Friends and Family

Monday morning - way too bright and early, I went to swim with the Barracudas - a master's swim team at THPRD.  They had a 2 week free trial, so I am trying it to see if I can swing this early morning thing.  It's hard and tiring, but so far I've been enjoying it.  I missed one day because my alarm didn't go off, but otherwise, it's been fun.  After, I can go home and have a quiet bit of time before everyone gets up.  

After I got the kids off to school and worked out with my friends, I headed down to meet up with Sara and Emily for lunch at Panera.  We had a great time as always and a great lunch!  

After, I picked David up from school.  We stayed to play for a little bit, then I told David that we could go get his hair cut.  He's been wanting to get it cut for a little while now, so I took him to Great Clips (and got mine trimmed too.)  He was so cute!  He was a little nervous at first, but then got comfy and had a great time.  The lady cutting his hair did a great job and he LOVES his hair cut.  

Tuesday was more of the normal.  Swimming, school, playing, water polo, family time and work.  Still nice weather for playing outside which was nice.  

Wednesday was Evelyn's last track meet, unfortunatly, they started the bar at 7' and she wasn't able to clear it.  I also had a coaches meeting down in Salem that I went to in the evening.  It went a bit late and I stayed around chatting for a bit after.  I took some of the leftover cookies home for the kids and they had them almost all eaten within 24 hours....  

Thursday was the day that I slept in and missed swim.  Then Melonie came over to crochet and then work.  David didn't have school on Thursday or Friday, so before I went to work, I took him to his friend Paxton's house for the afternoon.  Then Paxton came over to hang out at our house on Friday when Dan could be home to watch them.  Dan and Anna took them of a bit of a nature walk, but the boys got bored after awhile.  

Friday morning before work, I went to work out with my friend Elizabeth.  We had a fun time together and got it a solid work out.  It was fun hanging out with her and doing a more weight centered workout.  

Saturday, I got up for another early swim practice, then headed home to nap for a little bit.  Dan took the kids to the temple - the older ones all did baptisms and Dan took David around the grounds and the visitor's center.  

While they were there, I went to Water Polo at Parkrose.  We had a good turnout and had a fun time!  After, we went out to celebrate Dan Moffatt's birthday and chat for a bit.  We had fun and it was nice to have a place to hang out at until the afternoon when I went back to Parkrose HS for a women's scrimmage.  We didn't end up having enough to scrimmage, but we had fun playing together.  

In the evening, we had dinner and the kids went to a dance and I went to Open Polo.  I was tired after that many hours in the water, but not as bad as I feared.  We had a pretty good turnout, but ended up a little short by the end.  It was a fun night.  I got to chat with one of the guys there who got a degree in Marine Sciences and said he would be happy to help if we had any questions as Eileen was going through her education and stuff.  

Church today was wonderful.  I've been dragging a bit all day since my body decided it wanted to wake up at 5:30, but Sacrament Meeting was wonderful. Primary went great and choir went great.  I realized today that all my favorite activities all seem to require lots of recruiting.   

School, Sports and Songs

This week was a pretty normal week.  School and work, sports after school and in the evening, music classes and lessons and performances.  

Evie had a meet on Wednesday.  She did well and we enjoyed watching her and her friends!  

David spent most of the week complaining about having to walk home after a long fun afternoon playing at the playground.  The weather was beautiful and it was a great week for being outside and having fun with friends!  But David has gotten spoiled with friends giving him rides home the last month and wasn't happy about having to walk home again.  :)  

Aaron and Anna had a water polo tournament this weekend and I went down to help out as a volunteer also.  Had fun chatting with people and helping out!  

We had Stake Conference this weekend.  The Adult session Saturday evening was wonderful and we enjoyed watching it with Eileen.  Then after, I went to water polo - it was nice cuz there were a lot of people there!  Numbers have been low the last couple months, so it was nice to have a huge turn out!  

Sunday was great,  Stake Conference was great.  The choir did a great job - especially with such short notice.  The talks were wonderful and it was fun directing the music while David waved and blew kisses at me.  I winked at him and he got all excited!  It was cute! 

This afternoon, we had the Homers over for dinner and fun.  It was so good to see them again, the kids all had fun together and we had a fun evening chatting and playing games.  

