Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Today I'm working on odds and ends things. Did a little cleaning. Mailed some craft items to Rachelle for the S.M.A.R.D. auction. The main part of my day was focused on the physical preparation for my Colonoscopy I have tomorrow morning. For one entire day you are on a liquid diet. Nothing with red or purple dye in it. So that rules out all my favorite berry-flavored things. So I will probably be sick of orange flavor by the end of the day. If that's not bad enough, you get to have two different kinds of laxatives :( to help clean you out as well. WHAT A FUN DAY! It's only 1:00 pm and I'm starving! I can't eat REAL food till after the procedure tomorrow morning. UGH! I can do this. I have to remind myself that I can do hard things. This is definitely a hard thing! So I decided it was time to catch up on this blog to help keep my mind off food. This is a good thing. I just hope there are no complications during the procedure and they find nothing troubling. Wish me luck!
Yesterday was my first day of summer vacation. I sat outside and enjoyed the warmth and sunshine. I decided to pull out my sketchbooks and draw a Mourning Dove. I wanted to show my drawings in the branch Art Gallery activity. I displayed my bird and flower drawings. There were some really neat things displayed at the Art Gallery activity. Nathan Olmsted does welding projects, from flowers to signs to a car-shaped music box. Carissa Hughes displayed some of her portrait drawings. Grace showed her bead work. Tyrell Kohler showed his drawings and mini figurines. Zach showed his 'space' paintings that are made with spray paint, cans, and lids. Donovan showed a characateur drawing someone did of him and some poetry. Pres. Bond showed an oil painting he did. Someone displayed a quilt. Brother Olmsted brought and demonstrated a 'walking wheel' he made. It was made of wood with 6 legs, powered by a battery-operated drill. A man named Jon Vaughn from the college showed his drawings and paintings. Sean showed 6 of the knives he's made. Someone displayed some pottery. We had a 'breakfast' dinner to feed the college kids for dead week. It was a very good activity, well supported. Of course, there was food!
Hello summer vacation!
Well, a big sorry to anyone following my blog. I didn't realize it's been since spring break that I posted! Time always seems to drag from January to Spring break at the end of March. Then time seemed to race which usually doesn't happen. Let's see if I can get up to speed here.
January- Paul and I joined the community choir. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and will probably start up again in the fall. We performed a Civil War themed concert in March. I also started taking flute lessons thanks to Marissa loaning me her flute. That was a fun challenge.
February- we celebrated our 33rd wedding anniversary. It doesn't seem like it's been that long, but we have the children and grandchildren to prove it! :) I helped our ward serve a meal at the Shelter From the Storm fundraiser. That's our community service project for the year. Near the end of the month, Paul was called to be the Branch Clerk for the young singles branch in our stake. So now we are serving there for awhile. Don't know if our time will be the customary 5 year term that the presidency gets or not.
March- We had a Stake Relief Society meeting in Baker. Later that afternoon, Paul and I ate a steak dinner that was a fundraiser activity for the high school football team. It was delicious! Then the much awaited spring break! yay!
April-Tonya Alexander got married in the Idaho Falls temple, and I went to her reception. She was a beautiful bride! Grace Bond and Cody Schwendiman, a couple from the branch got married. They had a fun/interesting reception. The Boise Institute Choir came and did a concert for us. The branch took them to Elgin Opera house for the play "Grease". Then we fed them dinner and were able to visit with them a bit before the performance. That morning the branch had a Tri-Stake Activity up on Milo Hibbert's property. We went to their cabin up on Mt. Emily and did a fun lumberjack activity. There was wood cutting with a two-man saw, knife throwing, hatchet throwing, tree climbing with equipment like a lumberjack does, log splitting, an obstacle course, and quilt tying. I did all of it with the young people. It was fun. I had a blast climbing the tree! I'm still waiting for Sister Bond to give me the picture she took of me climbing.
May- Paul gave me a beautiful bust of a mother cradling her child for Mother's day! The weather finally started to warm again and I bought plants from the middle school plant sale. I was able to get 1/2 my garden in. The branch had another Tri-Stake activity, this time it was a temple trip. We went to the Columbia River temple in Kennewick, Washington. Those who couldn't do temple work were able to do family history extraction work at the stake center across from the temple. We had lunch, took a group picture, and then headed home. For Memorial Day we were going to barbecue but it turned cold and rainy. So we just cooked indoors instead. May 31st was my last day of school. I was sooo ready to be done with work this year! Looking forward to a warm, laid-back summer.
Well, a big sorry to anyone following my blog. I didn't realize it's been since spring break that I posted! Time always seems to drag from January to Spring break at the end of March. Then time seemed to race which usually doesn't happen. Let's see if I can get up to speed here.
January- Paul and I joined the community choir. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and will probably start up again in the fall. We performed a Civil War themed concert in March. I also started taking flute lessons thanks to Marissa loaning me her flute. That was a fun challenge.
February- we celebrated our 33rd wedding anniversary. It doesn't seem like it's been that long, but we have the children and grandchildren to prove it! :) I helped our ward serve a meal at the Shelter From the Storm fundraiser. That's our community service project for the year. Near the end of the month, Paul was called to be the Branch Clerk for the young singles branch in our stake. So now we are serving there for awhile. Don't know if our time will be the customary 5 year term that the presidency gets or not.
March- We had a Stake Relief Society meeting in Baker. Later that afternoon, Paul and I ate a steak dinner that was a fundraiser activity for the high school football team. It was delicious! Then the much awaited spring break! yay!
April-Tonya Alexander got married in the Idaho Falls temple, and I went to her reception. She was a beautiful bride! Grace Bond and Cody Schwendiman, a couple from the branch got married. They had a fun/interesting reception. The Boise Institute Choir came and did a concert for us. The branch took them to Elgin Opera house for the play "Grease". Then we fed them dinner and were able to visit with them a bit before the performance. That morning the branch had a Tri-Stake Activity up on Milo Hibbert's property. We went to their cabin up on Mt. Emily and did a fun lumberjack activity. There was wood cutting with a two-man saw, knife throwing, hatchet throwing, tree climbing with equipment like a lumberjack does, log splitting, an obstacle course, and quilt tying. I did all of it with the young people. It was fun. I had a blast climbing the tree! I'm still waiting for Sister Bond to give me the picture she took of me climbing.
May- Paul gave me a beautiful bust of a mother cradling her child for Mother's day! The weather finally started to warm again and I bought plants from the middle school plant sale. I was able to get 1/2 my garden in. The branch had another Tri-Stake activity, this time it was a temple trip. We went to the Columbia River temple in Kennewick, Washington. Those who couldn't do temple work were able to do family history extraction work at the stake center across from the temple. We had lunch, took a group picture, and then headed home. For Memorial Day we were going to barbecue but it turned cold and rainy. So we just cooked indoors instead. May 31st was my last day of school. I was sooo ready to be done with work this year! Looking forward to a warm, laid-back summer.
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