Good Weekend

Bruce and I had a very pleasant day at the Oklahoma City Temple on Saturday. It was very peaceful. We've needed that recently. I don't know if our children have been really tired, or what, but they are not using their "inside voices" like they should. It was also a wonderful surprise to see the a former Bishop, Bro. Steve Rone and his wife Sharon. They are currently serving a mission for the church in Arkansas. They will be going home to Spfld, in 6 weeks. It was so nice to see them. They have a special place in our hearts. Steve gave all of Bruce and his siblings their baby blessings. They are wonderful people.

Today has been a busy day. I went on visits this morning with Sis. Bliss, then I babysat, then Joy had auditions for the school's All City Singers choir, then I had PTO, then I had bedtime and dishes to do. Days like today can be strenuous, but also very fulfilling.

I do need to get some sleep, though. Good night all.
Jennifer

Back in School!

Wow, the summer went very fast. Well, there were days that it seemed like it would never end, but now it seems odd that it is over. Aurora is loving it. When she got home the first day I asked her if she liked her teacher, Mrs. Olds. She said, "She is so Kind." I thought that was really sweet. Joy said her teacher talks too much. Patience had a really good time. They had a "snowball" fight. They wrote some things descrbing themselves on a piece of white paper. They then crumpled it and threw it at each other. When they caught one they would read it. I think Joy is going to learn more responsibility this year. Today was the first day for homework. Their were very few days when she had it last year. I think it will be pretty regular this year. They are also expected to read 20 minutes every night and practice their 25 spelling words.

Bruce turned 33 yesterday. We celebrated with his parents on Saturday. They took us all out to a steak house and bought him a Dairy Queen Ice Cream cake. It is his favorite. It was a busy day, but a really nice visit.

Logan is officially taking to potty training. Last Wed. when the girls went to school I started him in underwear. We had a few days of 3 going and 4 accidents. Then it got better from there. He had no potty accidents yesterday. I think he is afraid to do his "business" in the toilet. He keeps having those kinds of accidents. We are very excited with his progress. He's even pretty good about going on his own without being asked. He is growing up so fast. He wants to do most things for himself. He'll always be my baby, but he's no longer a baby baby. Anyway, I hope that makes sense.

I better get to studying the scriptures. That was my main reason for getting on the net tonight. I find it so helpful to search the scriptures by catagory on www.lds.org. Anyway, I hope all is well in your part of the world.

Jennifer

We won

I forgot to say something in my last post. The cabin I was in won the water ballet contest. There is a story there, but I don't think I could do it justice in writing. Feel free to ask me to tell it sometime.

Girl's Camp!

Hello Everyone. Camp was a wonderful experience. It is different as a leader than as a youth. I got pretty worn out. The theme was, "There's no Place like Camp." It was all centered around the Wizard of Oz. We had four different classes that related the Gospel back to things that happened in the movie. For example, in the Dorothy class clips from the movie were shown and then discussed. Especially avoiding the "flying monkeys" of the world. For the Lion class we talked about people in church history and scriptural history who showed courage. On the last night, Sister Dianne Alphin from the Joplin Stake wrote a program. We followed the "yellow brick road," several long plastic yellow table clothes on the sidewalk, stopping at different charecters who talked about the Gospel, til we got to the "Emerald City" which actually was the amphitheatre where they had a slide show of pictures of all the Temples going with different versions of Somewhere Over the Rainbow playing in the back ground. Then, the "prophet of Oz," spoke on setting a goal toward going to the temple and bore his testimony. We also had a uplifting testimony meeting on Friday morning.

All in all it was a great week. I kept my pedometer on all week. I walked just under 50 miles. You would think I would have lost a lot of weight, but they fed us very well. One thing that the menu lacked was fresh fruit. I spoke to the Bishop's wife Friday morning to see if he was going home before he came out to the camp for the night program. I told her we were craving fresh fruit. She said he wasn't going home. I told her, oh well, we only have one more day. She called him at work and he brought out fresh strawberries, grapes, and oranges, all in ice water in a cooler. It was a great surprise. That was probably the best tasting orange I had ever eaten. It was fun to have him and his first counselor, Brother Tucker there for the evening. Bishop also gave a good devotional. I was so impressed all week with the girls from our ward. Everyone got along and was helpful and obedient to the rules and their leaders.

I hope I'll be able to go again, maybe when my girls are old enough.

Have a good weekend.

5 more days til school starts.

Jennifer