{Nihongo}

Over the weekend we did a couple of fun things. Saturday morning i went and ran in a 5K with a few of my friends. After that i took Tanner and Jaydon and we went and ran a 5K family run. It was called the Haunted Habu Hill Family run. I didn't think that Tanner and Jaydon would make it longer than a mile, so i brought the double jogger so that i could push them the rest of the time. I was totally wrong. Jaydon and Tanner ran and walked that entire thing. I probably had to push jaydon about 1/4 mile. He wouldn't let me push him. He was DETERMINED to do it all by himself. He was sweating, his face was red, he asked for his water every 25 - 50 yards. He waved at people and said hello the entire time. He impressed me. I was so proud to be his momma. Tanner was the same way. He wasn't into saying hello to every person he passed, but he pushed himself so hard. He ran most of it. He had to stop and walk a few times, but man he was DETERMINED too! They were pretty tired in the last 1/2 to 1 mile of it. They started pooping out. BUT i helped push them so they could finish and they were so proud of themselves when they were done! It took us an hour to do it. They had oranges and bananas and Halloween candy waiting for them at the end. They pounded the food. It was such a fun experience to see my boys do that...especially for as young and little as they are!I mean, a 5K!! seriously! That little jaydon has the most determination i have seen out of my boys. He is going to take on the world and nothing will stop him. I have felt that ever since he was in my belly. I walked Gavin to school today and jaydon just wanted to run the whole way. So long to the stroller.


Then on Sunday evening we invited a couple and their young baby over for dinner. They are japanese. Shane talks with the girl at work. She cleans his office. So they will try communicating and help teach other english and japanese. They came over, but she ended up coming over by herself with her one year old. Her husband was sleeping, she said. hhmm. Anyway, it was interesting trying to communicate when we both know so little of each other's language. We had google translate to help us. Shane and I both learned a few things with the language that will stick with us. It will take a while to learn this language. BUT we are DETERMINED to learn it. sono hijo ni mizukashii.

She brought us over some japanese drinks, sushi, and japanese halloween candy. This one that shane is pouring out is TEA. We tried it. It was tea. It was gross. It is so bland and ucky.

hahaha! Shane looks funny in this picture! :) Anyway, THAT drink is orange juice....


This is the halloween candy. It's skinny skinny little pretzel sticks with a thin layer of chocolate on 3/4 of the stick. They are good, but definitely not halloween candy.
Here is the sushi she brought over. The on in the very middle is UNI...which is sea urchin. She said that is her favorite. It's weird how tastebuds are so different. I tried it and it tastes the way my child's diaper smells in the morning ....that OLD pee smell. yuck. I like the squid, which is the WHITE piece and i also like the salmon.Shane tried the salmon eggs. He didn't like it too much. I didn't try it. I was afraid to. Ummmm, Jaydon pounded the sushi! He liked the sea urchin, he ate the bottom middle fish piece. I am not sure what that is. He ate the raw shrimp. He just gulped it all down. And he was excited about it!!! haha! Sushi is so good with wasabe and ginger! GINGER is the best with it. I love the ginger.

Here are my cutie pies! These are the shirts they got for the BIG 5k run they did with me!

I also took these two boys to the Trunk -or-treat on saturday....they loved it. Jaydon LOVED walking around and getting candy! Last year he was too young to get it. This year he loved it! Man i had lots of fun with them on saturday! POOR gavin was sick!!! He couldn't do the run or the trunk-or-treat. I felt bad for him.

{MORE random thoughts}

I am glad i have a blog. It's a lot more fun for me to post on my blog instead of writing in a journal. So, here are more random thoughts...

I really like being 30 years old. Weird. Who knew. Since the day i turned 30 i feel like i hit the best years of my life. I feel like my 30's are gonna be good. Hopefully i don't jinx myself by saying that. I agree with what my wise dear friend from Ohio (who now lives in alaska) said....She said you are finally starting to figure things out when you are in your 30's. You are done with having baby's(well, some people are), you don't have the newborn, you don't have tiny kids to chase and worry about, you aren't dealing with the stresses of being newly married,. There are lots of firsts that happen in your 20's that you have to adjust to and learn from...basically, this is the time i get to sit back and enjoy all the results of what was created in my 20's. I am starting to feel that. I am starting to enjoy my kids soooooooo much more than i ever have. I enjoyed my kids before, ON AND OFF. :) While it still can be hard mainly b/c of Jaydon's craziness....i just feel like life is finally calming down. I so enjoy my husband finally being out of school and having a job. I enjoy lots of things right now. I am enjoying not being pregnant or having a newborn. It's just a good time, i think. AND i feel like this is also a great time to master self-improvement. Well, not master it....but i feel like i am figuring things out in a way i didn't before. It's so weird. I don't want to get into that b/c i could go on for a long time. I am enjoying getting older BUT at the same time i am not b/c i don't want to get old. :) One of the good things about aging is that you grow and progress in many different areas the longer you live. One of those being....COOKING. :) haha!

