We had dinner at cousin’s house tonight and while we were there, all the kids disappeared. Laurel went downstairs to check up on them and found most of them all lined up thoroughly engrossed in watching Pippi Longstocking.
Month: February 2015
State Capitol Building
Ethan is working on the Citizenship in the Nation merit badge for boy scouts and Tyra is working on the Inside Government badge for girl scouts so we thought we would go check out the Utah state capitol building and get a couple of requirements signed off. There weren’t any guided tours happening today, so we got to just walk around at our own pace. We decided to start on the top floor and work our way down from there.
The murals up around the dome show some of the history of the state of Utah.
Last we saw the exhibits they had on the main floor. The kids were really impressed with the replica of the Liberty bell.
I really liked the chunk of Bertrandite. It is that white rock with veins of purple going through it:
Getting a picture of all of the kids in front of the capitol building didn’t work so well. They were all complaining of the sun being in their faces, and none were willing to just open their eyes and look somewhere else long enough for me to get a decent picture.
Blue & Gold
This year for the Blue and Gold, they decided to have a timeline of scouting events, that they put up around the room. That was pretty cool to see. They also gave each family a couple of bags of activities for the kids to play with while we waited for the meeting to start. One bag had a couple of twizzlers in it with instructions for tying different knots. Another one had pretzels and marshmallows and instructions for building towers. Dinner was potatoes, and chili, with rolls and salad. I made a tray of rolls to contribute to the meal since that was the assignment for families of Bear scouts. I think there was a problem with the rsvp’s though, because they ran out of chili long before everyone got food. I enjoyed watching the slide show that they had put together, the kids liked to watch it and find the pictures with Jeremy or Kyle in them. I spent most of the evening holding and feeding Seth, so I didn’t get to take any pictures. 🙁
Totally stressful day
Today has been a completely crazy and stressful day. Adam took a piece of glass out of one of my glass top tables in the living room, then he dropped it though the hole it was supposed to sit in and it landed on one of the rocks I inherited from Grandma Shirley, causing it to break. 🙁
Later I caught him hitting another section of glass in another of the living room tables with a rock that he had in his hand. Then I found Adam and Lydia standing on the kitchen counter getting into the medicine cupboard. They were just determined to be naughty today!
This afternoon I had to finish collecting all of the order forms for Girl Scout cookies, from my girls. It felt like I had to hunt them down to get them turned in. I had given a due date and a time that they must be turned in by, and they weren’t all turned in by then. I had several that I needed to hunt down. Then a few of the parents hadn’t totaled up the numbers like they were asked to, so I had to do that to. I sent a message to verify a final number for one of the girls and her mom flipped out insisting that it was supposed to be higher than that. So after going back and forth we figured out that I was missing one of the order cards. So then she was freaking out and I am freaking out trying to find it. I eventually found it, and had to total up that card and come up with a new final total for that girl. And all while I was trying to work on hunting down order cards, and getting everything added up, I had parents harassing me to find out what incentives their girls were going to receive! I hadn’t even made our troop’s order yet and they already wanted to know which prizes their daughters were going to get! I finally got everything counted up, and I was ready to sit at the computer and put everything into eCookie to place our troop’s order. I went through one girl/family at a time and put all the orders in. I was just about done when I tried to save it, and something went wrong and everything was lost! 🙁 So I got to re-enter everything, stopping to save after each girl. I was having such a crazy time with the cookie orders that I didn’t make dinner tonight. Kyle had to help me get that figured out when I was done with cookies.
Later I went downstairs and found sunflower seeds all over the family room! It looked like sunflower seeds had exploded everywhere! I guess, when Kyle took the kids downstairs to keep them out of my hair so I could take care of cookie business, he passed out bags of some trail mix. Most of the kids don’t care for the sunflowers and so they just ended up everywhere. I am so ready for today to be over! 🙁
Ethan’s First Sacrament Meeting Talk
Ethan gave his first talk in Sacrament meeting today. His topic was “the creation”. I have to admit that I’m rather surprised he actually went through with it. He has NEVER gone up to the front to participate in a primary program. Actually I might be wrong, he might have gone to the front that one primary program when Kyle and I were teachers and Kyle sat on the stand with our class while I sat in the audience with our little ones that were too young for primary. He did a good job on preparing his talk, but I could tell that he was not thrilled to be up there by the way that he mumbled his way through it. Lots of people complimented him on it, and others told me how much they enjoyed it, so it was received well at least. 🙂