{Our Sunday and Monday}

Well, yesterday was just like any other Sunday. I got the kids ready for church and we headed off. It wasn't difficult for me because i have to do this nearly every Sunday already. Shane is the ward clerk so he only gets to be home with me on Fast Sunday mornings. On our way to church the boys kept telling me how weird it is that dad isn't going to be with us.
I had to teach in Relief Society. Before church started they asked if the Elder's Quorum could join us for the lesson. Sheesh. No pressure or anything. It actually turned out fine. :) I also found out i will be released in two weeks from my calling because a new Relief Society President was called. It's bittersweet. I feel a great connection with the ladies i have been working with, and it's been a great learning experience and i have learned a lot, but i like change. REALLY, military is perfect for someone like me. I will get a new calling every year being in the military. :) haha!
We came home and ate and then the boys were dying to go catch some tadpoles. SO, we walked down the street to a small pond. It wasn't really a pond. More like a small water hole. But there were tons of tadpoles. The boys spent about 30 minutes trying to catch some. They were successful a few times. We came back and laid Jaydon down for a nap and then watched Planet Earth. 
During Jaydon's nap i was able to talk to shane! He is in Alaska. He said his body feels so OFF right now. They are 17 hours behind us. I can see how his body is feeling so weird, PLUS it's 10 p.m. there and light outside. His body is probably so confused as to what the heck is going on. He told me he is starting to feel sick too. I hope he will be fine considering he is sleeping out in a tent in the freezing alaskan mountains for the next 4-5 nights. Yikes. Poor guy.  
Then i started cooking some dinner. We ate and then we had a dance party.   Then we popped some popcorn, and ate it while i read the scriptures to them. Jaydon asked me right as i tucked him in when daddy was going to be home. It had only been one day, so hopefully he does okay until he gets back.

Monday i got Gavin and his friends off to school. Came back here and got the other two boys ready for the day and we went to the grocery store. I am being lazy with my cooking while Shane is gone. I am going to enjoy it. :)  We came back, i cleaned a little while i let the boys watch about half of a movie and then we headed to the beach. It was a beautiful , bright hot day. We hung out there and then came home just in time to pick up Gavin from school. After we picked up Gavin i realized i forgot to buy a few things i need for preschool this week. We ran to the craft store together and they helped me find the things i needed. We went home and i threw in a couple pizzas for the boys. After that we did our Family Home Evening Activity. We went walking around looking for good rocks so we can make pet rocks. We couldn't find any around here, so we decided the next best spot is down by the seawall.  We loaded in the car and went to the seawall. It was high tide, so we couldn't walk out like we usually do at lowtide.  BUT there were lots of rocks in the area where we usually park. We found a bunch and then went home, had our lesson, sang songs, read scriptures and i said goodnight. We are working on memorizing the third article of Faith. Both Tanner and Gavin have the first two memorized. Gavin also has the third one memorized, but we are trying to help Tanner learn it before we move on to the fourth article of Faith.  Then i talked with Shane just a little bit. It was 4 a.m. there and he was getting ready to head out for his camping. He only got three hours of sleep. He said he woke up at 2 am and couldn't go back to sleep. Poor guy. He is going to be so tired. Once he gets used to alaskan time he is going to turn right back around and have to get back on our time again. Gavin asked me today "When is dad going to be home?" in a sad impatient tone. They miss their daddy.