Seth's Graduation Ceremony

I have a lot of fun posts I need to write for this month of May! Lots of fun happenings going on.

Seth has been working on his Masters for 4 years now. He took a break in 2012 to do some traveling, and it has taken a bit to recover from that! But he did it!! The last year he has been working on getting his 1,000 hours of counseling in to finish up his internship. He has 45 1/2 hours left. :) Yes, I am counting down.

But he did walk across the stage, he wore his hood, and we took the photos already. I'm really, really proud of this man of mine! And I'm so proud he finished, he stuck it out. There were a few times along the road, and even toward the end, when he was seriously ready to throw in the towel. Maybe he even did throw in the towel, but I made him go back and pick it up. :)


Waiting for the ceremony to start. Boy am I SO Glad Sandi and Steve flew in to see it and be with the kids and I!! 

 It was hard to find him in the crowd

Mother's Day 2014

Happy Mother's Day!

The kids brought me cinnamon rolls in bed and I got to sleep in. Which created a mad rush to get ready for church.

In Sacrament Meeting Scarlett sang to me! I've been excited to have a child up on the stand, singing with the Primary for years. Today was really neat for me! I wish I had snapped a photo. She was so excited to go up there too, and did a great job. She was so proud when she came back to sit with us. It was favorite moment of the day!

I really enjoyed teaching today too. My newest calling is Miamaid Advisor. I love it! It's getting easier. So far I've really enjoyed teaching with the new outlines "Come Follow Me". Well, it's new to me at least. Today we talked about Patriarchal Blessings. There were a lot of good comments and discussion, which always helps make a class great. The Miamaid class is full of really, really sweet and great girls. I was really pleased with how it all went and the questions they asked.

After Linc's nap we headed out to Ben & Mel's for dinner. The kids had fun playing together, and Lincoln especially loved the trampoline. We skyped Iowa City for a little bit, but it was kind of crazy. The kids really got entertaining.

Tagg and Lincoln are 8 months apart, both small for their age, but surprisingly almost the same size.

I didn't take a photo of the kids with me. I really wanted to do that today. But we will have lots of photo ops in the near future.

Fun with dad

Yesterday we got to go out shooting, since we got our chores done. Which consisted of cleaning up our corner garden lot that has been overgrown with all sorts of weeds, compost pile, old branches, etc! Looks so much better!

I didn't grow up around guns at all, so it's all quite new to me. We had a lot of fun! Our friend Brian came with his girls too, so the kids had a lot of fun running around, attempting to fly kites, and getting fresh air.

The girls got to shoot a few with their dads. Lincoln will surely have fun with it all too in a few years.