Wonder of Wonders...

I slept the whole night through last night.  I didn't have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep.  I didn't have excessively strange dreams that woke me up feeling disturbed.  My legs didn't ache.  My feet weren't cold.  I actually feel quite rested.  I honestly can't remember when the last time I woke up feeling this good was.  Maybe I'll actually get something accomplished today because of it!!!!  Hooray for quality sleep!

Rainy Days and Mondays

I happen to love rainy days and Mondays.  I also like the Carpenter's song that talks about them.

This will be a whatever-comes-to-mind sort of post.

This Mother's Day was the best one so far.  I got breakfast in bed, numerous cards, pictures and artwork, a lovely dinner made by my husband and cleaned up by my kids and I got to go to Relief Society for a great lesson.  It was a great day all around.

I made an awesome gate with my younger brother yesterday to keep the chickens out of the garden.

I'm reading a book I haven't read before and have 3 or 4 more lined up after I finish the first one.  I get sort of a thrill when I start a new book.

Our garden is doing well and the fruit and nut trees are in bloom.

We are getting 3-4 eggs a day from our cute chickens.

I serve with wonderful leaders in Young Womens.  Girls' Camp will be so much fun this summer.

I get to be in charge of tracing the pattern of a teddy bear we are making for girls' camp for our service project.  We need to make 34 bears.  That's 34 patterns to trace.  I'd better get tracing!

This week is busy with activities we don't usually have.  Besides the usual Young Mens, Young Womens, and Activity Days for 3 daughters on 2 different days, we have a Meet the Author open house for Daughter #1 on Tuesday, a birthday lunch for our Young Womens president on Wednesday, a spring chorus concert for Daughter #1 on Thursday evening, the second grade dance preformance for Daughter #3 on Friday, the father and sons campout on Friday and the Heber Valley Campground open house on Saturday for YW leaders.  Yikes!

I'm going to have 2 kids at the junior high school next school year.  That is so weird.

My husband completed a half marathon 2 Saturdays ago at Thanksgiving Point.  It was his first race like that.  He came in at just over 2 hours.  We were all there at the finish line to cheer him on.  He was pretty much out of commission the rest of the day.

I'm very grateful for a working computer and a husband who "knows from computers."  Most of the recent problems with the computer were due in part to my "non-technicalness."  To say I was relieved that the problems were resolved is putting it lightly.

Auction

Last night our ward held an auction/fundraiser to help the scouts raise money for their camps this year.  It was $10 per family for the spaghetti dinner.  Ward members donated items and services to be auctioned off.  We donated 1 dozen fresh eggs from our chickens.  That went for $15.  The item that went for the most money was a signed Jimmer Fredette jersey.  It went for $600.  Insane.

My husband bid on and won a free accordion lesson from a ward member.  Our next door neighbor happens to have an accordion, so he can practice.  This should be interesting.

Our Family

This is our family according to Daughter #4:

Dad: the best snorer

Me: the best unsleeper

Son: the best scarer

Daughter #1: the best mingler (?)

Daughter #2: the best fake crier

Daughter #3: the best heavy sleeper

Daughter #4: the best fake sleeper

This is Awesome

http://www.ldsfriends.com/general-conference-posters/

Randomness

Load of laundry #78 (approximately!) is currently in the washing machine.  I have never done so much laundry as I have since Sunday afternoon.  It all began with finding some creepy crawlies on Daughter #3's head.  After confirming with the internet what they were, some panic set in and the laundry began.  I'm probably going to have to watch the last session of General Conference again, since I didn't get much out of it.  Since I'm doing more cleaning than I had planned on, I guess I should just do my spring cleaning as well.

I had my last den meeting as a scout leader this time around on Monday.  I was finally able to pass on all the Cub Scout stuff to the other leader.  My bedroom closet now has a whole lot more space!

We have some cute daffodils, tulips and crocus coming up in our yard.  Hooray for Spring!!!

The kids have Spring Break next week.  They are so excited.  I'm not sure how I feel about it yet.

Daughter #3 gets baptized on Saturday.  She has been counting down the days for months.  The previously mentioned head critters will not be baptized with her.  There will be none left by then (said with fingers and toes and eyes crossed).

I had a birthday last week.  I'm now halfway through my 30's.  The Young Women presidency took me to lunch at Olive Garden.  It was very nice.



Food Wars

Ham Solo

Chewybacca

Mango Fett

Soda

Darth Potater

Pumpikin Skywalker

Princess Tomata

Cucumber Palpatine

Queen Avocada

Thanks to my son for coming up with these!