Virginia Sempervirens: October 28th, 2012

October 28, 2012

Dear Family and Friends,

Here's what I remember from two weeks ago:

Monday: B-man invited his friend Sam over at the last minute for FHE. M and I were impressed but also thrown for a loop. We ended up talking about Daniel in the lion's den. I also challenged M, me, and B-man to try and get one hundred days of consecutive scripture reading. I think I have had to start over the most...

Tuesday: Piano for B-man.

Robert enjoying an after nap snack with Dad.

Wednesday: Watched a friend's child in the morning while she trained for a marathon. Book Club for me that night. We talked about "I Am Legend." I recommend it if you haven't read it. I was surprised by how much I liked it.

Thursday: I did my visiting teaching while helping set up some stuff for a mutual activity. The woman I visit teach was in charge of the activity. Then I raced to another sister's house before she had to go to work. M was home, so I didn't have to take the boys. That night we got a sitter and went to the opening dinner of the "Bishop's Retreat" put on by the Stake Presidency. They had a delicious dinner and then President Gerard and his wife spoke to us. The night went a little longer than planned, and the poor sitter and her mother both called us on the way home to see where we were. I felt terrible!

Before the fence.

Friday: RM turned two!! We didn't do much to celebrate that day except sing to him lots. M was off to the Bishop's retreat. I joined latter in the morning after dropping off the boys with a sweet friend. I was able to stay for several hours, and have lunch with the collective men and women, then I bowed out a little early to get home for school and things. M got home a little after we started dinner that night. We had pizza for our family party and then watched a show. I can't remember which one.

After the fence.

Saturday: M was off early. I had it all planned to go to some of the Bishop's meetings, but I decided to cancel at the last minute. We were having a fence put in that day, and I wanted to be sure I was available for any questions about where things should go... I did step out briefly to take B-man to diving. It was fun to see how quickly the fence went up. They did our house and our neighbors in one day. Amazing! The weather was pretty amazing given the impending storm, and we spent a lot of the afternoon outside. I was planting bulbs (90!) and transplanting a hydrangea. Then M straightened a tree we put in this spring and we staked it so it would be protected during the storm. We get a lot of wind in the area. We were so happy to straighten the tree by ourselves. We almost paid to have someone do it. Hopefully we didn't hurt the tree any... That night we got a sitter and went to a Halloween party thrown by some friends. For the first time ever it was not a costume party. I think we all missed it.

Sunday: Normal day. We had a mother and daughter over for dinner that M home teaches. We had roasted chicken breasts, quinoa salad, and broccoli. That night after our guests had left we let RM open the rest of his "prizes." He was thrilled, and so were the other boys.