Horrible News

I was horrified to read the news early this morning and find out that Elder Russell M Nelson and his wife were victims in a armed robbery in Africa. They were eating dinner at the mission president's home, when armed men broke in and assaulted the guests. They stole items and attacked the people there. The mission president's wife had her arm broken, and "reportedly" Elder Nelson was kicked in the face. My prayers go out to the Apostle and to the other people affected by this incident.

Last Day of School

Today is the last day of school. Yeah! I just realized that I have taken a lot of pictures with the intent to blog them, but haven't done it yet. I will try to get to that soon.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was amazing. After making breakfast for everyone, Eric got a call to come in for a noon Bishopric meeting. After his meeting, he rushed to to make sure that we would be to church on time because we were having a special visitor to our ward. Elder Russell M. Nelson, the Apostle, was speaking in our ward that day. His wife, Sister Wendy Watson Nelson spoke first and then Elder Nelson. What an amazing Mother's Day surprise. Sister Nelson's sister is in our ward.



Elder Nelson spoke on mother's and womanhood. He talked about the 7 things that LDS women deserve. (I was glad I took notes.) The seven things were 1) to be magnified, 2) to be appreciated, 3) to be honored, 4) to be provided for and protected, 5) to be allowed to achieve, 6) to be adored, and 7) to NOT be denigrated or belittled.

It was an amazing experience.

My family had to leave after sacrament meeting. So sad.

After church, we had dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Ferrin at their house in Lehi. Neil, LeAnn, Carly, Rachel, Brandon, Abi, and Brinna were there too. It was a very wonderful Mother's Day.

Saturday Morning

On Saturday morning, we finished the cars, set up the track and had the weigh-in for our Pack Pinewood Derby. The girls wore matching outfits that I found at Wal-Mart last week.




At the Pinewood Derby, we realized that Braden's car would have to be run backwards because the design allowed the nose to go over the starting pin by an inch. In spite of that, his car came in first place in his age group. Emma's car took 2nd in the Open Class. Everyone had a good time.






After dinner, we watched "Secondhand Lions".

Friday Evening

After Adam's program, we went back home to eat dinner and get ready for "The Jungle Book." We got to the play early enough to get front row seats. It was so cute and the kids really enjoyed the play.

After the play, we got to work on the pinewood derby cars. We got the basic painting done while the kids were awake, but after they went to bed things got interesting. The men went on a milkshake run, leaving the women with the cars and a bag of card making supplies. We were laughing so hard that I thought I'd had a stroke. This is what the results were. (Braden did decorate his own car.)




(On the back of Emma's car, we glued a sign that said "eat my fairy dust")

Friday Morning and Afternoon

Friday morning, we sent the kids off to school and then we did some shopping and took the younger kids to McDonald's for lunch. I dropped Adam off at school a few minutes late, and we went home to get ready for Adam's Spring Program. His Transitional Kindergarten class had a really cute program. Half of the classroom was filled with Adam's family. Braden and Emma got permission to come. So it was me, Braden, Emma, Jon, Grandma and Grandpa Davis, Aunt Heidi, Abby and Daphne. Grandma and Grandpa Ferrin, Aunt Rachel, Abi, Brinna, Aunt Stefanie, Paul and Laura also came. The program was really cute and I was sad to hear that Miss Joan (Adam's teacher) is moving to China.


Adam and the bus driver and bus aide.


Adam with Miss Connie, Miss Karen and Miss Joan

What a Weekend

We had such a busy weekend. My parents came in on Thursday night, really late and on Friday we were up and running. I'll cover each event separately.