Yarn and Friends

This has been a fun and busy week.  

Wednesday, the girls had their Young Men/Young Women combined activity - every year in February, the Bishop and his wife host a "love fest" where they teach dancing and such.  And then they all dance together.  It's a lot of fun!  Anna had a blast - when I got there to pick them up, they were having a great time!  Eileen doesn't like the loud music, lights or touching people, so she mostly went and hid in another room for most of the activity.  

Thursday, I had choir and it was great!  We had a different director than we usually have, and he was amazing - it was a great rehearsal and lots of fun! 
Anna also had a track meet on Thursday after school - she did awesome - she got a PR in her mile and took 4th place in her 800. 

Friday evening and Saturday morning, Dan and I went to the viewing and funeral for a brother in our ward who recently passed away - Dan teaches his daughter in seminary, so we wanted to be there to support the family.  We've only been in the ward for a year, but every time I talked to him, it was because we were out in the halls with cranky children - like Dan, he was a great father and husband, always supporting and helping. 

Saturday afternoon, we got to go down to the temple, then we met up for dinner with some friends from the ward.  We had a great time and ate yummy food - then after making the staff annoyed with us for not giving up the table, we invited them back to our place for dessert and a game.  They promptly trounced us in San Marco.  But we still had a great time!  And we didn't manage to scare them off or make them sick of us, since they invited us over to their place for dinner this evening. 

So Evie, James and Aaron have been very into crocheting lately.  Evie and James have both managed to figure out how to do more than just a chain now and Evie has gotten rather enterprising and creative.  She began making pillows and blankets and little bags and then started selling them to her friends at school!  The only problem is that they have made some bad choices about cleaning up after themselves and being responsible with my yarn and hooks, so after finding a huge chunk of my yarn cut up and all over the floor, I took away the crocheting privilege for a bit.  Evie was devastated - which was when Dan and I found out about her little business, so I said that maybe she could do some supervised crocheting in order to make the things she had promised.