Scoutmaster Peter

One weekend a month I lose my husband to this group of people.

These are his scouts and assistant scoutmaster. 

Peter has a few more and there are a few more about to come into his troop but these have been his standard boys for the last year. 

 It is hard for a wife to compete with such activities as sawing logs,

 or throwing knives (as demonstrated by our Young Men's president)

 or slicing pumpkins with swords

 or shooting bows and arrows.

 He teaches boys to build a shelter they can sleep in and not freeze to death

 and they teach him to laugh when gravity works.

 I am glad I get to share my husband with these boys. 

They are good boys and my boys think they are amazing. 

I am thankful for the example. 

Bedhead

This hair makes me smile! I hope it brings a smile to your face too.

This little girl makes me smile.

She can say Joey (Doey), Arabella (Ella), Mom, and Dad, but Jon is called Guy. I love it!

New Shirt

Tonight I wore my new shirt for the first time.

 Peter thought I looked really hot in it!

We are happy scouters!

Today I am in a mood.

I am not sure what kind of mood but not a happy go lucky mood.

Peter left on Tuesday afternoon for Houston and was supposed to return Wednesday night.  He is just now sitting at the airport in  Houston waiting to come home. It has been a long week.  The kids have been good and I have been able to control my temper and patience quite well.  I feel like I have been blessed with extra strength.  But, I am ready for my other half to help pick up the extra bits and pieces.

I am also tired of budgeting so tightly.  I feel grateful that we are able to provide for our needs but lately it seems that we are just barely able to do this. Surgeries and a crown for my tooth do not help! I would love it  if the day Peter gets paid his paycheck would not disappear within a matter of hours.  Between tithing, fast offerings, credit cards- this is where 95% of our monthly bills go like insurance, utilities etc., groceries money for the next two weeks and our various cash saving envelopes (ie: Christmas, birthdays, travel, medicine) there is not much left.  Somehow today this has me discouraged. 

There are several things about my job that are irritating me right now and I sent a not so nice email to a very nice person about that which makes me mad at myself for venting to someone who did not deserve it! 

And try as I might I can not forget that I had planned and looked forward to having a baby this weekend.  My due date was May 11th but I had Lily early and that would have been the case again so this was the weekend I had anticipated it.  I do have peace in my heart but there is a longing there too.  I know Heavenly Father has a plan for me and that He loves me and is aware of me and my family.  

All right, I have expressed my frustrations and I will now stop dwelling on them.  I will look forward with hope and a knowledge that things will get better and that I am lucky because things could be so much worse.

I hope you have a fabulous day! I will get to hug and kiss my husband today and that is wonderful!

Pictures from last week

I taught preschool last minute on Tuesday last week and it was the letter X.  I took pictures of the kids while they were eating their snack so that we could make xray skeleton bodies.  Obviously, we used their picture for their head. 

 I asked Lily to smile and she did for about half of a second. 

 Finally a good cheese.

 Arabella had dance pictures last week as well. She looks so beautiful.  She was a bit jealous when the class after hers showed up in there are all pink costumes.  I have convinced her that hers is like a Cinderella dance costume. The picture below is a bit of what she thought of that.

 She was also very concerned about her lips- she did not want to smudge her lipstick. 

 Arabella found an Arbor Day recipe in a kids cook book we have.  She found it a few days before Arbor day (the last Friday in April apparently) and so I agreed we could make it.  It was really good.  We all liked it. The cucumber slices were just more decoration but the trees are made of green cauliflower (I did not have any broccoli).

Cookie Dough milkshakes.  No Jon- he made some bad choices and then lied about those choices-so he did not get to have dessert and went to bed early.  He was sad but hopefully next time he will not make the bad choices and then he can't lie about it either. 

I love my family- they make me happy!

Joey's Last Soccer Game

We are now doing make up soccer games. Joey will not be able to make his game next Saturday and so this was his last. It was a good one because they had just enough players and so he played the whole game!

Joey is almost always smiling and if he is not it does not take much to get him to smile. He has enjoyed soccer and has learned some great new skills.  We are proud of him and how hard he tried.

I am not sure if he will play again but we are glad he did this time. 

First of the Year

Yes, it has officially begun!

Shaved Ice!

Yummy!

We had a half of a block in the freezer from last year and we used it up but we filled our molds and plan to have a shaved ice party over memorial day. 

These were really good because at the bottom was a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

I am sorry you were not there to enjoy it with us! 

We will have you over soon and you can enjoy the yumminess with us!