Monthly Archives: February 2014

What a busy day we had on Saturday!  Ben went to a party for his good friend Jake, and Zach and I helped some friends move.  Saturday evening, we went to Stake Conference at the Stake Center.  Brittany was assigned to speak, and she did an OUTSTANDING job!  Her talk was very inspiring.  Right after she spoke, I had to run Kirstyn to a party she was invited to.

Sunday we had the first Stake Conference broadcast in our new building.  It went really well and we enjoyed the meetings very much!  It’s cool having a new building so things are not so crowded.  Our ward was in charge of ushering and parking.

Today we went to a huge health and wellness fair at the Douglas County Fairgrounds here in Castle Rock.  Brittany worked there with her job and so we went to see her.  The kids got a lot of vendor stuff.  The boys also had a chance to climb a rock wall.  They had a blast!

Tonight we had a ward Family Home Evening activity and our family taught a session on how to do FHE with teens in the house.  It was very well attended and we had a great time doing it.  🙂

Today Kirstyn got signed-up to go to EFY at BYU Provo!  Turns out they are not doing the stay-at-home EFY like they did last year and in years past due to lack of participation, so we had to find another place.  She is SO excited to go (first week of June) and will be going with Ashley Smith from our old ward in Naperville!  You’ll have a BLAST Kirstyn!  🙂

On Sunday, Ben got a crayon (twist type) stuck in his ear and he wouldn’t let us get it out.  He wouldn’t even let the doctor touch his ear, so today we had to take him to the hospital to be totally put out so they could take 30 seconds and pull it out.  Crazy.  They took a pic of him in the hospital before his “surgery”…

Everything went well with him and he was in and out in about 5 minutes.  Ben will hopefully learn from this that he shouldn’t stick stuff in his ears!  🙂

Today was one busy day!  This morning, we had a Primary Ice Cream Social at the church for all the kids who had worked really hard on memorizing their Articles of Faith.  Ben and Zach got to go and they got all sugared-up for the rest of the day.  Right after that, I took them to seeThe Nut Job movie and they really liked it.  It was a fun movie and I liked it better than I thought I would.  It was nice to get out with the boys and have a fun time at the movies.  After that, the boys took advantage of the newly fallen snow overnight and went sledding.  Ben played in the snow since he’s not allowed yet to sled due to his concussion, but he still had fun anyway.  After sledding, they came back and played in the snow in the back yard.

Tonight, the girls went to go see Peter Pan (play) in Parker for Kirstyn’s birthday.  They had a great time and really enjoyed themselves.  I had a great time at home with the boys too.  We had a movie night with some snacks and they had a blast.  🙂