First of all, i used to NOT like cooking. yuck. AND i always got made fun of for my cooking b/c i always ruined it or somehow messed it up or BURNT it. One time i made lasagna for my brother at college. It was dry and crispy....crispy like the turkey on CHRISTMAS VACATION. haha! Another time in college i made something, but i don't remember what it was. WELL, i BURNT it to a crisp. I just remember grabbing it and setting it outside. It was BLACK AS BLACK could be. I completely destroyed it. I still have issues with cooking...such as trying to get my butter soft. I put it in the microwave for a short amount of time, like ten seconds. I CANNOT SEEM TO GET MY BUTTER SOFT WITHOUT MELTING IT. what is the matter with me?! I either accidentally leave it in too long and when i open the microwave it's completely MELTED all over the place. OR if i need to completely melt the butter then i put it in a bowl. I still screw it up. It starts melting and then i hear a LOUD pop. I open the microwave and it splattered all over the place! What the heck? I put saran wrap on it and it ends up overflowing and still getting everywhere. So frustrating for something that seems so simple.

Another incident....i can't cook gravy. I didn't grow up eating gravy. Shane did. He likes it and i can do without it. I just prefer butter, salt and pepper. Tastes better than gravy, i think. :) I have made gravy a hanful of times(for shane), but still can't remember how i made it after each time i made it. Gravy is not something i can do. ANOTHER simple thing to make that i just can't do. :)

So, how did i go from DISLIKING cooking and always messing it up TO enjoying cooking and making wonderful meals? Okay, i am not trying to brag here. I give all credit to the people that came up with the recipes in the first place. BUT i can actually MAKE the meal and make it GOOD now. People who USED TO make fun of my cooking NOW like my cooking. You know who you are! :) My husband and kids loves my cooking. AND i am learning how to add things to my recipes to make it taste just a bit better.

Last night i made TEXAS ROADHOUSE rolls. It was my first time. They could've looked better. BUT i think the next time they will look better and taste better. They tasted VERY CLOSE to the rolls. I couldn't make the honey butter exactly right b/c i didn't have HONEY!!! I think that would've made it better. Next time i will have honey for my honey butter. And my rolls will be done exact and then shane will be wanting those things every week. Who need roadhouse anymore?!!? haha! They did taste similar enough that shane said "WOW! That bite tasted just like it!" I guess every bite tasted different to him.

I now love trying new recipes. Cooking is fun and exciting sometimes. I can be OCD in my kitchen. I am not an OCD person, but with that i am. If shane comes into the kitchen and tries to help me cook or even THINKS about telling me to do something DIFFERENT....eewwww, i scoot him out of there QUICKLY. If he wants to cook for me, he can....BUT i can't be in there with him while he is doing it b/c i just cannot WATCH. It will make me crazy. But it's once in a blue moon that he wants to cook for me. :)

{Just thinking}

I am just sitting here thinking. I have had some anxiety the past couple of days. Due to a few things.
After talking with my best friend and after a few happenings lately this are the things that have crossed my mind...

1)Since when did "multiply and replenish the earth" have a number next to it? It doesn't.

2)I feel the importance , now more than ever, for my kids to understand WHO they are, where they came from, their purpose here, and where they are going. This understanding will help them get through this life a lot easier.

3) I hate hormones. 2 weeks out of the month i have hormonal issues due to PMS and all that GIRL stuff. FUN. Get these ovaries/fallopian tubes, and whatever else causes it, OUT OF ME already. :) j/k. haha.

4) Ummmm...i need a cleaning lady for my house.

NOW, just a few things to note....

1. Tanner has started a JOY school. I am doing it with four other mom's. I teach one week out of FIVE weeks. They don't have it everyday though. They have it on tuesday, thursday and friday. Tuesday and Thursday are the learning days and Friday is just a play day. Tanner already loves it after his first day. I think it will definitely prepare him for kindergarten. He knows all the basics, but i feel like SOCIALLY it will help him. The social skills is what he needs most. I am glad i am no longer paying 180 bucks a month for him to just go play for 2 1/2 hours. So silly.

