Sunday, August 17, 2008

Birthday Reunions etc.....




We had a very busy weekend. Clayton turned 23 years old on Friday. We went to dinner at the Olive Garden and then went Turtle shopping. Clayton bought himself a turtle and her name is Rosemary. She is really cool. Makayla and I went to Utah to the Richardson reunion early Saturday morning and had a great time visiting with all of the aunts uncles cousins and even my own family. They had great games and great food. My mom and dad had the most great grand kids totalling 26 with one on the way and Kabrie was the oldest of that number at the reunion. By the way she cut all of her hair off and it is so cute. I love going to reunions and touching base with family that you only get to see every two years. Especially all of the new babies. I tried to take a turn holding each of them. It was very sad when they started talking about those that had passed away since last time which included David and Alan. It makes you appreciate your family even more. I brought Max and Carter home with me for the week. It should be lots of fun and exhausting since they are always so busy.
Today was my last Sunday to substitute teach the 14-17 year old Sunday school class(3 weeks). I really enjoyed interacting with all of the kids that hang out with Makayla and find out what strong testimonies that they really do have. The subject was a little awkward (sexual purity). I only hope that I was able to make them think things through.
School starts next Monday for Makayla and she is pretty excited to be back with her friends on a daily basis. Hopefully she will be as excited about school.
Well I need to be going now. bye now.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Latest News.

I finished Breaking Dawn over the weekend even with Susan Paige and Gabby visiting us. The book was great. I will not say more in case all of you have not finished it yet. I ended up at Walmart Friday night and it took me about 10 minutes to pick up the book and get home to start the read.
We are still waiting for our kitchen to be completed. The new guy who bought the business that is doing our kitchen is extremely slow and frustrating to work with. We called the rug guy and he is still out of town more frustration..... But I am able to use it and love everything that we did in the set up. It is so bright and new.
We are really enjoying our new dog. He is very well behaved and calm thank goodness since he is so big. Paul has taught him to go out and get his paper in the morning and deliver it to the place where Paul sits and reads it every morning. We found out this weekend that he is very tolerant of children since Paige would not leave him alone and she kept sitting on him and yelling at the dog. It was rather funny since she is such a little punker. McKinley keeps him running around the house because she wants Stetson to chase her and she giggles nonstop.
I finally got into my office to get it organized yesterday. It looked like a bomb had gone off in it. I got everything organized and put away. I also got rid of alot of stuff that I will be delivering to the DI.
Well I had better get to work. bye now.