Sisters Breakfast.... minus one

We started our first monthly "sisters" breakfast this morning at Granny Annie's in Kaysville. With jobs, kids, callings and just life in general we thought it would be nice to find some extra "sisters" time. We hope that Denise will get to join us from time to time. Thanks for humoring me with a blog picture!

Kris and Jay finally had a boy! His name is Will.

Here's a picture of his sisters who can't wait to get him home!

Congrats to the Hacker family!

A good different...

This past weekend I spent some good quality time with a new friend. My friend needed to go somewhere she didnt really want to go and especially not alone. I was happy to join her... even looking forward to the thought of seeing her outside her comfort zone and gettting to know a bit more of the real her.

In my book there is nothing better than a good friend (whether that friend is a family member or otherwise) who can look past your insecurities, oddities and differences and love you anyway... and of course not make you feel stupid or uncomfortable in the process. I have been blessed with many good friends in my lifetime... and am looking so forward to seeing where this new friendship goes. Better hold on tight...

Happy B-day!

Happy Birthday Dad!
I can't believe you would have been 82 today... crazy.
Miss you much.

Too funny...

Thought I would share one of Leah's funny sayings the other day. To set the stage... ever since Kellie became pregnant Leah says she has a baby in her tummy too... So we are eating Sunday dinner. Getting Leah and Lydie to eat much of anything is sometimes a real struggle. We were tyring to coerce Leah into eating some chicken... pretty easy you would think.... NOT! After throwing a few fits and stomping away to her bedroom to gain control of her being forced to eat chicken, she comes back in and says, "but my baby doesn't like chicken!"

We all lost it! So hilarious! It always amazes me the things litte kids come up with. Needless to say the chicken WAS eaten before any dessert was.

Busy

As you can tell I haven't posted much in Aug... so I thought I would share a little bit about how come. In July I was sustained as the Secretary in the newly called RS Presidency in my new ward. Yup, did you catch that... I'm the newby and I'm in charge of taking roll. You gotta love it! I hate to think of how many times I've asked the same people what their name is again... but I can honestly say I now have a pretty good grasp of about 90% of the womens name in the ward. Now who they're married to is a different story... hopefully that will come with more time. This is a picture of the business card I created for our new presidency. The president (I won't name names... but you can look and see) is a bit camera shy, so hopefully down the road a bit I can post a photo of the four of us. I have so enjoyed the past 7 weeks of getting to know the ladies in the presidency, visiting the active and the not so active, learning a ton of names and getting to put them with faces, canvasing the ward with fliers, our enrichment night progressive dinner, creating reports, typing up Sunday bulletins and of course calling people I hardly know to give prayers. Except for the prayer part... I hope my calling never ends. Did I mention I knew this was going to be my calling??

Golf anyone?

I took a day away from the office today and played a little golf in the annual IREM golf tournament. It was such a nice day weather wise and playing wise. I did so bad the last time I played with my brother, Steve, that I forced myself to go out and spend some much needed time at the driving range. Thank you SJO for joining me... you made it so much more fun!

Time Stealer

Here is the finished puzzle I just put together! I think it's the first one I have ever done all by myself. I honestly didn't know if I could do it without help... but I did! It was so relaxing to do... yes, even when it took days sometimes to find one specific piece. I found it to be a total time stealer however. I would walk by it and think "oh, I'll just put one piece in before I go to work today" and the next thing I knew 30 minutes had gone by. Aagghh. Next step is bringing myself to take it apart after all the time it took to put together. That's gonna take awhile.

We're walking, we're walking, we're walking...

...and we're stopping. Ha, ha. If you have ever seen the show "Dave" then you will understand my laughter. Great show btw if you have never seen it. I highly recommend it.

So... last week I decided that my walking 3 miles every other day wasn't going to cut it if I really wanted to lose some weight (which isn't just a want but also a need)... so for the past two weeks I have changed my route and now I walk about 6.5 miles M,W,F,S. I'm out of the house before the crack of dawn and spend part of the time while I walk reciting D&C 4, The Standard of Truth and The Living Christ. Beyond that I have been trying to memorize some new poems while reciting the ones I already know. It's a great time of the day to be out and enjoying the cooler weather along with getting some exercise. I love that everyone out walking or jogging is so friendly and say "good morning". I also love when I see people I know! This week I ran into a good friend who turned around and walked home with me. I'd say it was my lucky day... but I think more it's just the kind of friend he is. Either way... it sure made my day!

Have you... ?

Have you ever wished for something that you knew was completely selfish...
but to stop wishing would be to stop breathing?

Have you ever hoped for a miracle that you knew probably would never happen...
but you still hoped anyway?

Have you ever dremt of loving someone you knew you would never call your own...
but for some reason the dream stays alive?

I have.