Sunday, July 24, 2011

The pink fairy, heat wave, and teaching teens how to drive

The Dancing Pink Fairy

Alayna has been very into dancing lately which means I should probably break down and get her into dance classes. She choreographed her own dance, dressed up, and performed it for us. She loves to leap!

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Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. ~Author Unknown

One of my least favorite things to do is to teach teens how to drive. My heart can’t take it. Kayla starts drivers ed this week so we have had to take her out to practice. Other than almost taking out the mailbox, pushing the gas when she should’ve pushed the brake, and forgetting she was the one driving, I think she is doing ok?

Called to Serve

Marisa got to be a missionary this week! She got to drive up to Cedar Falls this week and spend the entire day shadowing the sister missionaries. She said it was so awesome and loved every minute of it. Hopefully she will share what her day and experience was like?

Heat wave/ Freak storms

We are in the middle of a wicked thunderstorm that has thunder making me jump out of my skin! We had a bad storm Friday night which made us lose power for 3 hours. There’s nothing like losing power for 3 hours to make you appreciate and almost worship the times you DO have power!

We also went through a very nasty heat wave this week with the heat advisory causing temps up to 110-115! The air was so heavy it made it hard to breathe! You just can’t beat Iowa weather, right? You never know what you are going to get!

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(We got chalked one night)

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Me time?

I’ve had all these projects I’ve been wanting to do and I figured this week I was ready for some “me” time. I started a puzzle (I haven’t done one in about a year now).

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I made, completed, and ordered our blog book on Hawaii.

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I finished the recipe books and now we are trying new recipes.

I took ALL our negatives in to get them put onto disks to download on the computer.

AND after 18 ½ years I am FINALLY making our wedding album! How cool is that??

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1 comment:

Angela said...

So jealous of getting all your pictures caught up on, NOT jealous of the weather there. Love and MISS You. Glad Alayna is getting good use out of Jessica's old dance costumes. You should put her in dance...

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