Missionary Opportunity

Happy Friday! Man am I glad that this week is almost over. It's been a weird one.

So we have this friend named Alex. He's 17 but and hangs out at our house all of the time. He and Vchild are really good friends too. We've talked to Alex about the church over the last few months and he asked Valeri when he can meet with the missionaries. So I'll talk to the missionaries on Sunday and hopefully they'll meet this next week! It's so great, and what's even greater is that Alex will be taught in our home. I'm excited to have him be taught there. Pray for us... pray that more than just Alex's ears hear the message. ;)

Wanda (my mother in law) and I have had some great religion conversations over the last couple of weeks too. She's a devout Jehovah Witness and it's been really to share our beliefs back and forth.

Alex teaching Rad all about car parts.

I need to pay attention too!

Sorry Rach, I didn't even know that you could get tagged... didn't know what a tag was... but now I get it and I'll keep myself in check!

1- 4 jobs that I have had:

*House keeper
*Delivery driver
*Entertainment Consultant
*Banker

2- 4 movies I can watch over and over:

*Anything Shirley Temple
*Newsies
*Remember the Titans
*Barnyard

3- 4 places I have lived:

*Boise, ID
*Sacramento, CA
*Sandy, UT
*Bonners Ferry, ID

4- 4 guilty pleasures

*Movie theatre popcorn- extra butter
*Any pastry from Yokes
*Sneaking away to watch a football game by myself
*Taking a nap

5- 4 places I have been on vacation

*Hawaii
*Disneyland
*Moab, UT
*Las Vegas

6- 4 favorite foods

*Steak
*Mashed potatoes
*Cabbage
*Seafood Pasta

7- 4 Websites I visit:

*Myspace
*Gmail
*USbank
*Ebay

8- 4 places I'd rather be right now:

*Home
*Somewhere warm
*With my family
*Shopping... with money

9- 4 books I love:

*The Book of Mormon
* Harry Potter
*Anne of Green Gables
*Work and the Glory

10- 4 things I would like to know how to do:

*Dance
*Speak many languages
*Be outgoing without going through my shy stage first
*Maneuver my way through the scriptures better

11- 4 neglected body parts

*Eyes
*Tonsils
*Belly
*Mouth

12- 4 things I worry about

*My noneternal family
*Shayli when she's not at home
*Derrick quitting his job in March
*Not having health insurnace

13- 4 happy moments

*Having Diddles
*Moving home
*Whenever all of my bro's and sis's are together
*Being in the MTC

14- 4 things I want to do this year

*Get out of debt... again
*Lose 20 more pounds
*Prepare a spot for next years garden
*Buy a sleep number bed

9-18-2007

Geez! Sorry Heidi! Thanks for kicking my rear in gear! I've been a busy, busy mom/wife/full time employee! Since my last post:

I turned 27! Derrick, Shayli and Rad spoiled me this year. They gave me a sirius radio, flowers, jewelery and a way fun PS2 game. Valeri gave me an awesome shirt and Valeri and Alex (They aren't a couple :)) pitched in together and bought me a PS2 game too. The PS2 games that I got are karaoke games called Rockstar and Popstar and Hole-E-Cow they are so fun. Shayli and I rock out all of the time now. It's really fun. Then on Saturday Derrick and I got to go out ALL BY OURSELVES. No kids, and that was awesome. I love my kids, but I loved holding Derrick's hand without trying to push a stroller at the same time.

We had a great visit with Amy, Jared, Tavin, Andrew, Samantha, Heidi and Ben. Not long enough, but so good to visit with them. I miss them already though! I have the cutest nephews and neice ever. We fed the bears with them as you will see from their respective blogs and ti was a way cool experience.

Shayli started 5th grade on September 4th and I swear that she turned super independent over night. The day before school started she was holding my hand and walking through WalMart. Now she's SO grown up and gets so embarassed about it. Ahhh, she's growing up.

Rad is such a funny boy. He loves to work outside with Derrick and he loves to talk on the phone when he is at work with mom. Only he doesn't use the phone. He uses anything he can find, and if he can't find anything, he babbles into his hand while he holds it up to his ear. Very cute.

Derrick has been hard at work rebuilding his 4runner and fixing our hot tub and building Shayli's tree house before the snow comes. It rained a lot today and we know that the snow is not far off. We had to turn our gas stove on today for heat... I am not looking forward to the winter power bills.

Derrick's parents are living with us until their house is put onto their property sometime next month. Wayne has been in Alaska moose hunting so we haven't seen him at the house yet but having Wanda here has been great. The kids love playing with her and I love coming home to a vaccuumed floor! She's a really neat lady and I have really enjoyed getting to know her better.

The highlight of the last month for me has been able to get away by myself and watch Shane's football games. Sandpoint High School football rules! Last Friday was the 10 year reunion of when my calls won state and they recognized the team at Shanes game and it was really neat to see some of the guys I graduated with. They all pretty much looked the same. Stupid thing though, my senior year I dropped my keys under the bleacher and lost them during a football game and at the reunion on Friday I did the same thing. Grrrr, I did find them eventually though, thank to Uncle Paul!

I'll start staying better on top of my blogging...