September Birthdays

September is always a CRAZY BUSY month in our house. Mostly because when you count all the family birthdays, there are a total of 9 in this glorious month. I say glorious because MY birthday is in September! Oh yeah, so is Tim's.

For Mr Timmy's special day he wanted to go bowling. BOWLING! I hate bowling. It's dirty and germie and gross. Did you know that they have found poop in the finger holes in bowling balls? POOP I TELL YOU! Yucky! But, being the good little wife I am, I packed up my hand sanitizer and extra pair of socks, sucked it up and went. Other than the poop factor, we had a pretty good time. I wasn't even terrible at it. I actually got a strike once!

Now on to the real celebration. My birthday. I'm somewhat of a brat on my birthday, or really like the week/weekend of my birthday. I like things a certain way and to do things when I want to and on my birthday, I really don't budge. Like I said, I'm a brat. Lucky for me, Tim puts up with it and plays along quite well.

I wanted to do something as a family during the day before Tim took me out that night. So we decided to go to that park behind the WJ Courthouse. I had never taken Alyssa there and she loved exploring the place.

We happened to be there during their Health and Wellness fair. They had therapy dogs for people to pet. Lyss usually LOVE dogs, but the St Bernard the size of a horse scared her a little. They had the big bouncy slides and trampolines, which of course the little one insisted she play on. Then there was the helicopter. As soon as Lyss saw it she started signing helicopter just as frantically as she could. She was so excited it was hilarious. We took her over and she got to climb inside. What did she do in there? She found someones apple in a side basket and insisted it was hers.

Pretty fun birthday so far. But remember, the ENTIRE day is about me. Tim told me he had a "birthday surprise" for me and asked if I wanted it on my birthday or later on in my birthday weekend. Being that I like to extend the celebration as long as possible I told him to wait.

Later that night Tim took me to Olive Garden for dinner then we headed down to Thanksgiving Point for the Jon Schmidt concert. LOVE HIM!!! Loved the concert. It was outside in their amphitheater by a waterfall, which was fitting for him. How nice of Jon to put on a show just for my birthday!

After we got home and had the munchkin in bed, Tim asked if I wanted him to go rent a movie for me. I told him not to because the only thing I was in the mood to watch was Season 3 of Grey's Anatomy. Remember that "surprise?"
He bought it for me!!! I have the best husband in the whole world!

(ps, this is one of the many reasons my blog is behind. But seriously, can you blame me?)

Quote of Today

Organization is for people who are too lazy to look for things. A quote that is very fitting for... well... me.

What have I been doing?

Obviously not blogging! We have been way busy the last couple weeks, and I'd LOVE to tell you all about it. However, it it midnight, and I'm tired. So, instead I'll leave a couple of pictures to keep you somewhat interested and I will tell all about my busy September tomorrow.... Ok, so I wanted to post some pictures, but blogger won't let me. I guess he's tired too. So sorry. Have to wait. Bummer.

Desperate Housewives

I found this rather amusing.

Bitter-Sweet

Well, I guess it's official. I was released as the Primary President today. I thought I would be literally jumping for joy, and only part of me is. The part that has been relieved of such a daunting responsibility. But the other part, the part of me that LOVES to be with children is mourning a loss that I can't explain. I was called 2 years and 9 months ago to serve in primary. It was 2 days after we found out we wouldn't be able to adopt a beautiful one month old little girl. I was devastated, obviously. When Bishop Bowcut asked me that afternoon to be the Primary President, I immediately felt that the Lord knew me, knew my needs and was answering my prayers. After I said "Holy Crap!", I turned to Tim and said "All I wanted was ONE baby. Now I have like 500!" It was the best day. I had so many children that I was going to be able to get to know, and watch over and care for. It was the closest thing that I could have at that time to being a mom and I cherished it. I fell in love with those kids. The ones who licked that backs of their chairs. The ones who sang a beautiful vibrato to every song. The ones who whispered and giggled to each other. The ones who could put their tongues up their noses, very talented. The ones who loved to volunteer to pray. The ones who you had to coerce to participate. The shy ones. The boisterous ones. I love them all. I just got a call from little Rylee's dad. He had a story he wanted to share with me. He said they were enjoying some family time and noticed Rylee crying. When they asked her what was wrong she said "I found out today that one of my primary teachers isn't going to be there anymore." They asked her about the teachers that teach her class and she said "No, Cassie!" Thank you to the Mackey's for sharing that with me. I'm going to miss her too! I'm going to miss each and every one of those precious little ones. They made me laugh and cry all in the same day. Thank you to their parents for sharing them with me.