2.Every friday night is pizza night. I make my homemade pizza. It's been an ongoing things for MONTHS now. We still love it. I did start a thing where every first saturday of the month is DONUT day. I did it once and keep forgetting. I think i should start again next saturday.

3. Shane and I are going on a 4 day getaway for our 8 year anniversary coming up in November. I am so excited you have no idea.

{Costumes}

The wonderful thing about this household of boys is that they don't MIND being the same Halloween character that they were the year before. We USE UP our halloween costumes around here AND hand them down. Jaydon is going to be BUZZ LIGHTYEAR...Tanner was Buzz lightyear two years in a row. Now it fits Jaydon. Gavin is Spiderman again this year and Tanner is Bumblebee AGAIN as well. I love it. We save money by not having to buy costumes for each boy each year. Soooooo, here are our boys in their COOOOOOL costumes. They love it. Sadly, i can't decorate my home this year with Halloween stuff like i usually do. Some of it was left behind in storage and i don't feel like going to buy new stuff ....i think i will go the day after halloween to see if they have any good deals on Halloween stuff. This place isn't like shopping at a wal-mart in the states though. The BX is the ONE place we have to shop for stuff on base SOOOOOO i won't be able to find good deals that easy b/c it will be gone in a blink of an eye.

{Hamaya Soba}

Last night we decided to go eat some yummy Japanese food again. We can't get enough of the food or the culture. We went and ate at a little restaurant next to the sea wall. It was recommended to shane by a Japanese lady who works at the clinic. It is called HAMAYA SOBA. We each got our owns Soba and we also got some Jushi Rice, which this lady recommended as well. The jushi rice was a little different than fried rice. It had little pork pieces in it and some seaweed, among a few other things. The soba was the yummiest part of the meal. Yummy soba noodles with little thin strips of egg, little bits of rib, topped with green onion. It was REALLY tasty. The boys loved it. AND Jaydon couldn't get enough of the rice. He ate a whole bowl full.

Look at the picture above...do you see those little chairs all lined up that are in the left of the picture, next to gavin's elbow? Those are the kids booster seats. Those are the same booster seats in every restaurant that we have been to here. The cups that they give for drinks are very tiny. You can drink it in one drink. Our meal was a good price for all five of us. It was about 2200 yen, which is about $25.00. Not bad. That's good for some of the places around here. We haven't been to some of the more pricey places yet...where you can easily spend $50 a person. Shane and I went to a place called COCO CURRY about a week ago. All the meals have curry in them. Real traditional curry is SPICY. The curry we buy at the store isn't spicy. Anyway, you tell them HOW HOT you want your meal to be. You can either get a curry meal that isn't spicy or you tell them you want the HOTNESS to be either a 1 or all the way up to a 10. Apparently a FIVE is HOT HOT HOT. Shane got a three and that was HOT enough he said. He wouldn't have gotten any hotter. His eyes were watery and it was clearing his nostrils. I got a ONE and it was plenty hot for me. I don't like my food very spicy at all. It was REALLY good food. Apparently if you want a TEN there is a medical disclaimer next to it...a WARNING. :) I would die if i ate a ten. ANYWAY, back to this post.

In this picture below, do you see that yellow stuff in Jaydon's noodles? At first we didn't know what it was. They gave it to us with our meal in a little separate bowl. So we figured we added it to our soup or rice. We did and it tasted good. BUT shane asked them what it is and they told us it is pickled radish and you actually eat it alone AFTER you eat your meal. Shane liked it, but it had a weird taste that i couldn't figure out...almost a bitter taste, but a little different.

*Not sure what is going on with Jaydon's eye.

And this fun little sign was in front of the restaurant. We thought this was a fun idea.

And here you can see Gavin and on the other side is his friend who he has to take care of over the weekend. It is an octopus...in japanese they call it "tako"...sounds just like taco. The name of his Tako is "Ollie". It's the pet of his 1st grade class and gavin had to take him home and journal about the things that he and Ollie did over the weekend. It's a fun idea and he has been having fun taking care of Ollie.

On another note....Tanner loves when i make his sandwiches into sushi rolls. He tells me they taste SOOOOO good when i make them into sushi rolls. It's fun new idea for lunch.

