I got the best delivery on my birthday...flowers from Bryan. They came by FedEx, which was unique, but they were beautiful.
Bryan made me breakfast and dinner. Courtney made my birthday cake. My parents took us out for dinner for my birthday (a few days after because our nights are crazy with soccer and Bryan's work) and I got lots of calls and texts. It was a good day.
We are at a point where it's time to paint the basement. Courtney and I went and bought primer to begin the process...but it was a pain!! We were able to get the shower room, toilet room, and bathroom primed but it took all day long. We decided that, for the sake of time and making sure it looked professional, we are going to hire it out. We are good at painting accent walls but painting a whole basement was going to be a pain!
Courtney was asked to the SCHS Junior Prom. The boy who asked her is in our ward. He was the one she asked to Sadies but he wasn't able to go.
For Courtney's 16th birthday trip (yes, it's a few months late) she wanted to go on a ski trip. She and Bryan decided to go to Park City for their trip. We looked at the calendar and figured out that most schools would be back in session the first week of January. Courtney didn't have school those days (except SCHS and she just had 2 classes) so we thought that would be the best time because the crowds would be smaller.
Bryan got them lift passes for Park City and they left for their trip on Wednesday. The VRBO was unique (it didn't look as nice as it had online) but they were comfy and warm.
They spent 2 days skiing to their heart's content. Courtney wore Bryan out but they had a great time. Courtney is getting to be a really good skier.
Courtney was sad that her white tennis shoes are now dirty, but that's ok.
Bryan has videos of her skiing that I need to get from him. She is fun to watch ski and I'm glad they had such a great time.
I have a calling to be a young women specialist over temple trips. That means that a friend and I are in charge of getting appointments and organizing temple trips for the youth in our ward. We took the youth to the Las Vegas Temple in December and had a great experience. For January, we were able to get an appointment at the Cedar City Temple.
It is really hard to get appointments unless you are quick. The appointments are snatched up really quickly and so you have to work 3 months in advance. On January 1st at midnight, the appointments were opened for March and a rush of leaders/parents try to get appointments for their youth. The appointments usually are gone in 5 minutes, so it's crazy!
The appointment is for 16 youth to attend so we have been focusing on the youth who haven't been to the temple before (and their siblings). We had a good group who were excited to go. We met at the Stake Center, gave out family names from people in our ward, gave some guidelines, prayed, and took off for the temple.
We got there, took pictures outside, then went in and did baptisms/confirmations. We had a good experience. When we were finished, an older gentleman came up to the youth and thanked them for taking time out of their schedules to serve in the temple. He was very emotional and I think it touched the youth.
We then had cookies and chocolate milk before driving back home. It was a good trip.
We didn't plan this picture very well. Some of us were on our tiptoes and ended up being floating heads. ;)
Some Tuesday mornings are happier than other Tuesday mornings...at least for Courtney. This particular morning she wasn't happy to get up early to talk to her favorite brother. Ethan tried to tease her and get her in a better mood, which worked eventually, but she didn't start off that way.
Cute Courtney!!
Courtney is pretty amazing at putting videos together. She did a year in review for herself and then a video of her and Ethan (grab the tissues). Here they are:
