This week was a lot less eventful than last week, but I always manage to keep busy.
Last Saturday morning I finished sewing the June pillow covers:
The backs are out of this strawberry print fabric:
I went to lunch with my friend Rebekah on Saturday too. Seth worked that afternoon / evening and Frank went to see a movie (the new Mission Impossible) so I had a little bit of quiet time. I can't remember what I did now except that I finished watching a movie on Netflix that I had started watching Friday night. I probably did some reading too. I had not yet received the book that we are reading for book chat (I put it on hold at the library) so I ordered an ebook version instead. I've read about a third of it so far and I'm enjoying it but need to pick up the pace if I'm going to finish it by Wednesday.
On Sunday we had church as usual except that the missionaries asked me to attend their Sunday School class (for new members / friends they are meeting with) so I did that instead of going to Gospel Doctrine (and I enjoyed it). Seth started a temple prep class last week so he went again on Sunday afternoon (it's a 6 week course). That evening was Seminary graduation. My team teacher and her son who was graduating were both out of town and one of the other boys in my class who graduated didn't come either, but the other four Seniors in my class who were graduating did come. (Including Seth.) The ceremony was nice and I was happy for my Seniors!
These two boys are in the Spanish ward:
Seth with Melissa...she is in our ward, also:
Each of the Seminary teachers was given a picture of the temple:
On Monday morning I had my annual GYN exam and mammogram. I had to go back yesterday to get more images taken and an ultrasound. That has happened to me a couple of other times, so I'm not over the top concerned about it, but it is still a bit of a worry and I will be grateful to get the results (hopefully soon).
On Monday afternoon I went to a teaching appointment with the Elders. That evening we went to dinner with an older couple in our ward--they wanted to celebrate Seth's graduation. Really sweet of them!! He has actually received quite a few graduation cards and gifts from people in our ward. I've been really surprised but touched by that. Some family members have also sent cards and gifts--we really appreciate that! I think he has felt very loved and knows he has a lot of support from people around him, which is so great!
I don't have anything on the calendar for Tuesday or Wednesday. I just got the regular house work done and also had quite a few conversations with Amy, Julia, and Shellie as we've been planning for our trip to Kirtland next week. I've also been listening to an audio book series a lot and I worked on a color-by-number picture. Seth drove himself to his YM activity on Tuesday evening. Frank didn't go to the temple that night because one of his clients had an IT emergency so he had to solve that problem instead. On Wednesday I cut out all the pieces for the July quilt blocks:
On Wednesday we also did our family night activity (we did the lesson part on Sunday). We continued our game of Mexican Train that we started weeks ago--we played several more rounds but we still have two rounds left. Seth was winning by far the last time we played, but this time I got really lucky so now I am ahead. A lot can change in a couple of rounds, though, so it's anybody's guess who is going to come out on top in the end. After family night activity, Seth went to Institute for the first time. He said he enjoyed it.
Seth worked yesterday and today. He also did some weeding in our yard this week. I woke up really early yesterday and couldn't go back to sleep so I got up and exercised and started my day. I meant to take a nap later but never got to it so by 9:00 last night I was out! Thankfully, I slept much better last night.
Today I went to the temple as I often do on Fridays, but this time I didn't go alone. I took an older couple in our ward with me. She doesn't drive at all and he isn't able to drive that far anymore so they aren't able to get to the temple often. She had some work she wanted to get done for a family member. I signed us up for the 10:30 session so that she would have time to do the initiatory for her family member first, and then do the endowment afterwards. They got her through initiatory faster than we anticipated, though, so we were able to go to the 10:00 endowment session instead. I really enjoyed having them ride to the temple and back with me--the drive felt like it went by so much faster than usual!
The rest of the day has been full because we had the missionaries over for dinner and I gave a ride to one of my former Seminary students this evening (about 25 minutes each way, with a quick stop at Wal-Mart too) besides updating the budget and writing this post. You can see from the photo that it was beautiful and sunny this morning but later today we got some rain and we may get some more tonight.
Update on the trash corral removal situation: we got a letter this week saying that they are postponing the removal of the corrals until early July to give us more time to prepare (originally the corrals were going to be removed next week). Not sure how putting it off a month is going to resolve any of the problems or issues that we brought up. I guess we're just going to have to deal with it somehow.
Seth and I are both speaking in Sacrament Meeting on Sunday. I have been thinking about my talk all week and last night I started jotting down a few things but it looks like I will be preparing the whole thing tomorrow. I'm not super worried about it, but I'll be glad when that's behind me.
Jared is singing a solo in his Sacrament Meeting on Sunday and he just sent me a recording of his last practice run. That boy can sing! 😊 It sounds amazing. He is singing an arrangement of Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing and Lead Kindly Light. I wish we could be there in person to hear him sing, but Jessie is going to record his performance and send it to us.
That's all our news for this week. I'll finish up with a couple of photos of yesterday's sunrise.
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