Sunday, September 29, 2013

Primary Program Debut

At church, we had our primary program today. All the kids age 3-12 have been practicing songs for months (and the older kids years) to sing today in front of the whole ward. I am in charge of the 4 year olds. Since I am a convert to the church, I've never been in the program before so all week I've been inviting everyone to come to my debut. {Thanks Casey for being the only one to witness my debut} The program was the last hour and twenty minutes of church. So the first hour and forty minutes were spent practicing.  Some laughs and sweet thoughts are listed below.

- The sunbeams are all boys. During practice, they made guns with their hands and pretend shot things.
-soo many reminders "this is the chapel"
- 4 bathroom breaks!! Including one in the middle of the performance.  Awesome.
- one little boy had a CTR ring.. yeah, he got it stuck on his thumb.
-Each kid had a speaking part. My favorites were "I can take care of my body by eating healthy foods like broccoli." And "I can take care of my body by keeping it clean and getting my hair cut." Rock on boys.
-I, and 95% of the kids, do not know 'I am a child of God' in spanish.
- 4 year old boys cannot be left unattended in the bathroom.
-nore can they redress and tuck in their shirts. Whatevs. I let em look hard core with shirts untucked for the program.
-"teacher, does the bread come now?"
- I don't think my class sang most of the songs. Thats a lot to remember when you're 4.
- Afrer our speaking parts one little girl came back and exclaimed, "I get to go to preschool tomorrow." Yeah, I think the front 3 rows heard.

Anyways, they rocked it and are super cute kids. They just really need to stretch their bladders.

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Wedding Day- Temple Pictures 01.17.13

 How cute is this guy? I sure love my dad.


 Sigh, cute red coat Mom.

 The Sisters!
 I sure love this tall fella







These are just a few of our favorites. I can't seem to get enough. I swear our whole house is decorated in wedding pictures!

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Judge Away

As a wife, sister, daughter, director, student, CNA, decorator, cleaner I OFTEN feel inadequate. I think it's a woman thing. And might I just say how thankful I am for Casey. He tells me it's ridiculous. He reminds me to stop comparing myself to others. He reminds me it doesn't matter. And I'm so grateful that I'm finally catching on!

So, I'm going to be real-

○ I love visitors. It terrifies me when people don't call first. I definitely don't wear a bra after work and I think our house is a pig sty.
○love our dogs. Hate their hair. It's impossible to keep clean. Or at least for me. I judge myself when people come over.
○I sucked in college. I'll be real. Going back makes me sick to my stomach, because I am afraid of failure.
○Casey is crazy smart and we are talking about Masters programs. Intimidating.
○Casey makes more money then I do. By a lot. I once got called a gold digger. While I'm not, it still affects me at least weekly.
○I never finish my craft projects. The last one sat inside the front door for two weeks.
○I need to loose some weight. I just love food and coke so much. I feel like a blob when I see pictures of me.
○I am addicted to coke. (The liquid beverage, obvi)
○I had a few really bad years. I am so thankful I am no longer miserable. But man I wish I could get those years back.
○I only snowboard the bunny hills. I'm a slow learner.
○I wish I was better at my job.
○I miss being a CNA and want to keep my certificate current, but again I worry I don't have enough time to be good at it.
○I didn't do my visiting teaching from May to August.
○Teaching Primary is hard. Really hard.
○I don't go to the temple enough.
○I've made cookies for the neighbors once. It's about the same number of times I've made them in my life.

Okay, I've had enough. I feel so free. I only write this because it needed to come out. No one is perfect! I can't look at others lives and compare their accomplishments to where I feel mine are lacking. I work full time. My house probably isn't as clean as someone elses. My job is hard, we probably do eat out more than most families.  I'm freakin tired when I get home. But I'll get there. I'll get good at this wife stuff.

Then we'll have a baby. And life as we know it will change again.

Happy Wednesday.