Crazy week...

Last week was so crazy. I barely made it. There was something every day and night! I got a call from my brother Todd on Tuesday and he told me that his family was in St. George and they wanted us to meet them in Mesquite for dinner. I was making dinner for someone in the ward, had a New Beginnings to go to and Mitchell was at a volleyball game and John was out of town... So, it wasn't the best night to drop everything and go, but I thought about how much I love his cute little family and how much I miss them. So Tanner and I met Scott, Jenn and Afton and headed up there... that is, after I dropped my dinner off and I made sure one of my counselors was going to the new beginnings. (Thanks Heather!) Dinner was great and the kids were so cute! And it was fun to visit with Todd and Sharolyn!

Cute baby Justin!

We ate at a yummy Japanese place... Emily, Todd, Sharolyn, Charity and Scott

The boys, Brendon, Dallin Tanner and Justin

The entry of the restaurant had a cute little koi pond with a bridge over it... the girls loved it!

Emily, Charity, Dallin and Brendon
We ate and then headed back to Vegas. We were home by 9:30. It was fast, but fun.
I am glad we decided to go.


The rest of the week was crazy with church stuff. I LOVE my calling! It's just a busy time of year... Meetings, an overnighter, a dress swap and more meetings... Friday night was our annual YCL (youth camp leader) overnighter. It was great! We have an amazing group of ycl's and camp leaders this year. I am so excited. It was fun to get to know them all a little better. We played games, ate food, planned for camp and tried to sleep. The girls actually went to bed around midnight... but I couldn't fall asleep until about 3am and the sun woke me up at 6am....They need some Sunburst Shutters in the cabin! haha.

Cute girls!! Love them all!!!!

Camp leaders trying to get organized!
and below is my presidency relaxing while the camp leaders were in charge!
We missed you Lisa!

I got home from the overnighter at 10am and had to be at the church for our dress swap at 11:30... we had a dress swap for a formal dance that our stake is invited to in April. It went really well. The girls we so cute getting all dressed up in beautiful dresses! They were like little princesses. It was worth every ounce of work that we put into it to see them happy.

Sunday was a hard one for me... I had a meeting before church, a youth conference meeting after church and a PPI with the stake president after that and New Beginnings after that... I had a bit of a breakdown at the Youth Conference meeting... things weren't going quite as i had imagined and i ended up in tears in the hallway... a bit embarrassing... I wish I could go back in time and re-do the meeting. The kids probably think I am wacko. I got myself back together and went into my ppi. I didn't make it 1 minute before i broke down again... All he asked was how things were going... Sorry President Schlauder! I am sure he is used to dealing with girl emotions with 5 daughters! I am doing much better now... I'm not sure why I am writing about this, except that this is the only journal I keep theses days and I want my kids and grandkids to know that it's ok to cry sometimes and I want them to know that we all have to learn how to balance things and slow down a bit. Needless to say, I didn't make it to the New Beginnings. And on top of all that last week, I started a new diet... maybe I was just having sugar withdrawls! But the good news is that I lost 6 lbs in my first week! yahoo!

This week has gone much better... taking it a day at a time. I am watching Afton all week and it has made me stay home and get things done around the house. I needed some home time!