{Tanner turned 5 yrs. old!}

My little Tanner turned FIVE on September 28th. He just missed the cut-off for kindergarten, but that's alright because i don't think he was ready anyway. I decorated our dining room with streamers hanging for the entrance and balloons all over the floor.

I made him a special round cake with a surprise in the middle. The candles were supposed to be just like SPARKLERS, but they didn't even SPARKLE! Grrrrr. :)

This face looks like a boy who is HAPPY and LOVING his birthday. Don't ya think?

{Sunday Funday}

hahaha...ok. Well, yesterday was the day they announced my new calling in our branch. I was called as 2nd counselor in the Relief Society. When they set me apart yesterday he told me that i would be over the visiting teaching program to make sure all the women are taken care of. Honestly, i am excited about this calling. Before this, i was the 2nd counselor in the Young Women's presidency and before that i was the 2nd counselor in the Primary presidency. 2nd counselor seems to be where i belong. haha

When we were in cleveland i was called into the primary presidency our second year there. I remembered telling shane about a week before they called me into that that being in the primary is the last calling i would ever want. HAHA! I have learned to stop saying what callings i don't want. I also remembered being slightly disappointed because i felt like the relief society was where i wanted to be. I wanted to have the connection with the women and wanted to be a part of the women. I did actually enjoy my calling in the primary. I loved the kids and i really enjoyed the women i worked with. I learned that primary was a good calling. :) Anyway, i was disappointed b/c i wanted to be in relief society and felt that is where i belonged. I remember getting an impression that i was going to work my way up to the relief society and my time would come. I remember a distinct impression that primary was going to teach me the basics of teaching and to understand how a presidency works. And then i would eventually work up to YW's where i will learn more, and then to relief society. And that by the time i get to relief society i would be ready to fulfill the calling that my Father in Heaven needed me to fulfill.

It ends up that it turned out exactly that way. I obviously had a feeling i would be in Relief Society and on our way here. it sort of stuck out in my mind. When we were up in mainland Japan waiting for seven hours in that tiny two room military airport the Relief Society president(i didn't know that she was at the time) of our branch we are in now ended up coming up to us asking us if we were the Jenks family. She heard about us through our sponsors, whom we still had not seen yet. Out of all the people packed in that tiny airport she picked us out and guessed right. haha....We talked a moment and then we talked a bit on the airport and then we talked while we were waiting for our luggage. I felt liked i belonged b/c i just felt comfortable with her. Anyway, i now get to serve with her and two other great women. I am excited to be with the women and to learn how to serve better and to create wonderful connections and bonds with the women and to create great friendships, which in fact has already started. I feel like we belong here. This is where we are supposed to be.

Shane and I gave talks yesterday at church. I think it went really well. I enjoyed preparing my talk and i enjoyed speaking. I know, i am an odd one. I admit it. Who says they LIKE preparing a talk and actually LIKES to speak?!?! HAHA! I DO get NERVOUS and i DO have a bit of turmoil as i prepare the talk(b/c i am trying to be patient as i rely on the spirit to tell me), but at the same time i really enjoy it. I enjoy relying on the spirit to tell me what i should speak on. I enjoy feeling the spirit as i prepare and i also enjoy learning about my topics. AND i enjoy being PREPARED for my talks so that my audience will hopefully feel the spirit that i felt as i was preparing. And i so enjoy the wonderful confirmation of the spirit telling me that what i just wrote was exactly what needs to be said. That makes it a lot easier to get up and talk. Shane did wonderful. He is a natural born speaker, as someone told him later that day. I don't know how he does it. He can get up there speak straight to the audience without looking down and just connect with them. We spoke on "standing as Witnesses."

Later that night me and a few friends went to the general womens relief society broadcast. It was really good. I actually already listened to it, but it was a good chance to watch them speak to me. I connect a lot better with people when i see their eyes. So, it's always a different feeling for me when i just listen to the audio versus watching them while they speak. Is that so weird? I do the same thing with shane. When we talk in bed at night i have to have the lights on while we talk and have him facing me b/c that's the way i connect best in conversation. I have to see his eyes. SO if he wants to talk with the lights off, i insist on the lights being on. Poor shane. I know it gets pretty annoying for him, but he is so patient with me. :) I am not an OCD person, but i can be when it comes to that and when it comes to my kitchen. :) The eyes are the window to your souls. I like eye contact.