She's Back!

Dan was gone for a lot of this week going to pick up Eileen!  Her semester is over and she's home again!  

The kids didn't have school on Monday or Tuesday.  So Monday, I took Anna out to pick out fabric for the prom dress she is making herself.  This is the one we went with - she's been having a great time designing and creating the dress herself!  

David had a music camp with sister Shum on Tuesday and had a great time.  Otherwise, we took it easy with the kids at home.  

On Wednesday Evelyn had a track meet.  They were competing against Jesuit.  She was jumping as a varsity jumper.  She didn't get a PR, but she did well and and is consistently jumping over 6' 6".  She has made 7' before, so she gets bummed when she doesn't make it again, but she's getting there!  

Wednesday was also when Dan was leaving to get Eileen.  Fortunatly the youth activities had been on Tuesday this week, so James and Evelyn were around so I could go play water polo that night.  

Thursday was the usual busy - school, work, friends and sports.  We survived and all made it through the day.  I even got to go swimming in the evening.  Dan made it safely to Rexburg and helped Eileen get packed up and ready to go.  

Friday, they headed back to Meridian and stayed the night with family.  Dan got to see Stephen and Claire, Paul and Rob and Sarah too, so he's gotten to see all his siblings and his parents in the last few weeks!  

Friday night the older 4 kids all got to go on a youth camp out/service project at Camp Kilowan.  James' friend Caleb went with him and we drove a car full of kids down to camp.  David got to hang out with his friend Kallie while I drove them down, then I picked him and and we went home and to bed.  

Saturday morning, I wanted to still be able to play water polo, so I asked Caleb's parents if Lyssa could come babysit David while I went to play.  He had fun playing with her and she did a great job.  I had fun playing, but numbers were pretty low.  Everyone was home in time for dinner and we enjoyed a yummy dinner of steamed buns and egg rolls courtesy of Eileen, then enjoyed some time together as a family before David went to bed and Evie, Aaron and Anna headed off to a dance, and I went to open polo.  

Sunday was wonderful, but crazy!  Our morning was pretty quiet since we were all tired from a long Saturday, but then it got busy!  Church was wonderful.  I was asked to lead a discussion in Relief Society and enjoyed it, then we had ward choir, then home for dinner and scriptures followed by Stake Choir and then the Encore concert.  The Encore concert was amazing - it's such a joy to see the kids getting to participate in all these awesome things!  

We had fun tonight playing games and spending time together - it's so nice to have Eileen back home again!  

General Conference

This week was back to the normal routines.  School, work errands, sports, activities.  The young men were going to be shooting off bottle rockets for their activity, so after getting the stuff for it, he and the kids had some fun testing it out and making sure it would work for the activity.  And since David wants to hang out with this friends ALL THE TIME, that included his two friends Addie and Paxton.  

Evelyn had a track meet on Wednesday, and I went to watch her jump.  She cleared 5' 6" and 6', but wasn't able to clear 6'6".  She was a bit disappointed that she hasn't been able to clear that height again, but we're just super excited that she is regularly clearing the bar!  It's also cute to see her and her friends all having fun together and cheering them all on.  

We had lots of water polo and swimming this week and Evelyn's track practices.  

Thursday night, Dan and I went out to a movie - we watched the new Ghostbusters which was fun and we spent time Monday and Tuesday swimming together.  We are both getting in better swimming shape!  

On Friday, Dan and I took James and David and Caleb and Lyssa and Frankie to the Dive-in movie.  We had fun, then headed home.  

Saturday was the start of General Conference weekend.  We had a great weekend watching and listening.  We managed to squeeze some water polo in between sessions.  Eileen called during the last session feeling stressed out about all that she had coming up.  Between cleaning and finals and packing, she was stressed out about an overly long to-do list.  On top of that she said she was feeling a bit homesick.  I think she associates General Conference with family and she was mostly alone this weekend.  

We enjoyed our usual monkey bread and 7 layer dip and ate way too much junk food, but had a great time doing it.  We had the sister missionaries over for dinner on Saturday and Sister Reamer and Andrew to watch the morning session with us on Sunday.  All in all, it was a wonderful weekend!