October Update

I've been pretty busy lately I'm sorry for the lack of blogging. It's crazy. Stephen's been traveling the past couple of weeks for work and I've kept pretty busy with school and my Reading Recovery Class. (I'm getting my reading recovery endorsement to help teach reading to struggling students. The classes are pretty intense and very time consuming.) It makes for a long day to work eight hours and then rush off to class for another 3 hours.

Once again, Stephen and I put on our parenting hats, while my sister & her husband went to New York for the weekend. Stephen thinks the only thing scarier than an angry 9-year old is an angry 5-year old. He was a good sport and helped the girls with homework while I went to a wedding shower and then as I left early for work, he stayed behind and helped them get off to school. It was fun though, on Friday we took Sabrina, my six year old niece to get some fish for her empty fish tank. She was pretty excited and we had a fun night all playing Monopoly!

We've also found out this last week that Stephen's car is on it's last leg and needs about $1800 in repairs to fix it. We've concluded that we'd rather put that money into a new car. So we've been in the market and looking. It's such a hard job and spent about 5 hours on Saturday looking. I was very tired and overwhelmed after that. Stephen on the other hand thought it was great! He was like a little kid eager to test drive all the different cars.

This Sunday was our Primary Program. The kids did great! I'm the primary choirister for our ward we've been working hard the past few months putting it all together. We have a very young ward with a lot of young kids especially in the 3-5 year old age. As crazy as all the practices were, they did amazing today. It was truely insprired. I have really enjoyed this calling and love working with the primary children. They have the sweetest testimony!

Take A Look

Don't let your eyes deceive you! This may just still look like a bunch of dirt, but if you notice there are little blue and pink flags all over our yard. This month we were able to put sprinklers in our backyard! YEA!!! We were so excited to finally get this summer project finished. We debated quite a bit weather or not we should save some money and do it ourselves. But when it came down to it we decided to pay someone to do this for us. I was amazed. I went to work one morning and when I came home our entire back yard was completely done. It was definitely worth the little extra $$$. We put them in just in time too! They ended up turning our water off the very next day. We can't wait until spring when we can put in some grass and have a real back yard.

Scuba Steve

I'm not much for Adam Sandler movies but I couldn't resist with this title! As of Saturday, Stephen is officially certified in Scuba Diving! YEA! He and my brother's in law are gearing up and getting ready for a cruise our family is taking in November. They did their final dives last weekend in Wendover, NV. Don't ask me why they had to go to Wendover...there's definitely not much out there, but I guess there's a place to do some open water dives. They thought it would be great to get certified and then be able to make a couple dives in the beautiful waters of the Caribbean. I on the other hand decided not to get certified...at this point in time. Let's just say I went scuba diving a few years ago with a guy and it wasn't the best experience. To sum up the traumatic experience in a few short sentences, I got really freaked out and it was very low visibility. I got claustrophobic and panicked. Anyways, I'm getting very excited for our cruise. It will be a great break from school. We're going with just the adults in our family and it will be such a fun week! The count down is on....only a month away!