Anyway, directly after the broadcast there was a surprise fireside for the youth. Well, my friends and i hung around for it b/c David Archuletta was there. He actually was here saturday night singing for the octoberfest for the military. He showed up at the Awase branch for church on sunday and it surprised everyone. While there he offered to put on a fireside for the youth. He sang two songs for us and told us his story of why he went onto american idol and what the Lord taught him through it and bore his testimony to us. He is just absolutely adorable. It was wonderful to be able to hear his story and hear his testimony through his singing. He is such a good example, even after gaining stardom(is that how you spell it?)

Anyway, our sunday yesterday was full of spiritual stuff all day long. I felt spiritually fed and refreshed and motivated.

{A couple things}

The boys and I went to the Mud factory when we first arrived on the island. It's where you can make ceramics and after they are fired up you can paint them and then they fire them again so that it turns to glaze. Here is the art my boys made up. I think it's so funny. The dinosaur is jaydons(i made it for him) and then the snowman and snowball on the right are gavin's. The other ball thing is Tanner's. Their art work is so cute, i think.
Sweet Little Tanner

Tanner was having so much fun his first two weeks of "part-day enrichment". Then he suddenly started getting really sad and kind of freaked out at the idea of going anymore. One day he just started crying saying he didn't want to go. And for the past few days it's the same. Even when i went into his class with him to try and figure out whats wrong he still was so afraid i was going to leave so he held on to me pretty tight. I tried talking to him to see what is going on. He can be very hard to communicate with. I said, "Why don't you want to go to school anymore?" You will not believe his response. He said, "It's just because you are so beautiful all the time. I just want to stay with you. That's why." What a darling boy....BUT I am not sure what to think of that.

{Forest Adventure}

Shane and I went ziplining at Forest Adventure. It was tons of fun. Here is the beginning of the trail which leads us to the check-in point. The sign says "WATCH OUT HABU". Habu is a poisonous snake here.
Some more of the trail leading to our check-in. We saw a beautiful red dragonfly. Prettiest red i had ever seen.

Shane is taking off on the zip line!

There he goes...They had about five or six different zip lines. You go on one and then you walk for a minute and come up to another one. It leads you all around the forest. You have to climb a ladder to get up to the platform where you take off.

Here wer are way up high on the platform together. :)

Part way through the adventure they had a few different cold sodas for us. We chose the grape soda. Cheers.

Shane used to be an acrobat. Bet you didn't know that. Here he is showing us some of his skills. :)

After the zipline, you then go to a course of different obstacles. I don't remember the name of it. But they had all kinds of stuff... If you see the picture below you see that platform nearest to us? Well, above that is another platform that i accidentally cut off in the picture, but you can see the underneath part of it. You climb up there on top. They hook you up and then you freefall for about 1-2 seconds and then it swings you right into that big net, where you are supposed to grab on with both hands. It was so fun. I think they call it the Tarzan swing. And then after that they have all kinds of things you climb across.

Here we are at the top of our last obstacle together. Beautiful view.

The landing part of every zipline is anything but graceful. They have tons of piled woodchips for you, but they have it piled so high that you can't really land on your feet. You just end up landing just like shane is in this picture. It was so funny. One of them gave me major whiplash. You slam into that green thing which stops you suddenly. And if you haven't stopped yet, then it slams pretty hard. And one of them was so fast and i didn't have time to stop, so when i hit it it flung me back and then forward and then i swung around and hit my HEAD on the ground(woodchips). Shane thought it was funny and wished he was recording it. haha! He wanted me to go through that again just so he could record it. :) So funny. He said it looked like i was in a car accident, just being flung all over.
Isn't he so good looking?! sheesh! :)

Then after our adventure we decided to stop at a FAMILY MART to pick up some great japanese food. It's an american version of a Quik Trip or some little mart at a gas station. BUT i think these are much better. They have some pretty good food in there. They even have a soup station so you can dish up soups. They have sushi's, sweets, etc. AND you wouldn't believe it, but they has SPAM in there! haha! I had to pick it up and read where it was made, just to help me feel like i had a piece of home. Any SPAM you pick up, look on the back and it says its made in "Austin, MN." That's where my parents live. :) Anyway, back to my story. We decided to get NIKUMAN. They are steamed pork buns. The lady that checked us out told us that mine was a nikuman and that shane's was a pitsuman...i am not sure if that's how you spell it. This one here is shane's...And here is mine..... They looked like a large version of those dumplings that kungfu panda was fighting for in the movie after he was done training.Here is the inside. Shane' tasted a lot like sloppy joe. I liked mine a lot better. The flour dough was amazing. I don't know what or how they do it, but the bread is so bouncy, fluffy, and soft...unlike any bread i have ever had. It was awesome! I need to learn how to make these.

