
2. A good foot rub
3. genuine hugs
4. children singing
5. fortune cookies
6. blueberries
7. phone calls from home

Any Last minute Joiners???

Mindy is getting ready to start her summer/fall weight loss contest. It begins July 31st and runs 12 weeks. Email me if you want in!

Thankful Thursday

1. Marcy - Happy Birthday! I love you and hope you had a great birthday!
2. GSN - any dorks like me? This is the Game Show Network where I can get my "pyramid" fix.
3. Bryers Carb Smart Chocolate and Almond coated ice cream bars...YUM!
4. The VanDerwerkens - we miss you!!!
5. Boats, and friends with boats that like to share. :)
6. Spell Check
7. My PINK, cute, summery toenails
8. Little Miss Sophie, below, and that surgery went well today. Can't wait to see you next week!

harry, Harry, HARRY!!!

Yep, off we go. Our night will start at 9:45 and end sometime tomorrow. We will be back after breakfast and then crash, I am sure. Off we go...Jesse, Sadey, Mindy, Me, TJ, Crystal, and many more. Fun times!

Thankful Thursday

1. Sisters
2. Small towns
3. Night swimming
4. Dibble Dabble - a childhood swimming game
5. The color blue
6. The smell of new cars
7. New Babies - how they feel, smell

Queen Lamoni and Salmon

Todd and I are really really lucky. We get to teach the 4-5year olds in Primary together. We love it! We have 8 of them and they are so fun. Sunday Todd took over and taught the whole lesson. He was so brave! He was carrying small missionary tags, a sword and a pink sparkly crown with the usual black primary bag to church.

Lesson going well, the kids acted out the story of Ammon and King Lamoni. Since our class is so special, we had the girls take turns wearing the pink crown and being our royalty. At the end of class, they had a snack of goldfish(I assume that is what triggered the next event) and drew a picture of themselves as missionaries or something about the lesson. Emmy says, "Ammon, like Salmon! I was so excited being the teacher that I am, that she related it to something that would help her remember!!

Later that night it hit me...she was probably at home telling the story of Queen Lamoni and Salmon that cut all the bad guys arms off. Emmy is the one, afterall, that retold the story of Adam and Melinda...er Eve...haha. Click on Mindy on the side to read that one.

We LOVE our kids!

Thankful Thursday

1. Vacation Days with the family
2. Visits from family - Reyna right now
3. My Primary class - love the 5 year olds
4. Butterfinger cookies, big ones, for only 99 cents.
5. The adorable bird family that made their nest in my birdhouse on the back porch. They all grew up and flew away this week. So fun to watch!
6. chocolate milk
7. Emmy's adorable song with actions "All Wrapped Up in Jesus." Can't even think of it without smiling!
8. Amy - my Sis-in-Law...Happy Birthday!
9. Mother-in-Law doing so well after surgery.
10. Late night movies with great friends. (My Sisters Keeper...bawled my eyes out)