Saturday: In the morning we edged and mowed the lawn. I say we, because Frank did the edging and Seth helped with the mowing--I was showing him how to do it. It was nice to have help; it got done faster! In the afternoon we all went to see Toy Story 4. It was a cute movie, and we all enjoyed it. The rest of the day I worked on music calling stuff, cleaned the kitchen floor, practiced ukulele, and filled out my time sheet for my Arc job.
Sunday: We had a "muscial testimony meeting" for our sacrament meeting and it was really wonderful. Maybe you've done this in your ward at some point, but it's the first time I've been in a meeting like that. Anyone could go up and share why a particular hymn is meaningful to them, and then we sang one verse of that hymn (whichever verse they chose). It went really well--one person after another got up without any breaks in between and each person's comments were brief but powerful. I knew a lot of our hymns were focused on the Savior, but I don't think I realized before that actually ALL of them are focused on Him. There was just a really beautiful spirit in that meeting. In Primary, my companion teacher taught. At one point, she was giving them clues to help them guess what was in a box that she had and they all looked so cute as they gathered around her, I had to sneak out my phone and take a few photos:
(Only 6 of our 9 kids were there.) They also sang to me for my birthday, and I got a notebook & pen.
Monday: I worked with my Arc friend for about an hour in the morning--she just needed to go to a doctor appointment. I spent the rest of the day getting the regular chores done, as well as making several phone calls related to doctor, dentist, and vet appointments. I also ordered some ties for the boys for Tanner's wedding. For family night activity we played a game and we got frozen yogurt at one of those places where you can add multiple toppings, and you pay for it by the ounce. The nice thing is, this place has "$5 fill your cup" day every Monday, which means you can put as much in there as you want and it's only going to cost $5. Very convenient for us--I'm sure a place in Utah would never choose to do that on a Monday!!
Tuesday: I had a ministering visit in the afternoon. I have a new companion now--a 17 year old girl--so I picked her up and we went together. I took Seth to look for some pants for Tanner's wedding but we couldn't find anything so I ordered some online (I hope they fit!). We had a fairly heavy rainstorm shortly before we left to go to the store, and on the way there we saw a rainbow (in two pieces):
Here's the other side, which had more showing, but wasn't as bright:
Wednesday: I had a dentist appointment early in the morning and as I anticipated--I have to get a full crown. I got back next week to get that done. I had religion class and shopping to do on Wednesday also, so I was not home a lot. For YM that night, the Deacons had a cook out--they grilled hamburgers and everyone brought something to contribute to go with it. Seth seemed to enjoy that a lot.
Thursday: It was the Independence Day, of course, and we enjoyed a pretty quiet day. I still exercised and did brain balance with Seth and did the regular chores, but we had a lot of free time too. It was nice to have Frank home all day. Originally, we were going to go to Jessie's grandparents' house for dinner, swimming, and fireworks, but the weather forecast wasn't looking good so they decided to postpone that until today. As it turns out, the weather wasn't too bad yesterday. Hopefully it will be okay tonight, because the forecast looks about the same. Since I had originally planned to order Chinese food for my birthday dinner, we decided to do that last night instead. Except our favorite Chinese take out place was closed, so we ended up going to a Chinese buffet place instead. It wasn't as good, but it was still pretty good. In the evening, we watched the fireworks in DC on the television and then went outside and lit a few sparklers. We'll be seeing more fireworks tonight with the Hatches, hopefully.
Friday: Today I am 51! Frank had to be at a store at 5:00 am, and I woke up when he was getting ready and didn't go back to sleep so the day started early for both of us. I didn't mind, though--I exercised and showered and had breakfast and read scriptures before Seth even woke up! It was nice to have that quiet time. I've mostly had a normal day, working on the budget. But Frank got off work early (around noon, but by then he'd already put in a 7 hour day, so it really wasn't that early) and this afternoon I got to open presents. And I was thoroughly spoiled. Frank took lots of pictures of the present opening, but he hasn't sent them to me yet so you'll have to wait until next week to see those. I did take this picture afterwards:
Books, music, a movie, candy--yep, that's pretty much all I need to be happy! I got a set of dishes, too (dinner plates, salad plates, and bowls) but I didn't get a picture of them because we put them in the dishwasher since we were ready to run it. They will be in the photos that Frank took, though. It's been a nice day and tonight should be fun too.
Seth and I did pretty well at sticking with our schedule this week. I exercised most days and we did brain balance and chores every day. He did get some extra screen time yesterday and today. I did a lot of reading this week. We are well into These Happy Golden Years. I finished the book chat book and started on the new one (Northanger Abbey), but I have also been re-reading some old favorites.
Snickers has not been feeling well this week and I am probably going to have to take him to the vet next week. He started refusing to eat his regular food a few weeks ago so we tried canned food and he gobbled it up! So we knew he wasn't sick, just didn't want his regular food for some reason. After a few days of canned food, we tried switching back to the regular food (last week) but he stopped eating again, even after we didn't offer him anything else for about 5 days! At that point, I felt like we were starving him, so we went back to the canned food and I called the vet to get advice. (He is supposed to be on a low fat diet for his liver problems, and the canned food is not low fat, so not a long term solution.) The vet recommended a canned dog food that is low in fat, so we got one can of that to try (he'd tried it before a few years ago and didn't particularly like it). I gave that to him this morning and he did eat it, so maybe we will get more of that for him. Meanwhile, although he wasn't acting sick when this all started a few weeks ago, sometime last week he started leaving "presents" for us on the carpets in various rooms of the house. And then this week he has had diarrhea and has continued to leave messes around the house. So fun!! (I was especially upset that he even pooped on the carpet in Frank's office--that carpet is only a year old.) The last couple of days have been better, because we have been more vigilant about offering to take him out frequently. We have also been shutting all the doors to the rooms in the house when we leave, which keeps him off most of the carpets in the house (although the stairs and upstairs hallway can't be shut off like that). If he is still having problems on Monday, I am going to take him back in to the vet. Meanwhile, I'm feeling kind of stressed because our normal dog / house sitter can't watch him when we go to Utah and we are having a lot of trouble finding someone else who can watch him. Most people say they can't stay overnight, but we have never left him alone all night and in his current state of health I don't feel comfortable doing that. Hopefully we will get him healthy again and someone will agree to watch him for us!
We have actually been watching a dog for someone else this week--a family in our ward who have been out of town. We only had to go each morning and evening to let him out and make sure he had food, but they live a ways away so it's been kind of crazy. They get back today, though, so we are done with that job.
We are going to get ready to go to the Hatches now and I need to cut up some watermelon and a few other things first, so that's all I've got for this week.
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