My Grandmother and her brother celebrated their 80th bday with their entire (almost) family. It was a surprise party and it was a blast!
Gwen & Glen's 80 Birthday Party
First day of School
Spencer's first day of Playschool (he only goes M & W from 8:30-11am) He said mom give me a high five & a kiss & did not cry when Steve & I left. What a big boy.
Emma's first day of Kindergarten. She did not cry, she sat right down at her desk and started coloring. I did not cry until I was walking out. I saw my neighbor Dana & we cried together. LOL
Update
My dad might loose his big toe. Please pray for him. He has diabetes and has not been doing well.
Emma went to a pretend sleepover party Sat for her friend H. and she had a great time. They did makeup, played games, made there own pizza and watched a movie among other things. She had a blast. Thanks Em.
My sewing machine has been broken so we took it to the Sear repair guy and paid $30 for him to tell me I needed a new foot controller. OK then when we got it back Steve looked at it even closer and took it apart, only to find a dime in it. Now it works. The funny thing is the Sears repair guy called me and said it was defective. I want my $30 back dude. Also he was gonna charge me $65 for a new foot pedal and $60 for labor (handing me that foot pedal). So I have to return the new foot pedal that is on its way. And yes I "declined" to have him fix it. I said I will save the $60 and order it myself, but now I don't even need it cause I have an awesome husband who is WAY better than a Sear repair guy. LOL
Steve and I went on a date Saturday. We went to Chef Point Cafe in Watuga. It is a restaurant inside a gas station. Well the food is supposed to be AWESOME! They were on the Food Network. Well it was yum. I will say but yeah not crazy about the atmosphere. I am a girl that likes to go to a nice place.
We get to tour Emma's new school tommorrow and she is so excited. It is about 95% built. She & I can't wait for her to start kindergarten on Aug 23. YAY! We have all her school supplies, backpack, lunch box, new clothes and shoes and we are ready for her to "get on the BUS." yes she is able to ride the bus, we live 2.6 miles from the school and you have to at least be 2 miles away to qualify. She is so excited!
Spencer is also very ready to go to his Playschool. We are blessed because his 2 teachers are the same women that taught Emma for the past 2 years. We know and love them.
Well I am still having a blast in Primary and Steve is enjoying working with the missionaries. I love it how the Lord sees fit to bless us even when we don't feel worthy of those blessings. He knows and loves us!
He was true and he died righteously...
I am preparing sharing time today. This sunday's theme is Following Jesus Christ's Example. I have been struggling alot with how to teach the JR primary the lessons we have in sharing time. I have been praying for help and guidance from my Heavenly Father. I have printed out footprints & I will put them on the floor in a circle and let these little children follow the circle path of the "Saviors footprints" while I am telling a story (in my own words) about the Savior. But I will be stopping a few times during the story and whom ever is standing on the "special" footprint they will get to choose a song out of the jar. We will sing one verse and then move on with the story - game. The songs will be all about people that followed the Savior or about us following him.
As I was looking for songs to include in my jar- I came across the song: Book of Mormon Stories p. 118 I was reading verse 4: It brought me to sudden tears as I read the story about one of my favorite men in the Book of Mormon. It says:
Don't forget Abinadi, who stood before the king.
All chained up from head to toe, the gospel he did bring.
If he would deny it, then the king would set him free.
He was true, and he died righteously.
It made me think about a challenge I am dealing with lately:
Sometimes we have righteous intentions but no matter what we do, others will not always realize that we mean no ill toward them but only have love towards them.
And no matter what our Heavenly Father loves us all.
Trip to New York & PA
Spencer waiting for Grandma at the Newark Airport!
We got to visit Grandma & Grandpa's house!
We visited a real Dairy Farm. Emma petting the baby cows.
Emma is walking in Grandma's Secret Garden
We swam in the Jacobsburg River- soooooo fun!
Our Family at the Poconos.
Spencer at the Poconos.
We went to the Pocono Mountains- what a beautiful view!
This was a waterfall at the Delaware Watergap. It was beautiful!
We hiked up to see this waterfall.
We drove around and saw two covered bridges:
Emma on the Staten Island Ferry
Grand Central Station
Spencer with the Bear
Emma with Angelina Ballerina
"THE" Piano from the Movie "BIG" (at FAO Swartz)
Steve & I in front of FOA Swartz
Walking in Central Park
Spencer eats a hotdog in Central Park
Emma climbs a rock at a playground in Central Park
Central Park
Trip
Broadway st
New York City Temple - It is right in the middle of everything (so weird)
Peter Jennings St
The little (and I mean little) Deli we ate at for lunch
Dad & Emma cooling off at lunch
She is so cute!
A Subway tunnel
Dad holding Spencer on the subway
Emma walking the streets of New York
Times Square was awesome, a MUST SEE!
More Times Square
ABC News
Times Square
Jurrassic Park Dinosaur
Candy Land King in Toys R US
cool picture of the Ferris Wheel
Super man in Toys R US
Emma on the Ferris Wheel at the Toys R US in Times Square.
Spencer & Mom on the ferris wheel
Ground Zero
New York shoreline
Statue of Liberty
We finished the day off with a cold ice pop.
