You may have noticed that between our new callings, Emma's graduation, the work conference in Saint George, and our trip to Alabama, it's been pretty go go go around here the last several weeks. I had hopeful visions that things would calm down a bit once we returned from Alabama, but that has not been the case yet.
I arrived back home on a Wednesday night to an empty refrigerator,
boatloads of laundry to do, and a somewhat messy house after being gone
for 2 weeks (4 days in Saint George, then 10 days in Alabama). I also had a funeral program to design (see below) and print by Thursday and book group to get ready for hosting on Thursday night, plus a busy weekend ahead, which pretty much meant there was not a moment of downtime before I had to go go go again.
I LOVE my book group! They are fantastic people that I am lucky to call my friends, so I totally don't mind hosting every month, even if sometimes it feels like a lot. Luckily I was able to talk Emma into coming up for a couple hours to help me clean and make refreshments, which took the edge off of this crazy day.
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| BACK ROW L-R: Julie D, Nancy G, Kelly D, Emily G, Mary J, Heather P, Andrea C FRONT ROW L-R: Susan T, Me, Carrie W, K'Lynn W |
A FUNERAL
My Aunt Valerie passed away while we were in Alabama. She never married, so it was her sisters (including my Mom) helping to plan the funeral. I was asked to make the funeral programs...something I was happy to do!
The funeral went great, except that I forgot to tell Glen that he was giving the family prayer. I had been asked about it while I was still in Alabama and just plain didn't thoroughly read the text they sent and then couldn't communicate to Glen something I skipped over. It was a bit embarrassing as everyone was waiting for him and it was 100% my fault. 😳 Oops. Besides giving the family prayer, Glen also led the music. Emma gave the life sketch. This was us at the funeral.
Speaking of sisters...my sister, Kristina, town for the funeral too.
She also brought Jesus, who decided he wants to be called J now. Denali was LOVING all the extra attention J was giving her...
And J was LOVING all the one on one attention he was getting here without any of his siblings to compete with. We read lots of books and let him pick the movies (Frozen and Pete the Cat), which his brothers
would never let him watch.
WEDDING RECEPTION
On Saturday night, after a busy day of doing all of our Saturday things, we went to the wedding reception of a friend of Emma's from PA. Emma didn't live in PA for very long, but Katie left on her mission within a few weeks of Ems and both got reassigned to SLC missions during COVID, so they connected that way. I grew to really love Katie's Mom, Elizabeth, who was one of our bright spots from PA, after the very awkward social experience we had in the first ward we lived in while we were there. We didn't take any pics at the reception and we actually didn't get a chance to talk to the L family for very long, since they were a bit distracted with lots of wedding stuff, but it was great to see their happy faces and celebrate with them.
One Sunday a month, we wake up extra early and head to stake meetings that start at 7:30am. But since it's about 35 minutes to get there and we have to find parking on campus, we have to leave around 6:50am and we don't get home until about 3:00pm. The Sunday after we got home from Alabama was one of those long days, but luckily Kristina was leaving from the Provo airport, so she dropped by right after our ward ended to say goodbye! It was fun for Kristina to see a glimpse of what we're doing in the YSA ward now and it was fun that Emma could run over and greet Kristina as well. I laughed when I offered to pick J up for the picture and he immediately flopped over in my arms like a baby! Silly boy!
By the time you'll read this post, we'll have prepared talks for this Sunday, had a kid break a bone in two places (a post for another day), and been down to BYU FOUR separate times for various ward activities (it actually ended up 6/7 days).
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