Jesus want me for a Sunbeam

One Sunday in March, I got to sub for Hayden's Sunbeam class in Primary. I loved it. Since before January I had been teaching Primary for 2 1/2 years for the 5 turning 6 year olds. I should have been a sunbeam teacher I love the lessons the kids are awesome and want to learn and are so into the lessons because they are at their level unlike the other lessons I taught for the 5-6 year olds. Some of those lessons were a little over their heads. The lesson was on I am thankful for fish. We talked about fish and I brought in Payton and Kennedy's Finding Nemo figurings and we talked about them. We fished for paper fish that they got to color. For snack we had you guessed it gold fish crackers and Swedish fish. We talked about Jonah and the Whale (big fish) and Jesus telling the apostle where to fish since they hadn't caught anything all night. It was so much fun. I can't wait till I can sub again for his class.

Are you kidding me???

Well today March 2nd it snowed again. That is 3 times this year it has snowed more than just flurries this was enough to stick to the ground and make a snowman and not just a little bitty snowman that you make on your car with the snow that is on the car because it isn't sticking to the cement or roads. I didn't even take pictures this time. This has been by far the coldest winter in a long time. I'm not too sure about the rest of the world but there is definitely no global warming or climate change or whatever they are calling it now if anything it has been the opposite. The snow was just light flurries when the bus came this morning. All the the counties around us closed school early except ours which was fine by me since Jon was out of town. The weather was going to be below freezing the rest of the day and through the night so I kept checking to see if the school was cancelled for the next day or if it was delayed a few hours like some of the other schools. I did one last check just after 10:15 pm before I got ready for bed and just 2 minutes earlier they had delayed school 2 hours so the ice would melt so they buses could get around safely. So when the kids woke up in the morning, they were all excited because they thought it was a snow day. They were very disappointed to find out they only had 2 hours off of school. I hope this is the last snow post of the season!

Out of Town

I can only think of one time that Jon has been out of town for work for more than a day. That was a long while back when he did some electrical work for a Residence Inn Marriott in Alabama. Last week, Jon flew to Orlando in the morning to look at a job and was home by late afternoon. He gave the company a bid and 4 days later was off to Orlando with his business partner and 2 helpers. They left Monday, March 1st in the morning and got home on Saturday late afternoon. All I can say is thank goodness for school. The job he did was for a company who had this office closed for some time now but they needed to get it back in shape to hand it over to the landlord so he could re rent it. So they pulled out and scrapped lots and lots of electrical wire that this company added while renting it. Fixed a few things put up over 1000 drop ceiling tiles, threw out a bunch of junk and garbage had excess furniture hauled away and vacuumed this enormous 2 story 50,000 sq foot office space and maybe a bit more but that is all I am really aware of. It turned out to be a very good job and some of that money is going to fund our 2 week Disney trip this June. We booked a rental house a month back in Orlando for 13 days in June and had money set aside for the rental house but didn't have any other money saved for entertainment (Disney tickets). We thought well we at least have one day tickets from our give a day get a day service we did a month ago but now we have ticket money so I can't wait. It has been far to long for our family. By the time we go it will be a couple weeks shy of 18 months since we last went. I am glad Jon is back but it looks like he will have to go back in another week to finish things up.

Movie Night

Movie night is the primary kids favorite activity of the year. The kids work so hard the month before to earn their reverence bucks every Sunday so they can buy hot dogs, popcorn, lemonade, and candy. Since I am now an activity day leader, they didn't ask me to help out with the activity they only asked the Sunday teachers. So this meant Jon and I were free to do whatever we wanted for 2 hours. This year the Junior primary was watching An American Tail and the Senior primary was watching some Muppet movie. We got the kids all situated with their food and then we went down the street with 2 other couples to the Peachtree Diner for dinner. We did have Brenton with us though since he is no longer in Primary. We thought we would treat him to a nice dinner since he attended 2 merit badge classes from 8-4 today. We were happy he was able to get those two completely passed off. We had a great time chatting and before you knew it it was time to pick up the kiddos. They had fun and can't wait till next year. So everyone was had a great evening.

Cannery

Our ward scheduled a cannery trip on Saturday Feb. 20th. So before Hayden's birthday party with the relatives my sister Christa and I decided to go to the cannery to can some food for our long term storage. I wanted to be able to buy the rest of my year supply of food that the cannery has to offer on this trip so my big mother Yukon was filled to the top with boxes of canned food. I did have Christa with me so she had some food in my car as well. I think the only thing I still might need more of that the cannery has to can is powdered milk. I only buy a little at a time because it is pretty expensive. I worked at the messy station with the powdered fruit drink, hot cocoa mix, flour, milk. So I had powder all down my front even with the nice plastic aprons they offer. It was fun. The next day my upper back was sore from loading and unloading all the boxes of cans to and from my car. I am quickly running out of room to store all this food. Time to get creative.

Happy Birthday Baby

Today, February 19, my baby boy turned 4 years old. He is growing up so fast. We went to his favorite place McDonald's for his birthday dinner. The kids had a great time in the play place.

The next day we had the relatives over for the celebration. Hayden wanted a Spider Man cake and Jon did an awesome job with the 3D decorations. Happy Birthday!! You will always be my baby.

Hayden

Hayden with his Spiderman cake

Hayden with his presents

Valentine's Day

Since Valentine's Day fell on a Sunday, we decided to grill some steaks and have a nice dinner after church. The next day I bought some Valentine's candy that was 1/2 off while I was grocery shopping and we ate that for Family Home Evening treats. So just a relaxing laid back day. I'm not really the romantic type person so this holiday makes me feel a little uncomfortable so that makes this my least favorite holiday. Also, I would never let Jon buy me double or in some stores triple the price flowers on this holiday I would rather wait another week and get them at a reasonable price or not at all. That's just me though.