Crazy, Busy Days

This month has been non-stop crazy, busy days!  I have worked LOTS, gone on a speech-language assistant course for the school, had appointments for Emma, done temple sealings, had book club, gone to piano lessons and dance lessons, went to back-to-school night, got kids to birthday parties, Activity Days, and Cubs, chaired a RS committee meeting, helped mom and dad pack up their house and been a mom and a wife 24/7.  It's been exhausting!

Thursday, Shauna, Melissa, Mindy and I all helped mom deep clean the house so they're ready for the house to be handed over on Monday.  They leave on their huge cruise on Sunday.  They've got pretty much everything out now.  The grand piano gets moved to Melissa's (until they have a house to put it in again) on Saturday.

Today was great though.  After the kids went to basketball this morning, I got to watch Roger's kids while they went to the temple.  That means I got to get lots and lots of snuggles with Miss Mia for the very first time!  The boys just played with Emma and Ben the whole time so I got my niece to myself.  What a wonderful way to stop and refresh!

Mia

So Depressing

Another trip to Calgary... and unfortunately... another cast.  Boo!  He was SO determined that he wouldn't have another cast, but even though it's healing and looking good, the doctor wanted another four weeks to make sure it was doing good.

 Can you tell how impressed Lennard is?! 

Note:  I didn't photoshop this cast green!  ha! ha!  He asked for green... although it ended up a lot brighter than what he thought it would be!

They SOLD Their Home!

Wednesday morning I woke up to find this posted on Facebook... to say that we were all in shock would be an understatement!  And yes, there were tears shed.  We all knew that they were trying to sell their house, but to have it actually happen after so many years has been a huge surprise/shock/etc.

They have already started going through stuff and selling what they can.  They don't have a lot of time to do much as they have to be out of their house in two weeks!

I went out Friday afternoon and helped pack and move stuff up to the sea cans on their acreage. Then, today, Shauna, Melissa, Mindy, Roger and I all came and helped pack and clean as much as we could.  We got a good majority of it done.  Emma came out with me and helped too.  She was such a good helper and didn't ever stop!

It was weird packing stuff up, but it was fun sharing memories together as we worked.

New Glasses

We went to Costco tonight and picked up the kids new glasses!  They are pretty excited... especially Emma!  

Lost a Tooth!

Ben just pulled out his own tooth!  Ha! Ha!  It's been super wiggly, but he didn't want anyone to touch it.  He went in his bedroom to get his pajamas on and came out with his tooth!  

"Look, Mom!  I pulled it out!"

Tooth #2

Buddy

I haven't posted about Buddy for a while... so here's a couple pictures of our crazy cat!  He's been so much happier since we've just let him wander outside.  Thankfully he always comes back, although sometimes he has to be bribed with treats!  He definitely lets us know when he wants to go outside!

Talks in Church

We had the unique opportunity for each of us to speak in Sacrament meeting today!  Ben got welcomed as the newest baptized member of our ward and then gave his first talk!  So amazing!  The kids did such a good job.  We are so proud of both of them getting up in front of such a crowd and giving great talks.  Ben only had pictures for his just to clue him in to what to say and Emma had hers written out (although when she talked in Primary two weeks ago, she didn't have any notes and spoke for way longer!).  Lennard and I managed to get through our talks without too many tears.  Our topic was how the Book of Mormon brings people to Christ, which we used and then put a Nauvoo twist to it.  I based my talk mostly on the British Pageant and Lennard used the Nauvoo pageant.  I think they all went over really well.

*I'll insert the talks when I put this into a book!  For now, there are too many direct quotes from the pageant that I'm not going to post it here.