I really need to update the look of this blog - I had such good intentions at the first of the year - oh well - we all know what I'd rather be doing :)

I have actually changed the title on this (for the copy to be printed) to be 'I can do it' after Jen told me that's what she always says. I just didn't make a new web copy.

The first photos of our new house

Ben is standing in the foundation of our home... It will be fun to watch as it's being built. Pretty exciting for us, considering that a mere 3 months ago if you told me this was going to happen I'd have laughed at you like a crazy woman! Needless to say, we are enjoying this moment.

Exciting News...

After my latest layouts...

We are buying a house - ok, a townhome, but the financing just went through & so it's good to go. It's currently a hole in the ground, but by October it will be a brand new townhome ready for us to inhabit. Reasons we're excited... John: my own bedroom Ben: everything ... space, new, i can paint my walls! Mom: kitchen, space.... lots of space... more space... my own bathroom... big kitchen... garage door opener... did I mention the kitchen & the frig ... oh & more space! Stay tuned.... pictures to come.

Mom's Day

Last week a new stake was formed in Minnesota - the St. Cloud Minnesota stake. While it's exciting to watch the church grow it was a funny week for our ward. They used our building for all the goings on associated with the new stake & so our ward was kicked out for the day :) We met with another ward. It was nice to only be 5 minutes from this building as it usually takes us 15 min to get to our regular building (wow! that still sounds so much easier than if I lived in ... oh I don't know. Africa!) Anyway... our Primary is much larger than the ward we were 'visiting' & they were NOT EXCITED about us joining them. I even offered to do everything - 2 Sharing times. ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! They insisted we all meet separately. Well - I'm not big into having Jr. & Sr. together so I opted out for fun... I loves having me some fun in Primary! We made our Mom's Day gifts. I love the internet - in my world all good ideas come from the internet. I'm just good at taking someone else's idea & implementing it. So my idea came from...

http://sofiasprimaryideas.blogspot.com/search/label/Mother%27s%20Day

So, with the help of my handy dandy printer (see below) I made the following

label - on the outside of the ziploc bag

Poem that described the game to play with M & M's

Each child wrote a letter (drew pictures, scribbled) for their mom. Bag of M & M's & popcorn and papers went into the zip loc bag with the cutesy label on the front. I thought it turned out cute. Kids thought it was fun!

Things I'm lovin' this week ----

1) Chicken Salad sandwich from Panera (it was super yummy but also helped that my boss paid ) :)

2) Kemps Frozen Yogurt Parfaits - individual sized. No over-indulging!

3) John doing disco moves to Bee Gees.

4) Quiet Friday nights at home - John on 1 computer, Mom on 1 computer, Ben lost in a new book!

5) Spring has sprung!

6) Thin crust Hawaiian pizza

7) My Canon printer - it makes my Primary calling a thousand times easier :)

8) Free digital scrapping supplies won from silly trivia competitions