Scrubbing Those Books Clean

This morning we got to go to Connor and Rylee's school. The reason for this was that a boy in our stake was doing his Eagle Scout project. This project included scrubbing off books and and shelves. Also some were vacuuming the shelves as well. The kids had so much fun helping scrub down the books. I think they were into it because it was their school. The librarian was having so much fun that people were in there cleaning. She hasn't had an assistant in forever. This whole project put a big smile on her face. We ran into some employees who were scrubbing the building that know us and it was fun to see them and chat. We ended up staying the whole time. We thought we would leave early but we were one of the last few to leave. I had so much fun and my arms had a wonderful work out but it was all worth it. I talked with the librarian and asked her if she needed help (volunteer help) in the morning and afternoon and she said yes she would! But she doesnt want to over work me. And I said dont worry about it cause all the kids will be in school and I have to drop them off and pick them up anyway everyday and so I can come in and help before and after school!

Messing Around With Pictures

I combined 2 pictures. One of my grandpa in the Navy and my Dad as an Airbourne in the Army. I wish my dad's pic was bigger.

Distractions

Today in relief society our President had the lesson. She talked about distractions and things that keep us from the Lord. In other words idols. You know like the internet and television and so forth. Hahah as I am blogging on the internet. But we talked about activities that are getting in the way and taking away from time with the family. The number of dinners that families actually sit and eat together have decreased as the years go by. WE ARE SO DISTRACTED. And now with the texting and facebook and things like that, we are more withdrawn and our communication skills are horrible. We need to take advantage of the little moments since we are such a busy society. My favorite was Nets. Now this is a definition that Sister Carter gave for them. Nets: Anything that entices or prevents us from following the call from Christ. And then she said one more thing that stood out. She asked, "Where are we in Lehi's vision of the tree of life?" When then were given the challenge each month to find something that keeps us in the world and come out of it. This is to help us not be distracted!

Photo Editing

As you can see I am playing around with photo editing. I don't have a fancy editing program like photoshop. I use a free one called splashup. If you go to splashup.com you can use it! You can tell I am getting used to it still, the photo looks cheesy. I still need to play around with it a bit. Wish me luck lol!

What's For Dinner?

Tonight when I got home I really didn't want to make anything that would take too long. Actually I really did not want to cook. I have been dragging all day. So I assessed what I had in my pantry and freezer. I look in the freezer and I had some left over turkey bacon. Then I looked in the pantry, and I have these little 4 oz packets of instant mashed potatoes. And I had broccoli that needed to be eaten and I had cheese. So I decided to cook the bacon until it was really crisp. Then I threw that in another pan because the bottom of the other one got too burned. Then I took my broccoli that I chopped up and put it in a measuring cup and put some of my instant hot water from my water cooler. That steamed it, I then threw that in the pan with the bacon. I shredded 1/2c of cheese and threw that in. Then I measured out 4 cups of my instant hot water and dumped my instant mashed potatoes in and presto! I had instant potato soup. I combined that with the other ingredients and bam I had a soup in a few minutes! The kids loved it and went back for thirds. That is why I say it serves only 4 hahah because my kids ate it up and kept eating it. And the upside its a little heathier than most things that are instant :)

Walk Now For Autism Year 2!

So, this year we are doing walk now for autism with autism speaks again! Its going to be so much fun! We were wondering if there were any of you who would like to join our team or donate! Any little bit helps

Wow Its Been Almost A Year

Ok, so there have been a few people who have said I haven't written in my blog in a while. I checked and its been almost a year. How sad is that. So I am writing in my blog. Well, alot of things have happened in a year. Don't know where to begin. I am excited to be doing coupons to buy groceries that is always so much fun to get either freebies or to see how much I save! I had a blast doing an interview for the Beehive, one of the church newspapers. We got a new ghetto car that gets better gas milage. Its been a bit beaten up. I would have to thank Jason and Crystal Mabb for that car. It was much needed! School is starting real soon and Connor will be in 2nd grade and Rylee will be in Kindergarten! I can not believe she will be going. It is all day too. It's going to be strange having her gone all day. But that means I can go to the temple now! I wonder if there is a day I can volunteer every week :) Its sad to see them grow up so fast!