You know it’s funny I have to
REALLY think about it when I spell ‘heart’ now…it’s pretty funny. But
then again we all know I am not the best speller, or even close as I have had
many misspellings as of late and Lyndsey ALWAYS finds them ;) Love ya
Lynds. Most of the time I don’t realize I even have put “pue” instead of “pew”,
which is even more embarrassing. It’s very dyslexic of me, which perhaps
means I am in fact mildly (or moldy as I said before) dyslexic J
Good times.
It’s been a fun week! We
tried our darndest to do something fun for Columbus day and it kind of fell
through, but we still had some fun. I was determined to find a REAL LIVE
pumpkin patch, but we had to deal with what our area offered. It was a
cute little pumpkin patch, but a very, very small patch of live pumpkins.
Most of them were pre picked and brought in. Anyway, we knew it was going
to rain that day, but decided to get there RIGHT when the park opened to see if
we could beat the rain. Well within 2-3 minutes of buying our tickets and
grabbing a wagon it POURED cats and dogs, I mean torrential downpour. We
were absolutely soaked within seconds. The older kids thought it would be
fun to go down the slides and do the hay maze in the rain, but Sam, poor Sam
wouldn’t have any of it. Getting rained on was NOT fun in her book and
she did NOT want anything to do with it. See attached. Pretty cute
if you ask me.
Saturday was Andy’s annual
family work party. They have cut down on the way they do things this
year, not nearly as big and they have made it local. So instead of
driving to Louisiana they did a smaller, day time event for the corporate
offices just around the corner. It was fun. Tyler Zip lined and
played bingo, the girls went down the water slides, got their faces and hair
painted, had a gazillion cups of shaved ice while Andy and I mingled and played
as well. Ever since we won our ipad at this event three years ago the
main thing the kids look forward to is the big raffle at the end of the
evening! Every year I always tell them ‘guys we probably won’t win
anything so don’t get your hopes up’! And EVERY year we have won
something except one. But we used to be able to put one ticket in per
family member, but the last couple of years it was only one ticket per
employee…no wonder we always won, we are bar FAR the biggest family hanging
around the corporate office folk ;) They always have the prizes up on
display for all to see beforehand and Tyler had his eye on the Playstation and
the xbox (which we probably would have had to sell if we did get, lol, I am
such a mean mom). Anyway, they started the bidding and about 3 or 4
prizes in they held up a mini ipad pulled a ticket and said, “Andy Hart!”
I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT. The only ipads we own are won from the very same
events. Crazy. Then the final prize was a custom made BBQ (it was a
raffle on it’s own that they let each family member put in a ticket for) and
they swirled around the tickets and yelled, “Audrie Hart!” I mean,
seriously!?! I couldn’t believe it. So we went home loaded up with
prizes J My kids expectations are going to be SO HIGH now
hahahaha.
Andy is at mutual with Tyler and
Audrie is at A-days. He is helping with an activity about missions.
He has been prepping for weeks! It’s been pretty cute seeing how much
thought and effort he has put into this one night. You should see the
plethora of food he made and brought to represent his mission! He has several
mission stories that he is going to tell, some of which were new to me.
I wish I could have gone tonight to hear him, but it’s my turn to be home
on Tuesday nights after years of me going. I hope he takes a couple of
pictures.
I had a lady in our ward come to
my house to do my hair today. She cut it and I got some really sutble
highlights, which I am now having remorse over, but they are subtle enough that
it won’t require maintenance. I just need some change and I thought this
would do it :/ I met this girl at the craft Super Saturday evening that
the ward put on and I instantly felt a connection with her. She is
clearly different because of all of her tattoos and loud look, but she has a
real tender spirit about her. Anyway, as soon as I heard that she did
hair in your home I knew I needed to have her over. She was a doll and I
am anxious to be her friend. Hearing her lifes story really puts things
in perspective for me though…people can really cause hardships for others, it
seems so unfair sometimes! This lady has had one rough life, but she is
still going to church and is trying to be a good girl, which gives me such a
sense of hope considering my meager problems.
On Sunday it was announced that
there would be a special meeting for our ward and one other ward in our stake
where a new ward will be made. I was CERTAIN we were going to be split
and put into the new ward the last time this happned a couple of years ago but
was shocked to find out we weren’t. This time I am even MORE certain that
we will be apart of the new ward, hahahaha, so we will see. I like
change, always have, so this is exciting for me. New people to meet, new
friendships, new callings, new challenges, I just love the prospect of it
all! I wonder where I get that from? Do any of you sisters feel the
same way? Mom? Dad? Maybe it’s from all our years moving
around? I do remember whenever we found out we were going to move as kids
that I would often think “Okay what to do I want to change, or do differently
when we move? They will only know me how I am when we get there…should I
cut my hair, or try to be better in a certain area of my life?” It was
always neat to think I could start over wherever we went. So maybe that
is the source of my love of change.
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