Then we both picked out a sweet. The sweets here are nothing like the States. They aren't near as sweet. Shane got what looked like a HUGE twinkie. He had a nice surprise on the inside after he took a bite....a banana. The taste is a lot more bland than you would think by looking at it. Here was mine. It looks yummy doesn't it? It was really good...not near as sweet as you would think, but still satisfying. And again, the bread part of this sweet was so amazing. The cake part was so moist and bouncy and soft. I could just eat that alone.

We had such a fun fun fun adventure today. I am ready for round two. :) We are actually going out again on Monday on another date. Shane has the day off. He gets lots of time off now. Seriously, it's so exciting. We get to go on dates OFTEN. I LOVE IT. Monday we are going to eat at a japanese restaurant. I love japanese food. I want to try everything here. I just can't take it in fast enough.

Uncle Zip and Aunt Donna...if you are reading this....i so wish you could see the furniture they sell here. And the pieces you can buy to accessorize your home with. You would DIE! They have such unique and authentic stuff that they sell....they are items from all over Vietnam, Phillipines, china, Germany, etc. And they sell for awesome prices. I so wish you could see this. You know that globe you sold to my parents with different gems for each state and country? I saw that here...It's from Thailand. It's so unique. And it's such a steal of a deal that i think we might regret not buying one.

{Singing in the Rain}

For about 3 days in a row we received many downpours. It was actually lots of fun. It wasn't just cloudy, it wasn't just sprinkling, it was pouring. I love downpours. Anyway, i let the kids play out in the rain after school. They absolutely loved it. When the rain let up for a few minutes, our neighbor brought us some cupcakes. I let the boys sit on our porch, eat their cupcakes, and then they ran out in the rain again. They played for about an hour in the rain. It was so fun watching them and so much fun taking pictures. It reminded me of when i was a kid. I remember playing in the huge mud puddles as a kid.

{This and That}

We were on a walk the other day on the Habu Trail when we saw the biggest spider we have ever seen. This one was about the size of shane's hand. He had about an eight food web. It was like something out of Arachnaphobia. Not kidding. On our way back home we saw about three more. They weren't quite as large as that first one, but still LARGE!!!

Jaydon fell down the stairs. He tried carrying his big Tonka truck down the stairs all by himself. He is such an independent thing. That tonka truck is as big as him and it's not plastic. It's metal. I suddenly heard booming all the way down the stairs and the scream at the end of it made me panic. People, i will share something with you...i do NOT say cuss words. Never have felt a desire or need. Just don't. BUT when i heard that banging down the stairs and heard my sweet baby cry like that i jumped up, cussed, and ran. Don't worry, my kids didn't hear it b/c they were upstairs. :) ANYWAY....i went over to him and he was bleeding pretty bad from above his eye. I just wanted to cry my eyes out b/c i felt so bad for him. There have been a couple times where my kids get hurt bad enough that it makes me want to cry and i just wish i could take the pain away for them. I just wanted to hold him, but we had to figure out what exactly got hurt. He had a deep wound above his eyebrow on one side. The other one had a big purple/red line that was about 2 inches across. The side of his nose had a bruise looking thing there. His forehead has a goose egg and a bunch of bruises on it. His arm got bruised as well. He looked like he got beat up. He is okay now. BUT it was terribly sad. I think when my kids get hurt like that it is more traumatizing for me than for them.

I received a new calling on Sunday. BUT i am not allow to say what it is until they announce it, right? So, maybe i should wait to mention it until then. I will say that i am happy about it. I have been wanting this calling for quite awhile. I do have a story to tell along with it when i actually tell you what it is. AND we are both giving talks on sunday.

We are fixing up our home....actually making it look like a hOME!! I am so excited and am loving it. We will have to post some pictures of our home for everyone to see when we are done. :)

The boys are back in swim lessons. Tanner is still doing private lessons and i decided to put gavin in private lessons too. I think private lessons are more effective than the group lessons that have EIGHT kids to one teacher. :) Private are more expensive, but we get more out of it. I am determined for these boys to be good swimmers! :)