Week of March 7-13, 2010

Sunday March 7th- Church was good. I love teaching primary and I love the class I teach. I feel the spirit every week in sharing time. I love it. I have felt the spirit more since in Primary than I did last year in Relief Society. I just love primary. After church we all went over to Grandpa and Grandma Heileson's for the best stake dinner we have had in forever. So good. All of the kids eat a whole stake. I guess we are officially Idahoan's. We love our meat and potatoes. After dinner we played some games which is always fun. I lost, Enoch won, no surprise there. After we got home we watched the readers digest version of the Academy awards. I love tivo. Went to bed way too late. So bad for us.

Monday March 8th- What a day of appointments. Rachel had an orthodontist appointment that was supposed to be 20 minutes but was over an hour. They had to change some brackets since her teeth have moved so much. She also got colored elastics on the four front teeth. She did purple and pink. She was so excited. Jacob had an appointment for braces for his ankles. When we got there they said that he didn't have an appointment. They had accidentally booked it in February for the same day. Luckily they had an opening an hour later. After Rachel got back to school we went for Jacob's appointment again. His feet were too swollen to do anything so we have to go back at the end of the week. Nice. It was early release today and so I figured it wasn't worth it to take Jacob back to school for an hour and a half, especially when I spend 20 minutes or more driving. He stayed home. Early release days are hard because the kids come home early and it messes my day up. It was really messed up today but I did get bedding washed and 2 loads of clothes. I guess I did get some things done today.

Tuesday March 9th- Jacob stayed home this morning because the 1st grade classes were going swimming and he can't submerse his feet yet so he had to stay home. He actually wasn't sad. I was so impressed with how he handled it. He got to play the wii so he was happy. I spent the morning doing my new basket testers for Scentsy's new scents. That took a while and man was my house a mess. When you do other projects your house takes about 5 minutes for the tornado to go through it. I should have take a picture of it. Wow I was so glad nobody stopped by. I was glad when I was finished so I could clean up. I was able to vacuum and clean the kitchen. I got a bunch off of my list I needed to do. It's amazing how much you get done when you don't have a lot of time and you have to rush and go fast. Rachel today made cookies for the first time all by herself. She messed up the first time though. Instead of 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder she put in 1 1/2 T. She had no idea that there was a difference. After I explained it to her she then started over. She did everything including putting the cookie dough on the sheet. She did fantastic. I was so proud of her. The cookies were fantastic as well. Now I need to teach her to clean and do dishes after she cooks. I am excited for her to get to where she can cook for us. I love it.

Wednesday March 10-I finished putting the labels on all of my basket testers. I didn't like the labels so I made all new ones and had to replace all of the other ones. I am glad to be done with all that. Now if I could get people to take them. I spent a lot of the day cleaning and getting some things done around the house. I watched American Idol tonight. Wow what is wrong with me I am like all these people that diligently watch these shows and I make fun of them. I guess that I can't make fun of people anymore. At least I watch it with Enoch so that makes it good.

Thursday March 11- This morning I took Jacob into get fitted for braces for his ankles. He was still swollen but nothing like Monday. They said that if his foot changes in the next while they will make another one for that foot. Jacob enjoys getting fitted for braces because he gets to have casts on his feet, they cut them off before they get too hard they have to use the saw and then he gets a full size candy bar. Pretty fun. He also likes Bruce the guy that does them. We have been seeing him every few months for 4 years now. I spent the rest of the day doing Laundry and cleaning up around the house. Wendy and Ainsley came over tonight to spend the weekend with us. Wendy's niece is getting married and Wendy asked his she could spend a couple of nights at our house. You bet. I would never say no to that. The kids were so excited to see them. We haven't seen Ainsley since Thanksgiving and so it was nice to see how big she was. Wow she has changed. She actually shows different emotions now instead of staring at you like your an idiot. She also talks so well. She can say all of our names and I love it.

Friday March 12- I babysat my friends daughter while she went to the temple and I also babysat Ainsley while Wendy went to the sealing. That was pretty fun. For the most part the kids got along well. They really wanted to eat all the time. I think we spent most of the time eating. Ainsley eats so much. I can't believe she doesn't weigh more than she does. I cut Enoch's hair today. I really hate doing it but I hate it when he goes other places because they really butcher it. Blahh. I am glad I only have to do it once a month or so. At 1 PM I went to Austine Kade Academy to get my hair done. Lindsay teaches in the Aesthetic department and so we get a good deal at the school. Thank you Lindsay. I got my hair highlighted. I got a weave/slice. A slice is with bigger strips. They were so excited to be working on natural hair color. They kept saying how excited they were to do it. I got a caramel color and a dark auburn color done. Between those two and my natural hair color it looks awesome. I have never had my hair done like that before so I was so excited. I feel so much prettier now. i was there almost 3 hours so when I finally got home Enoch had to get ready to leave for his scout camp out. When Enoch left we all went to Craigo's for all you can eat pizza and pasta. It was really good. It was our first time eating there because Enoch can't eat anything there. We had fun until Kaelen and Ainsley decided they wanted to run around. We made it through most of the dinner though with out them going crazy. Today was a good day.

Saturday March 13- We got up this morning and had breakfast together. We then went to Melaluca and the cosmetology store. Thank goodness for DVD players because the kids were happy in the car while Wendy and I ran into places. we bought some new nail polish colors and I splurged on a nice curling iron. I am excited to have a nice one. We then said good bye to Wendy and Ainsley who were heading to Wendy's families for the day and night. I spent the afternoon shopping and getting things done around the house. It really rained during the day. We lost power for a few hours in the afternoon. It's amazing how little we can eat when we don't have a stove and microwave. I bought new rugs for outside the house and inside. It was so exciting to have rungs that hopefully will keep dirt outside more. People are not good about taking their shoes off in the house and I hate was is brought in so hopefully this will illiminate some of the dirt. In the evening we went to a suprise Birthday party for Mark, Jacob's therapist. That was so much fun. There was lots of food and tons of people that we knew. We got home late from it. When we got home there was snow all over the ground. So sad. Wendy stopped by in the evening and we talked with for a while. Because of the time change we stayed up way too late. We have got to stop staying up late. It was really fun to see Wendy though before she heads home tomorrow.